1
1Ch 20:1-3.
英文原文
1Ch 20:1-3.
RABBAH BESIEGED BY JOAB, SPOILED BY DAVID, AND THE PEOPLE TORTURED.
1. at the time when kings go out to battle--in spring, the usual season in ancient times for entering on a campaign; that is, a year subsequent to the Syrian war.
Joab led forth the power of the army, and wasted the country . . . of Ammon--The former campaign had been disastrous, owing chiefly to the hired auxiliaries of the Ammonites; and as it was necessary, as well as just, that they should be severely chastised for their wanton outrage on the Hebrew ambassadors, Joab ravaged their country and invested their capital, Rabbah. After a protracted siege, Joab took one part of it, the lower town or "city of waters," insulated by the winding course of the Jabbok. Knowing that the fort called "the royal city" would soon fall, he invited the king to come in person, and have the honor of storming it. The knowledge of this fact (mentioned in
2Sa 12:26)
enables us to reconcile the two statements--"David tarried at Jerusalem"
(1Ch 20:1),
and "David and all the people returned to Jerusalem"
(1Ch 20:3).
2
無標題
2. 大衛奪了他們王的冠冕……其重一他連得——相當於一百二十五磅。有人認為,Malcom(我們譯本作「他們的王」)應視作專有名詞米勒公或摩洛——亞捫人的偶像,它自然能承受沉重的重量。但與東方君王的許多其他國冕一樣,在拉巴所獲的這頂冠冕並非戴在頭上,而是以金鏈懸於寶座之上。
寶石——希伯來文作「寶石」,或一簇寶石,鑲在大衛頭上。
英文原文
2. David took the crown of their king . . ., and found it to weigh a talent of gold--equal to one hundred twenty-five pounds. Some think that Malcom, rendered in our version "their king," should be taken as a proper name, Milcom or Molech, the Ammonite idol, which, of course, might bear a heavy weight. But, like many other state crowns of Eastern kings, the crown got at Rabbah was not worn on the head, but suspended by chains of gold above the throne.
precious stones--Hebrew, a "stone," or cluster of precious stones, which was set on David's head.
3
無標題
3. 用鋸鋸他們等——希伯來文「鋸他們」一詞，與撒母耳記平行經文譯作「使他們歸」的，
[2Sa 12:31]，
僅末尾一字母之差；
許多人因此認為，使他們歸於鋸、斧等工具之下，不過是說大衛判拉巴的居民服苦役與重役罷了。
英文原文
3. cut them with saws, &c.--The Hebrew word, "cut them," is, with the difference of the final letter, the same as that rendered "put them," in the parallel passage of Samuel
[2Sa 12:31];
and many consider that putting them to saws, axes, and so forth, means nothing more than that David condemned the inhabitants of Rabbah to hard and penal servitude.
4
1Ch 20:4-8.
1Ch 20:4-8.
三次擊敗非利士人，與三個巨人被殺。
4. 在基色打仗——或作哥伯（參
2Sa 21:18-22）。
英文原文
1Ch 20:4-8.
THREE OVERTHROWS OF THE PHILISTINES AND THREE GIANTS SLAIN.
4. war at Gezer--or Gob (see
2Sa 21:18-22).
1Ch 20:1-3.
拉巴被約押圍困、遭大衛劫掠、百姓受刑
1. 到列王出戰的時候——即在春天,古時出征戰役的通常季節;也就是敘利亞戰事之後的一年。
約押率領軍長奮勇攻城,毀壞亞捫……的地——前一次戰役因亞捫人雇來的援軍而告失利;他們既如此肆意侮辱希伯來使臣,嚴加懲治既有必要也是正當的,於是約押蹂躪其國土,並圍困其首府拉巴。經過曠日持久的圍攻,約押攻取了其中一部分,即下城或稱「水城」,因雅博河蜿蜒的河道而成為孤島。他知道那座稱為「王城」的堡壘不久必落,便請王親自前來,以享攻取它的榮譽。知道這一事實
(見
2Sa 12:26),
便可調和兩處經文的陳述——「大衛仍住在耶路撒冷」
(1Ch 20:1),
與「大衛和眾軍長都回耶路撒冷去了」
(1Ch 20:3)。