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2 Chronicles 12 Introduction
英文原文
This chapter runs parallel with Kings (see the marginal reference), but considerably enlarges the narrative.
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2 Chronicles 12:1
以色列人也都随从他——即“犹大人和便雅悯人”——指属于这两个支派的全体以色列人。
英文原文
All Israel with him - i. e., "all Judah and Benjamin" - all the Israelites of those two tribes.
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2 Chronicles 12:2
示撒……上来……因为他们犯了罪——作者乃是从神的视角、而非人的视角发言。示撒上来的动机，是要帮助耶罗波安，并扩张自己的势力。
英文原文
Shishak ... came up ... because they had transgressed - The writer speaks from a divine, not a human, point of view. Shishak's motive in coming up was to help Jeroboam, and to extend his own influence.
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2 Chronicles 12:3
战车一千二百辆——这个数目并非罕见（比较 Exodus 14:7; 1 Kings 10:26）。便哈达曾率领一千二百辆战车开赴战场，对抗撒缦以色二世；亚哈当时也拥有两千辆战车的兵力（比较 1 Kings 20:1 的注释）。
路比人，即“利比亚人”（Daniel 11:43），是非洲的一个民族，与住在他们紧邻之地的埃及人和埃塞俄比亚人有别。埃及人称他们为 Ribu 或 Libu。参 Genesis 10:13。
苏基人——这个名称未见于其他经文。七十士译本将该词译作“特拉格洛迪泰人”（Troglodytes），大概认为苏基人是红海西岸一带的“穴居民”；不过，认为该词意为“住帐棚者”的推测也颇可信，这样便更多指向阿拉伯人的一支部族（Scenitae）。
英文原文
twelve hundred chariots - This number is not unusnal (compare Exodus 14:7; 1 Kings 10:26). Benhadad brought 1,200 chariots into the field against Shalmaneser II; and Ahabhad at the same time a force of 2,000 chariots (compare the 1 Kings 20:1 note).
The Lubims or "Libyans" Daniel 11:43, were a people of Africa, distinct from the Egyptians and the Ethiopians dwelling in their immediate neighborhood. They were called Ribu or Libu by the Egyptians. See Genesis 10:13.
Sukkiims - This name does not occur elsewhere. The Septuagint, who rendered the word "Troglodytes," regarded the Sukkiim probably as the "cave-dwellers" along the western shore of the Red Sea; but the conjecture that the word means "tent-dwellers" is plausible, and would point rather to a tribe of Arahs (Scenitae).
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2 Chronicles 12:4
参见 1 Kings 14:25 的注释。
英文原文
See 1 the Kings 14:25 note.
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2 Chronicles 12:6
他们说“耶和华是公义的”——即他们承认那向他们发出的判语是公义的（2 Chronicles 12:5）。
英文原文
They said, The Lord is righteous - i. e., they acknowledged the justice of the sentence which had gone forth against them 2 Chronicles 12:5.
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2 Chronicles 12:7
试比较亚哈的悔改（见旁注参考）和尼尼微人的悔改（Jonah 3:5-10）；这些悔改也同样使借先知之口所宣告的神的判令得以撤回。
略得拯救——毋宁译作“短暂之时的拯救”（见旁注）。因着悔改，立即毁灭的威胁被撤去；但刑罚的阴影仍悬在头顶，为要使百姓更深地痛悔并改正行为。
英文原文
Compare the repentance of Ahab (marginal reference) and that of the Ninevites Jonah 3:5-10 which produced similar revocations of divine decrees that had been pronounced by the mouth of a prophet.
Some deliverance - Rather, "deliverance for a short space" (see the margin). Because of the repentance, the threat cf immediate destruction was withdrawn; but the menace was still left impending, that the people might be the more moved to contrition and amendment.
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2 Chronicles 12:8
“知道服事我与服事外邦人有何分别”——即让他们把神权治理之下的轻省担子与外邦君王的沉重之轭相对照。
英文原文
That they may know my service, and the service of the kingdom - i. e., that they may contrast the light burthen of the theocracy with the heavy yoke of a foreign monarch.
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2 Chronicles 12:14
他不立定心意……——参看边注。罗波安的罪，在于欠缺恳切与一贯。
英文原文
He prepared not his heart ... - See the margin. Rehoboam's sin was want of earnestness and consistency.
本章与列王纪平行（见边注参照），但对叙述有相当多的扩充。