今日读经

百姓求罗波安减轻重担

¹罗波安往示剑去；因为以色列人都到了示剑要立他作王。Then Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had gone there to make him king.

²尼八的儿子耶罗波安先前躲避所罗门王，逃往埃及，住在那里（他听见这事。）When Jeroboam son of Nebat heard about this, he was still in Egypt where he had fled from King Solomon and had been living ever since.

³以色列人打发人去请他来，他就和以色列会众都来见罗波安，对他说：So they sent for Jeroboam, and he and the whole assembly of Israel came to Rehoboam and said,

⁴“你父亲使我们负重轭，做苦工，现在求你使我们做的苦工、负的重轭轻松些，我们就事奉你。”“Your father put a heavy yoke on us. But now you must lighten the burden of your father’s service and the heavy yoke he put on us, and we will serve you.”

⁵罗波安对他们说：“你们暂且去，第三日再来见我。”民就去了。Rehoboam answered, “Go away for three days and then return to me.” So the people departed.

老年人与少年人的主意

⁶罗波安之父所罗门在世的日子，有侍立在他面前的老年人，罗波安王和他们商议，说：“你们给我出个什么主意，我好回复这民。”Then King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had served his father Solomon during his lifetime. “How do you advise me to respond to these people?” he asked.

⁷老年人对他说：“现在王若服事这民如仆人，用好话回答他们，他们就永远作王的仆人。”They replied, “If you will be a servant to these people and serve them this day, and if you will respond by speaking kind words to them, they will be your servants forever.”

⁸王却不用老年人给他出的主意，就和那些与他一同长大、在他面前侍立的少年人商议，But Rehoboam rejected the advice of the elders; instead, he consulted the young men who had grown up with him and served him.

⁹说：“这民对我说：‘你父亲使我们负重轭，求你使我们轻松些。’你们给我出个什么主意，我好回复他们。”He asked them, “What message do you advise that we send back to these people who have spoken to me, saying, ‘Lighten the yoke your father put on us’?”

¹⁰那同他长大的少年人说：“这民对王说：‘你父亲使我们负重轭，求你使我们轻松些。’王要对他们如此说：‘我的小拇指头比我父亲的腰还粗。The young men who had grown up with him replied, “This is how you should answer these people who said to you, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but you must make it lighter.’ This is what you should tell them: ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist!

¹¹我父亲使你们负重轭，我必使你们负更重的轭！我父亲用鞭子责打你们，我要用蝎子鞭责打你们！’”Whereas my father burdened you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke. Whereas my father scourged you with whips, I will scourge you with scorpions.’”

罗波安的严厉回答

¹²耶罗波安和众百姓遵着罗波安王所说“你们第三日再来见我”的那话，第三日他们果然来了。After three days, Jeroboam and all the people returned to Rehoboam, since the king had said, “Come back to me on the third day.”

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¹³王用严厉的话回答百姓，不用老年人给他所出的主意，And the king answered the people harshly. He rejected the advice of the elders

¹⁴照着少年人所出的主意对民说：“我父亲使你们负重轭，我必使你们负更重的轭！我父亲用鞭子责打你们，我要用蝎子鞭责打你们！”and spoke to them as the young men had advised, saying, “Whereas my father made your yoke heavy, I will add to your yoke. Whereas my father scourged you with whips, I will scourge you with scorpions.”

¹⁵王不肯依从百姓，这事乃出于耶和华，为要应验他借示罗人亚希雅对尼八的儿子耶罗波安所说的话。So the king did not listen to the people, and indeed this turn of events was from the LORD, to fulfill the word He had spoken to Jeroboam son of Nebat through Ahijah the Shilonite.

北方支派背叛

¹⁶以色列众民见王不依从他们，就对王说：我们与大卫有什么分儿呢？与耶西的儿子并没有关涉。以色列人哪，各回各家去吧！大卫家啊，自己顾自己吧！于是，以色列人都回自己家里去了，When all Israel saw that the king had refused to listen to them, they answered the king: “What portion do we have in David, and what inheritance in the son of Jesse? To your tents, O Israel! Look now to your own house, O David!” So the Israelites went home,

¹⁷惟独住犹大城邑的以色列人，罗波安仍作他们的王。but Rehoboam still reigned over the Israelites living in the cities of Judah.

¹⁸罗波安王差遣掌管服苦之人的亚多兰往以色列人那里去，以色列人就用石头打死他。罗波安王急忙上车，逃回耶路撒冷去了。Then King Rehoboam sent out Adoram, who was in charge of the forced labor, but all Israel stoned him to death. And King Rehoboam mounted his chariot in haste and escaped to Jerusalem.

¹⁹这样，以色列人背叛大卫家，直到今日。So to this day Israel has been in rebellion against the house of David.

²⁰以色列众人听见耶罗波安回来了，就打发人去请他到会众面前，立他作以色列众人的王。除了犹大支派以外，没有顺从大卫家的。When all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, they summoned him to the assembly and made him king over all Israel. Only the tribe of Judah followed the house of David.

神禁止罗波安攻打以色列

²¹罗波安来到耶路撒冷，招聚犹大全家和便雅悯支派的人共十八万，都是挑选的战士，要与以色列家争战，好将国夺回，再归所罗门的儿子罗波安。And when Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he mobilized the whole house of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin—180,000 chosen warriors—to fight against the house of Israel and restore the kingdom to Rehoboam son of Solomon.

²²但　神的话临到神人示玛雅，说：But the word of God came to Shemaiah the man of God:

²³“你去告诉所罗门的儿子犹大王罗波安和犹大、便雅悯全家，并其余的民说：“Tell Rehoboam son of Solomon king of Judah, all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and the rest of the people

²⁴‘耶和华如此说：你们不可上去与你们的弟兄以色列人争战。各归各家去吧！因为这事出于我。’”众人就听从耶和华的话，遵着耶和华的命回去了。that this is what the LORD says: ‘You are not to go up and fight against your brothers, the Israelites. Each of you must return home, for this is My doing.’” So they listened to the word of the LORD and turned back according to the word of the LORD.

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耶罗波安的金牛犊

²⁵耶罗波安在以法莲山地建筑示剑，就住在其中；又从示剑出去，建筑毗努伊勒。Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim and lived there. And from there he went out and built Penuel.

²⁶耶罗波安心里说：“恐怕这国仍归大卫家；Jeroboam said in his heart, “Now the kingdom might revert to the house of David.

²⁷这民若上耶路撒冷去，在耶和华的殿里献祭，他们的心必归向他们的主—犹大王罗波安，就把我杀了，仍归犹大王罗波安。”If these people go up to offer sacrifices in the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, their hearts will return to their lord, Rehoboam king of Judah; then they will kill me and return to Rehoboam king of Judah.”

²⁸耶罗波安王就筹划定妥，铸造了两个金牛犊，对众民说：“以色列人哪，你们上耶路撒冷去实在是难；这就是领你们出埃及地的　神。”After seeking advice, the king made two golden calves and said to the people, “Going up to Jerusalem is too much for you. Here, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.”

²⁹他就把牛犊一只安在伯特利，一只安在但。One calf he set up in Bethel, and the other in Dan.

³⁰这事叫百姓陷在罪里，因为他们往但去拜那牛犊。And this thing became a sin; the people walked as far as Dan to worship before one of the calves.

³¹耶罗波安在邱坛那里建殿，将那不属利未人的凡民立为祭司。Jeroboam also built shrines on the high places and appointed from every class of people priests who were not Levites.

³²耶罗波安定八月十五日为节期，像在犹大的节期一样，自己上坛献祭。他在伯特利也这样向他所铸的牛犊献祭，又将立为邱坛的祭司安置在伯特利。And Jeroboam ordained a feast on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, like the feast that was in Judah, and he offered sacrifices on the altar; he made this offering in Bethel to sacrifice to the calves he had set up, and he installed priests in Bethel for the high places he had set up.

³³他在八月十五日，就是他私自所定的月日，为以色列人立作节期的日子，在伯特利上坛烧香。On the fifteenth day of the eighth month, a month of his own choosing, Jeroboam offered sacrifices on the altar he had set up in Bethel. So he ordained a feast for the Israelites, offered sacrifices on the altar, and burned incense.

神人斥责伯特利的坛

¹那时，有一个神人奉耶和华的命从犹大来到伯特利。耶罗波安正站在坛旁要烧香；Suddenly, as Jeroboam was standing beside the altar to burn incense, there came a man of God from Judah to Bethel by the word of the LORD.

²神人奉耶和华的命向坛呼叫，说：“坛哪，坛哪！耶和华如此说：大卫家里必生一个儿子，名叫约西亚，他必将邱坛的祭司，就是在你上面烧香的，杀在你上面，人的骨头也必烧在你上面。”And he cried out against the altar by the word of the LORD, “O altar, O altar, this is what the LORD says: ‘A son named Josiah will be born to the house of David, and upon you he will sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn incense upon you, and human bones will be burned upon you.’”

³当日，神人设个预兆，说：“这坛必破裂，坛上的灰必倾撒，这是耶和华说的预兆。”That day the man of God gave a sign, saying, “The LORD has spoken this sign: ‘Surely the altar will be split apart, and the ashes upon it will be poured out.’”

⁴耶罗波安王听见神人向伯特利的坛所呼叫的话，就从坛上伸手，说：“拿住他吧！”王向神人所伸的手就枯干了，不能弯回；Now when King Jeroboam, who was at the altar in Bethel, heard the word that the man of God had cried out against it, he stretched out his hand and said, “Seize him!” But the hand he stretched out toward him withered, so that he could not pull it back.

⁵坛也破裂了，坛上的灰倾撒了，正如神人奉耶和华的命所设的预兆。And the altar was split apart, and the ashes poured out, according to the sign that the man of God had given by the word of the LORD.

⁶王对神人说：“请你为我祷告，求耶和华—你　神的恩典使我的手复原。”于是神人祈祷耶和华，王的手就复了原，仍如寻常一样。Then the king responded to the man of God, “Intercede with the LORD your God and pray for me that my hand may be restored.” So the man of God interceded with the LORD, and the king’s hand was restored to him as it was before.

⁷王对神人说：“请你同我回去吃饭，加添心力，我也必给你赏赐。”Then the king said to the man of God, “Come home with me and refresh yourself, and I will give you a reward.”

⁸神人对王说：“你就是把你的宫一半给我，我也不同你进去，也不在这地方吃饭喝水；But the man of God replied, “If you were to give me half your possessions, I still would not go with you, nor would I eat bread or drink water in this place.

⁹因为有耶和华的话嘱咐我，说不可在伯特利吃饭喝水，也不可从你去的原路回来。”For this is what I was commanded by the word of the LORD: ‘You must not eat bread or drink water or return by the way you came.’”

¹⁰于是神人从别的路回去，不从伯特利来的原路回去。So the man of God went another way and did not return by the way he had come to Bethel.

老先知诓哄神人

¹¹有一个老先知住在伯特利，他儿子们来，将神人当日在伯特利所行的一切事和向王所说的话都告诉了父亲。Now a certain old prophet was living in Bethel, and his sons came and told him all the deeds that the man of God had done that day in Bethel. They also told their father the words that the man had spoken to the king.

¹²父亲问他们说：“神人从哪条路去了呢？”儿子们就告诉他；原来他们看见那从犹大来的神人所去的路。“Which way did he go?” their father asked. And his sons showed him the way taken by the man of God, who had come from Judah.

¹³老先知就吩咐他儿子们说：“你们为我备驴。”他们备好了驴，他就骑上，So the prophet said to his sons, “Saddle the donkey for me.” Then they saddled the donkey for him, and he mounted it

¹⁴去追赶神人，遇见他坐在橡树底下，就问他说：“你是从犹大来的神人不是？”他说：“是。”and went after the man of God. He found him sitting under an oak tree and asked, “Are you the man of God who came from Judah?” “I am,” he replied.

¹⁵老先知对他说：“请你同我回家吃饭。”So the prophet said to the man of God, “Come home with me and eat some bread.”

¹⁶神人说：“我不可同你回去进你的家，也不可在这里同你吃饭喝水；But the man replied, “I cannot go home with you, and I will not eat bread or drink water with you in this place.

¹⁷因为有耶和华的话嘱咐我说：‘你在那里不可吃饭喝水，也不可从你去的原路回来。’”For I have been told by the word of the LORD: ‘You must not eat bread or drink water there or return by the way you came.’”

¹⁸老先知对他说：“我也是先知，和你一样。有天使奉耶和华的命对我说：‘你去把他带回你的家，叫他吃饭喝水。’”这都是老先知诓哄他。Then the prophet replied, “I too am a prophet like you, and an angel spoke to me by the word of the LORD, saying, ‘Bring him back with you to your house, so that he may eat bread and drink water.’” The old prophet was lying to him,

¹⁹于是神人同老先知回去，在他家里吃饭喝水。but the man of God went back with him, ate bread in his house, and drank water.

神人被狮子咬死

²⁰二人坐席的时候，耶和华的话临到那带神人回来的先知，While they were sitting at the table, the word of the LORD came to the prophet who had brought him back,

²¹他就对那从犹大来的神人说：“耶和华如此说：你既违背耶和华的话，不遵守耶和华—你　神的命令，and the prophet cried out to the man of God who had come from Judah, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Because you have defied the word of the LORD and have not kept the commandment that the LORD your God gave you,

²²反倒回来，在耶和华禁止你吃饭喝水的地方吃了喝了，因此你的尸身不得入你列祖的坟墓。”but you went back and ate bread and drank water in the place where He told you not to do so, your body shall never reach the tomb of your fathers.’”

²³吃喝完了，老先知为所带回来的先知备驴。And after the man of God had finished eating and drinking, the old prophet who had brought him back saddled the donkey for him.

²⁴他就去了，在路上有个狮子遇见他，将他咬死，尸身倒在路上，驴站在尸身旁边，狮子也站在尸身旁边。As he went on his way, a lion met him on the road and killed him, and his body was left lying in the road, with the donkey and the lion standing beside it.

²⁵有人从那里经过，看见尸身倒在路上，狮子站在尸身旁边，就来到老先知所住的城里述说这事。And there were men passing by who saw the body lying in the road with the lion standing beside it, and they went and reported this in the city where the old prophet lived.

²⁶那带神人回来的先知听见这事，就说：“这是那违背了耶和华命令的神人，所以耶和华把他交给狮子；狮子抓伤他，咬死他，是应验耶和华对他说的话。”When the prophet who had brought him back from his journey heard this, he said, “It is the man of God who disobeyed the command of the LORD. Therefore the LORD has delivered him to the lion, and it has mauled him and killed him, according to the word that the LORD had spoken to him.”

²⁷老先知就吩咐他儿子们说：“你们为我备驴。”他们就备了驴。Then the old prophet instructed his sons, “Saddle the donkey for me.” So they saddled it,

²⁸他去了，看见神人的尸身倒在路上，驴和狮子站在尸身旁边，狮子却没有吃尸身，也没有抓伤驴。and he went and found the body lying in the road, with the donkey and the lion standing beside it. The lion had not eaten the body or mauled the donkey.

老先知葬埋神人

²⁹老先知就把神人的尸身驮在驴上，带回自己的城里，要哀哭他，葬埋他；So the old prophet lifted up the body of the man of God, laid it on the donkey, and brought it back to his own city to mourn for him and bury him.

³⁰就把他的尸身葬在自己的坟墓里，哀哭他，说：“哀哉！我兄啊。”Then he laid the body in his own tomb, and they lamented over him, “Oh, my brother!”

³¹安葬之后，老先知对他儿子们说：“我死了，你们要葬我在神人的坟墓里，使我的尸骨靠近他的尸骨，After he had buried him, the prophet said to his sons, “When I die, you must bury me in the tomb where the man of God is buried. Lay my bones beside his bones,

³²因为他奉耶和华的命指着伯特利的坛和撒马利亚各城有邱坛之殿所说的话必定应验。”for the message that he cried out by the word of the LORD against the altar in Bethel and against all the shrines on the high places in the cities of Samaria will surely come to pass.”

从天上来的真粮

³²耶稣说：“我实实在在地告诉你们，那从天上来的粮不是摩西赐给你们的，乃是我父将天上来的真粮赐给你们。Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I tell you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but it is My Father who gives you the true bread from heaven.

³³因为　神的粮就是那从天上降下来、赐生命给世界的。”For the bread of God is He who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”

³⁴他们说：“主啊，常将这粮赐给我们！”“Sir,” they said, “give us this bread at all times.”

我就是生命的粮

³⁵耶稣说：“我就是生命的粮。到我这里来的，必定不饿；信我的，永远不渴。Jesus answered, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to Me will never hunger, and whoever believes in Me will never thirst.

³⁶只是我对你们说过，你们已经看见我，还是不信。But as I stated, you have seen Me and still you do not believe.

³⁷凡父所赐给我的人必到我这里来；到我这里来的，我总不丢弃他。Everyone the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will never drive away.

³⁸因为我从天上降下来，不是要按自己的意思行，乃是要按那差我来者的意思行。For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but to do the will of Him who sent Me.

³⁹差我来者的意思就是：他所赐给我的，叫我一个也不失落，在末日却叫他复活。And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that I shall lose none of those He has given Me, but raise them up at the last day.

⁴⁰因为我父的意思是叫一切见子而信的人得永生，并且在末日我要叫他复活。”For it is My Father’s will that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in Him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.”

犹太人私下议论

⁴¹犹太人因为耶稣说“我是从天上降下来的粮”，就私下议论他，At this, the Jews began to grumble about Jesus because He had said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.”

⁴²说：“这不是约瑟的儿子耶稣吗？他的父母我们岂不认得吗？他如今怎么说‘我是从天上降下来的’呢？”They were asking, “Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How then can He say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?”

⁴³耶稣回答说：“你们不要大家议论。“Stop grumbling among yourselves,” Jesus replied.

⁴⁴若不是差我来的父吸引人，就没有能到我这里来的；到我这里来的，在末日我要叫他复活。“No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day.

⁴⁵在先知书上写着说：‘他们都要蒙　神的教训。’凡听见父之教训又学习的，就到我这里来。It is written in the Prophets: ‘And they will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard the Father and learned from Him comes to Me—

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⁴⁶这不是说有人看见过父，惟独从　神来的，他看见过父。not that anyone has seen the Father except the One who is from God; only He has seen the Father.

⁴⁷我实实在在地告诉你们，信的人有永生。Truly, truly, I tell you, he who believes has eternal life.

⁴⁸我就是生命的粮。I am the bread of life.

⁴⁹你们的祖宗在旷野吃过吗哪，还是死了。Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, yet they died.

⁵⁰这是从天上降下来的粮，叫人吃了就不死。This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that anyone may eat of it and not die.

⁵¹我是从天上降下来生命的粮；人若吃这粮，就必永远活着。我所要赐的粮就是我的肉，为世人之生命所赐的。”I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And this bread, which I will give for the life of the world, is My flesh.”

吃人子的肉、喝人子的血

⁵²因此，犹太人彼此争论说：“这个人怎能把他的肉给我们吃呢？”At this, the Jews began to argue among themselves, “How can this man give us His flesh to eat?”

⁵³耶稣说：“我实实在在地告诉你们，你们若不吃人子的肉，不喝人子的血，就没有生命在你们里面。So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh and drink the blood of the Son of Man, you have no life in you.

⁵⁴吃我肉、喝我血的人就有永生，在末日我要叫他复活。Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.

⁵⁵我的肉真是可吃的，我的血真是可喝的。For My flesh is real food, and My blood is real drink.

⁵⁶吃我肉、喝我血的人常在我里面，我也常在他里面。Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood remains in Me, and I in him.

⁵⁷永活的父怎样差我来，我又因父活着；照样，吃我肉的人也要因我活着。Just as the living Father sent Me and I live because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on Me will live because of Me.

⁵⁸这就是从天上降下来的粮。吃这粮的人就永远活着，不像你们的祖宗吃过吗哪还是死了。”This is the bread that came down from heaven. Unlike your fathers, who ate the manna and died, the one who eats this bread will live forever.”

⁵⁹这些话是耶稣在迦百农会堂里教训人说的。Jesus said this while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.

许多门徒退去

⁶⁰他的门徒中有好些人听见了，就说：“这话甚难，谁能听呢？”On hearing it, many of His disciples said, “This is a difficult teaching. Who can accept it?”

⁶¹耶稣心里知道门徒为这话议论，就对他们说：“这话是叫你们厌弃（原文是跌倒）吗？Aware that His disciples were grumbling about this teaching, Jesus asked them, “Does this offend you?

⁶²倘或你们看见人子升到他原来所在之处，怎么样呢？Then what will happen if you see the Son of Man ascend to where He was before?

⁶³叫人活着的乃是灵，肉体是无益的。我对你们所说的话就是灵，就是生命。The Spirit gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life.

⁶⁴只是你们中间有不信的人。”耶稣从起头就知道谁不信他，谁要卖他。However, there are some of you who do not believe.” (For Jesus had known from the beginning which of them did not believe and who would betray Him.)

⁶⁵耶稣又说：“所以我对你们说过，若不是蒙我父的恩赐，没有人能到我这里来。”Then Jesus said, “This is why I told you that no one can come to Me unless the Father has granted it to him.”

⁶⁶从此，他门徒中多有退去的，不再和他同行。From that time on many of His disciples turned back and no longer walked with Him.

你有永生之道

⁶⁷耶稣就对那十二个门徒说：“你们也要去吗？”So Jesus asked the Twelve, “Do you want to leave too?”

⁶⁸西门·彼得回答说：“主啊，你有永生之道，我们还归从谁呢？Simon Peter replied, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.

⁶⁹我们已经信了，又知道你是　神的圣者。”We believe and know that You are the Holy One of God.”

⁷⁰耶稣说：“我不是拣选了你们十二个门徒吗？但你们中间有一个是魔鬼。”Jesus answered them, “Have I not chosen you, the Twelve? Yet one of you is a devil!”

⁷¹耶稣这话是指着加略人西门的儿子犹大说的；他本是十二个门徒里的一个，后来要卖耶稣的。He was speaking about Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot. For although Judas was one of the Twelve, he was later to betray Jesus.