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1 大卫耶和华:我上犹大个城去可以麽?耶和华:可以。大卫:我上哪个城去呢?耶和华:上希伯仑去。

2 於是大卫和他的两个妻─一个是耶斯列人亚希暖,一个是作过迦密人拿八妻的亚比该─上那里去了。

3 大卫也将跟随他的和他们各的眷属一同带上去,在希伯仑的城邑中。

4 犹大到希伯仑,在那里大卫犹大家的王。有人告诉大卫说:葬埋扫罗的是基列雅比人。

5 大卫就差人去见基列雅比人,对他们:你们厚待你们的扫罗,将他葬埋。愿耶和华赐福与你们!

6 你们既行了这事,愿耶和华以慈爱诚实待你们,我也要为此厚待你们。

7 现在你们的扫罗死了犹大家已经我作他们的王,所以你们要刚强奋勇。

8 扫罗的元帅尼珥的儿子押尼珥,曾将扫罗的儿子伊施波设带过河,到玛哈念,

9 立他作王,治理基列、亚书利、耶斯列、以法莲、便雅悯,和以色列众人。

10 扫罗的儿子伊施波设登基的时候年四十岁,作以色列年;惟独犹大家归从大卫

11 大卫在希伯仑作犹大家的王,共年零

12 尼珥的儿子押尼珥和扫罗的儿子伊施波设的仆人从玛哈念出来,往基遍去。

13 洗鲁雅的儿子约押大卫的仆人也出来,在基遍池旁与他们相遇;一班在池这边,一班在池那边。

14 押尼珥对约押:让少年人起来,在我们面前戏耍罢!约押:可以。

15 就按着定数起来:属扫罗儿子伊施波设的便雅悯人过去十二名,大卫的仆人也过去十二名,

16 彼此揪,用刀刺肋,一同仆倒。所以,那地作希利甲哈素林,就在基遍

17 那日的战事凶猛,押尼珥和以色列人败在大卫的仆人面前。

18 在那里有洗鲁雅的个儿子:约押、亚比筛、亚撒黑。亚撒黑快如野鹿般;

19 亚撒黑追赶押尼珥,直追赶他不偏左右。

20 押尼珥回头:你是亚撒黑麽?回答:是。

21 押尼珥对他:你或向左向右,拿住个少年人,剥去他的战衣。亚撒黑却不肯开不追赶他。

22 押尼珥又对亚撒黑:你开不追赶我罢!我何必杀你呢?若杀你,有甚麽脸见你哥哥约押呢?

23 亚撒黑仍不肯开,故此押尼珥就用枪鐏刺入他的肚腹,甚至枪从背后透出。亚撒黑就在那里仆倒而。众人赶到亚撒黑仆倒而地方,就都站住。

24 约押和亚比筛追赶押尼珥,日落的时候,到了通基遍旷野旁,基亚对面的亚玛山。

25 便雅悯人聚集,跟随押尼珥站在个山顶上。

26 押尼珥呼叫约押:刀岂可永远杀人麽?你岂不知终久必有苦楚麽?你要等何时才百姓回去、不追赶弟兄呢?

27 约押:我指着永生的起誓:你若不戏耍的那句话,今日早晨百姓就回去,不追赶弟兄了。

28 於是约押吹角,众民就站住,不再追赶以色列人,也不再打仗了。

29 押尼珥和跟随他的人整夜经过亚拉巴,过约但河,走过毕伦,到了玛哈念。

30 约押追赶押尼珥回来,聚集众民,见大卫的仆人中缺少了十九个和亚撒黑。

31 大卫的仆人杀了便雅悯和跟随押尼珥的,共六十名。

32 众人将亚撒黑送到伯利恒,葬在他父亲坟墓里。约押和跟随他的人走了一夜,天亮的时候到了希伯仑。

   

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Seven

  

Seven, as in Revelation 15:1, signifies everything in an universal sense. The number 'seven' was considered holy, as is well known, because of the six days of creation, and the seventh, which is the celestial self, where peace, rest, and the Sabbath is. The number seven occurs so frequently in the rites of the Jewish church and is held holy everywhere.

So times were divided into seven, longer and shorter intervals, and were called weeks, like the great intervals of times till the coming of the Messiah, in Daniel 9:24-25. The time of seven years is called 'a week' by Laban and Jacob, as in Genesis 29:27-28. So wherever the number seven occurs, it is considered holy and sacred, as in Psalm 119:164, and in Isaiah 30:26.

As the periods of a person's regeneration are distinguished into six, prior to the seventh, or the celestial self, so the times of vastation are also distinguished, until nothing celestial is left. This was represented by the many captivities of the Jews, and by the last Babylonian captivity, which lasted seven decades, or seventy years. This was also represented by Nebuchadnezzar, in Daniel 4:16, 22, 29. It also refers to the vastation of the end times, in Revelation 15:1, 7-8. They should 'tread the holy city under foot, forty and two months, or six times seven,' as in Revelation 11:2 and Revelation 5:1. So the severity and increments of punishment were expressed by the number seven, as in Leviticus 26:18, 21, 24, 28 and Psalm 79:12.

(Odkazy: Apocalypse Explained 5, 7-8, 15; Arcana Coelestia 395; Daniel 9, 9:24, 9:25; Isaiah 26, 30; Psalms 119)