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2Ki 11:1-3.
英文原文
2Ki 11:1-3.
JEHOASH SAVED FROM ATHALIAH'S MASSACRE.
1. Athaliah--(See on
2Ch 22:2).
She had possessed great influence over her son, who, by her counsels, had ruled in the spirit of the house of Ahab.
destroyed all the seed royal--all connected with the royal family who might have urged a claim to the throne, and who had escaped the murderous hands of Jehu
(2Ch 21:2-4; 22:1; 2Ki 10:13, 14).
This massacre she was incited to perpetrate--partly from a determination not to let David's family outlive hers; partly as a measure of self-defense to secure herself against the violence of Jehu, who was bent on destroying the whole of Ahab's posterity to which she belonged
(2Ki 8:18-26);
but chiefly from personal ambition to rule, and a desire to establish the worship of Baal. Such was the sad fruit of the unequal alliance between the son of the pious Jehoshaphat and a daughter of the idolatrous and wicked house of Ahab.
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無標題
2. 約示巴——又作約沙巴
(代下 22:11)。
約蘭王的女兒——並非亞她利雅所生，而是側室所出。
把他從被殺的王子中偷出來——或是從屍首之中，因他被當作已死；或是從王宮嬰孩的房中偷出。
把他……藏在臥房裏——是供祭司使用的房間，位於聖殿的某處
(王下 11:3)，
由耶何耶大與其妻專責看守。然而東方所稱的臥房，並非我們所理解的那種房間，而是一個小儲藏室，日間鋪在起居室地板或矮榻上的褥墊與其他臥具，到了白天便扔入其中。這樣的寢室正適合作為他養傷的便利場所，也是這位王室嬰孩與乳母藏身之處。
英文原文
2. Jehosheba--or Jehoshabeath
(2Ch 22:11).
daughter of King Joram--not by Athaliah, but by a secondary wife.
stole him from among the king's sons which were slain--either from among the corpses, he being considered dead, or out of the palace nursery.
hid him . . . in the bedchamber--for the use of the priests, which was in some part of the temple
(2Ki 11:3),
and of which Jehoiada and his wife had the sole charge. What is called, however, the bedchamber in the East is not the kind of apartment that we understand by the name, but a small closet, into which are flung during the day the mattresses and other bedding materials spread on the floors or divans of the sitting-rooms by day. Such a slumber-room was well suited to be a convenient place for the recovery of his wounds, and a hiding-place for the royal infant and his nurse.
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2Ki 11:4-12.
王下 11:4-12.
約阿施被立為王
4. 第七年——即亞她利雅在位、約阿施獲救的第七年。
耶何耶大打發人叫眾首領，云云——他幾乎不可能召集到如此普遍的集會，除非是在某個公開而隆重的節期之時，或以此為藉口。他向眾首領透露了幼王獲救的祕密，並與他們立約要傾覆這暴君，然後與他們安排了執行密謀的計畫與時間（參見
代下 22:10-23:21）。 耶何耶大在這場密謀中擔任主導的首要角色，他的行為可輕易而充分地證明為正當；因為亞她利雅既是篡位者，又屬於被神諭定意滅絕的族類，甚至他自己的妻子對王位也有更佳更強的權利；猶大的主權既已被神定規歸於大衛一家，因此那位即將被加冕的幼王對王位擁有與生俱來的權利，這權利是任何篡位者所不能剝奪的。此外，耶何耶大極可能就是大祭司，其職責本就是監督神律法的切實遵行，而他此次的行動，也得到國中政教兩方首要當局的贊同與支持，更得其鼓勵與協助。除了這一切考量之外，他似乎也受到聖靈的感動——是藉當時眾先知的勸誡與勉勵而引導的。
英文原文
2Ki 11:4-12.
HE IS MADE KING.
4. the seventh year--namely, of the reign of Athaliah, and the rescue of Jehoash.
Jehoiada sent and fetched the rulers, &c.--He could scarcely have obtained such a general convocation except at the time, or on pretext, of a public and solemn festival. Having revealed to them the secret of the young king's preservation and entered into a covenant with them for the overthrow of the tyrant, he then arranged with them the plan and time of carrying their plot into execution (see on
2Ch 22:10-23:21).
The conduct of Jehoiada, who acted the leading and chief part in this conspiracy, admits of an easy and full justification; for, while Athaliah was a usurper, and belonged to a race destined by divine denunciation to destruction, even his own wife had a better and stronger claim to the throne; the sovereignty of Judah had been divinely appropriated to the family of David, and therefore the young prince on whom it was proposed to confer the crown, possessed an inherent right to it, of which a usurper could not deprive him. Moreover, Jehoiada was most probably the high priest, whose official duty it was to watch over the due execution of God's laws, and who in his present movement, was encouraged and aided by the countenance and support of the chief authorities, both civil and ecclesiastical, in the country. In addition to all these considerations, he seems to have been directed by an impulse of the Divine Spirit, through the counsels and exhortations of the prophets of the time.
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2Ki 11:13-16.
王下 11:13-16.
亞她利雅被殺
13. 亞她利亞聽見護衛兵和民的聲音——密謀既是在極度隱密中進行，那聚集的群眾所發不尋常的歡呼更顯得突兀，遂引起暴君的疑心。
她……進耶和華的殿——即外院，她是奉耶何耶大的指示
(王下 11:8)
被允准進入，為要使她能被擒住。
英文原文
2Ki 11:13-16.
ATHALIAH SLAIN.
13. Athaliah heard the noise of the guard and of the people--The profound secrecy with which the conspiracy had been conducted rendered the unusual acclamations of the vast assembled crowd the more startling and roused the suspicions of the tyrant.
she came . . . into the temple of the Lord--that is, the courts, which she was permitted to enter by Jehoiada's directions
(2Ki 11:8)
in order that she might be secured.
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無標題
14. 王站在柱旁——或作站於一座臺上，是為此目的而設的（參見
代下 6:13)。
英文原文
14. the king stood by a pillar--or on a platform, erected for that purpose (see on
2Ch 6:13).
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無標題
15. 在班次之外——即在護欄之外，使聖所不被人血染污。
英文原文
15. without the ranges--that is, fences, that the sacred place might not be stained with human blood.
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2Ki 11:17-20.
王下 11:17-20.
耶何耶大恢復對神的敬拜
17, 18. 耶和華與王和民立約——與耶和華所立的約，是更新以色列全國與神所立的約
(出 19:1-24:18；
「作祂的產業之民」，
申 4:6；27:9)。
王與百姓之間的約乃是此事的結果；藉此約，王承諾按神的律法治理，百姓則應允順服、向主的受膏者效忠。這次立約更新的直接果效，是巴力廟被毀、巴力的祭司被殺（見
王下 10:27)； 純正對神的敬拜得以完全恢復、回復古時的完整性；幼王被確立在猶大世襲的寶座上
[王下 11:19]。
英文原文
2Ki 11:17-20.
JEHOIADA RESTORES GOD'S WORSHIP.
17, 18. a covenant between the Lord and the king and the people--The covenant with the Lord was a renewal of the national covenant with Israel
(Ex 19:1-24:18;
"to be unto him a people of inheritance,"
De 4:6; 27:9).
The covenant between the king and the people was the consequence of this, and by it the king bound himself to rule according to the divine law, while the people engaged to submit, to give him allegiance as the Lord's anointed. The immediate fruit of this renewal of the covenant was the destruction of the temple and the slaughter of the priests of Baal (see
2Ki 10:27);
the restoration of the pure worship of God in all its ancient integrity; and the establishment of the young king on the hereditary throne of Judah
[2Ki 11:19].
2Ki 11:1-3.
約阿施 從亞他利雅的 屠殺中 獲救
1. 亞他利雅——(參
2Ch 22:2)。
她對其子有很大影響力,後者在她的策動下,本著亞哈家的精神治國。
剿滅王室所有的後裔——即凡與王室有關、可能主張王位繼承權的人,且是從耶戶的屠刀下逃脫的人
(2Ch 21:2-4; 22:1; 2Ki 10:13, 14)。
她之所以行此屠殺——部分是由於決意不讓大衛家比她自家活得更久;部分則作為一種自衛手段,以防耶戶的暴力,因後者一心要滅絕她所屬的亞哈全家
(2Ki 8:18-26);
但最主要的,是出於個人統治的野心,並意圖確立巴力崇拜。這便是敬虔的約沙法之子與偶像崇拜且邪惡的亞哈家之女所結不當聯盟的悲慘結果。