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Jeremiah 41:1
英文原文
The seventh month - Gedaliah's government lasted less than two months.
Even - Rather, and. Ishmael was descended probably from Elishama the son of David 2 Samuel 5:16. Ten grandees each with his retinue would have aroused suspicion, but the smallness of Ishmael's following put Gedaliah completely off his guard.
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Jeremiah 41:5
這三座城都位於以法蓮支派境內，也是在撒縵以色遷來古他人定居的那一地區；雖然這些人用刀劃身（見耶利米書 16:6 註）一事令人起疑，但他們很可能是敬虔的以色列人：他們正要上耶路撒冷去，帶著住棚節慣常獻上的素祭——當時正是那節期的季節——並為聖殿（而非這城）的毀滅哀悼；在約西亞的時代，我們見到這支派的人曾為聖殿的修繕奉獻（2 Chronicles 34:9）。
英文原文
These three towns all lay in the tribe of Ephraim, and in the district planted by Salmaneser with Cuthites; but through the fact of these men having cut themselves (see Jeremiah 16:6 note), is suspicious, yet they were probably pious Israelites, going up to Jerusalem, carrying the meat offering usual at the feast of tabernacles, of which this was the season, and mourning over the destruction, not of the city, but of the temple, to the repairs of which we find the members of this tribe contributing in Josiah's time 2 Chronicles 34:9.
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Jeremiah 41:6
以實瑪利的行徑，似乎出於一種惡毒的意圖，要徹底挫敗基大利的事工。
「哀哭」——他藉這詭計誘使他們進入米斯巴。七十士譯本作「他們……哀哭的時候」。
英文原文
Ishmael's conduct seems to have been dictated by the malicious desire utterly to frustrate Gedaliah's work.
Weeping - By this artifice he lured them into Mizpah. The Septuagint: "as they were ... weeping."
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Jeremiah 41:7
「坑」——即蓄水池，在 Jeremiah 41:9 中亦然。
英文原文
The pit - the cistern, and in Jeremiah 41:9.
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Jeremiah 41:8
「寶物」——即暗藏的儲存；以實瑪利退回巴利斯那裏去的時候，這些必對他大有用處。
英文原文
Treasures - Hidden stores; which would be of great value to Ishmael in his retreat back to Baalis.
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Jeremiah 41:9
「為著基大利」——即「在基大利旁邊」。以實瑪利這時又把朝聖者的屍首拋在基大利的屍身旁。
英文原文
Because of Gedaliah - By the side "of Gedaliah." Ishmael now cast beside Gedaliah's body those of the pilgrims.
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Jeremiah 41:12
基遍至今仍有一個露天水池，還有一個由豐沛天然泉水補給的大型地下蓄水池。基遍在米斯巴以北約二英里。
英文原文
An open pool still exists at Gibeon, and a large subterranean reservoir fed by a copious natural spring. Gibeon is about two miles north of Mizpah.
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Jeremiah 41:17
「基末的住所」——希伯來文本作 Geruth-Chemoham，這地方無可考。馬所拉學者讀作 Geruth-Chimham，即富有的巴西萊之子金罕的客店或商隊驛站（見旁註參照）。這改讀如今既無法證實，也無法反駁，但可能是對的。
英文原文
The habitation of Chimham - The Hebrew text has Geruth-Chemoham, of which place nothing is known. The Masoretes read: Geruth-Chimham, the Khan or Caravanserai of Chimham, son of the rich Barzillai (marginal reference). The substitution is incapable now of proof or disproof, but it is possibly right.
「七月」——基大利的政權持續了不到兩個月。
「就是」——宜作「而」。以實瑪利大概是大衛的兒子以利沙瑪的後裔（2 Samuel 5:16）。十位顯貴若各自帶著隨從前來，必會引起猜疑；但以實瑪利隨行人數之少，使基大利完全失去了戒心。