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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、都聚集到他那裏——即「猶大人和便雅憫人」——指屬這兩個支派的所有以色列人。
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……上來……因為他們得罪了耶和華——作者乃是從神的觀點、而非人的觀點發言。示撒上來的動機，是要幫助耶羅波安，並擴張自己的影響力。
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
一千二百輛戰車——這數字並非罕見（比較出埃及記14:7；列王紀上10:26）。便哈達曾率一千二百輛戰車上陣抵禦撒縵以色二世；亞哈同時擁有二千輛戰車的兵力（比較列王紀上20:1註釋）。
路比人，即「呂比亞人」（但以理書11:43），是非洲的一個民族，與居住在其近鄰的埃及人和古實人有別。埃及人稱他們為 Ribu 或 Libu。見創世記10:13。
蘇基人——這名稱不見於他處。七十士譯本的譯者把這詞譯作「穴居人」（Troglodytes），大概認為蘇基人是紅海西岸沿線的「穴居者」；但這詞意為「帳棚居民」的推測也頗可信，如此則更可能指阿拉伯人的一支帳幕部族（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
見列王紀上14:25註釋。
英文原文
See 1 the Kings 14:25 note.
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2 Chronicles 12:6
他們說耶和華是公義的——即他們承認那向他們發出的判語是公義的（歷代志下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
試比較亞哈的悔改（見邊注）和尼尼微人的悔改（約拿書3:5-10）；後者同樣使藉先知之口所宣告的神旨得了撤回。
略得拯救——不如譯作「短暫的拯救」（見邊注）。因著悔改，立時滅亡的威脅撤回了；但刑罰仍懸而未落，好叫百姓更受感動而痛悔改過。
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
使他們知道服事我與服事外邦國有何分別——即叫他們把神權政治輕省的擔子與外邦君王沉重的軛互相比較。
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……——見邊注。羅波安的罪，在於缺乏懇切與恆心。
英文原文
He prepared not his heart ... - See the margin. Rehoboam's sin was want of earnestness and consistency.
本章與列王紀的記載平行推進（見邊注），但對敘述有相當多的擴充。