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Jeremiah 52:1
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Jeremiah 52 is an historical appendix to the Book of Jeremiah, giving details of the capture of Babylon additional to those contained in Jeremiah 39:The last words of the foregoing chapter affirm that Jeremiah was not the author, and the view adopted by most commentators is, that this chapter is taken from the 2nd Book of Kings, but that the person who added it here had access to other valuable documents, and made several modifications in it, the principal being the substituation of the account of those led captive by Nebuchadnezzar Jeremiah 52:28-30, for the narrative given in 2 Kings 25:22-26, where see the notes.
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Jeremiah 52:3
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它——即西底家的惡行。
「面前」之後的「西底家」——或改標點作：「……趕出。西底家……」等。
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It - i. e., Zedekiah's evil doing.
Presence, that Zedekiah - Or, punctuate; "presence. And Zedekiah" etc.
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Jeremiah 52:7
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「逃往……平原」——或作「奔向……亞拉巴」（Deuteronomy 1:1）。
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Broken up ... the plain - Or, "broken into ... the Arabah" Deuteronomy 1:1.
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Jeremiah 52:11
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「把他囚在監裏……」——這記載未見於《列王紀》，因為同時代的史書只會記載西底家在利比拉所遭遇的事。這無疑是出自後來補記被擄巴比倫之事的同一位作者的手。
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Put him in prison ... - Not found in 2 Kings, for in the contemporaneous history what befell Zedekiah at Riblah would alone be known. It was no doubt added by the same hand which inserted the account of the deportations to Babylon.
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Jeremiah 52:12
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「伺候」——這字暗示高位。
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Served - The word implies high office.
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Jeremiah 52:13
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「大戶的房屋」——宜作「一切大的房屋」，即僅指較大的房屋。
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Houses of the great - Rather, every great house; i. e., the larger houses only.
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Jeremiah 52:15
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「並民中的窮人」——這些字當略去（如 2 Kings 25:11），是因與 Jeremiah 52:16 混淆而插入的。
「多人」——可能指工匠。尼布甲尼撒的目的，是要以較好階層的人——工匠與勞工——居住巴比倫，使之富足，而不是以貧民充數。
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Certain of the poor of the people, and - Omit (as in 2 Kings 25:11), being inserted through some confusion with Jeremiah 52:16.
Multitude - Possibly workmen. The object of Nebuchadnezzar was to people Babylon, not with paupers, but with men of a better class, artisans and workmen, who would enrich it.
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Jeremiah 52:16
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「農夫」——指用鋤頭耕種小塊田地的人。
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Husbandmen - Men who tilled little plots of ground with the mattock.
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Jeremiah 52:20
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「十二隻銅牛……在底下」——這些字在 2 Kings 和 Jeremiah 27:19 中被省略。大概省略得對，因為這裏說牛在座底下乃是錯誤；座是在十個盆之下。七十士譯本譯作「海底下十二隻銅牛」，使之合理可通。
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twelve brasen bulls that were under - Omitted in 2 Kings nd in Jeremiah 27:19. Probably rightly, for what is said here of their being under the bases is a mistake. The bases were under the ten lavers. The Septuagint makes sense by translating it: "the twelve brasen bulls under the sea."
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Jeremiah 52:21
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「線」意即量度的繩；柱子周圍十二肘，即十八英尺，因此直徑約為五英尺九英寸。銅厚四指，即不足四英寸，故中空的中心直徑當在五英尺以上。
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The fillet means a measuring line; the pillars were 12 cubits, i. e., 18 feet, in circumference, and thus the diameter would be 5 feet 9 inches. As the brass was four fingers, i. e., scarcely four inches thick, the hollow center would be more than five feet in diameter.
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Jeremiah 52:23
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「這邊」——那九十六個向着四方：二十四個向北，二十四個向東，其餘方向也照此類推。四角各加一個，總數一百便齊了。
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On a side - The 96 were toward the four winds, 24 toward the north, 24 toward the east, and so on. Add one at each corner, and the whole 100 is made up.
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Jeremiah 52:25
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「太監……兵丁」——或作「掌管兵丁的」。欽定本把他視為元帥；他其實是第二位的統領，即副手，也許是眾多同等級者之一。
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An eunuch ... men of war - Or, who had charge of men of war. The King James Version makes him commander-in-chief; he was second in command, i. e., a lieutenant, possibly one among many others of equal rank.
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Jeremiah 52:28
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「第七年」——如今一般接受這看法：「七」字前脫漏了「十」字，這裏提到的被擄都與對西底家的最後戰爭相連。這裏對尼布甲尼撒在位年分的計算與別處不同，表明作者掌握了一份列王記編者所不知道的文獻。每個年代都有一年的差異。七十士譯本略去 Jeremiah 52:28-30。
被擄去的人數，與歸回的四萬二千三百六十名男丁（Ezra 2:64-65）相比並不多，顯示仍有大量猶太人口留在巴比倫。但猶大的人口不斷外流，而與約雅斤同被擄去的一萬人構成了核心與中心，賦予整體以特色（見 2 Kings 24:14）。他們在巴比倫開始興旺之後，想必有許多人自願遷往那裏。
將本章與 2 Kings 的平行部分比較，可以看出文本雖非全無書寫的錯誤和抄寫的失誤，其主體卻極為健全。兩個文本之間的許多差異，是列王記編者故意縮略所致；另一些則出於疏忽。總體而言，列王記的文本不及耶利米書附錄的文本。然而，若記得這兩者也許不是同一文本的兩個抄本，而是兩位不同作者各自使用同一原始資料的結果，那麼除瑣碎之處和易於改正的錯誤外二者完全一致，便是令人滿意的證據，證明馬所拉文本在一切較重要的細節上總體可信。
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Seventh year - The suggestion is now generally received, that the word ten has dropped out before seven, and that the deportations mentioned here are all connected with the final war against Zedekiah. The calculation of Nebuchadnezzars reign is different from that used elsewhere, showing that the writer had access to a document not known to the compiler of the Book of Kings. In each date there is a difference of one year. The Septuagint omits Jeremiah 52:28-30.
The number of the exiles carried away is small compared with the 42,360 men who returned Ezra 2:64-65, leaving a large Jewish population behind at Babylon. But a continual drain of people from Judaea was going on, and the 10,000 carried away with Jehoiachin formed the nucleus and center, and gave tone to the whole (see 2 Kings 24:14). When they began to thrive in Babylon, large numbers would emigrate there of their own accord.
A comparison of this chapter with the parallel portion of 2 Kings hows that though not free from clerical errors and mistakes of copyists the body of the text is remarkably sound. Many of the differences between the two texts are abbreviations made purposely by the compiler of the Book of Kings; others are the result of negligence; and upon the whole the text of the Book of Kings is inferior to that of the Appendix to the Book of Jeremiah. Bearing in mind, however, that possibly they are not two transcripts of the same text, but the result of an independent use by two different writers of the same original authority, their complete agreement, except in trivial matters and mistakes easy of correction, is a satisfactory proof of the general trust-worthiness of the Masoretic Text in all more important particulars.
耶利米書 52 章是耶利米書的歷史附錄，提供了 Jeremiah 39: 所載以外有關耶路撒冷陷落的細節。上一章末尾的話表明本章並非出自耶利米之手；多數註釋家所採的觀點是：本章取自列王紀下，惟將其加錄於此的人曾查閱其他重要文獻，並作了若干修改，其中最主要的一處，是以被尼布甲尼撒擄去之人的記載（Jeremiah 52:28-30）取代了 2 Kings 25:22-26 的敘述，見該處的註釋。