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1я Царств 7

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1 И пришли жители Кириаф-Иарима, и взяли ковчег Господа, и принесли его в дом Аминадава, на холм, а Елеазара, сына его, посвятили, чтобы онхранил ковчег Господа.

2 С того дня, как остался ковчег в Кириаф-Иариме, прошло много времени, лет двадцать. И обратился весь дом Израилев к Господу.

3 И сказал Самуил всему дому Израилеву, говоря: если вы всем сердцемсвоим обращаетесь к Господу, то удалите из среды себя богов иноземных и Астарт и расположите сердце ваше к Господу, и служите Ему одному, и Он избавит васот руки Филистимлян.

4 И удалили сыны Израилевы Ваалов и Астарт и стали служить одномуГосподу.

5 И сказал Самуил: соберите всех Израильтян в Массифу и я помолюсь о вас Господу.

6 И собрались в Массифу, и черпали воду, и проливали пред Господом, и постились в тот день, говоря: согрешили мы пред Господом. И судил Самуил сынов Израилевых в Массифе.

7 Когда же услышали Филистимляне, что собрались сыны Израилевы в Массифу, тогда пошли владетели Филистимские на Израиля. Израильтяне, услышав о том , убоялись Филистимлян.

8 И сказали сыны Израилевы Самуилу: не переставай взывать о нас к Господу Богу нашему, чтоб он спас нас от руки Филистимлян.

9 И взял Самуил одного ягненка от сосцов, и принес его во всесожжение Господу, и воззвал Самуил к Господу о Израиле, и услышал его Господь.

10 И когда Самуил возносил всесожжение, Филистимляне пришли воеватьс Израилем. Но Господь возгремел в тот день сильным громом над Филистимлянами и навел на них ужас, и они были поражены пред Израилем.

11 И выступили Израильтяне из Массифы, и преследовали Филистимлян, ипоражали их до места под Вефхором.

12 И взял Самуил один камень, и поставил между Массифою и между Сеном, и назвал его Авен-Езер, сказав: до сего места помог нам Господь.

13 Так усмирены были Филистимляне, и не стали болееходить в пределы Израилевы; и была рука Господня на Филистимлянах во все дни Самуила.

14 И возвращены были Израилю города, которые взяли Филистимляне у Израиля, от Аккарона и до Гефа, и пределы их освободил Израиль из рук Филистимлян, и был мир между Израилем и Аморреями.

15 И был Самуил судьею Израиля во все дни жизни своей:

16 из года в год он ходил и обходил Вефиль, и Галгал и Массифу и судил Израиля во всех сих местах;

17 потом возвращался в Раму; ибо там был дом его, и там судил он Израиля, и построил там жертвенник Господу.

   

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Exploring the Meaning of 1 Samuel 7

Napsal(a) Garry Walsh

Here we find a broad-brush description of the life of Samuel, the last Judge of Israel, and the Israelitish world he presided over. After the Philistines returned the Ark of the Covenant, it was taken to the city of Kirjath Jearim but the Israelites continued worshiping other gods, like Baal, the male god of fertility and Ashtoreth, the female equivalent. Samuel commanded the people of Israel to get rid of their idols, stop worshiping foreign gods, and return to worshiping the Lord.

But the Children of Israel, like the nations around them, were polytheists at that time. They needed to be regularly convinced that Jehovah, the Lord, was the chief and most powerful God. A belief in only One God, who we now know as the Lord God Jesus Christ, was beyond them at that time. (See Arcana Coelestia 8301[4].)

Samuel called the people of Israel at Mizpah, where he judged them. The Philistines learned of this gathering and once again set out to make war with them again. The Israelites were afraid and made an offering to the Lord to help them. The Lord answered their cry and the Israelites pushed the Philistines back and reclaimed cities that the Philistines had taken in previous conflicts.

Throughout Samuel’s life there was an ongoing struggle between the Children of Israel and the surrounding peoples. This represents the struggle we all have between good and evil -- between the truths of the one God, Jehovah, and the Ten Commandments, and the false, but popular, loves of self and the world.

Swedenborgian teachings describe how, in the earliest times of spiritual awareness in humanity, people knew that there was only one God, who was their Divine Creator and Redeemer. However, as people fell away from true faith, their worship degenerated and gradually became the worship of idolatry and multiple gods. (See Arcana Coelestia 6003).

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1 Samuel 5

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1 And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it from Eben-ezer unto Ashdod.

2 When the Philistines took the ark of God, they brought it into the house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon.

3 And when they of Ashdod arose early on the morrow, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the earth before the ark of the LORD. And they took Dagon, and set him in his place again.

4 And when they arose early on the morrow morning, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the ground before the ark of the LORD; and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands were cut off upon the threshold; only the stump of Dagon was left to him.

5 Therefore neither the priests of Dagon, nor any that come into Dagon's house, tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod unto this day.

6 But the hand of the LORD was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and smote them with emerods, even Ashdod and the coasts thereof.

7 And when the men of Ashdod saw that it was so, they said, The ark of the God of Israel shall not abide with us: for his hand is sore upon us, and upon Dagon our God.

8 They sent therefore and gathered all the lords of the Philistines unto them, and said, What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel? And they answered, Let the ark of the God of Israel be carried about unto Gath. And they carried the ark of the God of Israel about thither.

9 And it was so, that, after they had carried it about, the hand of the LORD was against the city with a very great destruction: and he smote the men of the city, both small and great, and they had emerods in their secret parts.

10 Therefore they sent the ark of God to Ekron. And it came to pass, as the ark of God came to Ekron, that the Ekronites cried out, saying, They have brought about the ark of the God of Israel to us, to slay us and our people.

11 So they sent and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and said, Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it go again to his own place, that it slay us not, and our people: for there was a deadly destruction throughout all the city; the hand of God was very heavy there.

12 And the men that died not were smitten with the emerods: and the cry of the city went up to heaven.