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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（02月20日）
二月廿日 「你們沒有一件不能作的事了。」馬太福音十七章20節 有了信心，我們就沒有一件不能的事。只要我們真相信神有保守和得勝的能力，我們就能看見祂所說的話語和應許，都是實在的。 我們能。天天把我們一切的罣慮和重擔卸給神，享受平安和喜樂。 我們能。管轄頭腦中的思想，晝夜繫念神的話語。 我們能。在每一件事情上清楚神的旨意；不是用嘆息，乃是用讚美去接受。 我們能靠神的恩典剛強；我們以前的軟弱，以前叫我們不能忍耐、聖潔、謙卑的罪，今天都能靠著愛我們的主勝過了，使罪完全失去它在我們身上的權勢。 這些都是神恩典中可能的事，如果我們有了這些經歷，就會更願意俯伏在神腳前，也就會更渴慕最高的靈命。 我們如果不能每天、每小時、每分鐘在基督裏，藉著聖靈的能力與神同行，我們就不會得到滿足。 ─慕爾 在基督裏，我們能有神一切的豐富。主已經把神寶庫的鑰匙放在我們手中了，祂吩咐我們去無限制地領取一切我們所要的。若是一個銀行的行長，准許一個窮人到銀行庫中去任意取他所要的；假定那個窮人出來的時候，只帶了一文錢，這是誰的過失呢？基督人能得到神完全的豐富，而仍過著極窮的生活，這是誰的過失呢？ ─麥克拉倫
■ 英文荒漠甘泉（02月20日）
February 20 "Nothing shall be impossible unto you."(Matt. 17:20.) ＩT is possible, for those who really are willing to reckon on the power of the Lord for keeping and victory, to lead a life in which His promises are taken as they stand and are found to be true. It is possible to cast all our care upon Him daily and to enjoy deep peace in doing it. It is possible to have the thoughts and imasinations of our hearts purified, in the deepest meaning of the word. It is possible to see the will of God in everything, and to receive it, not with sighing, but with singing. It is possible by taking complete refuge in Divine power to become strong through and through; and, where previously our greatest weakness lay, to find that things which formerly upset all our resolves to be patient, or pure, or humble, furnish today an opportunity─through Him who loved us, and works in us an agreement with His will and a blessed sense of His presence and His power─to make sin powerless over us. These things are DIVINE POSSIBLILITIES, and because they are His work, the true experience of them will always cause us to bow lower at His feet and to learn to thirst and long for more. We cannot possibly be satisfied with anything less─each day, each hour, each moment, in Christ, through the power of the Holy Spirit─than to WALK WITH GOD. ─H. C. G. Moule. We may have as much of God as we will. Christ puts the key of the treasure-chamber into our hand, and bids us take all that we want. If a man is admitted into the bullion vault of a bank, and told to help himself, and comes out with one cent, whose fault is it that he is poor? Whose fault is it that Christian people generally have such scanty portions of the free riches of God? ─McLaren.
■ 永活之泉（02月20日）
二月廿日 測不透的神 「神為大，我們不能全知；論到全能者，我們不能測度；祂大有能力。」約伯記卅六章26節，卅七章23節 神是個靈，祂的位格和榮耀，是遠超我們所能領會的；我們實在太渺小了，對於祂的審度，是微乎其微的。在屬靈的生命裡，最要緊的是該有一個深深的感覺，就是神的意念和道路是遠遠地高過我們的意念，像天離地那樣高。我們該用何等謙卑和聖潔的虔誠來仰望神，並帶著像孩子一樣簡單的心，降服於聖靈的教訓呢？「深哉，神豐富的智慧和知識！祂的判斷，何其難測！祂的蹤跡，何其難尋！」（羅十一33） 讓我們的心答應說：「哦，主啊！哦，諸神之神，您的意念何等奇妙；您的謀略何其深奧。」認識神的學習應當充滿在我們裡面，使我們用聖潔的敬畏，並聖潔的盼望，正確地認識並尊敬祂。讓我們思想——祂的偉大、祂的能力、祂的全能、祂的智慧、祂的聖潔、祂的憐憫、祂的慈愛，這些都是我們所無法測度的。 當我們敬拜的時候，讓我們喊說：「我們的神，我們的父，在您的偉大裡，有何等無法測度的榮耀！」願你帶著羞愧的心承認，你沒有好好地追求認識祂，也沒有等候祂來啟示祂自己。然後開始在信心裡超越所有理解的方法，來信靠這位測不透全然榮耀的神，要作工在你的心裡和生命裡，使你越過越正確的認識祂。 「主耶和華啊，我的眼目仰望您；我投靠您。」（詩一四一8）「當休息（或作安靜），要知道我是神。」（詩四十六10）
■ 中文屬天日子（02月20日）
二月廿日 避免夢想 「起來，我們走吧！」約翰福音十四章31節 為的要一件事做得合法，而多想其事，那是對的；但是到了我應該動手的時候，我們還在那裡夢想，那是不對的。我們的主向門徒說了那些奇特的事件以後，我們也許以為祂要對他們說走開去，把它們從頭到尾默想默想；但是我們的主從不許「呆著癡著。」當我們與神接觸時，要察出祂所要的是甚麼，多用想像是對的；但是我們一味的花費我們的時光去夢想神要我們所做的事，那是不對的，而且這也不是神可能祝福的舉動。神總是帶著刺的性質，喚醒這種迷夢；所謂刺便是吩咐我們「走動吧！不要坐著也不要站著。」 如果我們靜候於神之前，祂必說：「你們單獨的來吧，」這個時候便是在神面前默想之時，為的要得知我們所追奔的路線。但是不要在神表示祂的意志以後，還在那裡一味的夢想，應當出去實現其所說的。如果你戀愛一個人，你不會常坐著，夢想你所愛的人，你一定是想去，替他效力；那就是耶穌基督盼望我們作的。在神吩咐以後還是夢想，那是我們不信靠祂的一種表示。
■ 中文上海嗎哪（02月20日）
二月廿日 「你不要害怕，因為我與你同在……」以賽亞書四十一章10節 撒但不斷地藉著恐懼，使我們的信心變得軟弱。牠是一個了不起的玄學家，並且知道恐懼能使人癱瘓、是信心最大的仇敵。假如牠能使我們害怕，就能叫我們不再靠主，阻止我們得到需要的祝福。約伯曾感到恐懼的危險，他給一個悲哀的見證：「因我所恐懼的臨到我身……。」(伯三25) 懼怕乃從撒但而來。我們若是能花一點時間想想看，就不難發現所有撒但說的都是建築在虛偽的事上。牠是謊言之父，即使是從牠來的懼怕都是假的，我們應該把牠所恐嚇的變成一種鼓勵。 所以，當撒但對你說有些壞事會發生時，你應該靜靜地轉著牠的臉告訴牠，牠是個大騙子。因為神所應許的是，我們一生一世都有恩惠慈愛隨著我們。然後我們可以轉臉對主說：「我懼怕的時候要依靠您。」(詩五六3)懼怕乃因不靠主，仰賴神是懼怕的良藥。
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