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Judges Capítulo 21
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Jud 21:1-15.
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Jud 21:1-15.
THE PEOPLE BEWAIL THE DESOLATION OF ISRAEL.
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2-5. 百姓到了神的家……放聲大哭——以色列人素來反覆無常，這一點很快就顯出來；因為他們那血腥復仇的烈焰方才冷卻，便開始後悔，轉向另一極端：因自己衝動之熱心所造成的荒涼，而自責哀痛。勝利使他們憂傷謙卑。他們在神殿中舉行公開莊嚴的贖罪之禮，藉此表達當時的心情。然而這非常的舉動雖使他們鬱積之情得以宣洩，卻不能給他們完全的解脫，因為他們受著一項宗教誓言之約束，更因加上對一切違誓者嚴厲的咒詛而加重。聖經先前並未記載這誓；但其要旨是：他們要像對待那當滅的迦南人一樣，對待基比亞暴行的元凶；訂立這嚴肅盟約，與他們在這件事上一貫草率的行徑如出一轍。
Original en inglés
2-5. the people came to the house of God, . . . and lifted up their voices, and wept sore--The characteristic fickleness of the Israelites was not long in being displayed; for scarcely had they cooled from the fierceness of their sanguinary vengeance, than they began to relent and rushed to the opposite extreme of self-accusation and grief at the desolation which their impetuous zeal had produced. Their victory saddened and humbled them. Their feelings on the occasion were expressed by a public and solemn service of expiation at the house of God. And yet this extraordinary observance, though it enabled them to find vent for their painful emotions, did not afford them full relief, for they were fettered by the obligation of a religious vow, heightened by the addition of a solemn anathema on every violator of the oath. There is no previous record of this oath; but the purport of it was, that they would treat the perpetrators of this Gibeah atrocity in the same way as the Canaanites, who were doomed to destruction; and the entering into this solemn league was of a piece with the rest of their inconsiderate conduct in this whole affair.
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6. 今日以色列中有一個支派被剪除了——即有滅絕之虞；因為如
士21:7
所示，他們已屠盡了便雅憫的一切婦孺，全支派只剩下六百男丁存活。十二支派名錄中將出現這樣的空白，國家佈局中將出現這樣的缺口，實在令人痛心難堪；必須立即採取措施防止這大災禍。
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6. There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day--that is, in danger of becoming extinct; for, as it appears from
Jud 21:7,
they had massacred all the women and children of Benjamin, and six hundred men alone survived of the whole tribe. The prospect of such a blank in the catalogue of the twelve tribes, such a gap in the national arrangements, was too painful to contemplate, and immediate measures must be taken to prevent this great catastrophe.
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8. 沒有一個雅比人上到米斯巴的會中——這座城屬河東瑪拿西境內，約在約旦河東十五英里，按約瑟夫所言是基列的京城。會眾在米斯巴所宣告的禁令，似乎使他們不得不懲治這城不參與討伐便雅憫之役的居民；於是為彌補一件草率之舉的後果，他們匆忙地又犯下另一樁慘案，雖然規模較小。但從
士21:11
可見，以色列人此舉除了履行誓言，還有另一個目的：藉此劫掠為便雅憫餘民提供妻子。這顯出以色列人在濫殺婦孺時的失控狂怒。
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8. there came none to the camp from Jabesh-gilead to the assembly--This city lay within the territory of eastern Manasseh, about fifteen miles east of the Jordan, and was, according to JOSEPHUS, the capital of Gilead. The ban which the assembled tribes had pronounced at Mizpeh seemed to impose on them the necessity of punishing its inhabitants for not joining the crusade against Benjamin; and thus, with a view of repairing the consequences of one rash proceeding, they hurriedly rushed to the perpetration of another, though a smaller tragedy. But it appears
(Jud 21:11)
that, besides acting in fulfilment of their oath, the Israelites had the additional object by this raid of supplying wives to the Benjamite remnant. This shows the intemperate fury of the Israelites in the indiscriminate slaughter of the women and children.
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Jud 21:16-21.
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Jud 21:16-21.
長老商議如何為剩下的人尋找妻子。
16. 會眾的長老說：我們當為剩下的人怎樣辦理妻子的事呢——雖然耶弗他……基列的年輕女子已被小心地保留性命，供應仍嫌不足，必須另想他法。
Original en inglés
Jud 21:16-21.
THE ELDERS CONSULT HOW TO FIND WIVES FOR THOSE THAT WERE LEFT.
16. the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for wives for them that remain--Though the young women of Jabesh-gilead had been carefully spared, the supply was found inadequate, and some other expedient must be resorted to.
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17. 便雅憫逃脫的人當有產業——他們既是那片土地惟一合法的主人，就必須設法將產業傳給他們合法的繼承人，於是又策劃了一項新的暴行
(Jud 21:19)；
臨近的節期便提供了這機會——這個節期一般認為是住棚節。這節期與其他年度節期一樣，在示羅舉行，其慶典比其他節期更充滿社交的歡樂和節日的喜慶。
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17. There must be an inheritance for them that be escaped of Benjamin--As they were the only rightful owners of the territory, provision must be made for transmitting it to their legitimate heirs, and a new act of violence was meditated
(Jud 21:19);
the opportunity for which was afforded by the approaching festival--a feast generally supposed to be the feast of tabernacles. This, like the other annual feasts, was held in Shiloh, and its celebration was attended with more social hilarity and holiday rejoicings than the other feasts.
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19. 在從伯特利到示劍的大路東邊——這地點的確切位置顯然是為了給便雅憫人指明方向而描述的。
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19. on the east side of the highway that goeth up from Beth-el to Shechem--The exact site of the place was described evidently for the direction of the Benjamites.
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21, 22. 示羅的女子出來跳舞——古時跳舞是宗教禮儀的一部分。在節慶場合舉行，至今東方仍如此，不是在城裡，而是在戶外某個鄰近的田野，婦女們自成一群。年輕女子獨自輕盈歡躍，毫不擔心危險，便便利了擄掠她們計劃的執行，這事與羅馬歷史中搶奪薩賓婦女極為相似。長老們承擔起調停的責任，設法使那些家庭接受女兒被強行擄走的事實。於是，他們對這樁暴行所表達的公開認可，再度證明以色列人在這次危機中不幸的急躁行事，使他們陷入了何等的禍患和困境。
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21, 22. daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in dances--The dance was anciently a part of the religious observance. It was done on festive occasions, as it is still in the East, not in town, but in the open air, in some adjoining field, the women being by themselves. The young women being alone indulging their light and buoyant spirits, and apprehensive of no danger, facilitated the execution of the scheme of seizing them, which closely resembles the Sabine rape in Roman history. The elders undertook to reconcile the families to the forced abduction of their daughters. And thus the expression of their public sanction to this deed of violence afforded a new evidence of the evils and difficulties into which the unhappy precipitancy of the Israelites in this crisis had involved them.
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Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
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Jud 21:1-15.
百姓為以色列的荒涼哀痛。