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1 To když uslyšel Kananejský král v Arad, kterýž bydlil na poledne, že by táhl Izrael tou cestou, kterouž byli špehéři šli, bojoval s ním, a zajal jich množství.

2 Tedy Izrael učinil slib Hospodinu, řka: Jestliže dáš lid tento v ruce mé, do gruntu zkazím města jejich.

3 I uslyšel Hospodin hlas Izraele a dal mu Kananejské, kterýžto do gruntu zkazil je i města jejich, a nazval jméno toho místa Horma.

4 Potom hnuli se s hory Hor cestou k moři Rudému, aby obešli zemi Idumejskou; i ustával lid velice na cestě.

5 A mluvil lid proti Bohu a proti Mojžíšovi: Proč jste vyvedli nás z Egypta, abychom zemřeli na poušti? Nebo ani chleba ani vody není, a duše naše chléb tento ničemný sobě již zošklivila.

6 Protož dopustil Hospodin na lid hady ohnivé, kteříž jej štípali, tak že množství lidu zemřelo z Izraele.

7 Tedy přišel lid k Mojžíšovi a řekli: Zhřešili jsme nebo jsme mluvili proti Hospodinu a proti tobě; modl se Hospodinu, ať odejme od nás ty hady. I modlil se Mojžíš za lid.

8 I řekl Hospodin Mojžíšovi: Udělej sobě hada podobného těm ohnivým, a vyzdvihni jej na sochu; a každý ušťknutý, když pohledí na něj, živ bude.

9 I udělal Mojžíš hada měděného, a vyzdvihl jej na sochu; a stalo se, když ušťkl had někoho, a on vzhlédl na hada měděného, že zůstal živ.

10 Tedy hnuli se odtud synové Izraelští, a položili se v Obot.

11 Potom pak hnuvše se z Obot, položili se při pahrbcích hor Abarim na poušti, kteráž jest naproti zemi Moábské k východu slunce.

12 Odtud brali se, a položili se v údolí Záred.

13 Opět hnuvše se odtud, položili se u brodu potoka Arnon, kterýž jest na poušti, a vychází z končin Amorejských. Nebo Arnon jest pomezí Moábské mezi Moábskými a Amorejskými.

14 Protož praví se v knize bojů Hospodinových, že proti Vahebovi u vichřici bojoval, a proti potokům Arnon.

15 Nebo tok těch potoků, kterýž se nachyluje ku položení Ar, ten jde vedlé pomezí Moábského.

16 A odtud táhli do Beer; a to jest to Beer, o němž byl řekl Hospodin k Mojžíšovi: Shromažď lid, a dám jim vodu.

17 Tedy zpíval lid Izraelský písničku tuto: Vystupiž studnice, prozpěvujte o ní;

18 Studnice, kterouž kopala knížata, kterouž vykopali přední z lidu s vydavatelem zákona holemi svými. Z pouště pak brali se do Matana,

19 A z Matana do Nahaliel, z Nahaliel do Bamot,

20 A z Bamot do údolí, kteréž jest na poli Moábském, až k vrchu hory, kteráž leží na proti poušti.

21 Tedy poslal lid Izraelský posly k Seonovi králi Amorejskému, řka:

22 Nechť jdeme skrze zemi tvou. Neuchýlíme se ani do pole, ani do vinic, ani z studnic vody píti nebudeme, ale cestou královskou půjdeme, dokavadž nepřejdeme pomezí tvého.

23 I nedopustil Seon jíti lidu Izraelskému skrze krajinu svou, nýbrž sebrav Seon všecken lid svůj, vytáhl proti lidu Izraelskému na poušť, a přitáh do Jasa, bojoval proti Izraelovi.

24 I porazil jej lid Izraelský mečem, a vzal v dědictví zemi jeho, od Arnon až do Jabok, a až do země synů Ammon; nebo pevné bylo pomezí Ammonitských.

25 Tedy vzal Izrael všecka ta města, a přebýval ve všech městech Amorejských, v Ezebon a ve všech městečkách jeho.

26 Nebo Ezebon bylo město Seona krále Amorejského, kterýž když bojoval proti králi Moábskému prvnímu, vzal mu všecku zemi jeho z rukou jeho až do Arnon.

27 Protož říkávali v přísloví: Poďte do Ezebon, aby vystaveno bylo a vzděláno město Seonovo.

28 Nebo oheň vyšel z Ezebon, a plamen z města Seon, i spálil Ar Moábských a obyvatele výsosti Arnon.

29 Běda tobě Moáb, zahynuls lide Chámos; dal syny své v utíkání, a dcery své v zajetí králi Amorejskému Seonovi.

30 A království jejich zahynulo od Ezebon až do Dibon, a vyhladili jsme je až do Nofe, kteréž jest až k Medaba.

31 A tak bydlil Izrael v zemi Amorejské.

32 Potom poslal Mojžíš, aby shlédli Jazer, kteréž vzali i s městečky jeho; a tak vyhnal Amorejské, kteříž tam bydlili.

33 Obrátivše se pak, táhli cestou k Bázan. I vytáhl Og, král Bázan, proti nim, on i všecken lid jeho, aby bojoval v Edrei.

34 Tedy řekl Hospodin Mojžíšovi: Neboj se ho; nebo v ruce tvé dal jsem jej, i všecken lid jeho, i zemi jeho, a učiníš jemu tak, jakož jsi učinil Seonovi, králi Amorejskému, kterýž bydlil v Ezebon.

35 I porazili jej i syny jeho, i všecken lid jeho, tak že žádný živý po něm nezůstal, a uvázali se dědičně v zemi jeho.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 3424

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3424. 'Isaac's servants dug in the valley and found there a well of living water' means the Word as regards the literal sense, which holds the internal sense within it. This is clear from the meaning of 'digging in the valley' as investigating lower down to discover where truths are, for 'digging' is investigating, and 'a valley' is that which is lower down, 1723, 3417; and from the meaning of 'a well of living water' as the Word in which Divine truths are present, thus the Word as regards the literal sense which holds the internal sense within it. It is well known that the Word is called 'a spring', in particular 'a spring of living waters'. The reason why the Word is also called 'a well' is that in relation to its other senses the sense of the letter is like a well, and that where spiritual people are concerned the Word is not a spring but a well, see 2702, 3096. Since a valley is that which is lower down, or what amounts to the same, that which is more external, and it was in the valley that the spring was found; and since the literal sense is the lower or more external sense of the Word, it is the literal sense that is therefore meant. But because that sense holds the internal sense, that is, the heavenly and Divine sense, its waters are for that reason called 'living', as also were the waters which went out under the threshold of the new house in Ezekiel,

And it will happen, that every wild creature that creeps, wherever the river comes to, is living; and there will be very many fish, for those waters go there, and become fresh; and everything is living where the river goes. Ezekiel 47:8-9.

Here 'the river' is the Word, 'the waters which cause everything to live' are the Divine Truths within it, 'fish' are facts, 40, 991.

[2] The Lord teaches that the Word of the Lord is such that it gives life to him who is thirsty, that is, to one who desires life, and that it is a spring whose waters are living, in John,

Jesus said to the woman from Samaria at Jacob's well, If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, Give Me a drink, you would ask from Him, and He would give you living water. He who drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst, but the water that I shall give him will become in him a spring of water welling up into eternal life. John 4:10, 14.

The reason why the Word is living and therefore confers life is that in its highest sense the subject is the Lord, while in the inmost sense it is His kingdom in which the Lord is everything. And this being so it is life itself which the Word contains and which flows into the minds of those who read the Word devoutly. This is why the Lord, in regard to the Word which comes from Himself, calls Himself 'a spring of water welling up into eternal life'; see also 2702.

[3] The fact that the Word of the Lord is called 'a well' in addition to 'a spring' is clear in Moses,

Israel sang the song: Spring up, O well! Answer to it! The well which the princes dug, which the chiefs of the people dug out, as directed by the Lawgiver, 1 with their staves. Numbers 21:17-18.

These words were sung at the place Beer, that is, the place of the well. In this case 'a well' means the Word which existed with the Ancient Church, as is evident from what has been said previously about the Word in 2897. 'The princes' means the first and foremost truths of which [the Word] consists - 'princes' being first and foremost truths, see 1482, 2089 - 'nobles of the people' lower truths such as those present in the literal sense, 1259, 1260, 2928, 3295. 'The Lawgiver' is clearly the Lord, 'staves' the powers which those truths possessed.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. literally, into the Lawgiver

  
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Arcana Coelestia # 991

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991. 'All fish of the sea' means facts. This is clear from the meaning of 'a fish'. In the Word fish mean facts that spring from sensory evidence, for there are three types of facts - intellectual, rational, and sensory. All are implanted in the memory - or rather, in the memories 1 - and in someone who is regenerate are summoned from there by the Lord by way of the internal man. These facts which come from sensory evidence enter a person's consciousness or perception during his earthly life, for they are the basis of his thinking. The rest, which are more interior, do not do so until he has shed the body and enters the next life. On the point that fish or creeping things which the waters produce mean facts, see what has been said already in 40; and that sea-monsters or whales mean general sources of facts, see 42. These points become additionally clear from the following places in the Word:

In Zephaniah,

I will cause man and beast to cease, I will cause the birds of the air and the fish of the sea to cease. Zephaniah 1:3.

Here 'birds of the air' stands for rational concepts, 'fish of the sea' for rational concepts of a lower order, that is, for human thought from factual knowledge derived through the senses.

[2] In Habakkuk,

You will make man like the fish of the sea, like creeping things that have no ruler. Habakkuk 1:14.

'Making man like the fish of the sea' stands for making him dependent solely on the senses.

In Hosea,

The land will mourn, and every inhabitant will languish, even the wild animal of the field, and the birds of the air, 2 and even the fish of the sea will all be gathered together. Hosea 4:3.

Here 'fish of the sea' stands for factual knowledge derived through the senses.

In David,

You have put all things under His feet, the beasts of the fields, the flying things of the air, 3 and the fish of the sea, and that crossing the paths of the seas. Psalms 8:6-8.

This refers to the Lord's dominion over man. 'Fish of the sea' stands for facts. That 'seas' means a gathering of facts or cognitions, see what has appeared already in 28.

In Isaiah,

The fishermen will lament, and all who cast a hook into the river will mourn, and those who spread nets over the face' 4 of the waters will languish. Isaiah 19:8.

'Fishermen' stands for people who rely on sensory evidence alone and hatch falsities out of it, the subject being Egypt, or factual knowledge.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. i.e. in the interior memory and in the exterior memory. See 2469 and following paragraphs

2. literally, bird of the heavens (or the skies)

3. literally, the flying thing of the heavens (or the skies)

4. literally, the faces

  
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