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2Ch 29:1, 2.
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2Ch 29:1, 2.
HEZEKIAH'S GOOD REIGN.
1. Hezekiah began to reign, &c.--(see on
2Ki 18:1).
His mother's name, which, in
2Ki 18:2,
appears in an abridged form, is here given in full.
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2Ch 29:3-11.
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2Ch 29:3-11.
他恢復信仰。
3. 在他作位元年正月——不是他登基後的第一個月，而是尼散月，即宗教年的正月，乃守逾越節的季節。
他開了耶和華殿的門——那門被他父親封鎖了
（2Ch 28:24）。
並且修補——或作裝飾（參
2Ki 18:16）。
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2Ch 29:3-11.
HE RESTORES RELIGION.
3. in the first year of his reign, in the first month--not the first month after his accession to the throne, but in Nisan, the first month of the sacred year, the season appointed for the celebration of the passover.
he opened the doors of the house of the Lord--which had been closed up by his father
(2Ch 28:24).
and repaired them--or embellished them (compare
2Ki 18:16).
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4, 5. 東街——即祭司院，面對聖殿的東門。他在那裏召集祭司和利未人，囑咐他們立即著手潔淨聖殿。這命令似乎不是指移除偶像，因為拜偶像的物件不可能放在那裏——門既已封鎖
〔2Ch 29:3〕； 但在其被廢棄荒涼的狀態下，聖殿及其院宇已被各種不潔之物所玷污。
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4, 5. the east street--the court of the priests, which fronted the eastern gate of the temple. Assembling the priests and Levites there, he enjoined them to set about the immediate purification of the temple. It does not appear that the order referred to the removal of idols, for objects of idolatrous homage could scarcely have been put there, seeing the doors had been shut up
[2Ch 29:3];
but in its forsaken and desolate state the temple and its courts had been polluted by every kind of impurity.
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6, 7. 我們列祖犯了罪——特別指亞哈斯及與他同代的人，因為他們「轉臉背棄耶和華的居所」；他們是否轉向東方朝拜日頭不論，他們確已離棄了對上帝的敬拜。他們「將廊子的門關鎖」，以致聖禮全然中斷。
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6, 7. our fathers have trespassed--Ahaz and the generation contemporary with him were specially meant, for they "turned away their faces from the habitation of the Lord," and whether or not they turned east to the rising sun, they abandoned the worship of God. They "shut up the doors of the porch," so that the sacred ritual was entirely discontinued.
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8, 9. 因此耶和華的怒氣向猶大和耶路撒冷發作——這位敬虔之王有洞察力，將降臨王國的一切國難歸於真正的原因，即背離上帝。國土遭連番入侵戰火的蹂躪，資源枯竭。許多家庭哀悼仍在異邦被擄中受苦的親人；從前的繁華與榮耀盡失；這痛心而羞辱的局面，除了上帝因其罪而對王國施行的明顯審判之外，還能歸咎於甚麼呢？
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8, 9. Wherefore the wrath of the Lord was upon Judah and Jerusalem--This pious king had the discernment to ascribe all the national calamities that had befallen the kingdom to the true cause, namely, apostasy from God. The country had been laid waste by successive wars of invasion, and its resources drained. Many families mourned members of their household still suffering the miseries of foreign captivity; all their former prosperity and glory had fled; and to what was this painful and humiliating state of affairs to be traced, but to the manifest judgment of God upon the kingdom for its sins?
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10, 11. 現在我心中有意與耶和華上帝立約——希西家深信偶像崇拜的罪惡與苦果，決意扭轉其父的政策，恢復對真神的敬拜，使其重獲古時的純潔與榮耀。他在位之初便開始這決志，證明了他真誠的敬虔。這也證明了他堅信「公義使邦國高舉」；因為他並非等到寶座穩固才動，而是在即位之初就制定國家改革的措施，在百姓的習慣已長久趨向偶像崇拜之後，勇敢面對這條路上的一切困難。他的意圖首先向這次祭司與利未人的集會披露——因為要付諸實行，需要這些官員的效力。
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10, 11. Now it is in mine heart to make a covenant with the Lord God--Convinced of the sin and bitter fruits of idolatry, Hezekiah intended to reverse the policy of his father, and to restore, in all its ancient purity and glory, the worship of the true God. His commencement of this resolution at the beginning of his reign attests his sincere piety. It also proves the strength of his conviction that righteousness exalteth a nation; for, instead of waiting till his throne was consolidated, he devised measures of national reformation at the beginning of his reign and vigorously faced all the difficulties which, in such a course, he had to encounter, after the people's habits had so long been moulded to idolatry. His intentions were first disclosed to this meeting of the priests and Levites--for the agency of these officials was to be employed in carrying them into effect.
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2Ch 29:12-36.
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2Ch 29:12-36.
上帝的殿得潔淨。
12-19. 於是利未人起來——十四位首領承擔了召集並預備弟兄們從事潔淨耶和華殿這重要工作的責任。先從外院——祭司院與百姓院——開始，潔淨這些佔了八天；之後他們著手潔淨內部；但因利未人不許進入聖殿的牆內，祭司將一切掃除之物搬到廊子，由利未人接收，扔在汲淪溪中。這又花了八天。此時結束之後，他們前往王宮，報告說不但整座聖殿——內外——已徹底潔淨，而且先王所拿去、在宮中作俗用的器皿，也都已歸還，「並且分別為聖」。
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2Ch 29:12-36.
THE HOUSE OF GOD CLEANSED.
12-19. Then the Levites arose--Fourteen chiefs undertook the duty of collecting and preparing their brethren for the important work of cleansing the Lord's house. Beginning with the outer courts--that of the priests and that of the people--the cleansing of these occupied eight days, after which they set themselves to purify the interior; but as the Levites were not allowed to enter within the walls of the temple, the priest brought all the sweepings out to the porch, where they were received by the Levites and thrown into the brook Kedron. This took eight days more. At the end of this period they repaired to the palace and announced that not only had the whole of the sacred edifice, within and without, undergone a thorough purification, but all the vessels which the late king had taken away and applied to a common use in his palace, had been restored, "and sanctified."
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20-30. 希西家王清早起來，招聚城裏的首領——他急於趁聖殿已妥為預備而立即展開贖罪的事奉，因此未能召集以色列所有的代表。既已預備了所需數目的祭牲，聖殿的職司也按律法的指示潔淨了自己，祭司便被指派依次獻上贖罪祭：為「國度」，即為王與其先祖的罪；為「聖所」，即為祭司本身的罪和聖殿的被褻瀆；「以及為猶大」，即為百姓——他們因自願同意而牽涉在全民背道的罪中。所獻的祭牲各樣七隻，這數目表明完全。利未人受命以樂器讚美上帝；這些樂器雖然原本未在會幕中使用，卻在大衛時代因先知迦得與拿單的建議，被納入敬拜的事奉，因被認為很能振奮百姓的敬虔。在此場合的特殊事奉——即獻贖罪祭——結束時，王和在場的一切民政首長都參與敬拜。詩班
（2Ch 29:30） 唱了一首宏大的讚美詩，包括大衛與亞薩的一些詩篇，又在王的邀請下獻上大量的感謝祭、讚美祭與甘心的燔祭。
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20-30. Then Hezekiah the king rose early, and gathered the rulers of the city--His anxiety to enter upon the expiatory service with all possible despatch, now that the temple had been properly prepared for it, prevented his summoning all the representatives of Israel. The requisite number of victims having been provided, and the officers of the temple having sanctified themselves according to the directions of the law, the priests were appointed to offer sacrifices of atonement successively, for "the kingdom," that is, for the sins of the king and his predecessors; for "the sanctuary," that is, for the sins of the priests themselves and for the desecration of the temple; "and for Judah," that is, for the people who, by their voluntary consent, were involved in the guilt of the national apostasy. Animals of the kinds used in sacrifice were offered by sevens, that number indicating completeness. The Levites were ordered to praise God with musical instruments, which, although not originally used in the tabernacle, had been enlisted in the service of divine worship by David on the advice of the prophets Gad and Nathan, as well calculated to animate the devotions of the people. At the close of the special services of the occasion, namely, the offering of atonement sacrifices, the king and all civic rulers who were present joined in the worship. A grand anthem was sung
(2Ch 29:30)
by the choir, consisting of some of the psalms of David and Asaph, and a great number of thank offerings, praise offerings, and freewill burnt offerings were presented at the invitation of the king.
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31. 希西家……說：你們既然分別為聖歸耶和華，可以前來——這話是對祭司說的，因他們既已獻上贖罪祭，便重新分別為聖歸於上帝的事奉，有資格恢復其聖職的功用
（Ex 28:41；29:32）。
會眾奉上——即在場的民政首長團體。
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31. Hezekiah . . . said, Now ye have consecrated yourselves unto the Lord, come near--This address was made to the priests as being now, by the sacrifice of the expiation offerings, anew consecrated to the service of God and qualified to resume the functions of their sacred office
(Ex 28:41; 29:32).
the congregation brought in--that is, the body of civic rulers present.
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34-36. 祭司太少……他們的弟兄利未人幫助他們——為平安祭而設的祭牲的皮，可由任職者剝下，因為在這類祭中，祭牲的肉並非全部放在壇上；但作為燔祭全然被火焚燒的祭牲，則只能由祭司剝皮，甚至利未人也不得觸碰，除非在無可避免的必要情況下
（2Ch 35:11）。
這本由律法指派給祭司的職責
（Le 1:6），
在習慣法的解釋下被視為對一切非亞倫家族之人的排除。
因為利未人誠心自潔，勝過祭司——即比利未人比祭司表現出更大的熱忱。這事奉因王那不可遏抑的殷切而加速。或因許多祭司身在鄉間、未能及時趕到；或因公共事奉長久中斷，他們當中有些人疏忽了慣常的個人潔淨，仍有許多預備要做；或因有些人曾參與亞哈斯所引入的偶像崇拜事奉，而不願意趕赴聖殿——這的確似乎是對祭司階層遲緩、未能全體就緒的一種批評（比較
2Ch 30:15）。
如此，這座剛剛分別為聖的聖殿重新開放，令敬虔的王與全民大得喜樂。
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34-36. the priests were too few, . . . wherefore their brethren the Levites did help them--The skins of beasts intended as peace offerings might be taken off by the officers, because, in such cases, the carcass was not wholly laid upon the altar; but animals meant for burnt offerings which were wholly consumed by fire could be flayed by the priests alone, not even the Levites being allowed to touch them, except in cases of unavoidable necessity
(2Ch 35:11).
The duty being assigned by the law to the priests
(Le 1:6),
was construed by consuetudinary practice as an exclusion of all others not connected with the Aaronic family.
for the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests--that is, displayed greater alacrity than the priests. This service was hastened by the irrepressible solicitude of the king. Whether it was that many of the priests, being absent in the country, had not arrived in time--whether from the long interruption of the public duties, some of them had relaxed in their wonted attentions to personal cleanliness, and had many preparations to make--or whether from some having participated in the idolatrous services introduced by Ahaz, they were backward in repairing to the temple--a reflection does seem to be cast upon their order as dilatory and not universally ready for duty (compare
2Ch 30:15).
Thus was the newly consecrated temple reopened to the no small joy of the pious king and all the people.
2Ch 29:1, 2.
希西家的善政。
1. 希西家登基等語——（參
2Ki 18:1）。 他母親的名字在
2Ki 18:2 作縮寫形式，此處則作全名。