Floating Ax
全新四年樂活讀經
W1 2012-08-20 (王下6)
經文: 列王記下 6:22 回答說：「不可擊殺他們！就是你用刀用弓擄來的，豈可擊殺他們嗎（或作：也不可擊殺，何況這些人呢）？當在他們面前設擺飲食，使他們吃喝回到他們的主人那裡。」
默想: 亞蘭人與以色列人交惡，常有戰爭。先知以利沙將一大群亞蘭軍兵引入撒瑪利亞城內。以色列王約蘭看見這一大群敵軍被先知以利沙引入自己掌權的城內，喜出望外，心裡想可以一舉將他們完全消滅。還好他對於先知以利沙還有一點尊重的心。以色列王約蘭在大開殺戒之前，請教先知以利沙。以利沙勸告以色列王，就算是自己用武器所擄來的敵軍，也不可擊殺消滅，何況這一大群敵軍，是靠耶和華的恩典而來的。不只不應該擊殺，反而應當請他們吃飯，然後再讓他們平安返鄉。以色列王約蘭聽從先知以利亞的教導，結果是改善了兩國的關係，促進了雙方的和平。主啊！求你幫助我，讓我在敵對關係情況之下，會靠主的恩典，尋求消滅彼此敵意的方法，而不是消滅敵人。
題目: 以利沙求上主開敘利亞軍隊的眼睛，使他們能看清自己的處境！試問，你是否也因上主開你的心眼，而看見自己靈命處境嗎？
6:1 先知門徒對以利沙說：「看哪，我們同你所住的地方過於窄小，
Now the sons of the prophets said to Eli'sha, "See, the place where we dwell under your charge is too small for us.
6:2 求你容我們往約旦河去，各人從那裡取一根木料建造房屋居住。」他說：「你們去吧！」
Let us go to the Jordan and each of us get there a log, and let us make a place for us to dwell there." And he answered, "Go."
6:3 有一人說：「求你與僕人同去。」回答說：「我可以去。」
Then one of them said, "Be pleased to go with your servants." And he answered, "I will go."
6:4 於是以利沙與他們同去。到了約旦河，就砍伐樹木。
So he went with them. And when they came to the Jordan, they cut down trees.
6:5 有一人砍樹的時候，斧頭掉在水裡，他就呼叫說：「哀哉！我主啊，這斧子是借的。」
But as one was felling a log, his axe head fell into the water; and he cried out, "Alas, my master! It was borrowed."
6:6 神人問說：「掉在哪裡了？」他將那地方指給以利沙看。以利沙砍了一根木頭，拋在水裡，斧頭就漂上來了。
Then the man of God said, "Where did it fall?" When he showed him the place, he cut off a stick, and threw it in there, and made the iron float.
6:7 以利沙說：「拿起來吧！」那人就伸手拿起來了。
And he said, "Take it up." So he reached out his hand and took it.
6:8 亞蘭王與以色列人爭戰，和他的臣僕商議說：「我要在某處某處安營。」
Once when the king of Syria was warring against Israel, he took counsel with his servants, saying, "At such and such a place shall be my camp."
6:9 神人打發人去見以色列王，說：「你要謹慎，不要從某處經過，因為亞蘭人從那裡下來了。」
But the man of God sent word to the king of Israel, "Beware that you do not pass this place, for the Syrians are going down there."
6:10 以色列王差人去窺探神人所告訴所警戒他去的地方，就防備未受其害，不止一兩次。
And the king of Israel sent to the place of which the man of God told him. Thus he used to warn him, so that he saved himself there more than once or twice.
6:11 亞蘭王因這事心裡驚疑，召了臣僕來，對他們說：「我們這裡有誰幫助以色列王，你們不指給我嗎？」
And the mind of the king of Syria was greatly troubled because of this thing; and he called his servants and said to them, "Will you not show me who of us is for the king of Israel?"
6:12 有一個臣僕說：「我主，我王！無人幫助他，只有以色列中的先知以利沙，將王在臥房所說的話告訴以色列王了。」
And one of his servants said, "None, my lord, O king; but Eli'sha, the prophet who is in Israel, tells the king of Israel the words that you speak in your bedchamber."
6:13 王說：「你們去探他在哪裡，我好打發人去捉拿他。」有人告訴王說：「他在多坍。」
And he said, "Go and see where he is, that I may send and seize him." It was told him, "Behold, he is in Dothan."
6:14 王就打發車馬和大軍往那裡去，夜間到了，圍困那城。
So he sent there horses and chariots and a great army; and they came by night, and surrounded the city.
6:15 神人的僕人清早起來出去，看見車馬軍兵圍困了城。僕人對神人說：「哀哉！我主啊，我們怎樣行才好呢？」
When the servant of the man of God rose early in the morning and went out, behold, an army with horses and chariots was round about the city. And the servant said, "Alas, my master! What shall we do?"
6:16 神人說：「不要懼怕！與我們同在的比與他們同在的更多。」
He said, "Fear not, for those who are with us are more than those who are with them."
6:17 以利沙禱告說：「耶和華啊，求你開這少年人的眼目，使他能看見。」耶和華開他的眼目，他就看見滿山有火車火馬圍繞以利沙。
Then Eli'sha prayed, and said, "O LORD, I pray thee, open his eyes that he may see." So the LORD opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw; and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Eli'sha.
6:18 敵人下到以利沙那裡，以利沙禱告耶和華說：「求你使這些人的眼目昏迷。」耶和華就照以利沙的話，使他們的眼目昏迷。
And when the Syrians came down against him, Eli'sha prayed to the LORD, and said, "Strike this people, I pray thee, with blindness." So he struck them with blindness in accordance with the prayer of Eli'sha.
6:19 以利沙對他們說：「這不是那道，也不是那城；你們跟我去，我必領你們到所尋找的人那裡。」於是領他們到了撒馬利亞。
And Eli'sha said to them, "This is not the way, and this is not the city; follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom you seek." And he led them to Sama'ria.
6:20 他們進了撒馬利亞，以利沙禱告說：「耶和華啊，求你開這些人的眼目，使他們能看見。」耶和華開他們的眼目，他們就看見了，不料，是在撒馬利亞的城中。
As soon as they entered Sama'ria, Eli'sha said, "O LORD, open the eyes of these men, that they may see." So the LORD opened their eyes, and they saw; and lo, they were in the midst of Sama'ria.
6:21 以色列王見了他們，就問以利沙說：「我父啊，我可以擊殺他們嗎？」
When the king of Israel saw them he said to Eli'sha, "My father, shall I slay them? Shall I slay them?"
6:22 回答說：「不可擊殺他們！就是你用刀用弓擄來的，豈可擊殺他們嗎【或作也不可擊殺，何況這些人呢】？當在他們面前設擺飲食，使他們吃喝回到他們的主人那裡。」
He answered, "You shall not slay them. Would you slay those whom you have taken captive with your sword and with your bow? Set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink and go to their master."
6:23 王就為他們預備了許多食物；他們吃喝完了，打發他們回到他們主人那裡。從此，亞蘭軍不再犯以色列境了。
So he prepared for them a great feast; and when they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. And the Syrians came no more on raids into the land of Israel.
6:24 此後，亞蘭王便哈達聚集他的全軍，上來圍困撒馬利亞。
Afterward Ben-ha'dad king of Syria mustered his entire army, and went up, and besieged Sama'ria.
6:25 於是撒馬利亞被圍困，有饑荒，甚至一個驢頭值銀八十舍客勒，二升鴿子糞值銀五舍客勒。
And there was a great famine in Sama'ria, as they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for eighty shekels of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove's dung for five shekels of silver.
6:26 一日，以色列王在城上經過，有一個婦人向他呼叫說：「我主，我王啊！求你幫助。」
Now as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, a woman cried out to him, saying, "Help, my lord, O king!"
6:27 王說：「耶和華不幫助你，我從何處幫助你？是從禾場，是從酒醡呢？」
And he said, "If the LORD will not help you, whence shall I help you? From the threshing floor, or from the wine press?"
6:28 王問婦人說：「你有甚麼苦處？」她回答說：「這婦人對我說：『將你的兒子取來，我們今日可以吃，明日可以吃我的兒子。』
And the king asked her, "What is your trouble?" She answered, "This woman said to me, `Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.'
6:29 我們就煮了我的兒子吃了。次日我對她說：『要將你的兒子取來，我們可以吃。』她卻將她的兒子藏起來了。
So we boiled my son, and ate him. And on the next day I said to her, `Give your son, that we may eat him'; but she has hidden her son."
6:30 王聽見婦人的話，就撕裂衣服；（王在城上經過）百姓看見王貼身穿著麻衣。
When the king heard the words of the woman he rent his clothes -- now he was passing by upon the wall -- and the people looked, and behold, he had sackcloth beneath upon his body --
6:31 王說：「我今日若容沙法的兒子以利沙的頭仍在他項上，願 神重重地降罰與我！」
and he said, "May God do so to me, and more also, if the head of Eli'sha the son of Shaphat remains on his shoulders today."
6:32 那時，以利沙正坐在家中，長老也與他同坐。王打發一個伺候他的人去；他還沒有到，以利沙對長老說：「你們看這兇手之子，打發人來斬我的頭；你們看著使者來到，就關上門，用門將他推出去。在他後頭不是有他主人腳步的響聲嗎？」
Eli'sha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. Now the king had dispatched a man from his presence; but before the messenger arrived Eli'sha said to the elders, "Do you see how this murderer has sent to take off my head? Look, when the messenger comes, shut the door, and hold the door fast against him. Is not the sound of his master's feet behind him?"
6:33 正說話的時候，使者來到，王也到了，說：「這災禍是從耶和華那裡來的，我何必再仰望耶和華呢？」
And while he was still speaking with them, the king came down to him and said, "This trouble is from the LORD! Why should I wait for the LORD any longer?"
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