Jehoiada Collected Silver for Temple Repair
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W2 2012-08-28 (王下12)
經文: 列王記下 12:2-3 約阿施在祭司耶何耶大教訓他的時候，就行耶和華眼中看為正的事；只是邱壇還沒有廢去，百姓仍在那裡獻祭燒香。
默想: 祭司耶和耶大可以說是幫助約阿施國王恢復大衛家族統治南國猶大的忠心祭司。耶何耶大也可以說是約阿施國王的啟蒙恩師。可是這句經文，讓我們看到約阿施對於耶何耶大的依賴性。約阿施國王只有在耶何耶大教訓他的時候，才行耶和華眼中看為正的事。約阿施並沒有長大成熟，可以自己就行耶和華眼中看為正的事。另外我們也看到邱壇敬拜是屬於很困難除去的惡習。我們還是很容易照自己的習慣或喜好，來敬拜耶和華。求主幫助我，能夠學習不依靠別人，自己能夠行耶和華眼中看為正的事，特別是在敬拜耶和華的事上，能夠完全順服上帝的旨意，以心靈誠實來敬拜耶和華。
題目: 約阿施因耶何耶大祭司教導他，一生做上主認為對的事。試想，在你生命旅程中，誰曾經像耶何耶大一般，教導你做上主認為對的事情？
12:1 耶戶第七年，約阿施登基，在耶路撒冷作王四十年。他母親名叫西比亞，是別是巴人。
In the seventh year of Jehu Jeho'ash began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Zib'iah of Beer-sheba.
12:2 約阿施在祭司耶何耶大教訓他的時候，就行耶和華眼中看為正的事；
And Jeho'ash did what was right in the eyes of the LORD all his days, because Jehoi'ada the priest instructed him.
12:3 只是邱壇還沒有廢去，百姓仍在那裡獻祭燒香。
Nevertheless the high places were not taken away; the people continued to sacrifice and burn incense on the high places.
12:4 約阿施對眾祭司說：「凡奉到耶和華殿分別為聖之物所值通用的銀子，或各人當納的身價，或樂意奉到耶和華殿的銀子，
Jeho'ash said to the priests, "All the money of the holy things which is brought into the house of the LORD, the money for which each man is assessed -- the money from the assessment of persons -- and the money which a man's heart prompts him to bring into the house of the LORD,
12:5 你們當從所認識的人收了來，修理殿的一切破壞之處。」
let the priests take, each from his acquaintance; and let them repair the house wherever any need of repairs is discovered."
12:6 無奈到了約阿施王二十三年，祭司仍未修理殿的破壞之處。
But by the twenty-third year of King Jeho'ash the priests had made no repairs on the house.
12:7 所以約阿施王召了大祭司耶何耶大和眾祭司來，對他們說：「你們怎麼不修理殿的破壞之處呢？從今以後，你們不要從所認識的人再收銀子，要將所收的交出來，修理殿的破壞之處。」
Therefore King Jeho'ash summoned Jehoi'ada the priest and the other priests and said to them, "Why are you not repairing the house? Now therefore take no more money from your acquaintances, but hand it over for the repair of the house."
12:8 眾祭司答應不再收百姓的銀子，也不修理殿的破壞之處。
So the priests agreed that they should take no more money from the people, and that they should not repair the house.
12:9 祭司耶何耶大取了一個櫃子，在櫃蓋上鑽了一個窟窿，放於壇旁，在進耶和華殿的右邊；守門的祭司將奉到耶和華殿的一切銀子投在櫃裡。
Then Jehoi'ada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid of it, and set it beside the altar on the right side as one entered the house of the LORD; and the priests who guarded the threshold put in it all the money that was brought into the house of the LORD.
12:10 他們見櫃裡的銀子多了，便叫王的書記和大祭司上來，將耶和華殿裡的銀子數算包起來。
And whenever they saw that there was much money in the chest, the king's secretary and the high priest came up and they counted and tied up in bags the money that was found in the house of the LORD.
12:11 把所平的銀子交給督工的，就是耶和華殿裡辦事的人；他們把銀子轉交修理耶和華殿的木匠和工人，
Then they would give the money that was weighed out into the hands of the workmen who had the oversight of the house of the LORD; and they paid it out to the carpenters and the builders who worked upon the house of the LORD,
12:12 並瓦匠、石匠，又買木料和鑿成的石頭，修理耶和華殿的破壞之處，以及修理殿的各樣使用。
and to the masons and the stonecutters, as well as to buy timber and quarried stone for making repairs on the house of the LORD, and for any outlay upon the repairs of the house.
12:13 但那奉到耶和華殿的銀子，沒有用以做耶和華殿裡的銀杯、蠟剪、碗、號，和別樣的金銀器皿，
But there were not made for the house of the LORD basins of silver, snuffers, bowls, trumpets, or any vessels of gold, or of silver, from the money that was brought into the house of the LORD,
12:14 乃將那銀子交給督工的人修理耶和華的殿；
for that was given to the workmen who were repairing the house of the LORD with it.
12:15 且將銀子交給辦事的人轉交做工的人，不與他們算帳，因為他們辦事誠實。
And they did not ask an accounting from the men into whose hand they delivered the money to pay out to the workmen, for they dealt honestly.
12:16 惟有贖愆祭、贖罪祭的銀子沒有奉到耶和華的殿，都歸祭司。
The money from the guilt offerings and the money from the sin offerings was not brought into the house of the LORD; it belonged to the priests.
12:17 那時，亞蘭王哈薛上來攻打迦特，攻取了，就定意上來攻打耶路撒冷。
At that time Haz'ael king of Syria went up and fought against Gath, and took it. But when Haz'ael set his face to go up against Jerusalem,
12:18 猶大王約阿施將他列祖猶大王約沙法、約蘭、亞哈謝所分別為聖的物和自己所分別為聖的物，並耶和華殿與王宮府庫裡所有的金子都送給亞蘭王哈薛；哈薛就不上耶路撒冷來了。
Jeho'ash king of Judah took all the votive gifts that Jehosh'aphat and Jeho'ram and Ahazi'ah, his fathers, the kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own votive gifts, and all the gold that was found in the treasuries of the house of the LORD and of the king's house, and sent these to Haz'ael king of Syria. Then Haz'ael went away from Jerusalem.
12:19 約阿施其餘的事，凡他所行的都寫在猶大列王記上。
Now the rest of the acts of Jo'ash, and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
12:20 約阿施的臣僕起來背叛，在下悉拉的米羅宮那裡將他殺了。
His servants arose and made a conspiracy, and slew Jo'ash in the house of Millo, on the way that goes down to Silla.
12:21 殺他的那臣僕就是示米押的兒子約撒甲和朔默的兒子約薩拔。眾人將他葬在大衛城他列祖的墳地裡。他兒子亞瑪謝接續他作王。
It was Jo'zacar the son of Shim'e-ath and Jeho'zabad the son of Shomer, his servants, who struck him down, so that he died. And they buried him with his fathers in the city of David, and Amazi'ah his son reigned in his stead.
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