BC701 앗수르의 남유다 침공을 통한 교훈
2025.10.1
(사36:1-22)
1 In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah's reign, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them. 2 Then the king of Assyria sent his field commander with a large army from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. When the commander stopped at the aqueduct of the Upper Pool, on the road to the Washerman's Field, 3 Eliakim son of Hilkiah the palace administrator, Shebna the secretary, and Joah son of Asaph the recorder went out to him. 4 The field commander said to them, "Tell Hezekiah, "'This is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: On what are you basing this confidence of yours? 5 You say you have strategy and military strength--but you speak only empty words. On whom are you depending, that you rebel against me? 6 Look now, you are depending on Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff, which pierces a man's hand and wounds him if he leans on it! Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who depend on him. 7 And if you say to me, "We are depending on the LORD our God"--isn't he the one whose high places and altars Hezekiah removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, "You must worship before this altar"? 8 "'Come now, make a bargain with my master, the king of Assyria: I will give you two thousand horses--if you can put riders on them! 9 How then can you repulse one officer of the least of my master's officials, even though you are depending on Egypt for chariots and horsemen? 10 Furthermore, have I come to attack and destroy this land without the LORD? The LORD himself told me to march against this country and destroy it.'" 11 Then Eliakim, Shebna and Joah said to the field commander, "Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Don't speak to us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall." 12 But the commander replied, "Was it only to your master and you that my master sent me to say these things, and not to the men sitting on the wall--who, like you, will have to eat their own filth and drink their own urine?" 13 Then the commander stood and called out in Hebrew, "Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria! 14 This is what the king says: Do not let Hezekiah deceive you. He cannot deliver you! 15 Do not let Hezekiah persuade you to trust in the LORD when he says, 'The LORD will surely deliver us; this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.' 16 "Do not listen to Hezekiah. This is what the king of Assyria says: Make peace with me and come out to me. Then every one of you will eat from his own vine and fig tree and drink water from his own cistern, 17 until I come and take you to a land like your own--a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards. 18 "Do not let Hezekiah mislead you when he says, 'The LORD will deliver us.' Has the god of any nation ever delivered his land from the hand of the king of Assyria? 19 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they rescued Samaria from my hand? 20 Who of all the gods of these countries has been able to save his land from me? How then can the LORD deliver Jerusalem from my hand?" 21 But the people remained silent and said nothing in reply, because the king had commanded, "Do not answer him." 22 Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah the palace administrator, Shebna the secretary, and Joah son of Asaph the recorder went to Hezekiah, with their clothes torn, and told him what the field commander had said.
BC701
그러니까 BC722 앗수르가 북이스라엘을 멸망시킨 지 21년만에
앗수르는 남유다를 침공하여
예루살렘성을 포위한다
일반적시각(一般的視覺)에서는 인간(人間), 국가(國家), 군왕(君王)이 일으킨 사건이라 할 터이지만
성경은 그 모든 일이
하나님으로부터 시작된 것이라고 보고하고 있음을 본다
북이스라엘의 멸망 원인은
하나님 대신 우상을 섬기고
애굽의 국력(國力)을 의지하였다는 것이
가장 대표적인 이유였던 것
남유다도 대동소이(大同小異)
하여 하나님은 앗수르의 야전사령관 랍사게(Rabshakeh, רַבְשָׁקֵה, Rav-Shāqēh)를 파송
예루살렘 성에 있는 왕과 주민을 향하여 온갖 망언을 쏟아내며
조롱(嘲弄) 멸시(蔑視)의 말 들을 쏟아 냄을 듣고도 아무 대응도 하지 못하는 처지에 놓인 것
랍사게의 언사를 보면 하나님을 능멸하고 있는데
이러한 일들이 하나님으로부터 임을 감안한다면
인생들이 하나님을 제대로 신앙하지 못한다면
세인들에 의하여 마5:13의 말씀대로 됨과 동시에 하나님을 욕(辱)하는 자들의 만행이 펼쳐질 것이라는 가르침을 주고 있다는 생각이 든다
하여 이를 작금의 현실에 적용해 보면
인본주의로 물들어 버린 기독교계로 말미암아
그 맛을 잃어버린 ...기독교 다움을 잊어버린 세속화된 기독교에 대해
세상이 기독교를 대하는 현실이란 어찌보면 당연한 수순이요 이 또한 하나님의 메시지라 여기지 않을 수 없을 것 같다
아~ 어찌하면 좋으랴
내게 주어진 시간의 촛불은 다 해 가고 있음을 보는데...
이란격석(以卵擊石)에 해당하는 나는
오늘 새벽에 읽었던 예레미야의 심정이 되어있다