Nov 12【每日活水】除掉所有可憎恶的事

申命记20：10~20

10「你临近一座城、要攻打的时候，先要对城里的民宣告和睦的话。

11他们若以和睦的话回答你，给你开了城，城里所有的人都要给你效劳，服事你；

12若不肯与你和好，反要与你打仗，你就要围困那城。

13耶和华－你的　神把城交付你手，你就要用刀杀尽这城的男丁。

14惟有妇女、孩子、牲畜，和城内一切的财物，你可以取为自己的掠物。耶和华－你　神把你仇敌的财物赐给你，你可以吃用。

15离你甚远的各城，不是这些国民的城，你都要这样待他。 16但这些国民的城，耶和华－你　神既赐你为业，其中凡有气息的，一个不可存留；

17只要照耶和华－你　神所吩咐的将这赫人、亚摩利人、迦南人、比利洗人、希未人、耶布斯人都灭绝净尽，

18免得他们教导你们学习一切可憎恶的事，就是他们向自己神所行的，以致你们得罪耶和华－你们的　神。

19「你若许久围困、攻打所要取的一座城，就不可举斧子砍坏树木；因为你可以吃那树上的果子，不可砍伐。田间的树木岂是人，叫你糟蹋吗？

20惟独你所知道不是结果子的树木可以毁坏、砍伐，用以修筑营垒，攻击那与你打仗的城，直到攻塌了。」

10When you march up to attack a city, make its people an offer of peace.

11If they accept and open their gates, all the people in it shall be subject to forced labor and shall work for you.

12If they refuse to make peace and they engage you in battle, lay siege to that city.

13When the Lord your God delivers it into your hand, put to the sword all the men in it.

14As for the women, the children, the livestock and everything else in the city, you may take these as plunder for yourselves. And you may use the plunder the Lord your God gives you from your enemies.

15This is how you are to treat all the cities that are at a distance from you and do not belong to the nations nearby.

16However, in the cities of the nations the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes.

17Completely destroy them—the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites—as the Lord your God has commanded you.

18Otherwise, they will teach you to follow all the detestable things they do in worshiping their gods, and you will sin against the Lord your God.

19When you lay siege to a city for a long time, fighting against it to capture it, do not destroy its trees by putting an ax to them, because you can eat their fruit. Do not cut them down. Are the trees people, that you should besiege them? 20However, you may cut down trees that you know are not fruit trees and use them to build siege works until the city at war with you falls.

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内容观察

1.摩西吩咐以色列百姓，在攻打城邑之前，若那城不肯以和平回应，该如何对待他们?(12~14节)
2.为什么要灭绝在应许之地内的外邦人?(18节)

思考与默想

3.“免得他们教导你们去行一切可憎恶的事”，这是指什么?

个人感受

4.务要除掉所有可能使你无法过圣洁生活的要素，你对此有什么想法?

决心与应用

5.你仍有哪些随时可能会诱你堕人罪中的生活习惯?为能彻底过分别为圣的生活，今天你决心要如何面对这样的问题?

灭绝(17节):完全毁坏之意，同时也有全然分别为圣跟随神的意思。

教导你们去行一切可憎恶的事(18节):指迦南人让以色列人学习他们的偶像崇拜与违背伦理道德的事。

灵修指南

摩西接续先前提到的战争条例，再次向百姓说明开战的原则与前提。首先，以色列人在攻城前应先判断这城是否愿意以和平回应，若他们愿意求和，就要与他们建立互相服事的关系，除非他们拒绝求和，才可以开战;一旦开战，就要在战役中除灭一切男丁，剩下的女人和孩子、牲畜和物品都可以带走，使百姓得到经济上的利益。但是和迦南地的七个民族争战时，就不能说和睦的话，凡有气息的都要灭绝净尽(16~17节)。这是为了防止百姓们效法迦南七族，跪拜异教风俗的偶像。可见神极其重视池的儿女是否能在生活中分别为圣、持守信仰，就连一丝的可能性都不存留。如今在你我的生活中，有哪些是不讨神喜悦、影响着我们的灵性生命，却又迟迟未面对的习惯与问题?

内室祷告

求神让我除去所有在神眼中看为可憎的事，除去一切恶习。

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