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民數記 21

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1 地的迦人亞拉得王,以色列人從亞他林,就和以色列人爭戰,擄了他們幾個人。

2 以色列人耶和華發願:你若將這民交付我,我就把他們的城邑盡行毀滅。

3 耶和華應允了以色列人,把迦南人交付他們,他們就把迦南人和迦南人的城邑盡行毀滅。那地方的名便何珥瑪(何珥瑪就是毀滅的意思)。

4 他們從何珥起行,往紅那條走,要繞過以東。百姓因這難行,心中甚是煩躁,

5 就怨讟摩西:你們為甚麼把我們埃及領出來、使我們在曠野呢?這裡沒有糧,沒有我們的心厭惡這淡薄的食物。

6 於是耶和華使火進入百姓中間,就咬他們。以色列人死了許多

7 百姓到摩西那裡,我們怨讟耶和華和你,有罪了。求你禱告耶和華,叫這些離開我們。於是摩西為百姓禱告。

8 耶和華摩西:你製造一條火蛇,掛在杆子上;凡被咬的,一望這蛇,就必得活。

9 摩西便製造一條銅,掛在杆子上;凡被咬的,一望這銅就活了。

10 以色列人起行,安營在阿伯。

11 又從阿伯起行,安營在以耶亞巴琳,與摩押相對的曠野,向日出之地。

12 從那裡起行,安營在撒烈谷。

13 從那裡起行,安營在亞嫩河那邊。這亞嫩河是在曠野,從亞摩利的境界流出來的;原來亞嫩河是摩押邊界,在摩押和亞摩利人搭界的地方。

14 所以耶和華的戰記上:蘇法的哇哈伯與亞嫩的谷,

15 並向亞珥城眾谷的下坡,是靠近摩押的境界。

16 以色列人從那裡起行,到了比珥(比珥就是的意思)。從前耶和華吩咐摩西:招聚百姓,我他們喝,的就是這

17 當時,以色列人唱歌說:阿,湧上水來!你們要向這

18 是首領和民中的尊貴人用圭用杖所所掘的。以色列人從曠野往瑪他拿去,

19 從瑪他拿到拿哈列,從拿哈列到巴末,

20 從巴末到了摩押地的谷,又到那下望曠野之毘斯迦的山頂。

21 以色列人差遣使者去見亞摩利人的王西宏,說:

22 求你容我們從你的經過;我們不偏入田間和葡萄園,也不裡的,只走大道(原文作王道),直到過了你的境界。

23 西宏不容以色列人從他的境界經過,就招聚他的眾民出到曠野,要攻擊以色列人,到了雅雜與以色列人爭戰。

24 以色列人用刀殺了他,得了他的,從亞嫩河到雅博河,直到亞捫人的境界,因為亞捫人的境界多有堅壘。

25 以色列人奪取這一切的城邑,也亞摩利人的城邑,就是希實本與希實本的一切鄉村。

26 這希實本是亞摩利王西宏的京城;西宏曾與摩押的先王爭戰,從他中奪取了全,直到亞嫩河。

27 所以那些作詩歌的:你們到希實本;願西宏的城被修造,被建立

28 因為有從希實本發出,有燄出於西宏的城,燒盡摩押的亞珥和亞嫩河邱壇的祭司(祭司原文作主)。

29 摩押阿,你有禍了!基抹的民哪,你們滅亡了!基抹的男子逃奔,女子被擄,交付亞摩利的王西宏。

30 我們射了他們;希實本直到底本盡皆毀滅。我們使地變成荒場,直到挪法;這挪法直延到米底巴。

31 這樣,以色列人在亞摩利人之

32 摩西打發人去窺探雅謝,以色列人就佔了雅謝的鎮市,趕出那裡的亞摩利人。

33 以色列人回,向巴珊去。巴珊王噩和他的眾民都出來,在以得來與他們交戰。

34 耶和華摩西:不要他!因我已將他和他的眾民,並他的,都交在你中;你要待他像從前待希實本的亞摩利王西宏一般。

35 於是他們殺了他和他的眾子,並他的眾民,沒有留下一個,就得了他的

   

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Moses

  

At the inmost level, the story of Moses -- like all of the Bible -- is about the Lord and his spiritual development during his human life as Jesus. Moses's role represents establishing forms of worship and to make the people obedient. As such, his primary representation is "the Law of God," the rules God gave the people of Israel to follow in order to represent spiritual things. This can be interpreted narrowly as the Ten Commandments, more broadly as the books of Moses, or most broadly as the entire Bible. Fittingly, his spiritual meaning is complex and important, and evolves throughout the course of his life. To understand it, it helps to understand the meaning of the events in which he was involved. At a more basic level, Moses's story deals with the establishment of the third church to serve as a container of knowledge of the Lord. The first such church -- the Most Ancient Church, represented by Adam and centered on love of the Lord -- had fallen prey to human pride and was destroyed. The second -- the Ancient Church, represented by Noah and the generations that followed him -- was centered on love of the neighbor, wisdom from the Lord and knowledge of the correspondences between natural and spiritual things. It fell prey to the pride of intelligence, however -- represented by the Tower of Babel -- and at the time of Moses was in scattered pockets that were sliding into idolatry. On an external level, of course, Moses led the people of Israel out of Egypt through 40 years in the wilderness to the border of the homeland God had promised them. Along the way, he established and codified their religious system, and oversaw the creation of its most holy objects. Those rules and the forms of worship they created were given as containers for deeper ideas about the Lord, deeper truth, and at some points -- especially when he was first leading his people away from Egypt, a time before the rules had been written down -- Moses takes on the deeper representation of Divine Truth itself, truth from the Lord. At other times -- especially after Mount Sinai -- he has a less exalted meaning, representing the people of Israel themselves due to his position as their leader. Through Moses the Lord established a third church, one more external than its predecessors but one that could preserve knowledge of the Lord and could, through worship that represented spiritual things, make it possible for the Bible to be written and passed to future generations.