全新四年樂活讀經
經文: 以斯拉記 3:12-13 然而有許多祭司、利未人、族長，就是見過舊殿的老年人，現在親眼看見立這殿的根基，便大聲哭號，也有許多人大聲歡呼，甚至百姓不能分辨歡呼的聲音和哭號的聲音；因為眾人大聲呼喊，聲音聽到遠處。
默想: 這是令人感動與感嘆的時刻，對於從來沒有見過所羅門王所建造那輝煌聖殿的第二代或第三代歸國的猶太後裔來說，這是令人感到興奮感動的時刻，他們會情不自禁的大聲歡呼，感謝耶和華的恩典。對於那一批曾經親眼看過所羅門王所建造那金碧輝煌的聖殿，並且經歷過亡國被擄他鄉，經過七十個年頭的白髮長輩來說，看到聖殿舊址荒涼的景況，以及重建聖殿將要面對的種種困難與挑戰，難忍心中滿腹心酸，止不住就放聲大哭，感謝耶和華的信實。這是令人悲喜交集的時刻。感謝主，和平教會重建聖殿，相信和平兄姐中的長輩與年輕一輩，對於上帝的信實與恩惠，應當也會有各種不同的感動，讓我們一起舉起手向神感恩。
題目: 當以色列人開始奠立聖殿根基，感謝讚美說：「上主至善，他對以色列的愛永遠長存。」(v10-11)試回想當初我們建造聖殿時，是否有如以色列民感謝、讚美上帝？
3:1 到了七月，以色列人住在各城；那時他們如同一人，聚集在耶路撒冷。
When the seventh month came, and the sons of Israel were in the towns, the people gathered as one man to Jerusalem.
3:2 約薩達的兒子耶書亞和他的弟兄眾祭司，並撒拉鐵的兒子所羅巴伯與他的弟兄，都起來建築以色列 神的壇，要照神人摩西律法書上所寫的，在壇上獻燔祭。
Then arose Jeshua the son of Jo'zadak, with his fellow priests, and Zerub'babel the son of She-al'ti-el with his kinsmen, and they built the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings upon it, as it is written in the law of Moses the man of God.
3:3 他們在原有的根基上築壇，因懼怕鄰國的民，又在其上向耶和華早晚獻燔祭，
They set the altar in its place, for fear was upon them because of the peoples of the lands, and they offered burnt offerings upon it to the LORD, burnt offerings morning and evening.
3:4 又照律法書上所寫的守住棚節，按數照例獻每日所當獻的燔祭；
And they kept the feast of booths, as it is written, and offered the daily burnt offerings by number according to the ordinance, as each day required,
3:5 其後獻常獻的燔祭，並在月朔與耶和華的一切聖節獻祭，又向耶和華獻各人的甘心祭。
and after that the continual burnt offerings, the offerings at the new moon and at all the appointed feasts of the LORD, and the offerings of every one who made a freewill offering to the LORD.
3:6 從七月初一日起，他們就向耶和華獻燔祭。但耶和華殿的根基尚未立定。
From the first day of the seventh month they began to offer burnt offerings to the LORD. But the foundation of the temple of the LORD was not yet laid.
3:7 他們又將銀子給石匠、木匠，把糧食、酒、油給西頓人、泰爾人，使他們將香柏樹從黎巴嫩運到海裡，浮海運到約帕，是照波斯王古列所允准的。
So they gave money to the masons and the carpenters, and food, drink, and oil to the Sido'nians and the Tyrians to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea, to Joppa, according to the grant which they had from Cyrus king of Persia.
3:8 百姓到了耶路撒冷 神殿的地方。第二年二月，撒拉鐵的兒子所羅巴伯，約薩達的兒子耶書亞和其餘的弟兄，就是祭司、利未人，並一切被擄歸回耶路撒冷的人，都興工建造；又派利未人，從二十歲以外的，督理建造耶和華殿的工作。
Now in the second year of their coming to the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, Zerub'babel the son of She-al'ti-el and Jeshua the son of Jo'zadak made a beginning, together with the rest of their brethren, the priests and the Levites and all who had come to Jerusalem from the captivity. They appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to have the oversight of the work of the house of the LORD.
3:9 於是猶大（在二章四十節作何達威雅）的後裔，就是耶書亞和他的子孫與弟兄，甲篾和他的子孫，利未人希拿達的子孫與弟兄，都一同起來，督理那在 神殿做工的人。
And Jeshua with his sons and his kinsmen, and Kad'mi-el and his sons, the sons of Judah, together took the oversight of the workmen in the house of God, along with the sons of Hen'adad and the Levites, their sons and kinsmen.
3:10 匠人立耶和華殿根基的時候，祭司皆穿禮服吹號，亞薩的子孫利未人敲鈸，照以色列王大衛所定的例，都站著讚美耶和華。
And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the LORD, the priests in their vestments came forward with trumpets, and the Levites, the sons of Asaph, with cymbals, to praise the LORD, according to the directions of David king of Israel;
3:11 他們彼此唱和，讚美稱謝耶和華說：他本為善，他向以色列人永發慈愛。他們讚美耶和華的時候，眾民大聲呼喊，因耶和華殿的根基已經立定。
and they sang responsively, praising and giving thanks to the LORD, "For he is good, for his steadfast love endures for ever toward Israel." And all the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised the LORD, because the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid.
3:12 然而有許多祭司、利未人、族長，就是見過舊殿的老年人，現在親眼看見立這殿的根基，便大聲哭號，也有許多人大聲歡呼，
But many of the priests and Levites and heads of fathers' houses, old men who had seen the first house, wept with a loud voice when they saw the foundation of this house being laid, though many shouted aloud for joy;
3:13 甚至百姓不能分辨歡呼的聲音和哭號的聲音；因為眾人大聲呼喊，聲音聽到遠處。
so that the people could not distinguish the sound of the joyful shout from the sound of the people's weeping, for the people shouted with a great shout, and the sound was heard afar.
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