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1 在那里恰巧有一个匪徒,名叫示巴,是便雅悯比基利的儿子。他吹角,:我们与大卫无分,与耶西的儿子无涉。以色列人哪,你们各回各家去罢!

2 於是以色列人都离开大卫跟随比基利的儿子示巴。但犹大从约但河直到耶路撒冷,都紧紧跟随他们的王。

3 大卫耶路撒冷,进了宫殿,就把从前留下看守宫殿的个妃嫔禁闭在冷宫,养活他们,不与他们亲近。他们如同寡妇被禁,直到死的日子。

4 王对亚玛撒:你要在日之内将犹大招聚了来,你也回到这里来。

5 亚玛撒就去招聚犹大人,却耽延过了王所限的日期。

6 大卫对亚比筛:现在恐怕比基利的儿子示巴加害於我们比押沙龙更甚。你要带领你仆人追赶他,免得他得了坚固城,躲避我们

7 约押的人和基利提人、比利提人,并所有的勇士,都跟着亚比筛,从耶路撒冷出去追赶比基利的儿子示巴。

8 他们到了基遍那里,亚玛撒迎接他们。那时约押穿着战衣,腰束佩刀的带子,刀在鞘内;约押前行,刀从鞘内掉出

9 约押拾起刀来,对亚玛撒:我兄弟,你好啊!就用右抓住亚玛撒的胡子,要与他亲嘴。

10 亚玛撒没有防备约押里所拿的刀;约押用刀刺入他的肚腹,他的肠子流在上,没有再刺他,就死了约押和他兄弟亚比筛往前追赶比基利的儿子示巴。

11 约押的一个少年站在亚玛撒尸身旁边,对众:谁喜悦约押,谁归顺大卫,就当跟随约押去。

12 亚玛撒在道路上滚在自己的血里。那见众民经过都站住,就把亚玛撒的尸身从上挪到田间,用衣服遮盖。

13 尸身从上挪移之,众民就都跟随约押去追赶比基利的儿子示巴。

14 他走遍以色列各支派,直到伯玛迦的亚比拉,并比利人的全地;那些地方的人也都聚集跟随他。

15 约押和跟随的人到了伯玛迦的亚比拉,围困示巴,就对着城筑垒;跟随约押的众民用锤撞城,要使城塌陷。

16 有一个聪明妇人从城上呼叫啊,啊,请约押近前来,我好与他说话

17 约押就近前来,妇人问他:你是约押不是?他:我是。妇人:求你婢女的约押:我

18 妇人:古时有话,当先在亚比拉求问,然後事就定妥。

19 我们这城的人在以色列人中是和平、忠厚的。你为何要毁坏以色列中的大城,耶和华的产业呢?

20 约押回答:我决不灭毁坏,

21 乃因以法莲地的一个─比基利的儿子示巴─举攻击大卫王,你们若将他一交出来,我便离城而去。妇人约押:那的首级必从城墙上丢你。

22 妇人就凭他的智慧去劝众。他们便割下比基利的儿子示巴的首级,丢给约押约押吹角,众就离城而散,各归各家去了。约押耶路撒冷,到王那里。

23 约押以色列全军的元帅;耶何耶大的儿子比拿雅统辖基利提人和比利提人;

24 亚多兰掌管服苦的人;亚希律的儿子约沙法作史官;

25 示法作书记;撒督和亚比亚他作祭司长;

26 睚珥人以拉作大卫的宰相。

   

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Jerusalem

  

Jerusalem, on Mount Zion, signifies the doctrine of love to the Lord, and how it governs your life. Jerusalem first comes to our attention in 2 Samuel 5, when King David takes the city from the Jebusites and makes it his capital. In the next chapter he brings the Ark of the Covenant there, and later it is where Solomon builds the temple, and his own palace. From then on Jerusalem is the center of worship of the Israelitish church. It is the place where the Lord was presented in the temple as a baby, where He tarried to talk to the priests at age twelve, where He cleansed the temple, had the last supper, was crucified and then rose. It is a central place in both the old and new Testaments. The city was built on Mount Zion, the highest point of the mountains of Judea. A city, in the Word, represents doctrine, the organized knowledge of the truths of the church. Mountains represent love of the Lord and the consequent worship. If you put those things together, Jerusalem on Mount Zion signifies the doctrine of love to the Lord, and how it governs your life. This is why David was led to make Jerusalem the most important city of the land, and why all worship was conducted there. And this is also why Jeroboam was condemned for introducing idol worship in Samaria. In the Book of Revelation, John's vision of the city New Jerusalem descending from God is a prophecy of a new dispensation of doctrine coming from the Lord.

(Odkazy: Arcana Coelestia 4539, 8938; The Apocalypse Explained 365 [35-38])