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De 2:1-37.
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De 2:1-37.
THE STORY IS CONTINUED.
1. Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea--After their unsuccessful attack upon the Canaanites, the Israelites broke up their encampment at Kadesh, and journeying southward over the west desert of Tih as well as through the great valley of the Ghor and Arabah, they extended their removals as far as the gulf of Akaba.
we compassed mount Seir many days--In these few words Moses comprised the whole of that wandering nomadic life through which they passed during thirty-eight years, shifting from place to place, and regulating their stations by the prospect of pasturage and water. Within the interval they went northward a second time to Kadesh, but being refused a passage through Edom and opposed by the Canaanites and Amalekites, they again had no alternative but to traverse once more the great Arabah southwards to the Red Sea, where turning to the left and crossing the long, lofty mountain chain to the eastward of Ezion-geber
(Nu 21:4, 5),
they issued into the great and elevated plains, which are still traversed by the Syrian pilgrims in their way to Mecca. They appear to have followed northward nearly the same route, which is now taken by the Syrian hadji, along the western skirts of this great desert, near the mountains of Edom [ROBINSON]. It was on entering these plains they received the command, "Ye have compassed this mountain (this hilly tract, now Jebel Shera) long enough, turn ye northward"
[De 2:3].
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4. 住西珥的以扫子孙……必惧怕你们——这同一民族曾傲慢地拒绝以色列人从西界接近，如今见以色列人绕到他们国土的薄弱一面，反倒惊慌了。
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4. the children of Esau, which dwell in Seir . . . shall be afraid of you--The same people who had haughtily repelled the approach of the Israelites from the western frontier were alarmed now that they had come round upon the weak side of their country.
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5-7. 不可惹他们——即"住西珥的"
(申 2:4)
——因为以扫的后裔另有一支，即亚玛力人，是要与之争战、予以剿灭的
(创 36:12; 出 17:14; 申 25:17)。
但以东民不得在人身或财产上受损害。虽然像以色列人这样庞大的游牧群体接近，自然会引发恐慌，但他们却不可利用普遍的恐惧强迫以东人接受他们所提出的任何条件。他们只是要"经过"或沿着其边界通行，并付钱向他们购买食物和水
(申 2:6)。
以东民比他们的王更厚道，确实在他们沿边界通行时卖给他们饼、肉、水果和水
(申 2:29)，
正如现今麦加的叙利亚商队由同一山地的居民供应——他们在朝觐路上像在集市一样迎接朝觐者〔ROBINSON〕。虽然以色列人仍天天享用吗哪的供应，但只要有机会，并不禁止他们吃其他食物。只是他们不可对此怀有过度的贪欲。水是那些地方的稀缺物资，旅人常常需要付钱购买。以色列人更有义务如此行，因为蒙神赐福，他们有充足的财力购买；而神对他们长久以来持续不变的厚恩经历，当使他们对神生发信心，从而压制一切以欺诈或暴力满足己欲的念头。
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5-7. Meddle not with them--that is, "which dwell in Seir"
(De 2:4)
--for there was another branch of Esau's posterity, namely, the Amalekites, who were to be fought against and destroyed
(Ge 36:12; Ex 17:14; De 25:17).
But the people of Edom were not to be injured, either in their persons or property. And although the approach of so vast a nomadic horde as the Israelites naturally created apprehension, they were to take no advantage of the prevailing terror to compel the Edomites to accept whatever terms they imposed. They were merely to pass "through" or along their border, and to buy meat and water of them for money
(De 2:6).
The people, kinder than their king, did sell them bread, meat, fruits, and water in their passage along their border
(De 2:29),
in the same manner as the Syrian caravan of Mecca is now supplied by the people of the same mountains, who meet the pilgrims as at a fair or market on the hadji route [ROBINSON]. Although the Israelites still enjoyed a daily supply of the manna, there was no prohibition against their eating other food when opportunity afforded. Only they were not to cherish an inordinate desire for it. Water is a scarce commodity and is often paid for by travellers in those parts. It was the more incumbent on the Israelites to do so, as, by the blessing of God, they possessed plenty of means to purchase, and the long-continued experience of the extraordinary goodness of God to them, should inspire such confidence in Him as would suppress the smallest thought of resorting to fraud or violence in supplying their wants.
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8-18. 我们……从亚拉巴的路经过——即亚拉巴（Arabah）大谷，从以拉他（"树木"）（希腊人与罗马人的 Ailah）起。其遗址以大片瓦砾堆为记。
以旬迦别——即今之阿卡巴（Akaba），二者都在以东境内；以色列人绕行其东南边界之后，到达盐海（死海）东南的摩押边界。神曾命令他们不可侵扰摩押人；这一特别尊荣加于该民，并非因他们自己的缘故——因为他们极其邪恶——而是因他们是罗得的后裔。（参
申 23:3）。
他们的领土包括亚嫩河以南、部分以北的肥沃之地。他们是用武力从原住民以米人手中夺取的——以米人按其名所示，是一族以体力与身量可畏的民族
(创 14:5)，
正如以东人借击败西珥原住民何利人（Horims）而取得其地一样
(创 14:6)，
何利人是穴居人，即住洞穴者。摩西提及这些事，是要勉励国人相信，神更会帮助他们赶出那邪恶而受咒诅的迦南人。然而当时，摩押人因西宏的侵占而丧失了大部分领土，只剩下撒烈溪与亚嫩河之间那一小块肥沃之地。
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8-18. we passed . . . through the way of the plain--the Arabah or great valley, from Elath ("trees") (the Ailah of the Greeks and Romans). The site of it is marked by extensive mounds of rubbish.
Ezion-geber--now Akaba, both were within the territory of Edom; and after making a circuit of its southeastern boundary, the Israelites reached the border of Moab on the southeast of the Salt Sea. They had been forbidden by divine command to molest the Moabites in any way; and this special honor was conferred on that people not on their own account, for they were very wicked, but in virtue of their descent from Lot. (See on
De 23:3).
Their territory comprised the fine country on the south, and partly on the north of the Arnon. They had won it by their arms from the original inhabitants, the Emims, a race, terrible, as their name imports, for physical power and stature
(Ge 14:5),
in like manner as the Edomites had obtained their settlement by the overthrow of the original occupiers of Seir, the Horims
(Ge 14:6),
who were troglodytes, or dwellers in caves. Moses alluded to these circumstances to encourage his countrymen to believe that God would much more enable them to expel the wicked and accursed Canaanites. At that time, however, the Moabites, having lost the greater part of their possessions through the usurpations of Sihon, were reduced to the small but fertile region between the Zered and the Arnon.
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13. 现在起来，过撒烈溪——摩押的南界，撒烈（意为"多木"），即今之 Wady Ahsy，将今之 Kerak 区与 Jebal 区隔开，实际上形成了该国南北之间的天然分界。亚珥（Ar），后称拉巴（Rabbah），是摩押的京城，位于亚嫩河以南二十五英里、一条小而有荫的溪流 Beni Hamed 的两岸。此处提及它作为其所辖地区的代表——那是一片富庶、耕作良好之地，从众多城市的废墟以及田野上仍可见的耕作痕迹可以看出。
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13. Now rise up, and get you over the brook Zered--The southern border of Moab, Zered ("woody"), now Wady Ahsy, separates the modern district of Kerak from Jebal, and, indeed, forms a natural division of the country between the north and south. Ar, called in later times Rabbah, was the capital of Moab and situated twenty-five miles south of the Arnon on the banks of a small but shady stream, the Beni Hamed. It is here mentioned as representative of the country dependent on it, a rich and well-cultivated country, as appears from the numerous ruins of cities, as well as from the traces of tillage still visible on the fields.
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16. 兵丁都从民中被灭尽、死亡——百姓在加低斯因探子虚假的报告而爆发的那次事件，是神命定成年一代尽死于旷野之致命裁决的缘由
[民 14:29]；
但那次爆发不过是他们罪孽满盈罢了。因为那一代人虽并非普遍沉溺于异教和偶像崇拜，却在旷野中始终显示出可怕程度的不敬虔，这段历史只是隐约提及，但在别处明确断言
(结 20:25, 26; 摩 5:25, 27; 徒 7:42, 43)。
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16. all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people--The outbreak at Kadesh on the false report of the spies had been the occasion of the fatal decree by which God doomed the whole grown-up population to die in the wilderness
[Nu 14:29];
but that outbreak only filled up the measure of their iniquities. For that generation, though not universally abandoned to heathenish and idolatrous practices, yet had all along displayed a fearful amount of ungodliness in the desert, which this history only hints at obscurely, but which is expressly asserted elsewhere
(Eze 20:25, 26; Am 5:25, 27; Ac 7:42, 43).
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19-37. 你接近亚扪人之地的时候，不要扰害他们，也不可与他们争战——亚扪人因与摩押人有亲族关系，出于对他们共同祖先的记念，以色列人不得惊扰他们。这一民族的领土原在摩押领土之北，延伸至雅博溪；他们从若干小的迦南部族手中夺取此地，即撒送（Zamzummins）——按其名所示是一族蛮横狂妄的巨人；以及亚卫人——即从哈洗录（El Hudhera）直到亚萨（加沙）一带的原住民，但他们已被从迦斐托（下埃及）出来、定居巴勒斯坦西海岸的迦斐托人（非利士人）所逐。亚扪人的疆界现已被压缩，但他们仍保有雅博溪对岸的山地
(书 11:2)。
短短四节插叙给巴勒斯坦早期历史提供了何等奇特的洞见！在这段历史所记的事之前，有多少次征服之战曾席卷其早期状态——迦南各部族之间有过多少王朝更替！
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19-37. when thou comest nigh over against the children of Ammon, distress them not, nor meddle with them--The Ammonites, being kindred to the Moabites, were, from regard to the memory of their common ancestor, to remain undisturbed by the Israelites. The territory of this people had been directly north from that of Moab. It extended as far as the Jabbok, having been taken by them from a number of small Canaanitish tribes, namely, the Zamzummins, a bullying, presumptuous band of giants, as their name indicates; and the Avims, the aborigines of the district extending from Hazerim or Hazeroth (El Hudhera) even unto Azzah (Gaza), but of which they had been dispossessed by the Caphtorim (Philistines), who came out of Caphtor (Lower Egypt) and settled in the western coast of Palestine. The limits of the Ammonites were now compressed; but they still possessed the mountainous region beyond the Jabbok
(Jos 11:2).
What a strange insight does this parenthesis of four verses give into the early history of Palestine! How many successive wars of conquest had swept over its early state--what changes of dynasty among the Canaanitish tribes had taken place long prior to the transactions recorded in this history!
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24-36. 你们起来……过亚嫩溪——此溪在入海口处宽八十二英尺、深四英尺。它在两岸为垂直砂岩峭壁的河道中奔流。在以色列人向约旦河东迁移之时，亚嫩与雅博之间全境的沃土，包括基列的山地，已被亚摩利人占据——他们作为命定灭绝的国民之一（参
申 7:2; 20:16)，
被彻底除灭。他们的地按征服权落入以色列人之手。然而摩西认为这一命定只指约旦河西的亚摩利领土，便向西宏送去和平的信息，请求准许经过他在河以东的领土。先行差人预备道路是惯例；但西宏拒绝摩西的请求，并阻拦以色列人的前进
(民 21:23; 士 11:26)，
使他自己和他的亚摩利臣民在第一次与迦南人正式对阵的战场上，招致了所预言的厄运。这为以色列不仅取得了美好牧养之地的所有权，更重要的是为他们取得了约旦河东的自由通道。
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24-36. Rise ye up . . . and pass over the river Arnon--At its mouth, this stream is eighty-two feet wide and four deep. It flows in a channel banked by perpendicular cliffs of sandstone. At the date of the Israelitish migration to the east of the Jordan, the whole of the fine country lying between the Arnon and the Jabbok including the mountainous tract of Gilead, had been seized by the Amorites, who, being one of the nations doomed to destruction (see
De 7:2; 20:16),
were utterly exterminated. Their country fell by right of conquest into the hands of the Israelites. Moses, however, considering this doom as referring solely to the Amorite possessions west of Jordan, sent a pacific message to Sihon, requesting permission to go through his territories, which lay on the east of that river. It is always customary to send messengers before to prepare the way; but the rejection of Moses' request by Sihon and his opposition to the advance of the Israelites
(Nu 21:23; Jud 11:26)
drew down on himself and his Amorite subjects the predicted doom on the first pitched battlefield with the Canaanites. It secured to Israel not only the possession of a fine and pastoral country, but, what was of more importance to them, a free access to the Jordan on the east.
De 2:1-37.
历史延续。
1. 此后，我们转回，从红海的路往旷野去——以色列人攻击迦南人失败之后，便从加低斯拔营，向南行经提（Tih）西面的旷野，并穿过歌珥（Ghor）与亚拉巴（Arabah）的大谷地，他们的行程一直延伸至亚喀巴湾。
我们绕西珥山许多日子——摩西用这短短几句话，概括了他们在三十八年间所过的漂泊游牧生活，他们从一个地方迁到另一个地方，按着牧草与水源的情形调整驻扎之所。在这期间，他们曾第二次北上加低斯，但因以东拒绝让他们经过，又遭到迦南人与亚玛力人的抵挡，他们别无选择，只得再次穿过广大的亚拉巴向南回到红海，在那里向左转，越过以旬迦别以东那条绵长而高耸的山脉
(Nu 21:4, 5)，
他们便进入那片广袤而高耸的平原，至今叙利亚朝圣者在前往麦加的路上仍经过此地。他们似乎向北沿着这条大旷野的西缘、靠近以东诸山前行，所走的路线与今日叙利亚朝觐者所走的几乎相同 [ROBINSON]。正是在进入这些平原时，他们领受了这样的命令：「你们绕行这山（这多山之地，即今日的谢拉山 Jebel Shera）够了，要转向北去」
[De 2:3]。