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1:1 以法蓮山地的拉瑪瑣非有一個以法蓮人，名叫以利加拿，是蘇弗的玄孫，託戶的曾孫，以利戶的孫子，耶羅罕的兒子。 There was a certain man from Ramathaim, a Zuphite 1:1 Or ((from Ramathaim Zuphim)) from the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Elkanah son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite.
1:2 他有兩個妻：一名哈拿，一名毗尼拿。毗尼拿有兒女，哈拿沒有兒女。 He had two wives; one was called Hannah and the other Peninnah. Peninnah had children, but Hannah had none. 1:3 這人每年從本城上到示羅，敬拜祭祀萬軍之耶和華；在那裏有以利的兩個兒子何弗尼、非尼哈當耶和華的祭司。 Year after year this man went up from his town to worship and sacrifice to the LORD Almighty at Shiloh, where Hophni and Phinehas, the two sons of Eli, were priests of the LORD. 1:4 以利加拿每逢獻祭的日子，將祭肉分給他的妻毗尼拿和毗尼拿所生的兒女； Whenever the day came for Elkanah to sacrifice, he would give portions of the meat to his wife Peninnah and to all her sons and daughters. 1:5 給哈拿的卻是雙分，因為他愛哈拿。無奈耶和華不使哈拿生育。 But to Hannah he gave a double portion because he loved her, and the LORD had closed her womb. 1:6 毗尼拿見耶和華不使哈拿生育，就作她的對頭，大大激動她，要使她生氣。 And because the LORD had closed her womb, her rival kept provoking her in order to irritate her. 1:7 每年上到耶和華殿的時候，以利加拿都以雙分給哈拿；毗尼拿仍是激動她，以致她哭泣不吃飯。 This went on year after year. Whenever Hannah went up to the house of the LORD, her rival provoked her till she wept and would not eat. 1:8 她丈夫以利加拿對她說：「哈拿啊，你為何哭泣，不吃飯，心裏愁悶呢？有我不比十個兒子還好嗎？」 Elkanah her husband would say to her, <<Hannah, why are you weeping? Why don't you eat? Why are you downhearted? Don't I mean more to you than ten sons?>> 1:9 他們在示羅吃喝完了，哈拿就站起來。祭司以利在耶和華殿的門框旁邊，坐在自己的位上。 Once when they had finished eating and drinking in Shiloh, Hannah stood up. Now Eli the priest was sitting on a chair by the doorpost of the LORD's temple. 1:9 That is, tabernacle 1:10 哈拿心裏愁苦，就痛痛哭泣，祈禱耶和華， In bitterness of soul Hannah wept much and prayed to the LORD. 1:11 許願說：「萬軍之耶和華啊，你若垂顧婢女的苦情，眷念不忘婢女，賜我一個兒子，我必使他終身歸與耶和華，不用剃頭刀剃他的頭。」 And she made a vow, saying, <<O LORD Almighty, if you will only look upon your servant's misery and remember me, and not forget your servant but give her a son, then I will give him to the LORD for all the days of his life, and no razor will ever be used on his head.>> 1:12 哈拿在耶和華面前不住地祈禱，以利定睛看她的嘴。 As she kept on praying to the LORD, Eli observed her mouth. 1:13 （原來哈拿心中默禱，只動嘴唇，不出聲音，因此以利以為她喝醉了。） Hannah was praying in her heart, and her lips were moving but her voice was not heard. Eli thought she was drunk 1:14 以利對她說：「你要醉到幾時呢？你不應該喝酒。」 and said to her, <<How long will you keep on getting drunk? Get rid of your wine.>> 1:15 哈拿回答說：「主啊，不是這樣。我是心裏愁苦的婦人，清酒濃酒都沒有喝，但在耶和華面前傾心吐意。 <<Not so, my lord,>> Hannah replied, <<I am a woman who is deeply troubled. I have not been drinking wine or beer; I was pouring out my soul to the LORD. 1:16 不要將婢女看作不正經的女子。我因被人激動，愁苦太多，所以祈求到如今。」 Do not take your servant for a wicked woman; I have been praying here out of my great anguish and grief.>> 1:17 以利說：「你可以平平安安地回去。願以色列的 神允准你向他所求的！」 Eli answered, <<Go in peace, and may the God of Israel grant you what you have asked of him.>> 1:18 哈拿說：「願婢女在你眼前蒙恩。」於是婦人走去吃飯，面上再不帶愁容了。 She said, <<May your servant find favor in your eyes.>> Then she went her way and ate something, and her face was no longer downcast. 1:19 次日清早，他們起來，在耶和華面前敬拜，就回拉瑪。到了家裏，以利加拿和妻哈拿同房，耶和華顧念哈拿， Early the next morning they arose and worshiped before the LORD and then went back to their home at Ramah. Elkanah lay with Hannah his wife, and the LORD remembered her. 1:20 哈拿就懷孕。日期滿足，生了一個兒子，給他起名叫撒母耳，說：「這是我從耶和華那裏求來的。」 So in the course of time Hannah conceived and gave birth to a son. She named him Samuel, 1:20 ((Samuel)) sounds like the Hebrew for ((heard of God.)) saying, <<Because I asked the LORD for him.>> 1:21 以利加拿和他全家都上示羅去，要向耶和華獻年祭，並還所許的願。 When the man Elkanah went up with all his family to offer the annual sacrifice to the LORD and to fulfill his vow, 1:22 哈拿卻沒有上去，對丈夫說：「等孩子斷了奶，我便帶他上去朝見耶和華，使他永遠住在那裏。」 Hannah did not go. She said to her husband, <<After the boy is weaned, I will take him and present him before the LORD, and he will live there always.>> 1:23 她丈夫以利加拿說：「就隨你的意行吧！可以等兒子斷了奶。但願耶和華應驗他的話。」於是婦人在家裏乳養兒子，直到斷了奶； <<Do what seems best to you,>> Elkanah her husband told her. <<Stay here until you have weaned him; only may the LORD make good his 1:23 Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scrolls, Septuagint and Syriac ((your)) word.>> So the woman stayed at home and nursed her son until she had weaned him. 1:24 既斷了奶，就把孩子帶上示羅，到了耶和華的殿；又帶了三隻公牛，一伊法細麵，一皮袋酒。（那時，孩子還小。） After he was weaned, she took the boy with her, young as he was, along with a three-year-old bull, 1:24 Dead Sea Scrolls, Septuagint and Syriac; Masoretic Text ((with three bulls)) an ephah 1:24 That is, probably about 3/5 bushel (about 22 liters) of flour and a skin of wine, and brought him to the house of the LORD at Shiloh. 1:25 宰了一隻公牛，就領孩子到以利面前。 When they had slaughtered the bull, they brought the boy to Eli, 1:26 婦人說：「主啊，我敢在你面前起誓，從前在你這裏站著祈求耶和華的那婦人，就是我。 and she said to him, <<As surely as you live, my lord, I am the woman who stood here beside you praying to the LORD. 1:27 我祈求為要得這孩子；耶和華已將我所求的賜給我了。 I prayed for this child, and the LORD has granted me what I asked of him. 1:28 所以，我將這孩子歸與耶和華，使他終身歸與耶和華。」於是在那裏敬拜耶和華。 So now I give him to the LORD. For his whole life he will be given over to the LORD.>> And he worshiped the LORD there. This is Alex Markley's PHPScripture v1.2.0, displaying a copy of Chinese Union Version Bible in XOOPS. 本模組中文化由長島基督福音教會的Jack起始, 聖經文字部分由CCIM(網路基督使團)網站下載. 如欲修改經文請洽聖經公會. 荒漠甘泉五合一■ 中文荒漠甘泉（03月22日）
三月廿二日 「過了四十年，在西乃山的曠野，有一位天使，從荊棘火焰中，向摩西顯現……說：我下來要救他們，你來，我要差你往埃及去。」使徒行傳七章30、31、34節 接受一個重大使命之前，需要何等長的等候和預備！神若延遲，並不是遺忘。祂是在預備祂的器皿，給他們相當的訓練和教育；到了神所指定的時候，神要興起他們來背負他們的工作。就是拿撒人耶穌，也必須有卅年的準備，直等到祂的智慧和身量，並神和人喜愛祂的心長完全了，纔開始祂的工作。 ─喬懷德 神從不性急，祂肯花長時期去預備祂要重用的器皿。祂從不以為預備的日子太長了，或是太無聊了。 在苦難中最難受的成分常是時間。短而急的痛苦易受，長而慢的痛苦難當。有時候我們的痛苦纏綿數年；一天一天過去，並沒有得著輕減；那時候我們的力量就會失去；如果沒有神的恩典，我們定規會沉入絕境。約瑟的試煉是一個長時期的，到了時候，他成了何等樣人！神常藉火把祂的功課燒在我們的最深處。「祂必坐下如煉淨銀子的」（瑪三3），祂知道該煉多少時候；像銀匠一般，祂一看見銀子煉得能照見祂的形像時，便立即把火停止。現在我們雖然看不見神的美意，也看不見將來榮耀的結果；但是信心知道神是不會錯誤的，祂叫「萬事互相效力，叫愛神的人得益處。」（羅八28）讓我們像約瑟一樣，在神苦難的學校中用心學習一切的功課，少盼望立時的拯救。每一課功課都是必需的；我們學會了，拯救自然會來的；那時候我們就要看見：如果沒有在試煉中受過教育，我們決不能站在更大的工場上擔任更重要的工作。所以，親愛的，神現在訓練我們，是為著我們的將來─—將來更大的事奉和更多的祝福；─—如果我們有資格可以坐寶座了，神的拯救就來了，那時候沒有東西再能攔阻我們。但願我們不去奪神手中的明天。給神充分的時間來栽培我們。祂決不會來得太遲的；學習耐心等候罷。 祂決不會來得太遲， 祂在作最好的安排； 不要空尋煩惱， 安心等候祂的來到。 不要很性急地跑在神前面；學習等候祂的時間：鐘錶上的分針和時針走起來都有一定的時候的。
■ 英文荒漠甘泉（03月22日）
March 22 "And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush....saying....I have seen the afficition of my people which is in Egypt, and I have heard their groaning, and am come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send thee into Egypt."(Acts 7:30, 31, 34.) ＴHAT was a long wait in preparation for a great mission. When God delays, He is not inactive. He is getting ready His instruments, he is ripening our powers; and at the appointed moment we shall arise equal to our task. Even Jesus of Nazareth was thirty years in privacy, growing in wisdom before he began His work. ─Dr. Jowett. God is never in a hurry but spends years with those He expects to greatly use. he never thinks the days of preparation too long or too dull. The hardest ingredient in suffering is often time. A short, sharp pang is easily borne, but when a sorrow drags its weary way through long, monotonous years, and day after day returns with the same dull routine of hopeless agony, the heart loses its strength, and without the grace of God, is sure to sink into the very sullenness of despair. Joseph's was a long trial, and God often has to burn his lessons into the depths of our being by the fires of protracted pain. "He shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver," but He knows how long, and like a true goldsmith He stops the fires the moment He sees His image in the glowing metal. We may not see now the outcome of the beautiful plan which God is hiding in the shadow of His hand; it yet may be long concealed; but faith may be sure that He is sitting on the throne, calmly waiting the hour when, with adoring rapture, we shall say, "All things have worked together for good." Like Joseph, let us be more careful to learn all the lessons in the school of sorrow than we are anxious for the hour of deliverance. There is a "need-be" for every lesson, and when we are ready, our deliverance will surely come, and we shall find that we could not have stood in our place of higher service without the very things that were taught us in the ordeal. God is educating us for the future, for higher service and nobler blessings; and if we have the qualities that fit us for a throne, nothing can keep us from it when God's time has come. Don't steal tomorrow out of God's hands. Give God time to speak to you and reveal His will. he is never too late; learn to wait. ─Selected. "He never comes too late; He knoweth what is best; Vex not thyself in vain; until He cometh─REST." Do not run impetuously before the Lord; learn to wait His time: the minute-hand as well as the hour-hand must point the exact moment for action.
■ 永活之泉（03月22日）
三月廿二日 合一的代禱 「身體只有一個，聖靈只有一個。」以弗所書四章4節 我們自己的身體就告訴我們，每個肢體來維護全身的利益，對身體的健康及體力是何等重要。基督的身體也是如此，如今有太多人將救恩只看作他們個人的喜樂；也有很多人知道不該單為自己活，應該在禱告及工作中尋求，使別人能分享他們的喜樂。但他們仍不明白在他們自己的小圈圈之外，仍應擴充他們的心懷，而為著整個基督的身體代禱，並且愛他們。 而聖靈與基督的愛使他們能做到。只有藉著全教會來為著全教會的代禱達到神的寶座時，權能與合一的聖靈才能得以運行。雖然教會中的各支派已經醒悟過來，盼望能更密切地連結在一起感恩，然而彼此間的諾大困難，由於國籍之不同而顯得簡直無法克服，以致想在地上能出現一個合一的教會是無法實現的。 感謝神，在基督耶穌裡有一個合一，比任何能看得見的顯出更深更強；且有一條路使我們就在今天種種的患難中，仍能使合一實際地顯出，並藉著它更得著神的能力及國度的祝福。唯有藉著聖靈能力的增添，及不斷的代禱，才能顯出真實的合一。當信徒們能認出蒙召乃是做君尊的祭司時，他們就看見神不是將祂的愛及應許僅限於他們所勞苦的範圍，更是吸引他們擴大他們的心懷；像基督一樣——也可說像保羅一樣─—為著所有相信的人及將信的人禱告，使整個地上的人並基督的教會，能藉著代禱緊緊連於寶座，這是尚未成就的事。 但願所有的信徒及傳道人能同心合意地為全地的人代禱。那樣才會加強我們的信心。相信我們的禱告必蒙垂聽，並且他們的禱告也能促使國度早日來臨。
■ 中文屬天日子（03月22日）
三月廿二日 火熱的心 「我的心豈不是火熱的麼？」路加福音廿四章32節 我們應當學習這種熱心的秘訣。耶穌忽然向我們顯現，火已燃燒著，我們獲得奇妙的異象；然後我們要學習保存火熱之心的祕訣，無論甚麼事，都要以這種心去對付。如果我們不學習住在耶穌裡面的祕訣，則煩悶無聊的時日，乏味的職務，和朝夕相見的人，在在把我們火熱的心戕賊了。 我們做基督徒的困難，不一定是因為罪，卻因為我們不知我們本性的律。例如應否准許一種情感，自行其是的進行，以觀其所達到的結果。如果把這種情感推到論理的結論，其結果是神所不悅的，就不當再令其自行其是的進行。倘使是神的靈所撥動的一種情感，而你不許那種情感在你的生命中得到正當的發洩，它就要在較低的水平線上反應起來，那就是動情而不動心的原因。情感愈高，如果不在正常的水平線上表現出來，則其墮落亦愈深。如果神的靈已經激動了你，以最大的可能性行出來，至好是不問其結果如何，我們不能等在變形像的山上，但我們必得順從我們在那裡所接受的光；我們必得實行出來。當神賜給一種異象的時候，照著異象去處理你的事務，莫問它的代價如何。
■ 中文上海嗎哪（03月22日）
三月廿二日 「……我們若將可誇的盼望和膽量堅持到底，便是祂的家了。」希伯來書三章6節 信心的態度乃是單單的依靠。以利亞求雨時，曾充滿信心地對亞哈說：「你現在可以上去喫喝，因為有多雨的響聲了。」(王上十八41)由於以利亞知道信心的禱告是大有功效的，所以他上了迦密山頂，屈身在地，將臉伏在兩膝之中。果真霎時天因風雲黑暗，降下大雨。以利亞不但有信心相信神會降雨，他更知道如何等候接受神的回答。以色列王約阿施也和以利亞一樣，當以利沙第一次告訴他，打開朝東的窗戶往外射箭時，約阿施立刻將箭射了出去。第二次以利沙要他把箭往地上射，雖然這事不合理，但約阿施仍然靠著信心堅持到底，戰勝了這個考驗(王下十三14—25)。 當我們遇到一些比較超出常理的事，我們通常不會像約阿施把箭往地上射那樣的順服。換言之，我們向神求的很多，但是當祂預備賜給我們所求的祝福時，我們卻不能符合祂對我們的期望。希伯來書三章14節說：「我們若將起初確實的信心，堅持到底，就在基督裡有分了。」所以讓我們學習自始至終地信靠祂。 無力、失去勇氣的基督士兵， 快聽祂甜美、鼓舞的話語： 我已戰勝你一切的仇敵， 我已為你忍受一切的苦難， 掙扎中的士兵，信靠我， 我已為你勝過一切。
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