Dead Sea Scrolls text in italics: Isaiah 38:8 "See now, I will make the shadow on the steps of the upper dial of Ahaz, marking the setting sun, return backward ten steps."
【赛38:7】 我耶和华必成就我所说的,我先给你一个兆头。
' 'This is the Lord 's sign to you that the Lord will do what he has promised:
【赛38:8】 就是叫亚哈斯的日晷,向前进的日影往后退十度。于是前进的日影,果然在日晷上往后退了十度。
I will make the shadow cast by the sun go back the ten steps it has gone down on the stairway of Ahaz.' ' So the sunlight went back the ten steps it had gone down.
Perhaps the dial was high up for the sun to retreat to the beginning of the dial on the eastern horizon. Or this word may be upon (the first three letters are the same for upper and upon in Hebrew) perhaps suggesting God had forgiven Hezekiah's sins, reversed the disease, made him whole again and reversed the past and gave him the heart of a child. The Great Isaiah Scroll: Isaiah 38:8 "Behold I will cause the shadow to return of the degrees which have gone down in the sundial upper Achaz by the sun backward ten degrees and the sun returned ten degrees in the degrees by which it had gone down."
死海古卷》或称《死海经卷》或《死海书卷》或《死海文书》
此主题相关图片如下:
古卷的发现
这本古卷远在第一世纪以前大约一百年的时候就被藏在死海西北山洞中。因为这个地方离开耶路撒冷大约只有十五、六哩的路,所以就称这本古卷叫死海古卷 。
1947年春天,杰里科(Jericho)附近山洞的隐藏古卷,即最古老的犹太文献手稿,今天被称作《死海古卷》(The Dead Sea Scrolls)的偶然发现,导致了本世纪最惊人的发现之一。1948—1956年间,11个藏有手稿的洞穴(被标示为1—11号洞),又在死海西岸的北部角落,即被称为库兰(Khirbet Qumran)的附近发现,从这些洞穴又发掘出大量的《旧约圣经》古卷和其它文献的手抄本,种类多达600多种,残篇碎片数以万计。同时,学者们对库兰本身发生了兴趣,开始在当地进行系统的古物挖掘,并对库兰和Ein Fenshka之间的整个地区作出建筑学的测量。从中发现的陶器和其它遗留物说明了同一时期的居民和居住情况,把库兰居住情况的主要时期和古卷写作的日期联系了起来。确定大多数手稿的写作年代是从公元前2世纪到公元前68年间;而比库兰地区开始居住年月还久远的古卷手稿,则可能是从异地带来的。这些浩如烟海的古卷,在近代考古史上实为罕见,也被西方学术界称为当代最重大的文献发现。
上帝耶和华说:“我手立了地的根基,我右手铺张诸天,我一招呼便都立住。”【赛48:13】
Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand hath spanned the heavens: when I call unto them, they stand up together.
【书10:12】 当耶和华将亚摩利人交付以色列人的日子,约书亚就祷告耶和华,在以色列人眼前说,日头阿,你要停在基遍。月亮阿,你要止在亚雅仑谷。
Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.
【书10:13】 于是日头停留,月亮止住,直等国民向敌人报仇。这事岂不是写在雅煞珥书上吗?日头在天当中停住,不急速下落,约有一日之久。
And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.
【书10:14】 在这日以前,这日以后,耶和华听人的祷告,没有像这日的,是因耶和华为以色列争战。
And there was no day like that before it or after it, that the LORD hearkened unto the voice of a man: for the LORD fought for Israel.
上帝耶和华如此预言说:『至小的族要加增千倍,微弱的国必成为强盛。我耶和华要按定期速成这事。【赛60:22】』
A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I the LORD will hasten it in his time.
'Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.
Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
Do not have the thought that I have come to send peace on the earth; I came not to send peace but a sword.
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夏商周断代工程的主要成就
《夏商周年表》廓清千古之谜
《皇极经世》与《夏商周年表》(详细年表)
夏商周断代工程的主要成就 李学勤在中国国家图书馆的讲座
夏商周年表
夏商周年代学的考古学基础 李伯谦
“夏商周断代工程”争议难平 陈宁
Astro-Histriographic Chronologies of Early China Are Unfounded by Douglas J. Keenan
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Urban Legend: Joshua's Missing Day Found!
The Legend and a Rebuttal
An Overview of the Urban Legend
NASA scientists have discovered a "missing day" in the history of the cosmos, thus proving the veracity of the account in Joshua 10 of the sun standing still! So those who circulate the claim cited below would have their correspondents believe. This urban legend has been circulating for over thirty years by word of mouth, in print, and now in e-mail chain letters. The intent of the legend is to demonstrate the absolute, literal truth of the biblical account in both Joshua 10:12-13 and 2 Kings 20:9-11 by means of a purported investigation by NASA scientists. The legend is presented first (including a concluding note urging recipients of the chain e-letter to forward it to their friends), followed by a rebuttal.
The Urban Legend
NASA APPEARS TO PROVE GOD'S WORD
For all you scientists out there and for all of you who have a hard time convincing many of these individuals regarding the truth of the Bible ... here's something that apparently gives evidence of God's awesome creation and demonstrates that He is still in control.
Mr Harold Hill, President of the Curtis Engine Company in Baltimore, Maryland, and a consultant in the space program, relates the following development. I think one of the most amazing things that God has for us today happened recently to our astronauts and space scientists at Green Belt, Maryland.
They were checking the position of the sun, moon, and planets out in space, where they would be 100 years and 1000 years from now. We have to know this information, so we won't send a satellite up and have it bump into something later on during its orbits, since they're impacted by these astronomical issues. We have to lay out the orbits in terms of the life of the satellite, and where the planets will be, so the whole thing will not bog down.
They ran the computer measurements back and forth over the centuries and it came to a halt. The computer stopped and put up a red signal, which meant that there was something wrong either with the information fed into it or with the results as compared to the standards. They called in the service department to check it out and they said, "What's wrong?"
Well, they found there is a day missing in space over the measurements in elapsed time. They scratched their heads and figuratively tore their hair out. They searched and searched for a solution. But after many days there was no answer to be found.
THE SUN STANDS STILL
Finally, a Christian man on the team said, "You know, one time I was in Sunday School and they talked about the sun standing still." While the others didn't believe him, they didn't have an answer either, so they said, "Show us."
He got a Bible and went back to the book of Joshua, where they found a pretty ridiculous statement for anyone with "common sense." There they found the Lord saying to Joshua, "Fear them not, I have delivered them into thy hand; there shall not a man of them stand before thee." Joshua was concerned because he was surrounded by the enemy and if darkness fell they would overpower them. So Joshua asked the Lord to make the sun stand still!
That's right--"The sun stood still and the moon stayed, and hasted not to go down about a whole day!" The astronauts and scientists said, "There is the missing day!"
They checked the computers going back into the time this text was written and found it was close, but not close enough. The elapsed time that was missing back in Joshua's day was 23 hours and 20 minutes--not a whole day. They read the Bible and there it was "about (approximately) a day."
These little words in the Bible are important, but they were still in trouble because if you cannot account for 40 minutes, you'll still be in trouble 1,000 years from now. The 40 minutes had to be found, because it can be multiplied many times over in orbits.
As the Christian employee thought about it once again, he remembered somewhere in the Bible where it said the sun went backwards. The scientists told him he was out of his mind, but again they decided to check out the book and there they read these words in 2 Kings.
King Hezekiah, on his deathbed, was visited by the prophet Isaiah who told him that he was not going to die. Hezekiah asked for a sign as proof. Isaiah said, "Do you want the sun to go ahead 10 degrees?" Hezekiah said, "It is nothing for the sun to go ahead 10 degrees, but let the shadow return backward 10 degrees." Isaiah spoke to the Lord and the Lord brought the shadow ten degrees backward!
Well, ten degrees is exactly 40 minutes! Twenty-three hours and 20 minutes in Joshua, plus 40 minutes in Second Kings make the missing day in the universe!
Isn't it amazing? God and His Word is Truth! References: Joshua 10:8 and 12-13; and 2 Kings 20:9-11. Forward this to as many people who would think this is equally as cool.
Rebuttal
First, Harold Hill was indeed a real person and the president of Curtis Engine & Equipment, Inc., in Baltimore, MD. He died in 1986, and he did tell the story that's related in the urban legend. Although he claimed to be a consultant for NASA, in actuality all he did was contract to operate and maintain some diesel engines (his company's business). That hardly qualifies him as a consultant, especially since the implication of his story is that he was consulting on matters related to computer calculations of the telemetry of the sun, moon, and planets. The story of the "Missing Day" is one of several "Urban Legends" tracked by the Web site "Ship of Fools." It appears exactly as it's given above on their site, followed by a brief rebuttal ( http://www.ship-of-fools.com/Myths/05Myth.html), which claims that the NASA Public Affairs Office has issued a denial that NASA ever uncovered a missing day.
Second, the Web site of Curtis Engine & Equipment, Inc., contains the following statement: "Curtis Engine & Equipment, Inc. does not substantiate or continue Harold's personal research. Unfortunately, we have no information concerning the "Missing Day" nor do we have any connections at NASA who would be able to corroborate Harold's claims" ( http://www.curtisengine.com/harold_hill.html).
Regarding the specific claims made in the story, based on my background as a former science teacher, my study of and work with computers and computer programs for more than 25 years, my continuing interest and reading on various scientific subjects, and my seminary training, I have the following comments.
1. Claim: NASA ran a computer program to check the future position of the sun, moon, and planets over hundreds and thousands of years so that satellites wouldn't crash into them.
Fact: No satellite lasts hundreds, much less thousands of years, so there would be no reason to run the program more than 100 years into the future for any satellite, because it wouldn't last that long, especially satellites built in the sixties, when Harold Hill first began telling his story.
Fact: Minor errors in calculations can be accounted for by computers, but chaos theory tells us that complex calculations extrapolated over long periods of time are increasingly and exponentially inaccurate. It's the same reason that the weather can only be predicted a few days in advance with any accuracy, even with today's supercomputers. Calculating the positions of the sun, moon, and planets accurately to within a 24-hour window over 3500 years ago (the traditional date of Joshua) is extremely unlikely. In addition to slight errors in calculation that could accumulate over time, unknown events (e.g., a comet or asteroid crashing into a planet or passing close enough to affect a planet's orbit) could also throw present estimates off by a significant margin.
Fact: NASA would have no reason to run the program backwards to check for problems with satellites (unless they were planning on time travel!). They certainly could have run the program in reverse, assuming it was written to allow backwards extrapolation, but if they did, it wouldn't have had anything to do with calculations relevant to satellites.
2. Claim: While the program was running backwards, calculating the positions of the luminaries in past time, the computer program stopped, indicating an error either in the input data or in the output "as compared to the standards."
Fact: What standards? If the scientists had had standards telling them where the sun, moon, and planets were at points in time past, they wouldn't have needed the program to calculate their positions!
Fact: If the whole universe except for life on earth stopped for a day, then started again, there would be absolutely no way to tell. Backwards extrapolations would assume continuous motion according to the laws of physics, and since there are no "standards" to compare them with (see above), the computer would sail right along without a problem. I have a historical analogy for this. If today is October 24, 2003, what was the date exactly 300 years ago, assuming that years have 365 days, except for leap years, with 366? October 24, 1703, right? Wrong! The date was October 13, 1703. That's because Britain and America, along with other countries, changed from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar in 1752, losing 11 days (the change had to do with problems with calculating leap years). The point is that, unless you knew about the historical change from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar (an existing "standard"!), you'd have no way of knowing that any days were "missing." God could have stopped the whole universe, or parts of it, a million times between the beginning of time and the time of Galileo (who invented the telescope, allowing accurate measurements and the calculation of "standards"), and we'd have no way of knowing.
3. Claim: The elapsed time that was missing in Joshua's day was 23 hours and 20 minutes (see Josh 10:12-13).
Fact: There is no way to get from "about a whole day" in Hebrew to 23 hours and 20 minutes. "About a whole day" could mean about 24 hours or about 12 hours, give or take a couple of hours.
Fact: There is no reason for assuming from a scientific standpoint that 23 hours and 20 minutes were missing. Remember, there are no "standards" to compare the supposed computer extrapolations to.
4. Claim: In Hezekiah's day, God made the shadow of the sun go backwards 10 degrees, or forty minutes (see 2 Kgs 20:9-11).
Fact: Reversing the earth 10 degrees on its axis will result in a day that is 40 minutes longer than normal (10 degrees * 1 day/360 degrees * 24 hours/day * 60 minutes/hour = 40 minutes). The problem is, the Hebrew text says nothing about 10 degrees. The word which the KJV renders "degrees" actually means "steps," probably steps used as a sundial in the present case. In the first place, a sundial wouldn't be divided into steps small enough to measure four-minute periods. Sundials aren't accurate at that small an interval, since the position of the sun in the sky moves slightly day to day according to the time of year (variations in the azimuth). Sundials wouldn't be subdivided into units as small as 1/15 of an hour (4 minutes), the units required for 10 steps to equal 40 minutes. Finally, it is important to note that the misinterpretation "10 degrees" is simply a misunderstanding of the KJV. The KJV translators weren't using the term "degree" in its mathematical sense of "1/360th of a circle" but rather in its more general sense of "an interval." So the KJV translators were right, but Hill misunderstood what they meant when he concocted his story.
Fact: Like the "missing" 23 hours and 20 minutes, the "missing" 40 minutes cannot be proven to be missing, because there are no "standards" with which to compare the computer extrapolations.
5. Claim: Adding the missing 23 hours 20 minutes of Joshua to the missing 40 minutes of 2 Kings yields 24 hours, or exactly one day.
Fact: Since Hill is claiming that these measurements are exact, then they should add up to exactly one day. However, a day is not exactly 24 hours long. The "mean (average) solar day" is indeed 24 hours 00 minutes 00 seconds, but that's just an average. The vast majority of days are longer or shorter, by as much as fifteen minutes, depending on the position of the earth in its elliptical orbit around the sun. The length of a sidereal day (one complete rotation on the earth's axis) is constant (aside from gradual slowing over millions of years), but it is only 23 hours, 56 minutes, and 4 seconds.
Concluding Remarks
I find such attempts to prove the Bible true amusing, perplexing, and aggravating. They're amusing because of the lengths these people will go to bend the normal meaning of words, invent "facts," and ignore science. These were the same sorts of arguments people made to Galileo when he tried to tell them that the earth wasn't the center of the universe. They're perplexing because I don't understand why some people seem to be so desperate to prove their faith that they'll resort to almost anything not to have to change their views about the Bible. A faith that's based on distortion, misunderstanding, and deceit isn't very well founded. They're aggravating because non-Christians can use urban legends such as this to "prove" how silly Christians are, or how silly Christianity is. Of course, the fact that some Christians do innocently buy into such myths doesn't prove anything about either their intelligence or the validity of their religion. However, it certainly doesn't make Christians look like brain surgeons!
Intelligent Christians need to take a stand against urban legends such as this and against all other attempts to prove the validity of the Bible by means of twisted logic, misrepresentations of science, and fabrications. Faith is one thing; gullibility is another. When Jesus was asked what was the greatest commandment, he answered, in part, "You shall love the Lord your God with all ... your mind." Forms of Christianity that require people to set aside their mental faculties are an affront to God and an indirect assault on Christianity, and progressive Christians need to take a firm stand against such nonsense.
【王下20:11】 先知以赛亚求告耶和华,耶和华就使亚哈斯的日晷向前进的日影,往后退了十度。
Then the prophet Isaiah called upon the Lord , and the Lord made the shadow go back the ten steps it had gone down on the stairway of Ahaz.
And Other Pole Shifts Recorded in the Bible
ABSTRACT: Several important events in the Scriptures involved pole shifts—where the North and South Poles moved thousands of miles to a new location in less than a day. These events include Joshua’s long day and Hezekiah’s going back of the shadow of the sun. Understanding these events gives understanding of the mighty works God has done in our world throughout history. The Lord fought important battles for Israel by casting meteors from the sky. These events were recorded so the student can see how God works in our world. The second article in this series is “The Stopwatch and Key to the Apocalypse”[1] which describes a pole shift during the signs in the heavens of Revelation 12.
CopyrightÓ2007 Bruce Alan Killian 14 July 2007A.D. email bakillian at earthlink.net
Lists of Pole Shifts
Probable Pole shifts evidenced in the Bible starting with the most recent
In Hezekiah’s days c. 704 B.C. Going back of the shadow of the sun (2Ki 20:8-11).
In Joshua’s days c. 1398 B.C. the long day of Joshua (Josh 10:9-13).
In Peleg’s days c. 2669-2436 B.C. the earth was divided (Gen 10:25).
In Noah’s days c. 3200 B.C. the Flood of Noah (Gen 7:17-8:14).
On the third day of creation when the land was divided from the sea (Gen 1:9-10).
The Pole shifts will be discussed in reverse chronological order.
Going Back of the Shadow of the Sun
2 Kings 20:8-11 Hezekiah had asked Isaiah, “What will be the sign that Yahweh will heal me and that I will go up to the temple of Yahweh on the third day from now?” 9 Isaiah answered, “This is Yahweh’s sign to you that Yahweh will do what he has promised: Shall the shadow go forward ten steps, or shall it go back ten steps?” 10 “It is a simple matter for the shadow to go forward ten steps,” said Hezekiah. “Rather, have it go back ten steps.” 11 Then the prophet Isaiah called upon Yahweh, and Yahweh made the shadow go back the ten steps it had gone down on the stairway of Ahaz.
Isaiah 38:7-8 “’This is Yahweh’s sign to you that Yahweh will do what he has promised: 8 I will make the shadow cast by the sun go back the ten steps it has gone down on the stairway of Ahaz.’” So the sunlight went back the ten steps it had gone down.[2]
Commentaries usually interpret this passage about the going back of the shadow of the sun as some strange refraction of the sun light. It has also been interpreted as a weird shadow, resulting from an eclipse, but it is a change in the apparent position of the sun due to a pole shift.
In the time of Hezekiah c. 704 B.C., the pole shifted to its current position. It shifted from a position where the North Pole was near the western side of the Hudson Bay. See Figure 1 Location of pole preceding the current position page 3.
The sign of the going back of the sun on the sundial of Ahaz was widely observed. The going back of the sun was not some local eclipse phenomena or some strange refraction of the sun. This was why Emissaries came from Babylon to Hezekiah to inquire about it. 2 Chronicles 32:31 But when envoys were sent by the rulers of Babylon to ask him about the miraculous sign that had occurred in the land.
When the poles shift, the earth continues to spin on its axis and the North Pole continues to point at the North Star. The tilt axis of the earth remains the same. The crust does not slip over the interior of the earth. What happens is that an asteroid hits the earth, which can cause the gyroscope earth to have a few hour hiccup, resulting in a new point on the crust of the earth pointing at the North Star. After the poles shifted, the magnetic poles gradually lines up with the true poles over the course of a few thousand years. The magnetic poles are still attempting to line up. Currently the magnetic poles are moving toward the North Pole at the rate of 36 miles (58 km) per year.
Daniel preserves a memory of this event when he says that He (God) changes the times and the seasons (Daniel 2:21). Changing the times refers to the length of the year. When this event happened, the length of the year changed from 360 days to 365.242 day/year and from 30 days/month to 29.6 days/month.[3] The earth does not take longer to get around the sun, but rather the earth rotates more slowly so the length of the day is slightly shorter than it was.
If the stairs of Ahaz was an early sundial, then the pole shift caused it to become useless because all sundials are latitude specific. A sundial at the wrong latitude does not display the proper time.
The great blast that destroyed the Assyrian army was probably a meteor shower or a bolide. When God needs to defend His people he is able to unleash some spectacular power.
Because this pole shift occurred during the day, the meteor shower that caused it was less visible.
The pole shift had to be fairly rapid (a few hours), because if it had taken longer than this amount of time, there would have been no apparent reverse movement of the shadow of the sun on the stairs of Ahaz.
There are hints in the Bible of the change of climate. Israel was in a desert-like climate. This is evident in that there was no rain for three and a half years in the days of Elijah the prophet.
“Wilson mapped a series of ancient cisterns below the present Temple mount platform. One of those, Patrich says, preserves a vestige of the temple that stood until is was destroyed by Rome in A.D. 70.
【书10:12】 当耶和华将亚摩利人交付以色列人的日子,约书亚就祷告耶和华,在以色列人眼前说,日头阿,你要停在基遍。月亮阿,你要止在亚雅仑谷。
Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.
【书10:13】 于是日头停留,月亮止住,直等国民向敌人报仇。这事岂不是写在雅煞珥书上吗?日头在天当中停住,不急速下落,约有一日之久。
And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.
【书10:14】 在这日以前,这日以后,耶和华听人的祷告,没有像这日的,是因耶和华为以色列争战。
And there was no day like that before it or after it, that the LORD hearkened unto the voice of a man: for the LORD fought for Israel.
【启21:6】耶稣基督说:『我是阿拉法,我是俄梅戛,我是初,我是终。我要将生命泉的水白白赐给那口渴的人喝。』
He said to me: 'It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To him who is thirsty I will give to drink without cost from the spring of the water of life.
【启21:6】耶稣基督说:『我是阿拉法,我是俄梅戛,我是初,我是终。我要将生命泉的水白白赐给那口渴的人喝。』
He said to me: 'It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To him who is thirsty I will give to drink without cost from the spring of the water of life.
【徒11:16】 我就想起主的话说,约翰是用水施洗,但你们要受圣灵的洗。
Then I remembered what the Lord had said: `John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.'
【《圣经》林前2:9】:『 如经上所记,神为爱他的人所预备的,是眼睛未曾看见,耳朵未曾听见,人心也未曾想到的。』
However, as it is written: 'No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him' --
【可10:27】 耶稣看着他们说,在人是不能,在神却不然。因为神凡事都能。
Jesus looked at them and said, 'With man this is impossible, but not with God; all things are possible with God.'
【赛9:6】 因有一婴孩为我们而生,有一子赐给我们。政权必担在他的肩头上。他名称为奇妙,策士,全能的上帝,永在的父,和平的君。
For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
【赛38:1】 那时希西家病得要死,亚摩斯的儿子先知以赛亚去见他,对他说,耶和华如此说,你当留遗命与你的家,因为你必死不能活了。
In those days Hezekiah became ill and was at the point of death. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz went to him and said, 'This is what the Lord says: Put your house in order, because you are going to die; you will not recover.'
【赛38:2】 希西家就转脸朝墙,祷告耶和华说,
Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the Lord ,
【赛38:3】 耶和华阿,求你记念我在你面前怎样存完全的心,按诚实行事,又作你眼中所看为善的。希西家就痛哭了。
'Remember, O Lord , how I have walked before you faithfully and with wholehearted devotion and have done what is good in your eyes.' And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
【赛38:4】 耶和华的话临到以赛亚说,
Then the word of the Lord came to Isaiah:
【赛38:5】 你去告诉希西家说,耶和华你祖大卫的神如此说,我听见了你的祷告,看见了你的眼泪,我必加增你十五年的寿数。'Go and tell Hezekiah, 'This is what the Lord , the God of your father David, says: I have heard your prayer and seen your tears; I will add fifteen years to your life.
【赛38:6】 并且我要救你和这城脱离亚述王的手,也要保护这城。
And I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria. I will defend this city.
【赛38:7】 我耶和华必成就我所说的,我先给你一个兆头。
' 'This is the Lord 's sign to you that the Lord will do what he has promised:
【赛38:8】 就是叫亚哈斯的日晷,向前进的日影往后退十度。于是前进的日影,果然在日晷上往后退了十度。I will make the shadow cast by the sun go back the ten steps it has gone down on the stairway of Ahaz.' ' So the sunlight went back the ten steps it had gone down.
【可10:27】 耶稣看着他们说,在人是不能,在神却不然。因为神凡事都能。
Jesus looked at them and said, 'With man this is impossible, but not with God; all things are possible with God.'
【赛9:6】 因有一婴孩为我们而生,有一子赐给我们。政权必担在他的肩头上。他名称为奇妙,策士,全能的上帝,永在的父,和平的君。
For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
【可10:27】 耶稣看着他们说,在人是不能,在神却不然。因为神凡事都能。
Jesus looked at them and said, 'With man this is impossible, but not with God; all things are possible with God.'
For the Egyptian account, we find that the French classical scholar, Fernand Crombette, translated some Egyptian hieroglyphics which tell of Joshuaós long day.25 The text starts out with an edict from the king to exempt from taxation those who had been victims of a flood some two weeks earlier. Evidently the flood had been caused by an unusually high tide. The cause, according to the Egyptian hieroglyphics, was:
The sun, thrown into confusion, had remained low on the horizon, and by not rising had spread terror amongst the great doctors. Two days had been rolled into one. The morning was lengthened to one-and-a-half times the normal period of effective daylight. A certain time after this divine phenomenon,the master had an image built to keep further misfortune from the country.?
Hephaistos...grant protection to your worshipers. Prevent the words of these foreign travelers from having any effect. They are impostors. Let
these enemies of the sacrifices to the images be destroyed in the temples of the great gods by the people of all classes. Make life harder for these cursed worshipers of the Eternal. Punish them. Increase the hardships of these shepherds. Reduce the size of their herds. Burn their dwellings.?
Rameses, our celestial ancestral chief; you who forced these wretched people to work, who ill-treated them, who gave them no help when they were in need: cast them into the sea. They made the moon stop in a small angle at the edge of the horizon. In a small angle on the edge of the horizon, the sun itself, which had just risen at the spot where the moon was going, instead of crossing the sky stayed where it was. Whilst the moon, following a narrow path, reduced its speed and climbed slowly, the sun stopped moving and its intensity of light was reduced to the brightness at daybreak. The waves formed a wall of water against the boats that were in the harbor and those that had left it. Those fishermen that had ventured onto the deck to watch the waves were washed into the sea.
The tide, which had risen high, overflowed into the plains where the herds were grazing. The cattle drowned represented half the herds of Lower Egypt. The remains of abandoned boats broken against the sides of the canals were piled up in places. Their anchors, which should have protected them, had been ground into them. Quite out of control, the sea had penetrated deep into the country. The expanding waters reached the fortified walls constructed by Rameses, the celestial ancestral chief. The sea swept around both sides of the region behind, sterilizing the gar dens as it went and causing openings in the dikes. A great country had been turned into a wilderness and brought into poverty. All the crops that had been planted had been destroyed and heaps of cereal shoots lay scattered on the ground.
The Crombette account is significant for a number of reasons. For one, it tells that the moon ǒclimbed slowly,ō which would be correct if the moon
kept its orbital speed but stopped its daily motion. This is allowed by Joshua 10:13ós weaker statement on the moon: ǒand the moon stayed,ō instead
of the stronger ǒstopped,ō for ǒstayō may mean ǒto linger or wait to witness an event.ō Likewise, Crombetteós interpretation that the moon was going to the spot where the sun had risen is thus explained by having the moon continue its orbital motion and its being located west of the sun, perhaps
near last quarter.
【王下20:8】 希西家问以赛亚说,耶和华必医治我,到第三日,我能上耶和华的殿,有什么兆头呢?
And Hezekiah said unto Isaiah, What shall be the sign that the LORD will heal me, and that I shall go up into the house of the LORD the third day?
【王下20:9】 以赛亚说,耶和华必成就他所说的。这是他给你的兆头,你要日影向前进十度呢?是要往后退十度呢?
And Isaiah said, This sign shalt thou have of the LORD, that the LORD will do the thing that he hath spoken: shall the shadow go forward ten degrees, or go back ten degrees?
【王下20:10】 希西家回答说,日影向前进十度容易,我要日影往后退十度。
And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to go down ten degrees: nay, but let the shadow return backward ten degrees.
【王下20:11】 先知以赛亚求告耶和华,耶和华就使亚哈斯的日晷向前进的日影,往后退了十度。
And Isaiah the prophet cried unto the LORD: and he brought the shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down in the dial of Ahaz.
作者: 白雪 时间: 2011-3-1 17:19
依据古埃及象形文字所记载的事实是:
The sun, thrown into confusion, had remained low on the horizon, and by not rising had spread terror amongst the great doctors. Two days had been rolled into one. The morning was lengthened to one-and-a-half times the normal period of effective daylight. A certain time after this divine phenomenon,the master had an image built to keep further misfortune from the country.?