旧约 - 创世记(Genesis)第49章

And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days.
Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father.
Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power:
Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.
Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.
O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall.
Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.
Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies; thy father's children shall bow down before thee.
Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?
The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes:
His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.
Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he shall be for an haven of ships; and his border shall be unto Zidon.
Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens:
And he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto tribute.
Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.
Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.
I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.
Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last.
Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.
Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words.
Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall:
The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him:
But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:)
Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee; and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb:
The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.
Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.
All these are the twelve tribes of Israel: and this is it that their father spake unto them, and blessed them; every one according to his blessing he blessed them.
And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,
In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace.
There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.
The purchase of the field and of the cave that is therein was from the children of Heth.
And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people.
创世记第四十九章   第 49 章 

  创 49:3-28> 前路遥遥,方向到哪里寻? 

  49:3-28 雅各一一祝福他的十二个儿子,又预言他们各人的将来。他们的生活态度,极大地影响了雅各对他们的祝福和预言。各人的过去皆会影响自己的现在和未来。今天所做的事,到明天就会成为过去,却有能力塑造我们的未来。为了有美好的将来,你今天选择去做什么事情,或者避免做什么事情? 

  创 49:4> 因罪的缘故,会失去了原有的属灵福气。我又怎能不对罪警觉? 

  49:4 吕便是雅各的长子,本来应当得到双份产业,但是他失去了这特别的尊荣。因他年青时情欲高涨、性情放荡,竟然与父亲的妾侍同寝。雅各不能将长子的福气给这样的不肖子。 

  创 49:8-12> 粗糙的生命要经历改变,才可被神更大地使用。我最需要改变的是什么? 

  49:8-12 犹大曾出主意卖约瑟作奴隶,又欺骗自己的儿媳她玛,不让小儿子示拉娶这寡嫂为妻,他为什么竟然得到这样大的祝福?可能是因为犹大的生命有了重大的改变( 44:33-34 ),所以神拣选他成为以色列君王的始祖,并耶稣的祖宗。这就是“圭必不离犹大”的意思。圭是古代帝王主持礼仪时所用的玉器,是王权的象征。 

  创 49:10> 细罗这个词真特别…… 

  49:10 细罗是什么?这一节难译的经文引起了不少的争论:( 1 )细罗可能是弥赛亚的别名,因为它字面的意思是受差遣;( 2 )细罗也可能指以色列人设立在示罗的会幕(参书 18:1 );( 3 )细罗亦可译为贡物。 

  创 49:18> 将信心定准在神的身上──多渴望真能做到…… 

  49:18 雅各预言到但的时候,加插了这句话,是要向但强调,只有倚靠神、不倚靠自己天赋的才干和能力,他才能成为强大的领袖。坚强、有魅力、天才横溢的人很容易倚靠自己,而不倚靠神。要常常为自己并所拥有的一切感谢神,我们就能把信心定准在神身上。 

  约瑟与耶稣相似之处 

  创 49:23-24> 属灵的争战?我无力,我怕……依靠神去面对?这…… 

  49:23-24 这两节是称颂神拯救约瑟脱离仇敌的攻击。面对带着刀枪的敌人或者是邪灵的势力,我们常常靠自己的力量去拼,而忘记神能够帮助我们作战。当苦难与不幸接踵而来的时候,约瑟与神更加亲近。相信神能拯救我们是有信心的表现。当受到逼迫或伤害的时候,我们能倚靠神吗?要在这种属灵的争战中获胜,英勇忠信的百姓与全能的神得合力抗敌。──《灵修版圣经注释》