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Ezekiel 32

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1 Năm thứ mười hai, ngày mồng một tháng chạp, có lời Ðức Giê-hô-va phán cùng ta như vầy:

2 Hỡi con người, hãy làm một bài ca thương về Pha-ra-ôn, vua Ê-díp-tô, và nói rằng: Ngươi giống như một con sư tử giữa các dân tộc; khác nào một vật quái dưới biển, mà đã trướng lên các sông. Ngươi lấy chơn vậy đục các dòng nước, và làm cho các sông đầy những bùn.

3 Chúa Giê-hô-va phán như vầy: Ta sẽ giăng lưới ta trên ngươi, có một đoàn dân đông vô số giùm giúp, chúng nó sẽ kéo ngươi lên trong lưới ta.

4 Ta sẽ bỏ ngươi lại trên đất, và quăng ngươi trên mặt đồng ruộng. Ta sẽ khiến mọi loài chim trời đậu trên ngươi, và các loài thú khắp đất ăn ngươi mà no.

5 Ta sẽ đặt thịt ngươi trên các núi, và lấy tiền tệ ngươi lấp đầy các nơi trũng.

6 Ta sẽ lấy huyết ngươi tưới nơi đất ngươi lội bơi, cho đến các núi; và các khe nước sẽ đầy ngươi.

7 Khi ta giập tắt ngươi, thì ta sẽ che các từng trời và làm tối các ngôi sao; dùng mây bao bọc mặt trời, và mặt trăng sẽ không chiếu sáng nữa.

8 Ta sẽ làm cho tối tăm trên ngươi mọi sự sáng láng trên trời, và ta sẽ bủa sự mờ mịt ra trên đất ngươi, Chúa Giê-hô-va phán vậy.

9 Ta sẽ làm bối rối lòng nhiều dân khi ta sẽ sao sự hủy diệt của ngươi ra trong các dân tộc, trong các nước mà ngươi chưa biết đến.

10 Ta sẽ làm cho nhiều dân kinh sợ về ngươi, và các vua chúng nó sẽ vì cớ ngươi sợ hết hồn, khi ta huơ gươm trên mặt họ. Nơi ngày ngươi bị ngã xuống, chúng nó mỗi người đều vì sự sống mình mà run rẩy luôn luôn.

11 Thật vậy, Chúa Giê-hô-va phán như vầy: Gươm của vua Ba-by-lôn sẽ xông vào trên ngươi.

12 Ta sẽ khiến cả thảy dân ngươi ngã xuống dưới gươm của những người mạnh bạo, thảy đều là kẻ đáng sợ trong các dân. Chúng nó sẽ hạ sự kiêu ngạo của Ê-díp-tô xuống, và cả đoàn dân nó đều sẽ bị tiêu diệt.

13 Ta cũng sẽ làm cho cả súc vật nó chết hết nơi bờ sông lớn, nước sẽ không bị vậy đục nước bởi chơn của người ta hoặc bởi vó của thú vật.

14 Bấy giờ ta lại làm cho các dòng nước của chúng nó được trong sạch, và làm cho các sông chúng nó chảy như dầu, Chúa Giê-hô-va phán vậy.

15 Khi ta sẽ khiến đất Ê-díp-tô thành ra nơi hoang vu hủy phá, và đất ấy vị vét sạch cả của mình trước đã đầy dẫy, khi ta sẽ đất hết thảy dân sự nó, thì chúng nó sẽ biết rằng ta là Ðức Giê-hô-va.

16 Kìa là bài ca thương mà chúng nó sẽ than vãn. Những con gái các nước sẽ than vãn bằng một giọng thảm thương. Chúng nó sẽ than vãn bài ấy để khóc Ê-díp-tô cùng cả thày dân nó, Chúa Giê-hô-va phán vậy.

17 Năm thứ mười hai, ngày rằm, có lời Ðức Giê-hô-va phán cùng ta rằng:

18 Hỡi con người, hãy than vãn về đoàn dân Ê-díp-tô. Hãy xô dân ấy cùng với những con gái của các nước có danh tiếng xuống nơi vực sâu của đất, làm một với những kẻ xuống trong hầm hố!

19 Ngươi há đẹp hơn ai sao? Vậy hãy xuống và nằm chung với những kẻ không chịu cắt bì.

20 Phải, kìa những kẻ ấy sẽ ngã xuống chính giữa những người đã bị gươm giết. Nó bị phó cho gươm; hãy kéo nó ra với cả các đoàn dân nó!

21 Từ giữa âm phủ, những lính chiến rất mạnh bạo, cùng những kẻ giúp đỡ nó, sẽ nói cùng nó mà rằng: Chúng nó đã xuống đó, chúng nó đã nằm yên, là kẻ chưa chịu cắt bì mà đã bị gươm giết!

22 Tại đó có A-si-ri với cả đoàn dân nó; chung quanh nó đều là mồ mả. Hết thảy chúng nó đã bị giết, và đã ngã xuống bởi gươm.

23 Mồ mả nó ở trong những nơi sâu thẳm của hầm hố, và dân nó sắp hàng chung quanh mồ mả nó. Hết thảy đều đã bị giết; chúng nó vốn là những kẻ rải sự khiếp sợ ra trên đất người sống, mà nay đã ngã xuống bởi gươm.

24 Tại đó có Ê-lam với cả dân sự nó ở chung quanh mồ mả nó. Hết thảy đều đã bị giết, và đã ngã xuống bởi gươm. Những kẻ chưa chịu cắt bì ấy đã xuống trong vực sâu của đất, tức là những kẻ từng rải sự khiếp sợ ra trên đất người sống; chúng nó chịu nhơ nhuốc trong vòng những kẻ xuống nơi hầm hố.

25 Giường của nó và dân sự đã đặt ở giữa những kẻ bị giết, trong những mồ mả ở chung quanh nó. Hết thảy những kẻ chưa chịu cắt bì ấy đã chết bởi gươm, vì chúng nó từng rải sự khiếp sợ ra trên đất người sống. Chúng nó chịu nhơ nhuốc trong vòng những kẻ xuống nơi hầm hố, và người ta đã sắp hàng nó ở giữa mọi kẻ bị giết.

26 Tại đó có Mê-siếc và Tu-banh, và cả dân chúng nó; mạnh mẽ chúng nó ở chung quanh chúng nó; hết thảy đều là những kẻ chưa chịu cắt bì bị giết bởi gươm; vì chúng nó từng rải sự khiếp sợ trên đất người sống.

27 Chúng nó không nằm chung với những lính chiến mạnh bạo đã ngã xuống trong vòng những kẻ chưa chịu cắt bì, những lính chiến ấy đã xuống nơi âm phủ với khí giới đánh giặc của mình, và người ta đã đặt gươm dưới đầu chúng nó. Song những kẻ kia, tội ác đã như giắt vào hài cốt mình; vì chúng nó rải sự sợ hãi cho những lính chiến mạnh bạo trên đất người sống.

28 Nhưng ngươi sẽ bị gãy ở giữa những kẻ chưa chịu cắt bì, và sẽ nằm chung với những kẻ bị giết bởi gươm.

29 Tại đó có Ê-đôm, với các vua và cả các quan trưởng nó, những người nầy mạnh bạo mặc dầu, đã bị sắp hàng với những kẻ bị giết bởi gươm, và nằm chung với những kẻ chưa chịu cắt bì, và với những kẻ xuống trong hầm hố.

30 Tại đó cũng có hết thảy quan trưởng ở phương bắc và hết thảy dân Si-đôn đều xuống với những kẻ bị giết, dầu sự mạnh bạo của chúng nó đã làm cho khiếp sợ mặt lòng. Chúng nó mang xấu hổ; chúng nó, là những kẻ chưa chịu cắt bì ấy, đã nằm sóng sượt với những kẻ chịu nhơ nhuốc trong vòng những kẻ đã xuống nơi hầm hố.

31 Pha-ra-ôn sẽ thấy vậy, thì được yên ủi về cả đoàn dân mình, tức là Pha-ra-ôn và cả đạo binh mình bị giết bởi gươm, Chúa Giê-hô-va phán vậy;

32 vì ta rải sự khiếp sợ người ra trên đất người sống. Thật, Pha-ra-ôn và cả dân người sẽ nằm giữa những kẻ chưa chịu cắt bì, với những kẻ đã bị giết bởi gươm, Chúa Giê-hô-va phán vậy.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #3448

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3448. 'And Ahuzzath his companion, and Phicol the commander of his army' means the first and foremost features of their doctrine of faith. This is clear from the representation of 'Abimelech' as the doctrine of faith which has regard to rational concepts. Consequently 'his companion and the commander of his army' means those first and foremost things, indeed the first and foremost things of their doctrine; for 'a commander' like a prince means things that are first and foremost, 1482, 2089, and 'an army' means matters of doctrine themselves. The reason why 'an army' means matters of doctrine which are expressions of truth, that is, which are lower truths, is that by 'warfare' in the Word and by 'war' are meant those things that have to do with spiritual war and warfare, 1664, 1788, 2686. The same are also meant by weapons - by spears, shields, bows, arrows, swords, and so on, as has been shown in various places. And since they are truths or matters of doctrine through which spiritual conflicts are fought, armies therefore mean those truths or matters of doctrine, and also in the contrary sense falsities or heretical ideas.

[2] It may be seen from many places that by 'armies' or 'hosts' in the Word are meant truths or falsities, as in Daniel,

The one [little] horn of the he-goat 1 grew exceedingly towards the south, and towards the east, and towards the glorious [land]. And it grew even towards the host of heaven, and cast down to earth some of the host, and of the stars, and trampled on them. It drew itself up even towards the pence of the host. His host was set over the continual [burnt offering] on account of the transgression, and it cast down truth to the earth. I heard a holy one speaking. He said, For how long is this vision, the continual burnt offering, and the desolating transgression, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden down? Daniel 8:9-13.

'The horn that grew towards the south, the east, and the glorious [land]' is the power of falsity that springs from evil, 2832, 'the host of heaven' truths, 'the prince of the host' the Lord as regards Divine Truth. And since in the good sense 'an army' or 'a host' is truth it is said that the horn cast down to earth some of the host, and then that it cast down truth to the earth.

[3] In the same prophet,

The king of the north will raise a multitude greater than the former, and at the end of the period of years he wit surely come with a great army and with many riches. Then he will stir up his power and his heart against the king of the south with a great army. And the king of the south will engage in war with an exceedingly great and mighty army, but he will not stand. For even those who eat his food will break him, and his army will overflow, and many will fall down slain. Daniel 11:13, 25-26.

The whole of that chapter refers to war between the king of the north and the king of the south. 'The king of the north' is used to mean falsities as also is 'his army', while 'the king of the south and his army' is used to mean truths. It is prophecy concerning the vastation of the Church.

[4] In John,

I saw heaven standing open, and behold, a white horse! and He who sat on it was called faithful and true. He was clothed in a garment dyed in blood, and His armies in heaven were following Him on white horses and were clothed in linen, white and clean. I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies gathered to make war with Him who was sitting on the horse and with His army. Revelation 19:11, 13-14, 19.

'He who sat on the white horse' stands for the Word of the Lord, or the Lord as regards the Word, 2760-2762. 'His armies which in heaven were following Him' stands for truths from the Word and so for those in heaven who possess truths. 'The beast' stands for the evils that belong to self-love, 'the kings of the earth and their armies' for falsities. Conflicts between falsity and truth are what are described here.

[5] In David,

By the word of Jehovah were the heavens made, and their host by the spirit of His mouth. Psalms 33:6.

'Their host' or the host of heaven stands for truths. Since 'an army' means truths, the children of the kingdom, and angels, by virtue of the truths which they possess, are called the host of heaven, as in Luke,

Suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God. Luke 2:13.

In David,

Bless Jehovah, all His hosts, His ministers doing His will. Psalms 103:21.

In the same author,

Praise Jehovah, all His angels, praise Him, all His hosts. Psalms 148:2.

In Isaiah,

Lift up your eyes on high and see; who created these? He who brings out their host by number; He calls them all by name. From the multitude of the powerful and of the mighty not a man will be missing. Isaiah 40:26.

In the same prophet,

It was I that made the earth and created man on it. It was I - My hands - that stretched out the heavens; and I commanded all their host. Isaiah 45:12.

Here 'the host of the heavens' stands for truths, and so for angels since angels, as has been stated, are in possession of truths.

[6] In the first Book of Kings,

I saw Jehovah sitting on His throne, and the entire host of heaven standing beside Him, on His right hand and on His left. 1 Kings 22:19

In Joel,

Jehovah gave voice before His army, for His camp is exceedingly great; for that which executes His word is uncountable. Joel 2:11.

In Zechariah,

I will pitch by My house a camp composed of an army passing through and resuming, so that the oppressor passes over them no more. Exult greatly, O daughter of Zion! Make a noise, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King comes to you. Zechariah 9:8-9.

This refers to the Coming of the Lord. 'His army' stands for Divine truths For this reason, and also because the Lord alone fights on man's behalf against hells that are constantly endeavouring to attack, the Lord is called many times in the Word Jehovah Zebaoth, God Zebaoth, the Lord Zebaoth - that is, Jehovah, God, or Lord of Hosts - as in Isaiah,

The noise of a tumult of the kingdoms of the nations gathered together! Jehovah Zebaoth is leading an army of war. Isaiah 13:4.

'The kingdoms of the nations' stands for falsities that spring from evils, 'leading an army of war' for fighting on man's behalf.

[7] Because the twelve tribes of Israel represented the Lord's heavenly kingdom, and 'tribes' as well as 'twelve' meant all things of faith in their entirety, that is, all the truths of the kingdom, 577, 2089, 2129, 2130, 3272, they were also called Jehovah's hosts, as in Exodus 7:4; 12:17, 41, 51. And commands were given to bring them out of Egypt according to their hosts, Exodus 6:26, to encamp according to their hosts, Numbers 1:52, and to divide them into hosts, Numbers 2:1- end.

[8] That truths are meant by 'armies' is also clear in Ezekiel,

Persia and Lud and Put were in your army, as your men of war; they hung the shield and helmet in you, they gave you your reputation. The sons of Arvad, and your army, were on your walls round about, and the Gammadim were in your towers. Ezekiel 27:10-11.

This refers to Tyre which means interior cognitions of good and truth, and so those who possess them, 1201, 'army' standing for truths themselves 'Lud' and 'Put' too mean those who possess cognitions, see 1163, 1164, 1166, 1195, 1231. 'The shield and helmet' describes such things as belong to spiritual conflict.

[9] As regards 'an army' or 'a host' in the contrary sense meaning falsities, this is evident in Isaiah,

It will be on that day, that Jehovah will visit the host of the height on high, and the kings of the earth on the earth. Isaiah 24:21.

Here 'the host of the height' stands for falsities that result from self-love. In Ezekiel,

I will bring you back and put hooks in your jaws, and I will bring you forth, and all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed perfectly, a great company with shield and buckler, all of them wielding swords. You will come from your place, from the uttermost parts of the north, you and many peoples with you, all of them riding horses, a great company, a great army. Ezekiel 38:4, 15.

This refers to Gog, who means external worship separated from internal and so made idolatrous, 1151. 'His army' stands for falsities.

[10] In Jeremiah,

I will send against Babel the archer, him who arches his bow and draws himself up in his breastplate. Do not spare the young men; utterly destroy all its host. Jeremiah 51:2-3.

'Babel' stands for worship whose external features appear holy but whose interiors are profane, 1182, 1283, 1295, 1304, 1306-1308, 1321, 1322, 1326. 'Its host' means the falsities that go with such as these, and the army of Babel in other places has the same meaning as in Jeremiah 34:1, 21; 32:2; 39:1.

In Ezekiel,

Pharaoh will see them and will comfort himself over all his multitude, Pharaoh and all his army, slain by the sword; for I will put My terror in the land of the living. Ezekiel 32:31-32.

This refers to Egypt, which means those who by means of reasonings based on facts pervert truths, 1164, 1165. 'His army', that is, Pharaoh's, stands for derivative falsities, as also does 'Pharaoh's army' in other places, as in Jeremiah 37:5, 7, 11; 46:2; Ezekiel 17:17.

In Luke,

When you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its devastation is near. Luke 21:20.

This refers to the close of the age or final period of the Church when faith does not exist any longer. 'Jerusalem' - which means the Church, see 2117 - is 'surrounded by armies' when beset by falsities.

[11] From these quotations it is clear that 'the hosts of heaven', which Jews and Israelite idolaters worshipped, in the internal sense meant falsities. The second Book of Kings says of them,

They forsook all the commandments of their God and made for themselves a molten image of two calves, and made a grove, and bowed down to all the host of heaven. 2 Kings 17:16.

This refers to the Israelites. And elsewhere it is said of Manasseh that he built altars for all the host of heaven, 2 Kings 21:5, and that King Josiah brought out of the temple all the vessels made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven, 2 Kings 23:4. And in Jeremiah it is said that they were to spread the bones of the princes, of the priests, and of the prophets before the sun, the moon, and all the host of heaven, which they had loved and had served and had gone after, Jeremiah 8:1-2. And elsewhere,

The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the king of Judah will be defiled, like the place of Topheth - all the houses on whose roofs they have burned incense to all the host of heaven and have poured out drink offerings to other gods. Jeremiah 19:13.

And in Zephaniah,

I will stretch out My hand against those worshipping on their roofs the host of heaven. Zephaniah 1:5.

It is the stars to which the expression 'the host of heaven' refers primarily, and by 'the stars' is meant truths, and also in the contrary sense falsities; see 1128, 1808.

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1. literally, The one horn of the he-goat of the she-goats i.e. the little horn that grew up out of one of four horns

  
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1 Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,

2 "This month shall be to you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year to you.

3 Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, 'On the tenth day of this month, they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to their fathers' houses, a lamb for a household;

4 and if the household is too little for a lamb, then he and his neighbor next to his house shall take one according to the number of the souls; according to what everyone can eat you shall make your count for the lamb.

5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old. You shall take it from the sheep, or from the goats:

6 and you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month; and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at evening.

7 They shall take some of the blood, and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel, on the houses in which they shall eat it.

8 They shall eat the flesh in that night, roasted with fire, and unleavened bread. They shall eat it with bitter herbs.

9 Don't eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted with fire; with its head, its legs and its inner parts.

10 You shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; but that which remains of it until the morning you shall burn with fire.

11 This is how you shall eat it: with your belt on your waist, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste: it is Yahweh's Passover.

12 For I will go through the land of Egypt in that night, and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and animal. Against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am Yahweh.

13 The blood shall be to you for a token on the houses where you are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and there shall no plague be on you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt.

14 This day shall be to you for a memorial, and you shall keep it a feast to Yahweh: throughout your generations you shall keep it a feast by an ordinance forever.

15 "'Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread; even the first day you shall put away yeast out of your houses, for whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.

16 In the first day there shall be to you a holy convocation, and in the seventh day a holy convocation; no kind of work shall be done in them, except that which every man must eat, that only may be done by you.

17 You shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this same day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore you shall observe this day throughout your generations by an ordinance forever.

18 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the twenty first day of the month at evening.

19 Seven days shall there be no yeast found in your houses, for whoever eats that which is leavened, that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a foreigner, or one who is born in the land.

20 You shall eat nothing leavened. In all your habitations you shall eat unleavened bread.'"

21 Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said to them, "Draw out, and take lambs according to your families, and kill the Passover.

22 You shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two doorposts with the blood that is in the basin; and none of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning.

23 For Yahweh will pass through to strike the Egyptians; and when he sees the blood on the lintel, and on the two doorposts, Yahweh will pass over the door, and will not allow the destroyer to come in to your houses to strike you.

24 You shall observe this thing for an ordinance to you and to your sons forever.

25 It shall happen when you have come to the land which Yahweh will give you, according as he has promised, that you shall keep this service.

26 It will happen, when your children ask you, 'What do you mean by this service?'

27 that you shall say, 'It is the sacrifice of Yahweh's Passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he struck the Egyptians, and spared our houses.'" The people bowed their heads and worshiped.

28 The children of Israel went and did so; as Yahweh had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.

29 It happened at midnight, that Yahweh struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of livestock.

30 Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where there was not one dead.

31 He called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, "Rise up, get out from among my people, both you and the children of Israel; and go, serve Yahweh, as you have said!

32 Take both your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone; and bless me also!"

33 The Egyptians were urgent with the people, to send them out of the land in haste, for they said, "We are all dead men."

34 The people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading troughs being bound up in their clothes on their shoulders.

35 The children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they asked of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and clothing.

36 Yahweh gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. They despoiled the Egyptians.

37 The children of Israel traveled from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot who were men, besides children.

38 A mixed multitude went up also with them, with flocks, herds, and even very much livestock.

39 They baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt; for it wasn't leavened, because they were thrust out of Egypt, and couldn't wait, neither had they prepared for themselves any food.

40 Now the time that the children of Israel lived in Egypt was four hundred thirty years.

41 It happened at the end of four hundred thirty years, even the same day it happened, that all the armies of Yahweh went out from the land of Egypt.

42 It is a night to be much observed to Yahweh for bringing them out from the land of Egypt. This is that night of Yahweh, to be much observed of all the children of Israel throughout their generations.

43 Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, "This is the ordinance of the Passover. No foreigner shall eat of it,

44 but every man's servant who is bought for money, when you have circumcised him, then shall he eat of it.

45 A foreigner and a hired servant shall not eat of it.

46 In one house shall it be eaten; you shall not carry forth anything of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall you break a bone of it.

47 All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.

48 When a stranger shall live as a foreigner with you, and will keep the Passover to Yahweh, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one who is born in the land: but no uncircumcised person shall eat of it.

49 One law shall be to him who is born at home, and to the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you."

50 All the children of Israel did so. As Yahweh commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.

51 It happened the same day, that Yahweh brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.