旧约 - 民数记(Numbers)第21章

When the Canaanite king of Arad, who lived in the Negev, heard that Israel was coming along the road to Atharim, he attacked the Israelites and captured some of them.
Then Israel made this vow to the LORD: "If you will deliver these people into our hands, we will totally destroy their cities."
The LORD listened to Israel's plea and gave the Canaanites over to them. They completely destroyed them and their towns; so the place was named Hormah.
They traveled from Mount Hor along the route to the Red Sea, to go around Edom. But the people grew impatient on the way;
they spoke against God and against Moses, and said, "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the desert? There is no bread! There is no water! And we detest this miserable food!"
Then the LORD sent venomous snakes among them; they bit the people and many Israelites died.
The people came to Moses and said, "We sinned when we spoke against the LORD and against you. Pray that the LORD will take the snakes away from us." So Moses prayed for the people.
The LORD said to Moses, "Make a snake and put it up on a pole; anyone who is bitten can look at it and live."
So Moses made a bronze snake and put it up on a pole. Then when anyone was bitten by a snake and looked at the bronze snake, he lived.
The Israelites moved on and camped at Oboth.
Then they set out from Oboth and camped in Iye Abarim, in the desert that faces Moab toward the sunrise.
From there they moved on and camped in the Zered Valley.
They set out from there and camped alongside the Arnon, which is in the desert extending into Amorite territory. The Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.
That is why the Book of the Wars of the LORD says: ". . . Waheb in Suphah and the ravines, the Arnon
and the slopes of the ravines that lead to the site of Ar and lie along the border of Moab."
From there they continued on to Beer, the well where the LORD said to Moses, "Gather the people together and I will give them water."
Then Israel sang this song: "Spring up, O well! Sing about it,
about the well that the princes dug, that the nobles of the people sank--the nobles with scepters and staffs." Then they went from the desert to Mattanah,
from Mattanah to Nahaliel, from Nahaliel to Bamoth,
and from Bamoth to the valley in Moab where the top of Pisgah overlooks the wasteland.
Israel sent messengers to say to Sihon king of the Amorites:
"Let us pass through your country. We will not turn aside into any field or vineyard, or drink water from any well. We will travel along the king's highway until we have passed through your territory."
But Sihon would not let Israel pass through his territory. He mustered his entire army and marched out into the desert against Israel. When he reached Jahaz, he fought with Israel.
Israel, however, put him to the sword and took over his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, but only as far as the Ammonites, because their border was fortified.
Israel captured all the cities of the Amorites and occupied them, including Heshbon and all its surrounding settlements.
Heshbon was the city of Sihon king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab and had taken from him all his land as far as the Arnon.
That is why the poets say: "Come to Heshbon and let it be rebuilt; let Sihon's city be restored.
"Fire went out from Heshbon, a blaze from the city of Sihon. It consumed Ar of Moab, the citizens of Arnon's heights.
Woe to you, O Moab! You are destroyed, O people of Chemosh! He has given up his sons as fugitives and his daughters as captives to Sihon king of the Amorites.
"But we have overthrown them; Heshbon is destroyed all the way to Dibon. We have demolished them as far as Nophah, which extends to Medeba."
So Israel settled in the land of the Amorites.
After Moses had sent spies to Jazer, the Israelites captured its surrounding settlements and drove out the Amorites who were there.
Then they turned and went up along the road toward Bashan, and Og king of Bashan and his whole army marched out to meet them in battle at Edrei.
The LORD said to Moses, "Do not be afraid of him, for I have handed him over to you, with his whole army and his land. Do to him what you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon."
So they struck him down, together with his sons and his whole army, leaving them no survivors. And they took possession of his land.
民数记第廿一章   第 21 章 

  民 21:5> 遇到困难埋怨神和人,不是信徒应有的态度,可是却常常出现…… 

  21:5 我们从诗篇第七十八篇中看到,人埋怨神是出于:( 1 )向着神心不诚实( 78:8 );( 2 )不肯照祂的律法行( 78:10 );( 3 )忘记祂所行的奇妙作为( 78:11 )。我们的牢骚也常常出于这些轻率的态度与行为。如果我们能彻底根治诉苦的因由,它就不会在生命之中繁衍滋长。 

  民 21:6> 神为何叫火蛇咬以色列人?你也经历过神的管教吗? 

  21:6 神使用火蛇惩罚以色列人的不信与埋怨。在西奈山旷野有多种不同的蛇,有些藏在沙土中,在人不防备的时候出来咬人。以色列人与埃及人都非常怕蛇。被毒蛇咬了之后,人往往会被剧痛慢慢折磨而死。 

  民 21:8-9> 我们仰望什么可以得救?铜蛇与十字架上的基督有何关联? 

  21:8-9 摩西将铜蛇挂在杆子上的时候,百姓并不明白这所预表的意义;它预表了耶稣基督被钉十字架救赎人类(参约 3:14-15 )。被蛇咬的以色列人,一望这铜蛇就得到医治;现在,所有被罪苦害的人,仰望十字架就能得拯救。并不是铜蛇能医治百姓,乃是他们对神医治的信心发生功效。他们的信仰,藉顺从神的吩咐表明出来。同样,我们也当仰望让我们得救赎的耶稣(参来 12:2 )。 

  旷野的火蛇 

  民 21:14> 21:14 “耶和华的战记”这卷书已失传,它极可能是一部胜利的诗歌集。 

  在旷野的遭遇 

  民 21:27-30> 争战使人认清真神;生命中的冲击怎样帮我认识真神的呢? 

  21:27-30 摩押人敬拜的基抹是争战之神,但它是假神,在摩押人与以色列人争战的时候,它对摩押人毫无帮助。以色列人的神,远胜过迦南所有的战神。 

  民 21:34> 当神说不要怕,祂为我们作主时,我还担心吗?完全信靠了吗? 

  21:34 以色列人出战以前,耶和华对摩西说:不要怕,你必胜过一切的仇敌,因我已将一切都交在你的手中。我们第一要先相信祂能帮助我们,第二是倚靠祂,第三是照祂所指示的步骤一步一步去行。 

  与西宏和噩的战役──《灵修版圣经注释》