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创世记 14

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1 当暗拉非作示拿,亚略作以拉撒,基大老玛作以拦,提达作戈印的时候,

2 他们都攻打所多玛比拉、蛾摩拉比沙、押玛示纳、洗扁善以别,和比拉;比拉就是琐珥。

3 这五都在西订会合;西订就是

4 他们已经事奉基大老玛十二年,到十三年就背叛了。

5 十四年,基大老玛和同盟的在亚特律加宁,杀败了利乏音人,在哈麦杀败了苏西人,在沙微基列亭杀败了以米人,

6 在何利人的西珥杀败了何利人,一直杀到靠近旷野的伊勒巴兰。

7 他们回到安密巴,就是加低斯,杀败了亚玛力全地的人,以及在哈洗逊他玛的亚摩利人。

8 於是所多玛王、蛾摩拉王、押玛王、洗扁王,和比拉王(比拉就是琐珥)都出来,在西订摆阵,与他们交战,

9 就是与以拦基大老玛、戈印提达、示拿暗拉非、以拉撒亚略交战;乃是与五交战。

10 西订有许多石漆坑。所多玛和蛾摩拉逃跑,有掉在坑里的,其馀的人都往逃跑

11 四王就把所多玛和蛾摩拉所有的财物,并一切的粮食都掳掠去了;

12 又把亚伯兰的侄儿罗得和罗得的财物掳掠去了。当时罗得正所多玛

13 有一个逃出的人告诉希伯来人亚伯兰亚伯兰正住在亚摩利人幔利的橡树那里。幔利和以实各并亚乃都是弟兄,曾与亚伯兰联盟。

14 亚伯兰见他侄儿(原文作弟兄)被掳去,就率领他家里生养的精练壮丁一十八人,直追到但,

15 便在夜间,自己同仆人分队杀败敌人,又追到大马色左边的何把,

16 将被掳掠的一切财物夺回来,连他侄儿罗得和他的财物,以及妇女、人民也都夺回来

17 亚伯兰杀败基大老玛和与他同盟的回来的时候,所多玛出来,在沙微迎接他;沙微就是

18 又有撒冷王麦基洗德带着饼和酒出来迎接;他是至神的祭司。

19 他为亚伯兰祝福:愿的主、至的神赐福与亚伯兰

20 的神把敌人交在你里,是应当称颂的!亚伯兰就把所得的拿出十分之一来,麦基洗德。

21 所多玛王对亚伯兰:你把人口我,财物你自己拿去罢!

22 亚伯兰所多玛:我已经向─至的神耶和华起誓:

23 凡是你的东西,就是一根线、一根鞋带,我都不拿,免得你:我使亚伯兰富足!

24 只有仆人所的,并与我同行的亚乃、以实各、幔利所应得的分,可以任凭他们拿去。

   

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Arcana Coelestia #1715

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1715. 'And he pursued them as far as Hobah, which is on the left of Damascus' means to that particular extent. This becomes clear from the meaning of 'Hobah, which is on the left of Damascus'. Where Hobah was nobody knows, for it is not mentioned again in the Word. Damascus however was the capital city of Syria, as is clear in 2 Samuel 8:5-6; Isaiah 7:8, which has almost the same meaning as Syria, dealt with already at Chapter 10:22. The furthest boundary of the land of Canaan, but beyond Dan, is described as being Damascus, as in Amos,

You have taken up Sikkuth your king, and Kiyun your images, the star of your gods which you made for yourselves And I will cause you to go away beyond Damascus. Amos 5:26-27.

The northern boundary of the holy land or the Lord's kingdom is also called the boundary of Damascus in Ezekiel 47:16 18; 48:1. When it is said in the present verse that 'they were smitten and driven away as far as Hobah, which is on the left of Damascus', the extent to which apparent goods and truths were purified is meant. But unless the nature of those apparent goods and truths is known and by what means they were purified to make them genuine, no proper explanation of the meaning here of 'Hobah on the left of Damascus' is possible, apart from the general observation that they were purified.

  
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