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經文: 歷代志下 25:2 亞瑪謝行耶和華眼中看為正的事，只是心不專誠。
默想: 亞瑪謝王的一生，聖經就用這兩句話來描述，他行耶和華眼中看為正的事，只是心不專誠。他等到國位一穩固，就下手殺死當年下手殺他父親的人，為王父復仇，但是他卻手下留情，沒有將他們的後代抄家滅族。他用銀子去以色列雇用外籍傭兵十萬人，卻肯聽先知的規勸而將他們釋出，不只損失了大批銀子，國家還遭遇這批人的傷害。他率軍東征，戰勝西珥人，消滅對方戰士兩萬人，卻將西珥的神像帶回國膜拜，而且因此趾高氣揚，驕傲的向北國以色列王約阿施討戰，結果是戰敗被俘。最後，他遭到人民背叛而將他殺死。求主幫助我，這一生能夠對主完全的忠誠，不要三心兩意。
題目: 神人對亞瑪謝王說：「你也許以為他們會幫助你打仗；事實上，上帝才能決定勝負…」試想，當你面對困境時,你相信上主是決定勝負的主宰嗎?
25:1 亞瑪謝登基的時候年二十五歲，在耶路撒冷作王二十九年。他母親名叫約耶但，是耶路撒冷人。
Amazi'ah was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jeho-ad'dan of Jerusalem.
25:2 亞瑪謝行耶和華眼中看為正的事，只是心不專誠。
And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, yet not with a blameless heart.
25:3 國一堅定，就把殺他父王的臣僕殺了，
And as soon as the royal power was firmly in his hand he killed his servants who had slain the king his father.
25:4 卻沒有治死他們的兒子，是照摩西律法書上耶和華所吩咐的說：「不可因子殺父，也不可因父殺子，各人要為本身的罪而死。」
But he did not put their children to death, according to what is written in the law, in the book of Moses, where the LORD commanded, "The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, or the children be put to death for the fathers; but every man shall die for his own sin."
25:5 亞瑪謝招聚猶大人，按著猶大和便雅憫的宗族設立千夫長、百夫長，又數點人數，從二十歲以外，能拿槍拿盾牌出去打仗的精兵共有三十萬；
Then Amazi'ah assembled the men of Judah, and set them by fathers' houses under commanders of thousands and of hundreds for all Judah and Benjamin. He mustered those twenty years old and upward, and found that they were three hundred thousand picked men, fit for war, able to handle spear and shield.
25:6 又用銀子一百他連得，從以色列招募了十萬大能的勇士。
He hired also a hundred thousand mighty men of valor from Israel for a hundred talents of silver.
25:7 有一個神人來見亞瑪謝，對他說：「王啊，不要使以色列的軍兵與你同去，因為耶和華不與以色列人以法蓮的後裔同在。
But a man of God came to him and said, "O king, do not let the army of Israel go with you, for the LORD is not with Israel, with all these E'phraimites.
25:8 你若一定要去，就奮勇爭戰吧！但 神必使你敗在敵人面前；因為 神能助人得勝，也能使人傾敗。」
But if you suppose that in this way you will be strong for war, God will cast you down before the enemy; for God has power to help or to cast down."
25:9 亞瑪謝問神人說：「我給了以色列軍的那一百他連得銀子怎麼樣呢？」神人回答說：「耶和華能把更多的賜給你。」
And Amazi'ah said to the man of God, "But what shall we do about the hundred talents which I have given to the army of Israel?" The man of God answered, "The LORD is able to give you much more than this."
25:10 於是亞瑪謝將那從以法蓮來的軍兵分別出來，叫他們回家去。故此，他們甚惱怒猶大人，氣忿忿地回家去了。
Then Amazi'ah discharged the army that had come to him from E'phraim, to go home again. And they became very angry with Judah, and returned home in fierce anger.
25:11 亞瑪謝壯起膽來，率領他的民到鹽谷，殺了西珥人一萬。
But Amazi'ah took courage, and led out his people, and went to the Valley of Salt and smote ten thousand men of Se'ir.
25:12 猶大人又生擒了一萬帶到山崖上，從那裡把他們扔下去，以致他們都摔碎了。
The men of Judah captured another ten thousand alive, and took them to the top of a rock and threw them down from the top of the rock; and they were all dashed to pieces.
25:13 但亞瑪謝所打發回去、不許一同出征的那些軍兵攻打猶大各城，從撒馬利亞直到伯•和崙，殺了三千人，搶了許多財物。
But the men of the army whom Amazi'ah sent back, not letting them go with him to battle, fell upon the cities of Judah, from Sama'ria to Beth-hor'on, and killed three thousand people in them, and took much spoil.
25:14 亞瑪謝殺了以東人回來，就把西珥的神像帶回，立為自己的神，在它面前叩拜燒香。
After Amazi'ah came from the slaughter of the E'domites, he brought the gods of the men of Se'ir, and set them up as his gods, and worshiped them, making offerings to them.
25:15 因此，耶和華的怒氣向亞瑪謝發作，就差一個先知去見他，說：「這些神不能救他的民脫離你的手，你為何尋求他呢？」
Therefore the LORD was angry with Amazi'ah and sent to him a prophet, who said to him, "Why have you resorted to the gods of a people, which did not deliver their own people from your hand?"
25:16 先知與王說話的時候，王對他說：「誰立你作王的謀士呢？你住口吧！為何找打呢？」先知就止住了，又說：「你行這事，不聽從我的勸戒，我知道 神定意要滅你。」
But as he was speaking the king said to him, "Have we made you a royal counselor? Stop! Why should you be put to death?" So the prophet stopped, but said, "I know that God has determined to destroy you, because you have done this and have not listened to my counsel."
25:17 猶大王亞瑪謝與群臣商議，就差遣使者去見耶戶的孫子、約哈斯的兒子、以色列王約阿施，說：「你來，我們二人相見於戰場。」
Then Amazi'ah king of Judah took counsel and sent to Jo'ash the son of Jeho'ahaz, son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, "Come, let us look one another in the face."
25:18 以色列王約阿施差遣使者去見猶大王亞瑪謝，說：「黎巴嫩的蒺藜差遣使者去見黎巴嫩的香柏樹，說：『將你的女兒給我兒子為妻。』後來黎巴嫩有一個野獸經過，把蒺藜踐踏了。
And Jo'ash the king of Israel sent word to Amazi'ah king of Judah, "A thistle on Lebanon sent to a cedar on Lebanon, saying, `Give your daughter to my son for a wife'; and a wild beast of Lebanon passed by and trampled down the thistle.
25:19 你說：『看哪，我打敗了以東人』，你就心高氣傲，以致矜誇。你在家裡安居就罷了，為何要惹禍使自己和猶大國一同敗亡呢？」
You say, `See, I have smitten Edom,' and your heart has lifted you up in boastfulness. But now stay at home; why should you provoke trouble so that you fall, you and Judah with you?"
25:20 亞瑪謝卻不肯聽從。這是出乎 神，好將他們交在敵人手裡，因為他們尋求以東的神。
But Amazi'ah would not listen; for it was of God, in order that he might give them into the hand of their enemies, because they had sought the gods of Edom.
25:21 於是以色列王約阿施上來，在猶大的伯•示麥與猶大王亞瑪謝相見於戰場。
So Jo'ash king of Israel went up; and he and Amazi'ah king of Judah faced one another in battle at Beth-she'mesh, which belongs to Judah.
25:22 猶大人敗在以色列人面前，各自逃回家裡去了。
And Judah was defeated by Israel, and every man fled to his home.
25:23 以色列王約阿施在伯•示麥擒住約哈斯【就是亞哈謝】的孫子、約阿施的兒子、猶大王亞瑪謝，將他帶到耶路撒冷，又拆毀耶路撒冷的城牆，從以法蓮門直到角門，共四百肘；
And Jo'ash king of Israel captured Amazi'ah king of Judah, the son of Jo'ash, son of Ahazi'ah, at Beth-she'mesh, and brought him to Jerusalem, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem for four hundred cubits, from the E'phraim Gate to the Corner Gate.
25:24 又將俄別•以東所看守 神殿裡的一切金銀和器皿，與王宮裡的財寶都拿了去，並帶人去為質，就回撒馬利亞去了。
And he seized all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of God, and O'bed-e'dom with them; he seized also the treasuries of the king's house, and hostages, and he returned to Sama'ria.
25:25 以色列王約哈斯的兒子約阿施死後，猶大王約阿施的兒子亞瑪謝又活了十五年。
Amazi'ah the son of Jo'ash king of Judah lived fifteen years after the death of Jo'ash the son of Jeho'ahaz, king of Israel.
25:26 亞瑪謝其餘的事，自始至終不都寫在猶大和以色列諸王記上嗎？
Now the rest of the deeds of Amazi'ah, from first to last, are they not written in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel?
25:27 自從亞瑪謝離棄耶和華之後，在耶路撒冷有人背叛他，他就逃到拉吉；叛黨卻打發人到拉吉，將他殺了。
From the time when he turned away from the LORD they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish. But they sent after him to Lachish, and slew him there.
25:28 人就用馬將他的屍首馱回，葬在猶大京城他列祖的墳地裡。
And they brought him upon horses; and he was buried with his fathers in the city of David.
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