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2 Chronicles 23 Introduction
英文原文
Compare the history in Kings (the marginal reference). Both accounts were probably drawn from a common source. The writer of Kings treated the points of civil and historic importance, the later author of Chronicles collected the notices of the part taken in the transactions by the sacred order to which he probably belonged.
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2 Chronicles 23:1
这五个名字没有出现在列王纪中；列王纪只是顺带提到御林军的五个分队（见 2 Kings 11:5 注释）。
英文原文
The five names do not occur in Kings; only, and incidentally, the five divisions of the royal guard (2 Kings 11:5 note).
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2 Chronicles 23:2
耶何耶大不愿将这场变革的成败完全寄托于王室卫队。于是众百夫长从犹大各城召集了一支强大的利未人队伍，以及以色列的众族长（即“犹大”的族长，参见 2 Chronicles 20:34 的注释），把他们带到耶路撒冷。
英文原文
Jehoiada was unwilling to trust the success of the revolution wholly and entirely to the royal body-guard. Accordingly, the captains collected from the cities of Judah a strong body of Levites and the chief of the fathers of Israel (i. e. "Judah," see 2 Chronicles 20:34 note) who were brought up to Jerusalem.
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2 Chronicles 23:3
这里的“全会众”是指 2 Chronicles 23:2 所提到的那群人。
英文原文
By "all the congregation" here is meant the persons referred to in 2 Chronicles 23:2.
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2 Chronicles 23:4
《历代志》的作者记述了下达给利未人的命令，《列王纪》的作者则记述了王室卫队所领受的命令（参 2 Kings 11:5 的注释）。
英文原文
The writer of Chronicles relates the orders that were given to the Levites, the author of Kings those received by the royal body-guard (2 Kings 11:5 note).
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2 Chronicles 23:6
守耶和华的职守——即防范拜巴力者试图强行穿过各院进入圣殿的一切举动。
英文原文
Keep the watch of the Lord - i. e. guard against any attempt that might be made by the Baal-worshippers to force their way through the courts into the temple.
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2 Chronicles 23:7
比较 2 Kings 11:8, 2 Kings 11:11。圣殿里的士兵和利未人大概以大致相当的比例混合在一起。
英文原文
Compare 2 Kings 11:8, 2 Kings 11:11. The soldiers and the Levites in the temple were probably intermixed in about equal proportions.
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2 Chronicles 23:8
各人率领自己的人……——即已由耶何耶大编为三队的换防部队（2 Chronicles 23:4-5），又因本该下岗之“班次”的成员一同加入将要进行的工作而进一步得到加强。
英文原文
And took every man his men ... - i. e. the relief, already organized by Jehoiada into three bodies 2 Chronicles 23:4-5, was further strengthened by the members of the outgoing "course," who were associated in the work to be done.
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2 Chronicles 23:13
在进入之处——即圣殿正殿通往至圣所的入口处，或其附近。
英文原文
At the entering in - i. e. at, or near, the opening from the main chamber of the temple into the holy of holies.
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2 Chronicles 23:16
他与……之间——在 2 Kings 11:17 中，立约被称为是在“耶和华与……之间”立的。对历代志的作者而言，耶何耶大是神的代表，王与百姓的誓言是由他接收的。
英文原文
Between him ... - In 2 Kings 11:17 the covenant is said to have been made "between the Lord," etc. To the writer of Chronicles Jehoiada was God's representative, and received the pledges of king and people.
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2 Chronicles 23:18
祭司利未人——更当依各古译本作“祭司和利未人”。献燔祭惟独是祭司的职责（Numbers 18:1-7），而以歌唱和音乐赞美神惟独是利未人的职责（1 Chronicles 23:5; 1 Chronicles 25:1-7）。
英文原文
The priests the Levites - Rather, with the versions, "the priests and the Levites." It was the duty of the priests alone to offer the burnt offerings Numbers 18:1-7, and of the Levites alone to praise God with singing and music 1 Chronicles 23:5; 1 Chronicles 25:1-7.
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2 Chronicles 23:20
上门——见 2 Kings 11:19 的注解。
英文原文
The high gate - See 2 Kings 11:19 note.
请与列王纪中的记载（见边注参照）比较。两处记载很可能取自同一来源。列王纪的作者处理了民政与历史方面的重要之点，而后来的历代志作者则搜集了圣职阶层——他大概属于这一阶层——在这些事件中所起作用的记载。