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변절(變節)의 대가(對價)
2023.9.22
(대하25:1-28)
1 Amaziah was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-nine years. His mother's name was Jehoaddin; she was from Jerusalem. 2 He did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, but not wholeheartedly. 3 After the kingdom was firmly in his control, he executed the officials who had murdered his father the king. 4 Yet he did not put their sons to death, but acted in accordance with what is written in the Law, in the Book of Moses, where the LORD commanded: "Fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor children put to death for their fathers; each is to die for his own sins." 5 Amaziah called the people of Judah together and assigned them according to their families to commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds for all Judah and Benjamin. He then mustered those twenty years old or more and found that there were three hundred thousand men ready for military service, able to handle the spear and shield. 6 He also hired a hundred thousand fighting men from Israel for a hundred talents of silver. 7 But a man of God came to him and said, "O king, these troops from Israel must not march with you, for the LORD is not with Israel--not with any of the people of Ephraim. 8 Even if you go and fight courageously in battle, God will overthrow you before the enemy, for God has the power to help or to overthrow." 9 Amaziah asked the man of God, "But what about the hundred talents I paid for these Israelite troops?" The man of God replied, "The LORD can give you much more than that." 10 So Amaziah dismissed the troops who had come to him from Ephraim and sent them home. They were furious with Judah and left for home in a great rage. 11 Amaziah then marshaled his strength and led his army to the Valley of Salt, where he killed ten thousand men of Seir. 12 The army of Judah also captured ten thousand men alive, took them to the top of a cliff and threw them down so that all were dashed to pieces. 13 Meanwhile the troops that Amaziah had sent back and had not allowed to take part in the war raided Judean towns from Samaria to Beth Horon. They killed three thousand people and carried off great quantities of plunder. 14 When Amaziah returned from slaughtering the Edomites, he brought back the gods of the people of Seir. He set them up as his own gods, bowed down to them and burned sacrifices to them. 15 The anger of the LORD burned against Amaziah, and he sent a prophet to him, who said, "Why do you consult this people's gods, which could not save their own people from your hand?" 16 While he was still speaking, the king said to him, "Have we appointed you an adviser to the king? Stop! Why be struck down?" So the prophet stopped but said, "I know that God has determined to destroy you, because you have done this and have not listened to my counsel." 17 After Amaziah king of Judah consulted his advisers, he sent this challenge to Jehoash son of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, king of Israel: "Come, meet me face to face." 18 But Jehoash king of Israel replied to Amaziah king of Judah: "A thistle in Lebanon sent a message to a cedar in Lebanon, 'Give your daughter to my son in marriage.' Then a wild beast in Lebanon came along and trampled the thistle underfoot. 19 You say to yourself that you have defeated Edom, and now you are arrogant and proud. But stay at home! Why ask for trouble and cause your own downfall and that of Judah also?" 20 Amaziah, however, would not listen, for God so worked that he might hand them over to Jehoash, because they sought the gods of Edom. 21 So Jehoash king of Israel attacked. He and Amaziah king of Judah faced each other at Beth Shemesh in Judah. 22 Judah was routed by Israel, and every man fled to his home. 23 Jehoash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Ahaziah, at Beth Shemesh. Then Jehoash brought him to Jerusalem and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the Ephraim Gate to the Corner Gate--a section about six hundred feet long. 24 He took all the gold and silver and all the articles found in the temple of God that had been in the care of Obed-Edom, together with the palace treasures and the hostages, and returned to Samaria. 25 Amaziah son of Joash king of Judah lived for fifteen years after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel. 26 As for the other events of Amaziah's reign, from beginning to end, are they not written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel? 27 From the time that Amaziah turned away from following the LORD, they conspired against him in Jerusalem and he fled to Lachish, but they sent men after him to Lachish and killed him there. 28 He was brought back by horse and was buried with his fathers in the City of Judah.
오늘은 아마샤에 대한 이야기
25세에 왕좌에 올라 29년동안의 기록
그가 하나님을 잘 섬기니
부국강병(富國强兵)
전쟁을 위하여 이스라엘에서 용병 10만명을 사서
승리를 위해 합류시키려 했을 때
하나님의 뜻을 전달받은 그는
아까운 은 100달란트를 포기...그 뜻을 접었을 정도
그리하여
그 숫자가 없더라도
에돔과의 전투
대승(大勝)
헌데
무슨 이유에서였는지
아마샤는 세일의 우상을 자신의 하나님으로 삼고
도입하여 그것에 절하는 이해할 수 없는 상황
하나님은 극노(極怒)하셨고
그의 마음에 사단의 교만하게 함을 내 버려 두시어
아마샤는 그만 북이스라엘의 왕 요람(여호람)에게 선전포고(宣傳布告)
그러나 하나님의 버림이 된 그는 대패(大敗)
그러한 일이 있기 전
하나님은 선지자를 보내서
만류(挽留)하였지만
그에 대하여 들을 마음을 먹도록 도와주시지 않음으로 인하여 ...
예루살렘 성벽은 헐어졌고
하나님의 성전 곳간 왕국 곳간
모두가 약탈
수 많은 사람들이 죽임을 당했으니...
결국 그도
그의 아버지 요아스처럼
시해(弑害) 당함으로
생을 마감했다는 것이다
오늘의 말씀을 통해서 보면
하나님을 의지하는 자 결국 흥왕(興旺)
하나님을 배신배도(背信背道)
그 선택은 망사(亡死)와 더불어 자신에 속한 모든 존재들에게 화근(禍根) 분노보복(忿怒報復)의 대상(對象)이 된다는 사실을 알게 된다
그 모든 것이
우연이 아닌
하나님의 적극적인 개입
섭리에 의해서 그리된다는 것을 오늘 내게 하나님은 말씀하신다
이 기록은
내 마음에 희망을 갖게 한다
소망의 한 줄기 빛이 된다
기다림의 이유를 갖게 한다
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♬ 찬95장-나의기쁨나의소망되시며
(1)
나의 기쁨 나의 소망 되시며 나의 생명이 되신 주
밤낮 불러서 찬송을 드려도 늘 아쉰 마음 뿐일세
(2)
나의 사모하는 선한 목자는 어느 꽃다운 동산에
양의 무리와 늘 함께 가셔서 기쁨을 함께 하실까
(3)
길도 없이 거친 넓은 들에서 갈 길 못 찾아 애쓰며
이리 저리로 헤매는 내 모양 저 원수 조롱하도다
(4)
주의 자비롭고 화평한 얼굴 모든 천사도 반기며
주의 놀라운 진리의 말씀에 천지가 화답하도다
(5)
나의 진정 사모하는 예수님 음성 조차도 반갑고
나의 생명과 나의 참 소망은 오직 주 예수 뿐일세 아멘