今日读经

迦南诸王丧胆

¹约旦河西亚摩利人的诸王和靠海迦南人的诸王，听见耶和华在以色列人前面使约旦河的水干了，等到我们过去，他们的心因以色列人的缘故就消化了，不再有胆气。Now when all the Amorite kings west of the Jordan and all the Canaanite kings along the coast heard how the LORD had dried up the waters of the Jordan before the Israelites until they had crossed over, their hearts melted and their spirits failed for fear of the Israelites.

在吉甲重新行割礼

²那时，耶和华吩咐约书亚说：“你制造火石刀，第二次给以色列人行割礼。”At that time the LORD said to Joshua, “Make flint knives and circumcise the sons of Israel once again.”

³约书亚就制造了火石刀，在“除皮山”那里给以色列人行割礼。So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the sons of Israel at Gibeath-haaraloth.

⁴约书亚行割礼的缘故，是因为从埃及出来的众民，就是一切能打仗的男丁，出了埃及以后，都死在旷野的路上。Now this is why Joshua circumcised them: All those who came out of Egypt—all the men of war—had died on the journey in the wilderness after they had left Egypt.

⁵因为出来的众民都受过割礼；惟独出埃及以后、在旷野的路上所生的众民都没有受过割礼。Though all who had come out were circumcised, none of those born in the wilderness on the journey from Egypt had been circumcised.

⁶以色列人在旷野走了四十年，等到国民，就是出埃及的兵丁，都消灭了，因为他们没有听从耶和华的话。耶和华曾向他们起誓，必不容他们看见耶和华向他们列祖起誓、应许赐给我们的地，就是流奶与蜜之地。For the Israelites had wandered in the wilderness forty years, until all the nation’s men of war who had come out of Egypt had died, since they did not obey the LORD. So the LORD vowed never to let them see the land He had sworn to their fathers to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

⁷他们的子孙，就是耶和华所兴起来接续他们的，都没有受过割礼；因为在路上没有给他们行割礼，约书亚这才给他们行了。And He raised up their sons in their place, and these were the ones Joshua circumcised. Until this time they were still uncircumcised, since they had not been circumcised along the way.

⁸国民都受完了割礼，就住在营中自己的地方，等到痊愈了。And after all the nation had been circumcised, they stayed there in the camp until they were healed.

⁹耶和华对约书亚说：“我今日将埃及的羞辱从你们身上滚去了。”因此，那地方名叫吉甲（就是滚的意思），直到今日。Then the LORD said to Joshua, “Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you.” So that place has been called Gilgal to this day.

守逾越节，吗哪止住

¹⁰以色列人在吉甲安营。正月十四日晚上，在耶利哥的平原守逾越节。On the evening of the fourteenth day of the month, while the Israelites were camped at Gilgal on the plains of Jericho, they kept the Passover.

¹¹逾越节的次日，他们就吃了那地的出产；正当那日吃无酵饼和烘的谷。The day after the Passover, on that very day, they ate unleavened bread and roasted grain from the produce of the land.

¹²他们吃了那地的出产，第二日吗哪就止住了，以色列人也不再有吗哪了。那一年，他们却吃迦南地的出产。And the day after they had eaten from the produce of the land, the manna ceased. There was no more manna for the Israelites, so that year they began to eat the crops of the land of Canaan.

耶和华军队的元帅

¹³约书亚靠近耶利哥的时候，举目观看，不料，有一个人手里有拔出来的刀，对面站立。约书亚到他那里，问他说：“你是帮助我们呢，是帮助我们敌人呢？”Now when Joshua was near Jericho, he looked up and saw a man standing in front of him with a drawn sword in His hand. Joshua approached Him and asked, “Are You for us or for our enemies?”

¹⁴他回答说：“不是的，我来是要作耶和华军队的元帅。”约书亚就俯伏在地下拜，说：“我主有什么话吩咐仆人。”“Neither,” He replied. “I have now come as Commander of the LORD’s army.” Then Joshua fell facedown in reverence and asked Him, “What does my Lord have to say to His servant?”

¹⁵耶和华军队的元帅对约书亚说：“把你脚上的鞋脱下来，因为你所站的地方是圣的。”约书亚就照着行了。The Commander of the LORD’s army replied, “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy.” And Joshua did so.

城门紧闭，神吩咐绕城

¹耶利哥的城门因以色列人就关得严紧，无人出入。Now Jericho was tightly shut up because of the Israelites. No one went out and no one came in.

²耶和华晓谕约书亚说：“看哪，我已经把耶利哥和耶利哥的王，并大能的勇士，都交在你手中。And the LORD said to Joshua, “Behold, I have delivered Jericho into your hand, along with its king and its mighty men of valor.

³你们的一切兵丁要围绕这城，一日围绕一次，六日都要这样行。March around the city with all the men of war, circling the city one time. Do this for six days.

⁴七个祭司要拿七个羊角走在约柜前。到第七日，你们要绕城七次，祭司也要吹角。Have seven priests carry seven rams’ horns in front of the ark. Then on the seventh day, march around the city seven times, while the priests blow the horns.

⁵他们吹的角声拖长，你们听见角声，众百姓要大声呼喊，城墙就必塌陷，各人都要往前直上。”And when there is a long blast of the ram’s horn and you hear its sound, have all the people give a mighty shout. Then the wall of the city will collapse and all your people will charge straight into the city.”

⁶嫩的儿子约书亚召了祭司来，吩咐他们说：“你们抬起约柜来，要有七个祭司拿七个羊角走在耶和华的约柜前”；So Joshua son of Nun summoned the priests and said, “Take up the ark of the covenant and have seven priests carry seven rams’ horns in front of the ark of the LORD.”

⁷又对百姓说：“你们前去绕城，带兵器的要走在耶和华的约柜前。”And he told the people, “Advance and march around the city, with the armed troops going ahead of the ark of the LORD.”

每天绕城一次

⁸约书亚对百姓说完了话，七个祭司拿七个羊角走在耶和华面前吹角；耶和华的约柜在他们后面跟随。After Joshua had spoken to the people, seven priests carrying seven rams’ horns before the LORD advanced and blew the horns, and the ark of the covenant of the LORD followed them.

⁹带兵器的走在吹角的祭司前面，后队随着约柜行。祭司一面走一面吹。While the horns continued to sound, the armed troops marched ahead of the priests who blew the horns, and the rear guard followed the ark.

¹⁰约书亚吩咐百姓说：“你们不可呼喊，不可出声，连一句话也不可出你们的口，等到我吩咐你们呼喊的日子，那时才可以呼喊。”But Joshua had commanded the people: “Do not give a battle cry or let your voice be heard; do not let one word come out of your mouth until the day I tell you to shout. Then you are to shout!”

¹¹这样，他使耶和华的约柜绕城，把城绕了一次；众人回到营里，就在营里住宿。So he had the ark of the LORD carried around the city, circling it once. And the people returned to the camp and spent the night there.

¹²约书亚清早起来，祭司又抬起耶和华的约柜。Joshua got up early the next morning, and the priests took the ark of the LORD.

¹³七个祭司拿七个羊角在耶和华的约柜前，时常行走吹角；带兵器的在他们前面走，后队随着耶和华的约柜行。祭司一面走一面吹。And the seven priests carrying seven rams’ horns kept marching ahead of the ark of the LORD and blowing the horns. The armed troops went in front of them and the rear guard followed the ark of the LORD, while the horns kept sounding.

¹⁴第二日，众人把城绕了一次，就回营里去。六日都是这样行。So on the second day they marched around the city once and returned to the camp. They did this for six days.

第七日绕城七次

¹⁵第七日清早，黎明的时候，他们起来，照样绕城七次；惟独这日把城绕了七次。Then on the seventh day, they got up at dawn and marched around the city seven times in the same manner. That was the only day they circled the city seven times.

¹⁶到了第七次，祭司吹角的时候，约书亚吩咐百姓说：“呼喊吧，因为耶和华已经把城交给你们了！After the seventh time around, the priests blew the horns, and Joshua commanded the people, “Shout! For the LORD has given you the city!

城中一切都要毁灭，只救喇合

¹⁷这城和其中所有的都要在耶和华面前毁灭；只有妓女喇合与她家中所有的可以存活，因为她隐藏了我们所打发的使者。Now the city and everything in it must be devoted to the LORD for destruction. Only Rahab the prostitute and all those with her in her house will live, because she hid the spies we sent.

¹⁸至于你们，务要谨慎，不可取那当灭的物，恐怕你们取了那当灭的物就连累以色列的全营，使全营受咒诅。But keep away from the things devoted to destruction, lest you yourself be set apart for destruction. If you take any of these, you will set apart the camp of Israel for destruction and bring disaster upon it.

¹⁹惟有金子、银子，和铜铁的器皿都要归耶和华为圣，必入耶和华的库中。”For all the silver and gold and all the articles of bronze and iron are holy to the LORD; they must go into His treasury.”

城墙塌陷

²⁰于是百姓呼喊，祭司也吹角。百姓听见角声，便大声呼喊，城墙就塌陷，百姓便上去进城，各人往前直上，将城夺取；So when the rams’ horns sounded, the people shouted. When they heard the blast of the horn, the people gave a great shout, and the wall collapsed. Then all the people charged straight into the city and captured it.

²¹又将城中所有的，不拘男女老少，牛羊和驴，都用刀杀尽。With the edge of the sword they devoted to destruction everything in the city—man and woman, young and old, oxen, sheep, and donkeys.

喇合一家得救

²²约书亚吩咐窥探地的两个人说：“你们进那妓女的家，照着你们向她所起的誓，将那女人和她所有的都从那里带出来。”Meanwhile, Joshua told the two men who had spied out the land, “Go into the house of the prostitute and bring out the woman and all who are with her, just as you promised her.”

²³当探子的两个少年人就进去，将喇合与她的父母、弟兄，和她所有的，并她一切的亲眷，都带出来，安置在以色列的营外。So the young spies went in and brought out Rahab, her father and mother and brothers, and all who belonged to her. They brought out her whole family and settled them outside the camp of Israel.

²⁴众人就用火将城和其中所有的焚烧了；惟有金子、银子，和铜铁的器皿都放在耶和华殿的库中。Then the Israelites burned up the city and everything in it. However, they put the silver and gold and articles of bronze and iron into the treasury of the LORD’s house.

²⁵约书亚却把妓女喇合与她父家，并她所有的，都救活了；因为她隐藏了约书亚所打发窥探耶利哥的使者，她就住在以色列中，直到今日。And Joshua spared Rahab the prostitute, with her father’s household and all who belonged to her, because she hid the men Joshua had sent to spy out Jericho. So she has lived among the Israelites to this day.

咒诅重建耶利哥的人

²⁶当时，约书亚叫众人起誓说：“有兴起重修这耶利哥城的人，当在耶和华面前受咒诅。他立根基的时候，必丧长子，安门的时候，必丧幼子。”At that time Joshua invoked this solemn oath: “Cursed before the LORD is the man who rises up and rebuilds this city, Jericho; at the cost of his firstborn he will lay its foundations; at the cost of his youngest he will set up its gates.”

²⁷耶和华与约书亚同在，约书亚的声名传扬遍地。So the LORD was with Joshua, and his fame spread throughout the land.

约翰差人来问

¹⁸约翰的门徒把这些事都告诉约翰。Then John’s disciples informed him about all these things.

¹⁹他便叫了两个门徒来，打发他们到主那里去，说：“那将要来的是你吗？还是我们等候别人呢？”So John called two of his disciples and sent them to ask the Lord, “Are You the One who was to come, or should we look for someone else?”

²⁰那两个人来到耶稣那里，说：“施洗的约翰打发我们来问你：‘那将要来的是你吗？还是我们等候别人呢？’”When the men came to Jesus, they said, “John the Baptist sent us to ask, ‘Are You the One who was to come, or should we look for someone else?’”

耶稣用所行的事回答

²¹正当那时候，耶稣治好了许多有疾病的，受灾患的，被恶鬼附着的，又开恩叫好些瞎子能看见。At that very hour Jesus healed many people of their diseases, afflictions, and evil spirits, and He gave sight to many who were blind.

²²耶稣回答说：“你们去，把所看见所听见的事告诉约翰，就是瞎子看见，瘸子行走，长大麻风的洁净，聋子听见，死人复活，穷人有福音传给他们。So He replied, “Go back and report to John what you have seen and heard: The blind receive sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is preached to the poor.

²³凡不因我跌倒的，就有福了！”Blessed is the one who does not fall away on account of Me.”

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²⁴约翰所差来的人既走了，耶稣就对众人讲论约翰说：“你们从前出去到旷野，是要看什么呢？要看风吹动的芦苇吗？After John’s messengers had left, Jesus began to speak to the crowds about John: “What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed swaying in the wind?

²⁵你们出去，到底是要看什么？要看穿细软衣服的人吗？那穿华丽衣服、宴乐度日的人是在王宫里。Otherwise, what did you go out to see? A man dressed in fine clothes? Look, those who wear elegant clothing and live in luxury are found in palaces.

²⁶你们出去，究竟是要看什么？要看先知吗？我告诉你们，是的，他比先知大多了。What then did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet.

²⁷经上记着说：‘我要差遣我的使者在你前面预备道路’，所说的就是这个人。This is the one about whom it is written: ‘Behold, I will send My messenger ahead of You, who will prepare Your way before You.’

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²⁸我告诉你们，凡妇人所生的，没有一个大过约翰的；然而　神国里最小的比他还大。”I tell you, among those born of women there is no one greater than John, yet even the least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.”

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百姓和法利赛人的不同反应

²⁹众百姓和税吏既受过约翰的洗，听见这话，就以　神为义；All the people who heard this, even the tax collectors, acknowledged God’s justice. For they had received the baptism of John.

³⁰但法利赛人和律法师没有受过约翰的洗，竟为自己废弃了　神的旨意。（29-30两节或译：众百姓和税吏听见了约翰的话，就受了他的洗，便以　神为义；但法利赛人和律法师不受约翰的洗，竟为自己废弃了　神的旨意。）But the Pharisees and experts in the law rejected God’s purpose for themselves, because they had not been baptized by John.

这世代像街上的孩童

³¹主又说：“这样，我可用什么比这世代的人呢？他们好像什么呢？“To what, then, can I compare the men of this generation? What are they like?

³²好像孩童坐在街市上，彼此呼叫说：我们向你们吹笛，你们不跳舞；我们向你们举哀，你们不啼哭。They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling out to one another: ‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not weep.’

³³施洗的约翰来，不吃饼，不喝酒，你们说他是被鬼附着的。For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon!’

³⁴人子来，也吃也喝，你们说他是贪食好酒的人，是税吏和罪人的朋友。The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Look at this glutton and drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’

³⁵但智慧之子都以智慧为是。”But wisdom is vindicated by all her children.”

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有罪的女人用香膏抹耶稣

³⁶有一个法利赛人请耶稣和他吃饭；耶稣就到法利赛人家里去坐席。Then one of the Pharisees invited Jesus to eat with him, and He entered the Pharisee’s house and reclined at the table.

³⁷那城里有一个女人，是个罪人，知道耶稣在法利赛人家里坐席，就拿着盛香膏的玉瓶，When a sinful woman from that town learned that Jesus was dining there, she brought an alabaster jar of perfume.

³⁸站在耶稣背后，挨着他的脚哭，眼泪湿了耶稣的脚，就用自己的头发擦干，又用嘴连连亲他的脚，把香膏抹上。As she stood behind Him at His feet weeping, she began to wet His feet with her tears and wipe them with her hair. Then she kissed His feet and anointed them with the perfume.

西门心里的议论

³⁹请耶稣的法利赛人看见这事，心里说：“这人若是先知，必知道摸他的是谁，是个怎样的女人；乃是个罪人。”When the Pharisee who had invited Jesus saw this, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, He would know who this is and what kind of woman is touching Him—for she is a sinner!”

⁴⁰耶稣对他说：“西门！我有句话要对你说。”西门说：“夫子，请说。”But Jesus answered him, “Simon, I have something to tell you.” “Tell me, Teacher,” he said.

两个欠债的人

⁴¹耶稣说：“一个债主有两个人欠他的债；一个欠五十两银子，一个欠五两银子；“Two men were debtors to a certain moneylender. One owed him five hundred denarii, and the other fifty.

⁴²因为他们无力偿还，债主就开恩免了他们两个人的债。这两个人哪一个更爱他呢？”When they were unable to repay him, he forgave both of them. Which one, then, will love him more?”

⁴³西门回答说：“我想是那多得恩免的人。”耶稣说：“你断的不错。”“I suppose the one who was forgiven more,” Simon replied. “You have judged correctly,” Jesus said.

她的爱多

⁴⁴于是转过来向着那女人，便对西门说：“你看见这女人吗？我进了你的家，你没有给我水洗脚；但这女人用眼泪湿了我的脚，用头发擦干。And turning toward the woman, He said to Simon, “Do you see this woman? When I entered your house, you did not give Me water for My feet, but she wet My feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair.

⁴⁵你没有与我亲嘴；但这女人从我进来的时候就不住地用嘴亲我的脚。You did not greet Me with a kiss, but she has not stopped kissing My feet since I arrived.

⁴⁶你没有用油抹我的头；但这女人用香膏抹我的脚。You did not anoint My head with oil, but she has anointed My feet with perfume.

⁴⁷所以我告诉你，她许多的罪都赦免了，因为她的爱多；但那赦免少的，他的爱就少。”Therefore I tell you, her many sins have been forgiven, for she has loved much. But he who has been forgiven little loves little.”

你的罪赦免了

⁴⁸于是对那女人说：“你的罪赦免了。”Then Jesus said to her, “Your sins are forgiven.”

⁴⁹同席的人心里说：“这是什么人，竟赦免人的罪呢？”But those at the table began to say to themselves, “Who is this who even forgives sins?”

⁵⁰耶稣对那女人说：“你的信救了你；平平安安回去吧！”And Jesus told the woman, “Your faith has saved you; go in peace.”