基本介紹
- 中文名稱:巴珊
- 地理位置:敘利亞境內
- 出處:《舊約》
- 盛產:牛羊牲畜
英文簡介,描述,
英文簡介
Ancient country, eastern Palestine. Frequently cited in the Old Testament and later important in the Roman empire, it was located in what is now Syria. In New Testament times, Bashan ranked as one of the great granaries of the Roman empire. One of its towns, Bozrah (Roman Bostra), was important to both Nabataea and Rome. Augustus made Herod the Great ruler of Bashan, and in AD 106 Trajan brought the whole Nabataean kingdom under the empire in creating the province of Arabia, with Bostra as its capital. The country went into decline in the 7th century.
描述
巴珊--意即多產的,系位於約旦河東極北之地,南自基列,北至黑門山,富有森林,土地肥沃,橡樹尤為著名;且多草場,盛產牛羊牲畜(申卅二14,結卅九18)。以色列人進迦南地的時候,這城的王噩率領眾軍民頑抗,盡被殲滅,失去一切牲畜財物,及六十座堅固高城(民廿一33-35,申三4-14)。分地的時候,此地給與瑪拿西半支派(書十三29-31,申三13)。瑪拿西人稱巴珊為哈倭特睚珥(意即睚珥之鄉,申三14),現今成了荒墟;在此地牧放牲畜的,只有亞拉伯人。
先知阿摩司在這裡說到:「你們住撒瑪利亞山如巴珊母牛的阿,當聽我的話。你們欺負貧寒的,壓碎窮乏的,對家主說,拿酒來,我們喝罷。。經文以巴珊的健母牛及肥畜喻惡人的力大與貪婪(參詩廿二12,結卅九18)。此處開宗明義,嚴厲地斥責撒瑪利亞的貴婦們,譏刺她們如肥胖光滑的巴珊母牛,只求自己富裕,貪得無厭,她們所關懷的,只是自己安舒的生活,奢華宴樂,悠閒懶惰,恣意欺壓貧寒窮乏之人,坐亨其成,不勞而獲,攫取更多的飲食,害人害己。當主的日子快到了,則她們必定要被人用鉤子鉤去(摩四2)。據說在亞述的紀念碑上所描繪的俘虜們,乃是用鉤子鉤住她們的嘴拖著走的。可知這種鉤子的刑罰就是指被擄而言,他們所受的懲罰是罪有應得的報應。