2 Samuel 24: “…So Jehovah sent a pestilence in Israel…and seventy thousand people died…And when the angel stretched forth his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, Jehovah…said to the angel who destroyed the people, It is enough…And the angel of Jehovah was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite…And there David built an altar to Jehovah, and he offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. And Jehovah responded to the entreaty for the land, and the plague was stayed in Israel.”
Hundreds of Israelis in Jerusalem followed the pattern of David. As the deadly coronavirus continues to spread, nearly a thousand people held a mass prayer for the health and well-being of the Chinese people during a gathering on Sunday at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem, one of the holiest places for Jews.
In addition to Hebrew prayers, a prayer was said in the Mandarin language and a ram’s horn, known as a shofar, was blown, a symbolic act in Judaism that is believed to invoke God’s mercy.
撒母耳記下24:1-25『…撒但就激動大衛…數點百姓..耶和華降瘟疫於以色列…百姓中死了七萬人。天使向耶路撒冷伸手要滅城的時候，耶和華就後悔不降這災…那時，耶和華的使者在耶布斯人亞勞拿的禾場附近。…大衛在那裏為耶和華築了一座壇，獻燔祭和平安祭…災疫在以色列人中就止住了。』
歷代志下3:1『所羅門在耶路撒冷，耶和華向他父親大衛顯現的摩利亞山上，就是耶布斯人阿珥楠的禾場上，大衛所豫備的地方，開工建造耶和華的殿。』
撒母耳記提到的『亞勞拿的禾場』，在歷代志則稱為『阿珥楠的禾場』，是同一個地方。這塊原本堆放禾捆的禾場，就是神所指定，所羅門王建造聖殿之處。當年撒但激動大衛數點百姓，神因此降瘟疫於以色列，直到大衛在亞勞拿的禾場那裏為耶和華築壇獻祭禱告，瘟疫才止住。
猶太人跟隨大衛的榜樣。已過周日，耶路撒冷時間下午四時半，近千人湧向聖殿山的哭牆，就是猶太人最神聖的地方，在『亞勞拿的禾場』為中國禱告，求神止住瘟疫。
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