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2Ki 22:1, 2.
英文原文
2Ki 22:1, 2.
JOSIAH'S GOOD REIGN.
1, 2. Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign--Happier than his grandfather Manasseh, he seems to have fallen during his minority under the care of better guardians, who trained him in the principles and practice of piety; and so strongly had his young affections been enlisted on the side of true and undefiled religion, that he continued to adhere all his life, with undeviating perseverance, to the cause of God and righteousness.
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2Ki 22:3-7.
2Ki 22:3-7.
他为 修理 圣殿 作预备
3、4. 约西亚王第十八年——在此时期之前,他已着手推行全国的改革。初步的步骤已经采取;不但雇用了匠人,百姓也已将银子带到门口交给利未人,各样的其他预备工作也已完成。但这段叙事的脉络,关键在于约西亚在位第十八年所发生的一件有趣的事,因此特别注明了那个年份。事实上,全地已经从一切偶像之物及其痕迹中彻底洁净。王现在着手修理并美化圣殿,并吩咐大祭司希勒家作一次全面视察,以查明需要做何工程(参
2Ch 34:8-15)。
英文原文
2Ki 22:3-7.
HE PROVIDES FOR THE REPAIR OF THE TEMPLE.
3, 4. in the eighteenth year of king Josiah--Previous to this period, he had commenced the work of national reformation. The preliminary steps had been already taken; not only the builders were employed, but money had been brought by all the people and received by the Levites at the door, and various other preparations had been made. But the course of this narrative turns on one interesting incident which happened in the eighteenth year of Josiah's reign, and hence that date is specified. In fact the whole land was thoroughly purified from every object and all traces of idolatry. The king now addressed himself to the repair and embellishment of the temple and gave directions to Hilkiah the high priest to take a general survey, in order to ascertain what was necessary to be done (see on
2Ch 34:8-15).
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2Ki 22:8-15.
2Ki 22:8-15.
希勒家 寻得 律法书
8-11. 希勒家说……我在耶和华殿里得了律法书等——即摩西的律法书,摩西五经。那是圣殿的抄本,曾被放在
(De 31:25, 26)
至圣所约柜旁。在玛拿西和亚们不敬虔的治下——或许在亚哈斯时期,圣殿本身被偶像玷污,约柜也被
(2Ch 35:3)
挪离原位;它不知何故遗失了,如今在修理圣殿时又被寻见[KEIL]。希勒家将这卷书交给书记沙番
[2Ki 22:8],
沙番将其呈给王并念给王听。据推测,读给王听、并使王心大为震动的段落,很可能是申命记第二十八、二十九、三十章;其中记载了国家盟约的更新,以及凡违背律法者——无论君王或百姓——所招的可怕威吓和咒诅的列举。诵读在约西亚心中所产生的忧伤与恐惧,在许多人看来似乎难以理解。但既然从先知们所显示的广博而熟悉的认识来看,当时显然有大量其他抄本在民间流传,王对其中神圣的内容必有所知。但他可能并不熟悉所读给他的那段经文,或者在那特殊情形下,诵读以一种他从未感受过的方式触动了他的心。他对神话语的坚强信心,以及他痛苦地意识到国家长久而可悲的背道已经使他们招致所宣告的审判——这一切必定以排山倒海的力量冲击着这位敬虔君王的心。
英文原文
2Ki 22:8-15.
HILKIAH FINDS THE BOOK OF THE LAW.
8-11. Hilkiah said . . . I have found the book of the law in the house of the Lord, &c.--that is, the law of Moses, the Pentateuch. It was the temple copy which, had been laid
(De 31:25, 26)
beside the ark in the most holy place. During the ungodly reigns of Manasseh and Amon--or perhaps under Ahaz, when the temple itself had been profaned by idols, and the ark also
(2Ch 35:3)
removed from its site; it was somehow lost, and was now found again during the repair of the temple [KEIL]. Delivered by Hilkiah the discoverer to Shaphan the scribe
[2Ki 22:8],
it was by the latter shown and read to the king. It is thought, with great probability, that the passage read to the king, and by which the royal mind was so greatly excited, was a portion of Deuteronomy, the twenty-eighth, twenty-ninth, and thirtieth chapters, in which is recorded a renewal of the national covenant, and an enumeration of the terrible threats and curses denounced against all who violated the law, whether prince or people. The impressions of grief and terror which the reading produced on the mind of Josiah have seemed to many unaccountable. But, as it is certain from the extensive and familiar knowledge displayed by the prophets, that there were numbers of other copies in popular circulation, the king must have known its sacred contents in some degree. But he might have been a stranger to the passage read him, or the reading of it might, in the peculiar circumstances, have found a way to his heart in a manner that he never felt before. His strong faith in the divine word, and his painful consciousness that the woeful and long-continued apostasies of the nation had exposed them to the infliction of the judgments denounced, must have come with overwhelming force on the heart of so pious a prince.
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12-15. 王吩咐……你们去,为我等求问耶和华——王激动的情绪促使他立即求问,如何避免他的国所卧在其下的那些咒诅;随即差遣一队主要官员去见一位有先知之灵的人。
亚希甘——耶利米的朋友
(Jer 26:24)。
英文原文
12-15. the king commanded . . . Go, inquire of the Lord for me, &c.--The agitated feelings of the king prompted him to ask immediate counsel how to avert those curses under which his kingdom lay; and forthwith a deputation of his principal officers was sent to one endowed with the prophetic spirit.
Ahikam--a friend of Jeremiah
(Jer 26:24).
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14. 亚革波——或作押顿
(2Ch 34:20),
是朝廷中有势力的人
(Jer 26:22)。
事态紧急,因此他们被差遣——不是去找西番雅
(Zep 1:1),
他或许年轻;也不是去找耶利米,他大概不在,正在亚拿突的家中;而是去找一位就在近处、以先知恩赐闻名的人——户勒大,她此时大概已是寡妇。她的丈夫沙龙是哈拉斯的孙子,哈拉斯是「管礼服的」。如果这是指祭司的礼服,[哈拉斯]必是利未人。但这大概是指王室的礼服。
她住在……学院里——更确切地说,作「在Mishneh中」,将原文的词视为专有名词,不是学校或学院,而是耶路撒冷的一个特定郊区。她备受敬重,以致犹太作者说,她与祭司耶何耶大是不属大卫家
(2Ch 24:15, 16)
却得以葬在耶路撒冷的仅有的两个人。
英文原文
14. Achbor--or Abdon
(2Ch 34:20),
a man of influence at court
(Jer 26:22).
The occasion was urgent, and therefore they were sent--not to Zephaniah
(Zep 1:1),
who was perhaps young--nor to Jeremiah, who was probably absent at his house in Anathoth, but to one who was at hand and known for her prophetic gifts--to Huldah, who was probably at this time a widow. Her husband Shallum was grandson of one Harhas, "keeper of the wardrobe." If this means the priestly wardrobe, [Harhas] must have been a Levite. But it probably refers to the royal wardrobe.
she dwelt . . . in the college--rather, "in the Misnah," taking the original word as a proper name, not a school or college, but a particular suburb of Jerusalem. She was held in such veneration that Jewish writers say she and Jehoiada the priest were the only persons not of the house of David
(2Ch 24:15, 16)
who were ever buried in Jerusalem.
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15-20. 她对他们说,耶和华以色列的神如此说,你们去告诉那差你们来见我的人——她被请教之后,发表了一段神谕式的回答,其中审判与怜悯交织;因为它宣告了不久将临到那城和城中居民的灾祸。但与此同时,王得着安慰:这刑罚与哀痛之时不会在他有生之年临到,因他在公职上、以王室的影响力,表现了对神荣耀和敬拜的信心、痛悔和敬虔的热心。
英文原文
15-20. she said unto them, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Tell the man that sent you to me--On being consulted, she delivered an oracular response in which judgment was blended with mercy; for it announced the impending calamities that at no distant period were to overtake the city and its inhabitants. But at the same time the king was consoled with an assurance that this season of punishment and sorrow should not be during his lifetime, on account of the faith, penitence, and pious zeal for the divine glory and worship which, in his public capacity and with his royal influence, he had displayed.
2Ki 22:1, 2.
约西亚 行正 的统治
1、2. 约西亚登基的时候年八岁——他比其祖父玛拿西幸运,似乎在未成年时便得到较好的监护人的照料,这些人按敬虔的原则和实行来培育他;他年少的心既已坚定地倾向真实而无玷污的宗教,便终生不渝地坚守神与公义的道路。