讚美神就能得勝
2018/12/05
《Singing to victory 以唱歌讚美神打敗敵人》
※The Unlikely Response to an Existential Threat 面臨生死關頭，一個不可能的軍事攻擊。
*In the face of fierce enemy armies, King Jehoshaphat chose a seemingly suicidal response: sending Levite singers into battle ahead of his warriors. The amazing thing is that this tactic worked above and beyond any normal military response:
面對兇猛的敵軍，約沙法國王選擇了一種看似自殺的反應：派遣利未人的歌手在戰場他的戰士前面唱歌讚美神。令人驚奇的是，這種作法的功效超越了任何正常的軍事行動：
*“As they began to sing and praise, the LORD set an ambush against the Ammonites, Moab, and Mount Seir, who had come against Judah, so that they were routed” (2 Chronicles 20:22).
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代下20:1此後，摩押人和亞捫人，又有米烏尼人，一同來攻擊約沙法。2有人來報告約沙法說：「從海外亞蘭（又作以東）那邊有大軍來攻擊你，如今他們在哈洗遜他瑪，就是隱基底。」3約沙法便懼怕，定意尋求耶和華，在猶大全地宣告禁食。
21約沙法既與民商議了，就設立歌唱的人，頌讚耶和華，使他們穿上聖潔的禮服，走在軍前讚美耶和華說：「當稱謝耶和華，因他的慈愛永遠長存！」22眾人方唱歌讚美的時候，耶和華就派伏兵擊殺那來攻擊猶大人的亞捫人、摩押人，和西珥山人，他們就被打敗了。
23因為亞捫人和摩押人起來，擊殺住西珥山的人，將他們滅盡；滅盡住西珥山的人之後，他們又彼此自相擊殺。24猶大人來到曠野的望樓，向那大軍觀看，見屍橫遍地，沒有一個逃脫的。
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※The Amazing Double Meaning
*“Out of the mouths of babes and infants you have founded a bulwark because of your foes, to silence the enemy and the avenger” (Psalm 8:2).
2你因敵人的緣故，從嬰孩和吃奶的口中，「建立了能力」，使仇敵和報仇的閉口無言。
*This verse, quoted later by Jesus, contains a fascinating play on words.
*耶穌後來引用的這節經文包含了令人著迷的文字遊戲。
太 21:16 對他說：「這些人所說的，你聽見了嗎？」耶穌說：「是的。經上說『你從嬰孩和吃奶的口中「完全了讚美」』的話，你們沒有念過嗎？」
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2 מִפִּי עֹולְלִים וְיֹנְקִים יִסַּדְתָּ עֹז לְמַעַן צֹורְרֶיךָ לְהַשְׁבִּית אֹויֵב וּמִתְנַקֵּם׃ (BHS)
עֹז (5797)
עוז עז ‛ôz ‛ôz oze, oze
From 5810; strength in various applications (force, security, majesty, praise)
1-might, strength
a)-material or physical
b)-personal or social or political
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עֹז (5797)
*Glory, praise：
Ps 8:3,29:1;68:35;99:4, Ex.15:2, 2Chron.30:21
-①-Ps.29:1（大衛的詩。）神的眾子啊，你們要將榮耀、能力歸給耶和華，歸給耶和華！
1 Give unto the Lord, O ye mighty, give unto the Lord glory and strength. (KJV)
-②-2Chron.30:21 And the children of Israel that were present at Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with great gladness: and the Levites and the priests praised the Lord day by day, singing with loud instruments unto the Lord.
21在耶路撒冷的以色列人大大喜樂，守除酵節七日。利未人和祭司用響亮的樂器，日日頌讚耶和華。
Loud(5797) instruments(3627)：(5797)+(3627)בִּכְלֵי־עֹ֖ז：
“instruments of praise”, employed praising God.
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* The word עֹז (ʽOz) – translated as “bulwark” here – has the primary meaning of strength and valor, with a secondary meaning of praise. This one Hebrew word captures the essence of the entire story of the army that won by singing.
עֹז（Oz）這個字…在這裡翻譯為「能力」…具有力量和勇氣的第一含義，也具有讚美的第二含義。這一個希伯來文字抓住了「通過唱歌讚美神就有得勝的力量」，戰勝整個軍隊故事的精髓。
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