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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
這五個名字沒有出現在列王紀中；列王紀只是附帶提到王室衛隊的五個分隊（列王紀下11:5註釋）。
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
耶何耶大不願把政變的成敗完全寄託於王室衛隊。於是，眾軍長從猶大各城召集了一大批利未人和以色列的族長（即「猶大」的族長，見歷代志下20:34註釋），把他們帶上耶路撒冷。
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
這裏的「全會眾」指歷代志下23:2所提到的人。
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
歷代志的作者記述了給利未人的指示，而列王紀的作者則記述了王室衛隊所領受的指示（列王紀下11:5註釋）。
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
守耶和華的班——即防範拜巴力者企圖穿過院子強行進入聖殿的任何舉動。
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
比較列王紀下11:8、11:11。殿中的兵丁與利未人大概以大致相等的比例混雜在一起。
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
各人率領自己的人……——即耶何耶大已編成三隊的輪值兵力（歷代志下23:4-5），又因屆滿下班之「班次」的成員加入當作之工而進一步加強。
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
在進入處——就是從聖殿的正堂通往至聖所的入口，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
他與……之間——列王紀下11:17說這約是立在「耶和華與……之間」。在歷代志作者看來，耶何耶大是神的代表，由他接受王和百姓的誓約。
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——應照各譯本作「祭司和利未人」。獻燔祭惟獨是祭司的職責（民數記18:1-7），以歌唱和音樂頌讚神惟獨是利未人的職責（歷代志上23:5；歷代志上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
高門——見列王紀下11:19註釋。
英文原文
The high gate - See 2 Kings 11:19 note.
請與列王紀的記載（邊注）比較。兩份記載可能出自同一資料來源。列王紀的作者處理了政治與歷史上的要點，而較後的歷代志作者則搜集了聖職階層在這些事件中所扮演角色方面的記述——他自己多半也屬於這一階層。