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Nehemiah 11:1
英文原文
To bring one of ten - Artificial enlargements of capitals by forcible transfers of population to them, were not unusual in ancient times. About 500 B.C., Syracuse became a great city in this way. Tradition ascribed the greatness of Rome, in part, to this cause.
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Nehemiah 11:4
見邊註參考。這兩份記錄看來都是從一份官方公共名冊摘錄出來的，那名冊是尼希米命人為他的戶口統計而編製的。戶口統計本身似乎只限於耶路撒冷的居民。下表列出尼希米記與歷代志所記耶路撒冷總人口兩份數字之間的差異：
| 分項 | 歷代志上 | 尼希米記 |
|---|---|---|
| 猶大支派——法勒斯子孫 | — | 468 |
| 猶大支派——謝拉子孫 | 690 | — |
| 便雅憫支派 | 956 | 928 |
| 利未支派——祭司 | 1,760 | 1,192 |
| 利未支派——利未人 | — | 284 |
| 利未支派——守門的 | 212 | 172 |
按尼希米的數字、以歷代志補足，全城的成年男子人口為3,734名，總人口便是14,936人。按歷代志的數字、以尼希米記補足，成年男子為4,370名，因而總人口便應為17,480人。由於尼提寧人和以法蓮、瑪拿西支派的以色列人（1 Chronicles 9:3）未列入任何一份名冊，我們可以推斷，在 Nehemiah 11:1-2 所記的努力之後，實際居民人數不會遠少於兩萬。
英文原文
See the margin reference notes. Both accounts appear to be extracts from a public official register which Nehemiah caused to be made of his census. The census itself seems to have been confined to the dwellers at Jerusalem. The subjoined table exhibits the differences between the accounts of the entire population of Jerusalem as given in Nehemiah and in Chronicles:
1 Chron ehemiah Tribes of Judah Of Pharez 468 Of Zerah 690 Tribe of Benjamin 956 928 Tribe of Levi Priests 1760 1192 Levites 284 Porters 212 172
According to Nehemiah's numbers, supplemented from Chronicles, the entire adult male population of the city was 3,734, which would give a total population of 14,936. According to Chronicles, supplemented from Nehemiah, the adult males were 4,370, and consequently the entire population, would have been 17,480. As the Nethinims and the Israelites of Ephraim and Manasseh 1 Chronicles 9:3 are not included in either list, we may conclude that the actual number of the inhabitants, after the efforts recorded in Nehemiah 11:1-2, was not much short of 20,000.
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翻譯準備中 · 英文原文Nehemiah 11:16
The outward business of the house of God - Such as the collection of the newly-imposed tax Nehemiah 10:32, the providing of the regular sacrifices, the renewal of vestments, and the like.
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翻譯準備中 · 英文原文Nehemiah 11:17
The principal to begin the thanksgiving - i. e., "the precentor," or "leader of the choir."
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翻譯準備中 · 英文原文Nehemiah 11:20
The returned community, though consisting mainly of members of the two tribes, represented the entire people of Israel. The ground, however, which they occupied, was not the whole land, but that which had constituted the kingdom of Judah.
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翻譯準備中 · 英文原文Nehemiah 11:21
Ophel, the southern spur of the temple hill, having a wall of its own Nehemiah 3:27 might be reckoned either in Jerusalem or outside it. Here it is made a separate place.
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翻譯準備中 · 英文原文Nehemiah 11:22
The business intended was probably the internal business, as distinct from the "outward business" Nehemiah 11:16 : a part of which was the apportionment of the royal bounty among the members of the choir Nehemiah 11:23.
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翻譯準備中 · 英文原文Nehemiah 11:23
The goodwill of Artaxerxes toward the ministers employed in the temple service, had been previously shown by his exempting them from taxation of every kind Ezra 7:24. Now, it would seem, he had gone further and assigned to the singers an allowance from the royal revenue.
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翻譯準備中 · 英文原文Nehemiah 11:24
It is difficult to say what office Pethahiah filled. So far as we know, the only regular officers under the Persian system of government were the satrap, the subsatrap, the permanent royal secretary, the commandant, and the occasional commissary.
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翻譯準備中 · 英文原文Nehemiah 11:25
Kirjath-arba - i. e., Hebron. In the absence of the Hebrews during the captivity, the place had recovered its old name Joshua 15:13.
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翻譯準備中 · 英文原文Nehemiah 11:26
Many of the places mentioned in these verses are mentioned in Joshua 15:27-39; Joshua 18:21-28.
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翻譯準備中 · 英文原文Nehemiah 11:36
Of the Levites were divisions - i. e., "the Levites were scattered among various towns both in Judah and Benjamin."
十人中使一人來——古時以強制遷移人口的方式人為地擴充都城，並非罕見。約主前500年，敘拉古（Syracuse）就是這樣成為大城的。按傳統的說法，羅馬的偉大部分也歸因於此。