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1 犹大约坦、亚哈斯、希西家在位的时候,摩利沙人弥迦得耶和华的默示,论撒玛利亚耶路撒冷

2 万民哪,你们都要和其上所有的,也都要侧耳而耶和华从他的殿要见证你们的不是。

3 看哪,耶和华出了他的居所,降临步行处。

4 在他以必消化,诸必崩裂,如蜡化在中,如坡。

5 这都因雅各过,以色列家的恶。雅各过在哪里呢?岂不是在撒玛利亚麽?犹大的邱坛在哪里呢?岂不是在耶路撒冷麽?

6 所以我必使撒玛利亚变为田野的乱堆,又作为种葡萄之处;也必将她的石头倒在谷中,露出根基来。

7 她一切雕刻的偶像必被打碎;她所得的财物必被烧;所有的偶像我必毁灭;因为是从妓女雇价所聚来的,後必归为妓女的雇价。

8 先知说:因此我必大声哀号,赤脚露体而行;又要呼号如野狗,哀鸣如鸵鸟。

9 因为撒玛利亚的伤痕无法医治,延及犹大耶路撒冷我民的城

10 不要在迦特报告这事,总不要哭泣;我在伯亚弗拉滚於灰尘之中。

11 沙斐的居民哪,你们要赤身蒙羞过去。撒南的居民不敢出来。伯以薛人的哀哭使你们无处可站。

12 玛律的居民心甚忧急,切望得处,因为灾祸从耶和华那里临到耶路撒冷的城

13 拉吉的居民哪,要用快马套车;锡安民(原文是女子)的由你而起;以色列人过在你那里显出。

14 犹大啊,你要将礼物送摩利设迦特。亚革悉的众族必用诡诈待以色列

15 玛利沙的居民哪,我必使那夺取你的到你这里;以色列的尊贵人(原文是荣耀)必到亚杜兰。

16 犹大啊,要为你所喜爱的儿女剪除你的头发,使头光,要大大地光,如同,因为他们都被掳去离开你。

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Jacob or Israel (the man)

  

Jacob is told twice that his name will now be Israel. The first time is when he wrestles with an angel on his journey to meet Esau, and the angel tells him that his name will be changed. After he is reconciled with Esau, they go their separate ways. Jacob moves to Shechem and then on to Bethel, where he builds an altar to the Lord. The Lord appears to him there, renews the covenant He first made with Abraham and again tells him that his name will be Israel (Genesis 35). The story goes on to tell of Benjamin's birth and Rachel's death in bearing him, and then of Jacob's return to Isaac and Isaac's death and burial. But at that point the main thread of the story leaves Israel and turns to Joseph, and Israel is hardly mentioned until after Joseph has risen to power in Egypt, has revealed himself to his brothers and tells them to bring all of their father's household down to Egypt. There, before Israel dies, he blesses Joseph's sons, plus all his own sons. After his death he is returned to the land of Canaan for burial in Abraham's tomb. In the story of Jacob and Esau, Jacob represents truth, and Esau good. Jacob's stay in Padan-Aram, and the wealth he acquired there, represent learning the truths of scripture, just as we learn when we read the Ten Commandments or the Sermon on the Mount. The change of name from Jacob to Israel represents the realization that what we learn should not simply be knowledge, but should be the rules of our life, to be followed by action. This action is the good that Esau has represented in the story up to that time, but after the reconciliation between Jacob and Esau, Jacob as Israel now represents the truth and the good, together. It is interesting that even after his name change Jacob is rarely called Israel. Sometimes he is called one and sometimes the other, and sometimes he is called both Jacob and Israel in the same verse (Genesis 46:2, 5, & 8 also Psalm 14:7). This is because Jacob represents the external person and Israel the internal person, and even after the internal person comes into being, we spend much of our lives living on the external level.

(Odkazy: Arcana Coelestia 4274, 4292, 4570, 5595, 6225, 6256, Genesis 2, 2:5, 46, 46:8; Psalms 7, 14)