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约书亚记 14

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1 以色列人迦南所得的产业,就是祭司以利亚撒和嫩的儿子约书亚,并以色列各支派的族长所分给他们的,都记在下面,

2 是照耶和华摩西所吩咐的,把产业拈阄分给个半支派。

3 原来,摩西在约但河东已经把产业分那两个半支派,只是在他们中间没有把产业分利未人。

4 因为约瑟的子孙是两个支派,就是玛拿西以法莲,所以没有把利未人,但他们城邑居住,并城邑的郊野,可以牧养他们的牲畜,安置他们的财物。

5 耶和华怎样吩咐摩西以色列人就照样行,把分了。

6 那时,犹大来到吉甲见约书亚,有基尼洗族耶孚尼的儿子迦勒对约书亚耶和华在加低斯巴尼亚指着我与你对摩西,你都知道了

7 耶和华的仆人摩西从加低斯巴尼亚打发我窥探这,那时我正四十岁;我按着心意回报他。

8 然而,同我上去的众弟兄使百姓的消化;但我专跟从耶和华─我的

9 当日摩西起誓说:你所踏之定要归你和你的子孙永远为业,因为你专心跟从耶和华─我的

10 自从耶和华摩西的时候,耶和华照他所应许的使我存活这四十五年;其间以色列人旷野行走。看哪,现今我八十五岁了,

11 我还是强壮,像摩西打发我去的那一样;无论是争战,是出入,我的力量那时如何,现在还是如何。

12 求你将耶和华那日应许我的这我;那里有亚衲族人,并宽坚固的城,你也曾见了。或者耶和华照他所应许的与我同在,我就把他们赶出去。

13 於是约书亚为耶孚尼的儿子迦勒祝福,将希伯仑他为业。

14 所以希伯仑作了基尼洗族耶孚尼的儿子迦勒的产业,直到今日,因为他专心跟从耶和华以色列的

15 希伯仑从前名叫基列亚巴;亚巴是亚衲族中最尊的人。於是国中太平,没有争战了。

   

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2909. 'In Kiriath Arba, which is Hebron in the land of Canaan' means within the Church. This becomes clear from the meaning of 'Kiriath Arba' as the Church as regards truth, and from the meaning of 'Hebron in the land of Canaan' as the Church as regards good. In the Word, especially the prophetical part, whenever truth is the subject, good also is included, on account of the heavenly marriage that exists in every detail of the Word, see 683, 793, 801, 2173, 2516, 2712. Here therefore when Kiriath Arba is mentioned, so also is 'Hebron in the land of Canaan'. The land of Canaan is the Lord's kingdom, 1413, 1437, 1607, and locations in that land were in varying ways representative, 1585, 1866.

[2] As regards 'Kiriath Arba, which is Hebron', this was a region where Abraham, Isaac and Jacob dwelt. Abraham's dwelling there is evident from what has gone before,

Abraham came and dwelt in [the oak-groves of] Mamre, which are in Hebron. Genesis 13:18.

And Isaac and Jacob's dwelling there too is evident from what comes further on, Jacob came to Isaac his father in Mamre, to Kiriath Arba, which is Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac sojourned. Genesis 35:27.

Joseph was sent by Jacob his father to his brothers, from the Valley of Hebron. Genesis 37:14.

From the representation dealt with already of those three personages it is clear that 'Kiriath Arba, which is Hebron' represented the Church before Jerusalem did so.

[3] In the course of time every Church deteriorates until it ceases to possess any faith or charity at all, at which point it is destroyed. This too was represented by 'Kiriath Arba, which is Hebron', that is to say, when this place was occupied by the Anakim, by whom dreadful false persuasions were meant, 581, 1673, regarding which occupation by the Anakim, see Numbers 13:21-22; Joshua 11:21; 14:15; 15:13-14; Judges 1:10. As regards the end or close of the Church and its destruction, this was represented by Joshua's utterly destroying everything in that place, Joshua 10:36-37; 11:21, and by Judah and Caleb's smiting the Anakim, Judges 1:10; Joshua 14:13-15; 15:13-14. The establishment again of a new Church was represented by the allotment of its fields and villages to Caleb as his inheritance, Joshua 21:12. The city itself however became a city of refuge, Joshua 20:7; 21:13, and a city for priests, for the sons of Aaron, Joshua 21:10-11, within the inheritance of Judah, Joshua 15:54.

[4] From this it is evident that Hebron represented the Lord's spiritual Church in the land of Canaan. For the same reason also David was ordered by Jehovah's command to go to Hebron and was there anointed king over the house of Judah; and after he had reigned there for seven years and six months he went to Jerusalem and took possession of Zion, see 2 Samuel 2:1-11; 5:5; 1 Kings 2:11, at which point the Lord's spiritual Church now began to be represented by Jerusalem, and His celestial Church by Zion.

  
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