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1:1 亞哈死後,摩押背叛以色列。 After Ahab's death, Moab rebelled against Israel.
1:2 亞哈謝在撒馬利亞,一日從樓上的欄杆裏掉下來,就病了;於是差遣使者說:「你們去問以革倫的神巴力西卜,我這病能好不能好。」 Now Ahaziah had fallen through the lattice of his upper room in Samaria and injured himself. So he sent messengers, saying to them, <<Go and consult Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron, to see if I will recover from this injury.>> 1:3 但耶和華的使者對提斯比人以利亞說:「你起來,去迎著撒馬利亞王的使者,對他們說:『你們去問以革倫神巴力西卜,豈因以色列中沒有 神嗎?』 But the angel of the LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite, <<Go up and meet the messengers of the king of Samaria and ask them, <Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are going off to consult Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron?> 1:4 所以耶和華如此說:『你必不下你所上的,必定要死!』」以利亞就去了。 Therefore this is what the LORD says: <You will not leave the bed you are lying on. You will certainly die!> >> So Elijah went. 1:5 使者回來見王,王問他們說:「你們為甚麼回來呢?」 When the messengers returned to the king, he asked them, <<Why have you come back?>> 1:6 使者回答說:「有一個人迎著我們來,對我們說:『你們回去見差你們來的王,對他說:耶和華如此說,你差人去問以革倫神巴力西卜,豈因以色列中沒有 神嗎?所以你必不下所上的,必定要死。』」 <<A man came to meet us,>> they replied. <<And he said to us, <Go back to the king who sent you and tell him, <<This is what the LORD says: Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are sending men to consult Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore you will not leave the bed you are lying on. You will certainly die!>> > >> 1:7 王問他們說:「迎著你們來告訴你們這話的,是怎樣的人?」 The king asked them, <<What kind of man was it who came to meet you and told you this?>> 1:8 回答說:「他身穿毛衣,腰束皮帶。」王說:「這必是提斯比人以利亞。」 They replied, <<He was a man with a garment of hair and with a leather belt around his waist.>> The king said, <<That was Elijah the Tishbite.>> 1:9 於是,王差遣五十夫長,帶領五十人去見以利亞,他就上到以利亞那裏;以利亞正坐在山頂上。五十夫長對他說:「神人哪,王吩咐你下來!」 Then he sent to Elijah a captain with his company of fifty men. The captain went up to Elijah, who was sitting on the top of a hill, and said to him, <<Man of God, the king says, <Come down!> >> 1:10 以利亞回答說:「我若是神人,願火從天上降下來,燒滅你和你那五十人!」於是有火從天上降下來,燒滅五十夫長和他那五十人。 Elijah answered the captain, <<If I am a man of God, may fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty men!>> Then fire fell from heaven and consumed the captain and his men. 1:11 王第二次差遣一個五十夫長,帶領五十人去見以利亞。五十夫長對以利亞說:「神人哪,王吩咐你快快下來!」 At this the king sent to Elijah another captain with his fifty men. The captain said to him, <<Man of God, this is what the king says, <Come down at once!> >> 1:12 以利亞回答說:「我若是神人,願火從天上降下來,燒滅你和你那五十人!」於是 神的火從天上降下來,燒滅五十夫長和他那五十人。 <<If I am a man of God,>> Elijah replied, <<may fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty men!>> Then the fire of God fell from heaven and consumed him and his fifty men. 1:13 王第三次差遣一個五十夫長,帶領五十人去。這五十夫長上去,雙膝跪在以利亞面前,哀求他說:「神人哪,願我的性命和你這五十個僕人的性命在你眼前看為寶貴! So the king sent a third captain with his fifty men. This third captain went up and fell on his knees before Elijah. <<Man of God,>> he begged, <<please have respect for my life and the lives of these fifty men, your servants! 1:14 已經有火從天上降下來,燒滅前兩次來的五十夫長和他們各自帶的五十人;現在願我的性命在你眼前看為寶貴!」 See, fire has fallen from heaven and consumed the first two captains and all their men. But now have respect for my life!>> 1:15 耶和華的使者對以利亞說:「你同著他下去,不要怕他!」以利亞就起來,同著他下去見王, The angel of the LORD said to Elijah, <<Go down with him; do not be afraid of him.>> So Elijah got up and went down with him to the king. 1:16 對王說:「耶和華如此說:『你差人去問以革倫神巴力西卜,豈因以色列中沒有 神可以求問嗎?所以你必不下所上的,必定要死!』」 He told the king, <<This is what the LORD says: Is it because there is no God in Israel for you to consult that you have sent messengers to consult Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron? Because you have done this, you will never leave the bed you are lying on. You will certainly die!>> 1:17 亞哈謝果然死了,正如耶和華藉以利亞所說的話。因他沒有兒子,他兄弟約蘭接續他作王,正在猶大王約沙法的兒子約蘭第二年。 So he died, according to the word of the LORD that Elijah had spoken. Because Ahaziah had no son, Joram 1:17 Hebrew ((Jehoram,)) a variant of ((Joram)) succeeded him as king in the second year of Jehoram son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah. 1:18 亞哈謝其餘所行的事都寫在以色列諸王記上。 As for all the other events of Ahaziah's reign, and what he did, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Israel? 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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