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1:2 所羅門吩咐以色列眾人,就是千夫長、百夫長、審判官、首領與族長都來。 Then Solomon spoke to all Israel--to the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds, to the judges and to all the leaders in Israel, the heads of families--
1:3 所羅門和會眾都往基遍的邱壇去,因那裏有 神的會幕,就是耶和華僕人摩西在曠野所製造的。 and Solomon and the whole assembly went to the high place at Gibeon, for God's Tent of Meeting was there, which Moses the LORD's servant had made in the desert. 1:4 只是 神的約櫃,大衛已經從基列‧耶琳搬到他所預備的地方,因他曾在耶路撒冷為約櫃支搭了帳幕, Now David had brought up the ark of God from Kiriath Jearim to the place he had prepared for it, because he had pitched a tent for it in Jerusalem. 1:5 並且戶珥的孫子、烏利的兒子比撒列所造的銅壇也在基遍耶和華的會幕前。所羅門和會眾都就近壇前。 But the bronze altar that Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur, had made was in Gibeon in front of the tabernacle of the LORD; so Solomon and the assembly inquired of him there. 1:6 所羅門上到耶和華面前會幕的銅壇那裏,獻一千犧牲為燔祭。 Solomon went up to the bronze altar before the LORD in the Tent of Meeting and offered a thousand burnt offerings on it. 1:7 當夜, 神向所羅門顯現,對他說:「你願我賜你甚麼,你可以求。」 That night God appeared to Solomon and said to him, <<Ask for whatever you want me to give you.>> 1:8 所羅門對 神說:「你曾向我父大衛大施慈愛,使我接續他作王。 Solomon answered God, <<You have shown great kindness to David my father and have made me king in his place. 1:9 耶和華 神啊,現在求你成就向我父大衛所應許的話;因你立我作這民的王,他們如同地上塵沙那樣多。 Now, LORD God, let your promise to my father David be confirmed, for you have made me king over a people who are as numerous as the dust of the earth. 1:10 求你賜我智慧聰明,我好在這民前出入;不然,誰能判斷這眾多的民呢?」 Give me wisdom and knowledge, that I may lead this people, for who is able to govern this great people of yours?>> 1:11 神對所羅門說:「我已立你作我民的王。你既有這心意,並不求資財、豐富、尊榮,也不求滅絕那恨你之人的性命,又不求大壽數,只求智慧聰明好判斷我的民; God said to Solomon, <<Since this is your heart's desire and you have not asked for wealth, riches or honor, nor for the death of your enemies, and since you have not asked for a long life but for wisdom and knowledge to govern my people over whom I have made you king, 1:12 我必賜你智慧聰明,也必賜你資財、豐富、尊榮。在你以前的列王都沒有這樣,在你以後也必沒有這樣的。」 therefore wisdom and knowledge will be given you. And I will also give you wealth, riches and honor, such as no king who was before you ever had and none after you will have.>> 1:13 於是,所羅門從基遍邱壇會幕前回到耶路撒冷,治理以色列人。 Then Solomon went to Jerusalem from the high place at Gibeon, from before the Tent of Meeting. And he reigned over Israel. 1:14 所羅門聚集戰車馬兵,有戰車一千四百輛,馬兵一萬二千名,安置在屯車的城邑和耶路撒冷,就是王那裏。 Solomon accumulated chariots and horses; he had fourteen hundred chariots and twelve thousand horses, 1:14 Or ((charioteers)) which he kept in the chariot cities and also with him in Jerusalem. 1:15 王在耶路撒冷使金銀多如石頭,香柏木多如高原的桑樹。 The king made silver and gold as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as plentiful as sycamore-fig trees in the foothills. 1:16 所羅門的馬是從埃及帶來的,是王的商人一群一群按著定價買來的。 Solomon's horses were imported from Egypt 1:16 Or possibly ((Muzur,)) a region in Cilicia; also in verse 17 and from Kue-- 1:16 Probably Cilicia the royal merchants purchased them from Kue. 1:17 他們從埃及買來的車,每輛價銀七百舍客勒,馬每匹一百五十舍客勒。赫人諸王和亞蘭諸王所買的車馬,也是按這價值經他們手買來的。 They imported a chariot from Egypt for six hundred shekels 1:17 That is, about 15 pounds (about 7 kilograms) of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty. 1:17 That is, about 3 3/4 pounds (about 1.7 kilograms) They also exported them to all the kings of the Hittites and of the Arameans. 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(01月17日)
一月十七日 「永活神的僕人但以理阿,你所常事奉的神,能救你……」但以理書六章20節(直譯) 雖然這節聖經我們曾讀了多次,可是我們常把它忽略過去。我們知道經上記著神是活的神;然而在我們日常的生活中,我們最會忘記的,乃是神是活的神;因為祂是活的神,祂在三、四千年以前怎樣,現在還是怎樣;祂以前是全能的,現在還是;以前有慈愛憐憫,如今對於那些愛祂、事奉祂的人仍有;祂是不改變的。所以我們該完全信靠祂,在我們最黑暗的時候,仍不失去這個事實——祂仍是、永是活的神!如果你與神同行,仰望祂給你隨時的幫助,永活的神保險不會誤你的事。一個主內年長的弟兄,認識活的神已經四十四年了,他作見證告訴我說:神從來沒有耽誤過我。在極大的艱難、極重的試煉、極深的窮困和需要中,神從來沒有誤過我的事;因為我靠著祂的恩典能信祂,祂總隨時給我幫助。我樂意述說祂的名。 ─慕勒 馬丁路得有一次覺得他前途中危機四伏,因此他心中充滿了憂愁和恐懼;這時他自己知道必須抓住上面來的力量,纔能過去;他獨自枯坐著,用他的手指在桌面上畫這幾個字:「祂是永活的!」衪是永活的!他喜樂了,他恢復了。「祂是永活的」,也是我們的力量和盼望。今天世上的偉人、領袖、科學家、哲學家等等,只能發光一時,不久就完了。人都會過去;祂是永存的。人是點著的燈,所遲早會熄的;惟有祂是真光,眾光之源,永遠常存的。 ─馬克拉倫 崔倫保說:「有一天,我去見靈命頂深的亞當博士他告訴我他以為靈命中最寶貴的一份,就是靈中不斷的感覺主的確實同在。沒有一樣東西比感覺主的確實同在更能堅固他;這是實在的,並不是一種情感、幻想,或者心理作用。」 「而且基督是他思想的家。無論甚麼時候,他的思想在別的事情上釋放了,就回到基督那裡去;他在一個人的時候,會出聲與基督談話——不管在街上或在別處——頂自然地如同和一個朋友談話一般。主的同在對他頂實在的。」
■ 英文荒漠甘泉(01月17日)
January 17 "O Daniel, servant of the living God, is thy God whom thou servest continually, able to deliver thee." (Dan. 6:20.) HOW many times we find this expression in the Scriptures, and yet it is just this very thing that we are so prone to lose sight of. We know it is written "the living God"; but in our daily life there is scarcely anything we practically so much lose sight of as the fact that God is the living God; that He is now whatever He was three or four thousand years since; that He has the same sovereign power, the same saving love towards those who love and serve Him as ever He had and that He will do for them now what He did for others two, three, four thousand years ago, simply because He is the living God, the unchanging One. Oh, how therefore we should confide in Him, and in our darkest moments never lose sight of the fact that He is still and ever will be the living God! Be assured, if you walk with Him and look to Him and expect help from Him, He will never fail you. An older brother who has known the Lord for forty-four years, who writes this, says to you for your encouragement that He has never failed him. In the greatest difficulties, in the heaviest trials, in the deepest poverty and necessities, He has never failed me; but because I was enabled by His grace to trust Him He has always appeared for my help. I delight in speaking well of His name. ─George Mueller. Luther was once found at a moment of peril and fear, when he had need to grasp unseen strength, sitting in an abstracted mood tracing on the table with his finger the words, "Vivit! vivit!"("He lives! He lives!"). It is our hope for ourselves, and for His truth, and for mankind. Men come and go; leaders, teachers, thinkers speak and work for a season, and then fall silent and impotent. He abides. They die, but He lives. They are lights kindles, and, therefore, sooner or laterquenched; but He is the true light from which they draw all their brightness, and He shines for evermore. ─Alexander Maclaren. "One day I came to know Dr. John Douglas Adam," writes C. G. Trumbull. "I learned from him that what he counted his greatest spiritual asset was his unvarying consciousness of the actual presence of Jesus. Nothing bore him up so, he said, as the realization that Jesus was always with him in actual presence; and that this was so independent of his own feelings, independent of his deserts, and independent of his own notions as to how Jesus would manifest His presence. "Moreover, he said that Christ was the home of his thoughts. Whenever his mind was free from other matters it would turn to Christ; and he would talk aloud to Christ when he was alone─on the street, anywhere─as easily and naturally as to a human friend. So real to him was Jesus' actual presence.
■ 永活之泉(01月17日)
一月十七日 愛的聖靈 「因為所賜給我們的聖靈,將神的愛澆灌在我們心裡。」羅馬書五章5節 「聖靈所結的果子就是愛。」加拉太書五章22節 每當我們想到基督對於我們的愛,我們對於基督的愛,我們對於弟兄或是對於我們四周靈魂之愛的時候,我們就常會有一個思想:這個要求太大了,我們實在無法達到。要基督徒活出一個這樣愛的生活,並且把這個愛向著弟兄和有需要的靈魂彰顯出來,乃是一件不可能的事。就是因為我們把它看作不可能,也是因為我們的不信,和對神的應許缺乏信心,所以我們在這愛的聖靈裡,才沒有多少長進。 我們需要常常提醒自己,並不是靠著我們自己的力量,也不是用自己的思慮,能叫我們達到基督之愛的度量。我們必須認識這個真理,就是神的愛不僅是澆灌在我們心裡,並且還要藉著神的靈,逐日更新的再流出去。只有當我們全人降服在聖靈的引導之下,我們才能照著神的旨意而活。當我們裡面愛的生命天天被更新的時候,我們就要覺得被一個力量所催迫,而去為著靈魂工作。 你可以獻上這樣一個禱告:「我在父面前屈膝,求祂按著祂豐盛的榮耀,藉著祂的靈,叫你心裡的力量剛強起來,使基督因著你們的信,住在你們心裡,叫你們的愛心有根有基,能以和眾聖徒一同明白,基督的愛是何等長闊高深。」(弗三14—18)你可以在這個愛裡生根立基,並且認識那超越知識的愛。但是這裡有一個條件,就是你裡面的人必須被聖靈剛強起來,使基督能住在你的心裡,這樣你就要真的在這愛裡生根立基了! 基督徒啊!請在神的話裡接受這個信息:並讓它影響你的生命,支配你的生活。除非你每天是用膝蓋等候在神面前,來讓祂的聖靈啟示在你的心裡,你就不能活在這個愛裡。只有禱告的生活,才能使愛基督、愛弟兄、愛靈魂的生活,成為你經歷中一個蒙福的實際。 請你每天在隱密處把你自己交給聖靈——就是神要賜給一切在信心裡,向祂求告之人之愛的靈。
■ 中文屬天日子(01月17日)
一月十七日 自然生命的呼召 「又施恩召我的神,既然樂意將祂兒子啟示在我心裡……」加拉太書一章15—16節 神的呼召,不是一種任何特殊服務的呼召;在我或以為是這樣──因為我與神的本性結合起來,就覺得我應該為祂做甚麼。神的呼召根本是祂本性之表白;服務是我本性的結果。保羅曾這樣解釋自然生命的呼召:「既然樂意將祂兒子啟示在我心裡,叫我把祂傳(其意是鄭重地表顯祂)在外邦人中。」 服務是虔修之豐裕的流露;但是說得微妙一點,呼召原不為此,是我自己確有的一點,是我與神本性合一的回聲,是我生命中自然的一部。神使我與祂本身發生了關係,我才理會祂的呼召;才出於純然的愛,自動地替祂工作。服事神,是天性之所賦與,像這種天性才能聞見神的呼召。服務是適於我本性的表現;神的呼召是神本性的表現。惟有我接受祂的本性,聞見祂的呼召,神聖的聲音在兩方面發聲,鼓起雙方的共嗚。神的兒子將祂自己啟示在我心裡,而我因愛祂就以生命之常法去服事祂。
■ 中文上海嗎哪(01月17日)
一月十七日 「是神在你們心裡運行」腓立比書二章13節 對基督徒來說,神並不給我們兩個旨意,祂只給一個。祂不讓我們從兩個選擇當中挑一個,祂只給一個最好、最高的旨意。能得知且成就神全然的美意是件有福的事;如果我們能按著神的計劃來定生命的計劃,以及我們基督徒的事工,那麼我們就有福了。 正如冒險能使我們浪費很多精力,當我們試著做好事時,我們也會在零碎、不確定及不協調的事情上失去許多屬靈的力量。今天在獻身給神的基督徒手中及心中,的確有屬靈的能力和財力。只要有智慧地按著神的計劃來管理,使用這些力量,我們能在這世紀中將福音傳遍地極。 基督早已為祂的教會定了一個確定的計劃,祂不僅渴望我們瞭解這計劃,並且要我們達成祂的目標。當我們得知祂的心意,順服且忠心地履行祂的旨意,我們的生命才有目的。雖然我們可以不經思考、隨意、不辨善惡地嘗試我們的主意,而且強迫神祝福「我們的」事工。但是我們若按祂的心意行,將更能討祂的喜悅。
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