何西阿书生命读经 · 第6篇

以色列拜偶像干犯耶和华

The Idolatry of Israel Against Jehovah

1以及耶和华对以色列的惩罚读经：何西阿书九至十章。10在本篇信息中，我们要从何西阿九至十章来看以色列拜偶像干犯耶和华，以及耶和华对以色列的惩罚。

1and the Punishments of Jehovah upon Israel Scripture Reading: Hosea 9—10 In this message we will consider from Hosea 9 and the matters of the idolatry of Israel against Jehovah and the punishments of Jehovah upon Israel.

壹以色列拜偶像干犯耶和华，如同淫乱的妻子

I. THE IDOLATRY OF ISRAEL AGAINST JEHOVAH BEING LIKE A WIFE’S HARLOTRIES

得罪她的丈夫

AGAINST HER HUSBAND

2以色列拜偶像干犯耶和华，如同淫乱的妻子得罪她的丈夫。（一2，二，三1。）这里的思想很深，因为这指明神与祂子民生机的联结；但作妻子之以色列的光景实在太丑陋了。

2The idolatry of Israel against Jehovah was like a wife’s harlotries against her husband (1:2; 2:13; 3:1). Hosea’s though there is very deep because it indicates God’s 13 organic union with His people. However, the wife’s situation was exceedingly ugly.

贰以色列如同淫妇

II. ISRAEL HAVING GONE

离弃了她的神

AS A HARLOT AWAY FROM HER GOD

3以色列不该喜乐，因为她如同淫妇离弃了她的神，在各谷场上敬拜偶像。（九1。）谷场是人谋生之处。因此，以色列人在他们谋生之处敬拜偶像。

3Israel was told not to rejoice, for she had gone as a harlot away from her God. She had loved payment, like a harlot, upon every grain floor, worshipping idols on every threshing floor (9:1). The threshing floor was a place where people earned their living. Thus, they worshipped idols in the place where they earned their living

参谷场和酒醡

III. THE THRESHING FLOOR AND THE WINEPRESS NOT FEEDING THEM

都不能𫗪养他们

4二节说，谷场和酒醡，都不能𫗪养他们，新酒也使他们失望。他们所有的不足以满足他们的需要。他们渴望酒和饮料，却得不到。肆他们必不得住耶和华的地

4Verse 2 says that the threshing floor and the winepress would not feed them, and the new wine would fail them. Whatever they had would not be sufficient to take care of their need. They would desire wine to drink, but there would be none. IV. THEY NOT DWELLING IN THE LAND OF JEHOVAH

5三节说，他们必不得住耶和华的地；他们却要归回埃及，在亚述必吃不洁净之物。

5According to verse 3, Israel would not dwell in the land of Jehovah. Rather, they would return to Egypt, and in Assyria they would eat what was unclean

伍他们必不得向

V. THEY NOT POURING OUT OFFERINGS

耶和华奠酒，

OF WINE TO JEHOVAH, AND THEIR SACRIFICES

所献的祭也不蒙悦纳

NOT BEING PLEASING TO HIM

6他们必不得向耶和华奠酒，所献的祭也不蒙悦纳。他们的祭物，对他们必如居丧者的食物；凡吃的必不洁净，因他们的食物只为他们自己，必不得进耶和华的殿。（4。）他们没有真实的享受；他们在名义上献给神的东西，不是为神，乃是为他们自己。

6They would not pour out offerings of wine to Jehovah, neither would their sacrifices be pleasing to Him. Their sacrifices would be to them as the bread of mourning, the bread eaten by a family who had lost a relative. All who ate such sacrifices would be unclean, for their bread would be for themselves and would not come into the house of Jehovah (v. 4). They did not have the real enjoyment, and what they offered to God in name was not for God but for themselves.

陆在大会的日子，

VI. THEY NOT PARTICIPATING

到耶和华的节期，

IN THE DAY OF ASSEMBLY

他们必不得有分

AND IN THE DAY OF THE FEAST OF JEHOVAH

7九章五节指明，在大会的日子，到耶和华的节期，他们必不得有分。他们不关心耶和华的节期，只关心他们自己的需要、享受和享乐。

7Verse 5 indicates that they would not participate in the day of assembly and in the day of the feast of Jehovah. They did not care for the feast of Jehovah but only for their own necessities, enjoyment, and pleasures

柒他们必逃避毁灭，

VII. THEY ESCAPING FROM DESTRUCTION

但埃及人必收殓他们，

BUT EGYPT GATHERING THEM

摩弗人必葬埋他们

AND MOPH BURYING THEM

8他们必逃避毁灭，逃避临到他们的毁灭。但埃及人必收殓他们，摩弗（即孟斐斯，一埃及城，傍尼罗河）人必葬埋他们。他们用银子作的美物（偶像）上必长蒺藜，他们帐棚中必生荆棘。（6。）一面来说，这是一幅惩罚的图画；另一方面，这描绘出他们是如何的邪恶。他们甚至不关心他们的住处，只关心他们罪恶的享受。

8They would escape from destruction, from the evil that was coming upon them. But Egypt would gather them, and Moph (Memphis, an Egyptian city near the Nile) would bury them. As for their desirable things of silver (idols), nettles would dispossess them. Thistles would be in their tents (v. 6). On the one hand, this is a picture of punishment; on the other hand, it is a picture of how sinful they were. They did not even care for their lodging but only for their sinful enjoyment

捌惩罚的日子已经临近

VIII. THE DAYS OF VISITATION HAVING COME

9七节说，惩罚的日子已经临近，报应的时候已经来到。申言者愚昧，受灵感者疯狂，皆因以色列罪孽极大，仇恨至深。以色列人中间不但没有爱和同情，反而充满了仇恨。他们把有灵的人（受灵感者）看作疯子。这指明他们不关心神的权益。相反的，他们认为关心神的权益是件愚蠢的事。

9Verse 7 says that the days of visitation had come; the days of the recompense had come. The prophet was a fool, and the inspired man was mad, because of the greatness of Israel’s iniquity and because of the greatness of the enmity. Instead of love and sympathy among the people, there were hatred and enmity. They considered a man of the spirit, or an inspired one, as mad. This indicates that they did not care for God’sin te rests. On the contrary, they thought that caring for God’sin te rests was foolishness

玖以法莲曾作神的守望者

IX. EPHRAIM HAVING BEEN

A WATCHMAN WITH GOD

10八节上半说，『以法莲曾作我神的守望者。』这指明以前的北方以色列国是相当好的。

10Verse 8a says, “Ephraim was a watchman / With my God.” This indicates that in the past the northern kingdom of Israel was quite good.

11八节下半说，『至于申言者，在他一切的道上都有捕鸟人的网罗，在他神的家中有仇恨。』这可能是说申言者邪恶到一个地步，不论到那里，都成为人的网罗。申言者在殿中制造仇恨，毫无爱和同情。在九节何西阿继续论到以法莲说，『他们深深的败坏了自己，如在基比亚的日子一样；耶和华必记起他们的罪孽，惩罚他们的罪恶。』以法莲如此的败坏，可与士师记十九章十五至三十节，以色列人在基比亚的日子的败坏相比。因为以色列人变得像『基比亚的日子』那些人一样，

11Verse 8b continues, “As for the prophet, a fowler’s trap / Is in all his ways; / Enmity is in the house of his God.” This may mean that the prophets had become so evil that wherever they went they were a trap to snare the people. In the temple the prophets created enmity; they did not have love or sympathy. In verse 9 Hosea goes on to say concerning Ephraim, “They have deeply corrupted themselves / As in the days of Gibeah; / He will remember their iniquity; / He will punish their sins.” The corruption of Ephraim was so great that it matched the corruption in the days of Gibeah described in Judges 19:15-30. Because Israel had become like those in the days of Gibeah, God would come in to punish their sins.

12所以神必进来惩罚他们的罪恶。

12X. JEHOVAH FINDING ISRAEL LIKE GRAPES IN THE WILDERNESS, AND SEEING THEIR FATHERS AS THE FIRST

拾耶和华遇见以色列如葡萄在旷野，看见他们的列祖，如无花果树上开头初熟的果子

RIPE FRUITON THE FIG TREE AT ITS BEGINNING

13耶和华遇见以色列如葡萄在旷野；看见他们的列祖，如无花果树上开头初熟的果子。（九10上。）这是指神和以色列的『蜜月期』。以色列出埃及的时候，神看以色列为年幼的妻子。但是，这妻子长大时，却离弃神转向巴力，去了巴力毘珥（以毘珥的偶像巴力为名之城－民二五3，诗一○六），分别自己归于那可耻之物（偶像），成了可憎恶的，与他们所爱的（偶像）一样。（何九10下。）

13Jehovah found Israel like grapes in the wilderness, and saw their fathers as the first ripe fruit on the fig tree at its beginning (Hosea 9:10a). This refers to the time of God’s “honeymoon” with Israel. At the time of the exodus from Egypt, God considered Israel a young wife. However, when this wife grew up, she left God for Baal and went to Baal - peor (a city named after the idol Baal of Peor—Num. 25:3; Psa. 106:28) and sanctified herself unto the shameful thing (idol) and 28 became an abomination, like the thing (idol) that she loved (Hosea 9:10b).

拾壹以法莲的荣耀

XI. THE GLORY OF EPHRAIM

必如鸟飞去

FLYING AWAY LIKE A BIRD

14以法莲，即北方以色列国的荣耀，必如鸟飞去。这指明不生产，不怀胎，不成孕。纵然他们养大儿女，耶和华必使他们丧子，甚至不留一人。耶和华离弃他们时，他们就有祸了。以法莲如推罗栽于草场，却要将自己的儿女带出来，交与杀戮的人。耶和华要给他们坠落的胎，干瘪的乳。他们一切的恶事都在吉甲（拜偶像的中心－四15），在那里耶和华憎恶他们。因他们所行的恶，耶和华必从祂家中赶出他们，不再怜爱他们；他们的首领都是悖逆的。以法莲受击打；他们的根枯干，不结果子；即或生产，耶和华必杀死他们所爱的胎。神弃绝了他们，因为他们不听从祂。他们必飘流在列国中。（九11～17。）

14The glory of Ephraim, the glory of the northern kingdom of Israel, would fly away like a bird. This means that there would be no birth, no pregnancy, and no conception. Even if they brought up their children, Jehovah would bereave them, so that not a man would be left. Indeed woe would also be to them when Jehovah turned away from them. Ephraim was planted in Tyre in a meadow, but he would still bring forth his children to the slayer. Jehovah would give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts. All their evil was in Gilgal (the focus of idolatry — 4:15), for there Jehovah hated them. Because of the evil of their doings, Jehovah would drive them from His house; He would love them no more. All their princes were rebels. Ephraim was stricken. Their root was dried up; they would not bear fruit. If they brought forth, Jehovah would kill the beloved fruit of their womb. God had rejected them, for they did not listen to Him. They would be wanderers among the nations (9:11-17).

拾贰以色列是茂盛的葡萄树，为自己结出果子

XII. ISRAEL BEING A LUXURIANT VINE

BRINGING FORTH FRUIT FOR HIMSELF

15十章一节上半说，『以色列是茂盛的葡萄树，为自己结出果子。』葡萄树的果子应该献给神当作奠祭，但他们用葡萄树为自己结果子，而不是为神结果子。一节下半至二节说，『他的果子越多，他就越增添祭坛。他们的地土越肥美，他们就越造好看的柱像。他们心怀二意，现今要定为有罪。耶和华必拆毁他们的祭坛，毁坏他们的柱像。』以色列变得富有，但他们用他们的出产来盖造祭坛，制造偶像。因此，何西阿说神要拆毁他们的祭坛，毁坏他们的柱像。三节说，『现今他们必说，我们没有王，因为我们不敬畏耶和华；王能为我们作甚么？』因为他们不敬畏耶和华，他们就不能得著神的代表权柄（王）。这是指神子民中为首的和领导的。当召会的光景正常时，召会中有为首的和领导的，作神的权柄代表神。但风波来临时，有些人会说，『我们为甚么需要神的代表权柄？我们为甚么需要为首的和领导的？』这就产生无政府的混乱情形。

15Hosea 10:1a says, “Israel is a luxuriant vine; / He brings forth fruit for himself.” The fruit of the vine should have been offered to God as a drink offering, but they used the vines to bring forth fruit for themselves, not for God. Verse 1band 2 continue, “According to the abundance of his fruit / He has multiplied altars; / According to the goodness of their land / They have made pillars well. / Their heart is divided; / Now they will be found guilty. / He will break down their altars; / He will destroy their pillars.” Israel became rich, but they used their produce to build up altars and to make idols. Therefore, Hosea said that God would break down their altars and destroy their pillars. Verse 3 says, “For now they will say, / We have no king, / For we did not fear Jehovah; / And the king, what can he do for us?” Because they did not fear Jehovah, they could not have God’s deputy authority (a king). This refers to the headship, the leadership, among God’sp eople. When the church is proper, the church has the headship, the leadership, representing God as His authority. But in a time of turmoil, some would say, “Why do we need God’s deputy authority? Why do we need to have any headship or leadership?” This issues in anarchy

XIII. THEY SPEAKING MERE WORDS

16拾参他们在立约时说空话，

16SWEARING FALSELY WHILE MAKING A COVENANT

17起假誓

18四至八节进一步说到关于以色列拜偶像干犯耶和华及耶和华对以色列的惩罚的细节。他们在立约时说空话，起假誓；灾害如毒草滋生在田间的犁沟中。撒玛利亚的居民必因伯特亚文的牛犊惊恐（伯特亚文或许是用于伯特利的一个轻蔑之名，该城乃为拜偶像的座位－王上十二26～33，何四15）；拜牠的民为牠悲哀，牠的偶像祭司为牠战兢，都因荣耀离开了牠。人必将牠带到亚述，当作礼物献给耶雷布王。以法莲必蒙羞，以色列必因自己的计谋惭愧。撒玛利亚必同她的王被剪除，如水面的木片一样。亚文的邱坛，就是以色列的罪恶，必被毁灭。荆棘和蒺藜必长在他们的祭坛上；而且他们『必对大山说，遮盖我们！对小山说，倒在我们身上！』（十。）这是耶和华对以色列及对她拜偶像的审判。

18In verses 4 through 8 we have further details concerning the idolatry of Israel against Jehovah and the punishments of Jehovah upon Israel. They spoke mere words, swearing falsely while making a covenant. Judgment sprouted forth like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field. The inhabitants of Samaria would fear for the calves (the idols) of Beth-aven (probably a contemptuous name applied to Bethel, which was a seat of idolatry—1 Kings 12:26-33; Hosea 4:15). Its people would mourn over it, and its idol priests would tremble for it, for its glory, because it had departed from it. It would be carried to Assyria: a present to King Jareb. Ephraim would be taken in shame, and Israel would be ashamed of his own counsel. Samaria would be cut off with her king and would be like sticks, or small pieces of wood, on the surface of the water. The high places of Aven, the sin of Israel, would be destroyed. The thorn and the thistle would come up upon their altars, and they would “say to the mountains, Cover us! / And to the hills, Fall on us!” (v. 8). This is Jehovah’s judgment on 8 Israel and on her idolatry.

拾肆以色列从基比亚的日子

XIV. ISRAEL HAVING SINNED

以来，时常犯罪

SINCE THE DAYS OF GIBEAH

19以色列从基比亚的日子以来，时常犯罪。（9上。）他们以为在基比亚攻击罪孽之辈的战事（何十9下，士十九15～30）没有赶上他们。但耶和华说祂要为著他们的『双重罪孽』惩治他们。（何十10。）这双重罪孽是指以色列所作的两件恶事：离弃耶和华，以及转向偶像。（耶二13。）以色列在他们社会生活上所犯的罪，是

19Israel had sinned since the days of Gibeah (v. 9a). Israel thought that the battle which took place in Gibeah against the children of iniquity could not overtake them (v. 9b; Judg. 19:15-30). But Jehovah said that He would chasten them for their “double iniquity” (Hosea 10:10). This double iniquity refers to Israel’st wo evils: forsaking Jehovah and turning to idols (Jer. 2:13). Israel’ss in sin their social life were due to their sin of forsaking God and turning to idols

20因他们离弃神和转向偶像的罪。

拾伍以法莲是驯良的母牛犊，

XV. EPHRAIM BEING A TRAINED HEIFER

喜爱踹谷；

THAT LOVES TO TREAD THE GRAIN

耶和华却将轭

BUT JEHOVAH HAVING PASSED

加在他肥美的颈项上

THE YOKE OVER HER FAIR NECK

21以法莲是驯良的母牛犊，喜爱踹谷；耶和华却将轭加在他肥美的颈项上：耶和华要使以法莲拉犁；犹大必耕田，雅各必耙地。（十11。）

21Ephraim was a trained heifer that loved to tread the grain. But Jehovah had passed the yoke over her fair neck. Jehovah would make Ephraim draw the plow. Judah would plow, and Jacob would break his clods (Hosea 10:11

拾陆何西阿对以色列人

XVI. THE CHARGE TO SOW

为自己栽种公义，

UNTO RIGHTEOUSNESS FOR THEMSELVES

照慈爱收割，耙开休耕地的劝告

TO REAP ACCORDING TO LOVINGKINDNESS AND TO BREAK UP THEIR FALLOW GROUND

22十二至十三节说，『你们要为自己栽种公义，照慈爱收割，耙开休耕地；因为现今是寻求耶和华的时候，直等祂来临，使公义如雨降在你们身上。你们耕种的是奸恶，收割的是不义，吃的是谎话的果子。因你信靠自己的道路，仰赖你的勇士众多。』这段话与保罗在加拉太六章七至八节所说的相似；保罗在那里告诉我们，为著自己的肉体撒种的，必从肉体收败坏；为著那灵撒种的，必从那灵收永远的生命。这里十章十二节所说的栽种，指寻求耶和华；正确的寻求耶和华就是正确的栽种。所以，何西阿劝告以色列人要栽种公义。如果他们这样作，他们就能照慈爱收割。他们耕种的若是奸恶，收割的必是不义。

22Verses 12 and 13 say, “Sow unto righteousness for yourselves; / Reap according to lovingkindness; / Break up your fallow ground; / For it is time to seek Jehovah / Until He comes and rains / Righteousness on you. / You have plowed wickedness; / You have reaped injustice; / You have eaten the fruit of lying. / For you have trusted in your way, / In the multitude of your mighty men.” This is similar to what Paul says in Galatians 6:7 and 8, where he tells us that if we sow unto the flesh, we will reap corruption of the flesh, but if we sow unto the Spirit, we will of the Spirit reap eternal life. Here in Hosea 10:12 to sow means to seek Jehovah. To seek Jehovah rightly is to sow rightly. Thus, Hosea charged the children of Israel to sow unto righteousness. If they did this, they would reap according to lovingkindness. Otherwise, if they plowed wickedness, they would reap injustice

23何西阿在十二节用了『休耕地』一辞。休耕地是已耕作过，尚未撒种的土地。以色列人乃是休耕地；神在他们身上耕作过，但还未栽种公义。他们要耙开休耕地，这是指他们要寻求神，直等到基督作为公义来临，使公义如雨降在祂的百姓身上。然而，以色列没有好好的撒种；他们信靠自己的道路，仰赖他们众多的勇士；因此神使他们全然被毁灭。十四至十五节论到这点说，『在你众民中必有哄嚷之声，你一切的保障必被拆毁，就如沙勒幔在争战的日子拆毁伯亚比勒，将母子一同摔死。因你的大恶，伯特利必使你遭遇如此。到了黎明，以色列的王必全然灭绝。』这在主后七十年，罗马太子提多的时候完全应验了。十五节的『黎明』指以色列在黑夜中，在黑暗里。他们是一班完全没有公义和正义的人。他们离弃神，且以邪恶彼此相待。

23In verse 12 Hosea uses the expression “fallow ground.” Fallow ground is ground that has been plowed but has not been sown with anything. The children of Israel were the fallow ground. They had been plowed by God, but had not been sown with righteousness. They were to break up the fallow ground; that is, they were to seek God until Christ came as righteousness to rain righteousness upon them. However, Israel did not sow properly. They trusted in their own way and in the multitude of their mighty men. Therefore, God caused them to be utterly destroyed. Regarding this, verses 14 and 15 say, “A tumult will arise among your peoples; / And all your fortresses will be devastated, / As Shalman devastated Beth-arbel / In the day of battle: / The mother was dashed in pieces with the children. / Thus Bethel will cause this to happen to you / Because of your great evil: / At dawn the king of Israel / Will be utterly cut off.” This was fully fulfilled by Titus in A.D. 70. The word “dawn” in verse 15 indicates that Israel was in the night, in darkness. They were a people who were altogether lacking in righteousness and justice. They forsook God and they were evil to one another