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2Ch 16:1-14.
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2Ch 16:1-14.
ASA, BY A LEAGUE WITH THE SYRIANS, DIVERTS BAASHA FROM BUILDING RAMAH.
1-6. In the six and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa, Baasha . . . came up against Judah--Baasha had died several years before this date
(1Ki 15:33),
and the best biblical critics are agreed in considering this date to be calculated from the separation of the kingdoms, and coincident with the sixteenth year of Asa's reign. This mode of reckoning was, in all likelihood, generally followed in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel, the public annals of the time
(2Ch 16:11),
the source from which the inspired historian drew his account.
Baasha . . . built Ramah--that is, fortified it. The blessing of God which manifestly rested at this time on the kingdom of Judah, the signal victory of Asa, the freedom and purity of religious worship, and the fame of the late national covenant, were regarded with great interest throughout Israel, and attracted a constantly increasing number of emigrants to Judah. Baasha, alarmed at this movement, determined to stem the tide; and as the high road to and from Jerusalem passed by Ramah, he made that frontier town, about six miles north of Asa's capital, a military station, where the vigilance of his sentinels would effectually prevent all passage across the boundary of the kingdom (see on
1Ki 15:16-22;
also
Jer 41:9).
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4. 便哈达……差遣他军队的诸首领……他们就攻打……亚伯玛音——「水之草场」，推测位于约旦河最上游之湖附近的沼泽平原上。另外两座城也在巴勒斯坦的北部地区。其亚兰盟友这一出乎意料的敌对行动，打断了巴沙在拉玛的修筑工程；不久之后巴沙之死，更使他无法重新开工。
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4. Ben-hadad . . . sent the captains of his armies . . . and they smote . . . Abelmaim--"The meadow of waters," supposed to have been situated on the marshy plain near the uppermost lake of the Jordan. The other two towns were also in the northern district of Palestine. These unexpected hostilities of his Syrian ally interrupted Baasha's fortifications at Ramah, and his death, happening soon after, prevented his resuming them.
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7-10. 先见哈拿尼来见亚撒……说——他的目的是要向王指出他最近与便哈达结盟一事的错误。先知指出：将圣殿的宝物挪作雇用亚兰雇佣兵之用，表明他对神缺乏信靠——以王的经历而言，这是极当受责备的。他又说，因着这信心的缺欠，亚撒已失去了击败巴沙和便哈达联军的机会，那本是一场比战胜古实人更辉煌的胜利。这样的胜利若能毁灭他们的军队，便使他们日后无力再骚扰他；但他这一既愚昧又属世的策略——如此不合神代理人的身分——滥用了圣殿的宝物，又败坏了以色列王盟友的忠诚，一面激起了一方的贪欲，一面加增了另一方的敌意，使自己陷于无穷的纷扰之中
(1Ki 15:32)。
这责备十分尖锐，因其真实公正，本应刺透并伤痛像亚撒这样的人的心。但他的骄傲因这位诚实责备王者之自由冒犯而受伤，在一阵暴怒之下，便下令将哈拿尼下在监里。
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7-10. Hanani the seer came to Asa . . . and said--His object was to show the king his error in forming his recent league with Ben-hadad. The prophet represented the appropriation of the temple treasures to purchase the services of the Syrian mercenaries, as indicating a distrust in God most blameable with the king's experience. He added, that in consequence of this want of faith, Asa had lost the opportunity of gaining a victory over the united forces of Baasha and Ben-hadad, more splendid than that obtained over the Ethiopians. Such a victory, by destroying their armies, would have deprived them of all power to molest him in the future; whereas by his foolish and worldly policy, so unworthy of God's vicegerent, to misapply the temple treasures and corrupt the fidelity of an ally of the king of Israel, he had tempted the cupidity of the one, and increased the hostility of the other, and rendered himself liable to renewed troubles
(1Ki 15:32).
This rebuke was pungent and, from its truth and justness, ought to have penetrated and afflicted the heart of such a man as Asa. But his pride was offended at the freedom taken by the honest reprover of royalty, and in a burst of passionate resentment, he ordered Hanani to be thrown into prison.
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10. 亚撒那时也欺压一些百姓——欺压的形式或程度并无记载。他欺压他们，大概也是因同样的过犯——他们强烈地表示不满他与便哈达结盟一事；也可能是因他恶待了耶和华的仆人。
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10. Asa oppressed some of the people the same time--The form or degree of this oppression is not recorded. The cause of his oppressing them was probably due to the same offense as that of Hanani--a strong expression of their dissatisfaction with his conduct in leaguing with Ben-hadad, or it may have been his maltreatment of the Lord's servant.
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12. 亚撒……脚上有病——大概是痛风。
病势极其沉重——更佳译作「向上蔓延」全身，这证明其病之猛烈与危险。
他病的时候没有求耶和华，只求医生——大概是埃及的医生，他们古时在外邦朝廷中享有盛名，自称能借符咒、念诵和秘术驱病。亚撒的过错在于信赖这样的医生，却忽略了求神的帮助和赐福。最优秀最圣洁的人也曾一时被诱犯罪，但因悔改又重新起来；亚撒既被称为好人
(2Ch 15:17)，
可以推想他也恢复了较好的心境。
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12. Asa . . . was diseased in his feet--probably the gout.
yet his disease was exceeding great--better, "moved upwards" in his body, which proves the violent and dangerous type of the malady.
yet in his disease he sought not to the Lord, but to the physicians--most probably Egyptian physicians, who were anciently in high repute at foreign courts, and who pretended to expel diseases by charms, incantations, and mystic arts. Asa's fault consisted in his trusting to such physicians, while he neglected to supplicate the aid and blessing of God. The best and holiest men have been betrayed for a time into sins, but through repentance have risen again; and as Asa is pronounced a good man
(2Ch 15:17),
it may be presumed that he also was restored to a better state of mind.
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14. 他们将他葬在自己的坟墓里——耶路撒冷附近的坟墓是在岩壁侧面凿成的。一个洞穴里容纳数座坟墓或墓穴。
将他放在床上……满了香料和各样香品——显然为他举行了一次盛大的国葬，作为对他敬虔品格和爱国施政的尊敬与感激。但「床」是指他躺着供人瞻仰的御榻——那些香气四溢的香料旨在中和尸体的恶臭——还是指一种防腐处理——其中总是大量使用芳香的香料——则无从断定。
为他作了极大的焚烧——有人说这是为烧尽香料。另有人说那是一座焚烧尸体的大柴堆——这习俗在当时以及其后许久，在希伯来人中相当普遍，在王室之人身上省略此举被视为大不敬
(2Ch 21:19； 1Sa 31:12； Jer 34:5； Am 6:10)。
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14. they buried him in his own sepulchres--The tombs in the neighborhood of Jerusalem were excavated in the side of a rock. One cave contained several tombs or sepulchres.
laid him in the bed . . . filled with sweet odours and divers kinds of spices--It is evident that a sumptuous public funeral was given him as a tribute of respect and gratitude for his pious character and patriotic government. But whether "the bed" means a state couch on which he lay exposed to public view, the odoriferous perfumes being designed to neutralize the offensive smell of the corpse, or whether it refers to an embalmment, in which aromatic spices were always used in great profusion, it is impossible to say.
they made a very great burning for him--according to some, for consuming the spices. According to others, it was a magnificent pile for the cremation of the corpse--a usage which was at that time, and long after, prevalent among the Hebrews, and the omission of which in the case of royal personages was reckoned a great indignity
(2Ch 21:19; 1Sa 31:12; Jer 34:5; Am 6:10).
2Ch 16:1-14.
亚撒与亚兰人结盟，使巴沙停止建造拉玛
1-6. 亚撒三十六年，巴沙……上来攻击犹大——巴沙在这日期之前数年已经去世
(1Ki 15:33)，
最优秀的圣经学者都一致认为，这日期是从王国分裂之时算起的，与亚撒作王第十六年相合。这种计算法很可能是犹大和以色列诸王记——即当时的官方编年史
(2Ch 16:11)，
也就是受感的史家取材的来源——所普遍采用的。
巴沙……建造拉玛——即加以修筑设防。此时明显临到犹大国的神恩、亚撒那辉煌的胜利、自由纯净的敬拜，以及最近全民立约的盛名，都使全以色列甚为关注，并吸引越来越多移民归向犹大。巴沙对此动向大为惊恐，决意加以阻止；由于往返耶路撒冷的大道必经拉玛，他便将这座距亚撒京城以北约六英里的边境城镇辟为军事据点，在那里哨兵的严密监视可有效地阻断一切穿越国界的通行（参看
1Ki 15:16-22
的注释；
又见
Jer 41:9）。