¹所羅門宣告建殿的理由（王上8:12~21）那時所羅門說：“耶和華曾說他要住在幽暗之中。

¹Then Solomon said, “Yahweh has said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.

²我已經為你建造了巍峨的殿宇，作你永遠居住的地方。”

²But I have built you a house of habitation, and a place for you to dwell in forever.”

³然後王轉過來，給以色列全體會眾祝福，以色列全體會眾都站著。

³The king turned his face, and blessed all the assembly of Israel: and all the assembly of Israel stood.

⁴所羅門說：“耶和華以色列的　神是應當稱頌的！他親口對我的父親大衛應許的，已親手作成了，他說：

⁴He said, “Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, who spoke with his mouth to David my father, and has with his hands fulfilled it, saying,

⁵‘自從我領我的子民從埃及地出來的那天，我沒有在以色列眾支派中，揀選一座城建造殿宇，使我的名留在那裡；我也沒有揀選一個人作領袖，統治我的子民以色列。

⁵‘Since the day that I brought forth my people out of the land of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a house in, that my name might be there; neither chose I any man to be prince over my people Israel:

⁶我卻揀選了耶路撒冷，使我的名留在那裡；也揀選了大衛，統治我的子民以色列。’

⁶but I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and have chosen David to be over my people Israel.’

⁷我的父親大衛有心要為耶和華以色列的　神的名建造殿宇。

⁷Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel.

⁸耶和華卻對我的父親大衛說：‘你心想要為我的名建造殿宇，你心意很好；

⁸But Yahweh said to David my father, ‘Whereas it was in your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was in your heart:

⁹不過不是由你建造殿宇，而是你的兒子，你親生的兒子，他必為我的名建殿。’

⁹nevertheless you shall not build the house; but your son who shall come forth out of your body, he shall build the house for my name.’

¹⁰現在耶和華實現了他的應許，我已經起來接續我的父親大衛，坐上了以色列的王位，就像耶和華所說的；我為耶和華以色列的　神的名建造了這殿。

¹⁰“Yahweh has performed his word that he spoke; for I have risen up in the place of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as Yahweh promised, and have built the house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel.

¹¹我也把約櫃安放在殿裡，約櫃中有耶和華和以色列人所立的約。”

¹¹There I have set the ark, in which is the covenant of Yahweh, which he made with the children of Israel.”

¹²所羅門獻殿的禱告（王上8:22~53）所羅門在以色列全體會眾面前，站在耶和華的祭壇前，張開雙手；

¹²He stood before the altar of Yahweh in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread forth his hands

¹³原來所羅門做了一座銅臺，長兩公尺兩公寸，寬兩公尺兩公寸，高一公尺三公寸，安放在外院中。那時他站在銅臺上，在以色列全體會眾面前，屈膝下跪，向天張開雙手，

¹³(for Solomon had made a bronze scaffold, five cubits long, and five cubits broad, and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the court; and on it he stood, and kneeled down on his knees before all the assembly of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven;)

¹⁴說：“耶和華以色列的　神啊，天上地下沒有神可以和你相比的，你向那些一心行在你面前的僕人，常是守約施慈愛的；

¹⁴and he said, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven, or on earth; you who keep covenant and loving kindness with your servants, who walk before you with all their heart;

¹⁵你對你的僕人我父親大衛所應許的，你都遵守了，你親口應許，也親手成全，就像今日一樣。

¹⁵who have kept with your servant David my father that which you promised him: yes, you spoke with your mouth, and have fulfilled it with your hand, as it is this day.

¹⁶耶和華以色列的　神啊，你應許你的僕人我父親大衛說：‘只要你的子孫謹守他們的行為，遵守我的律法，像你在我面前所行的一樣，你就不會斷人在我面前坐上以色列的王位。’現在求你應驗這話吧。

¹⁶“Now therefore, Yahweh, the God of Israel, keep with your servant David my father that which you have promised him, saying, ‘There shall not fail you a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your children take heed to their way, to walk in my law as you have walked before me.’

¹⁷耶和華以色列的　神啊，現在求你實現你向你的僕人大衛應許的話吧！

¹⁷Now therefore, Yahweh, the God of Israel, let your word be verified, which you spoke to your servant David.

¹⁸“　神真的要和人住在地上嗎？看哪，天和天上的天也容不下你，何況我建造的這殿呢？

¹⁸“But will God indeed dwell with men on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can’t contain you; how much less this house which I have built!

¹⁹耶和華我的　神啊，求你垂注你僕人的禱告和祈求，聆聽你僕人在你面前所發的呼喊和禱告。

¹⁹Yet have respect for the prayer of your servant, and to his supplication, Yahweh my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer which your servant prays before you;

²⁰求你張開眼睛，晝夜看顧這殿，就是看顧你所說要立你名的地方；求你垂聽你僕人向著這地方所發的禱告。

²⁰that your eyes may be open toward this house day and night, even toward the place where you have said that you would put your name; to listen to the prayer which your servant shall pray toward this place.

²¹求你垂聽你的僕人和你的子民以色列的祈求，就是他們向著這地方所發的禱告；求你從天上，從你的居所垂聽，垂聽和赦免。

²¹Listen to the petitions of your servant, and of your people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place: yes, hear from your dwelling place, even from heaven; and when you hear, forgive.

²²“人若是得罪了鄰舍，有人要他起誓，他就來到這殿，在你的祭壇前起誓；

²²“If a man sin against his neighbor, and an oath is laid on him to cause him to swear, and he comes and swears before your altar in this house;

²³求你從天上垂聽，施行你的作為，審判你的僕人，照著惡人所行的報應在他頭上；宣告義人無罪，照著他的義行賞賜他。

²³then hear from heaven, and do, and judge your servants, bringing retribution to the wicked, to bring his way on his own head; and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.

²⁴“如果你的子民以色列得罪了你，以致在仇敵面前被擊敗；後來回心轉意，承認你的名，在這殿裡向你禱告祈求，

²⁴“If your people Israel be struck down before the enemy, because they have sinned against you, and shall turn again and confess your name, and pray and make supplication before you in this house;

²⁵求你從天上垂聽，赦免你子民以色列的罪，領他們歸回你賜給他們和他們列祖的土地。

²⁵then hear from heaven, and forgive the sin of your people Israel, and bring them again to the land which you gave to them and to their fathers.

²⁶“你的子民因得罪了你，你懲罰他們，使天閉塞不下雨；如果他們向著這地方禱告，承認你的名，離開他們的罪，

²⁶“When the sky is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against you; if they pray toward this place, and confess your name, and turn from their sin, when you afflict them:

²⁷求你在天上垂聽，赦免你的僕人和你的子民以色列的罪，把他們當行的正道指教他們，降雨在你的地上，就是你賜給你的子民作產業的地上。

²⁷then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants, and of your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk; and send rain on your land, which you have given to your people for an inheritance.

²⁸“國中若是有饑荒、瘟疫、旱風、霉爛、蝗蟲、螞蚱，或是有仇敵圍困城鎮，或是有甚麼災禍，甚麼疾病，

²⁸“If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, if there is blight or mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemies besiege them in the land of their cities; whatever plague or whatever sickness there is;

²⁹你的子民以色列，無論是個別或是全體，自知自己的災禍和痛苦，向著這殿張開雙手禱告或祈求，

²⁹whatever prayer and supplication be made by any man, or by all your people Israel, who shall know every man his own plague and his own sorrow, and shall spread forth his hands toward this house:

³⁰求你從天上你的居所垂聽和赦免他們，你是知道人心的，你必照著各人所行的報應各人；因為只有你知道世人的心。

³⁰then hear from heaven, your dwelling place and forgive, and render to every man according to all his ways, whose heart you know; (for you, even you only, know the hearts of the children of men;)

³¹使他們在你賜給我們列祖的地上，一生一世敬畏你，遵行你的道路。

³¹that they may fear you, to walk in your ways, so long as they live in the land which you gave to our fathers.

³²“至於在你的子民以色列以外的外族人，他們為了你的大名、你大能的手和伸出來的膀臂，從遠方而來；他們來向著這殿禱告的時候，

³²“Moreover concerning the foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, when he shall come from a far country for your great name’s sake, and your mighty hand, and your outstretched arm; when they shall come and pray toward this house:

³³求你從天上，從你的居所垂聽他們，照著外族人向你呼求的一切而行，使地上萬民都認識你的名，敬畏你，像你的子民以色列一樣；又使他們知道我建造的這殿，是奉為你名的所在。

³³then hear from heaven, even from your dwelling place, and do according to all that the foreigner calls to you for; that all the peoples of the earth may know your name, and fear you, as does your people Israel, and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by your name.

³⁴“如果你的子民在你派他們出去的路上，和仇敵作戰，他們向著你揀選的這城，和向著我為你的名建造的這殿向你禱告，

³⁴“If your people go out to battle against their enemies, by whatever way you shall send them, and they pray to you toward this city which you have chosen, and the house which I have built for your name;

³⁵求你從天上垂聽他們的禱告祈求，使他們得勝。

³⁵then hear from heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.

³⁶“如果你的子民得罪了你（因為世上沒有不犯罪的人），你向他們發怒，把他們交在仇敵面前，以致仇敵把他們擄到外地或遠或近；

³⁶“If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn’t sin), and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to a land far off or near;

³⁷如果他們在被擄去的地方回心轉意，在被擄去的地方祈求你說：‘我們犯了罪了，我們作了孽了，我們行了惡了。’

³⁷yet if they shall repent themselves in the land where they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication to you in the land of their captivity, saying, ‘We have sinned, we have done perversely, and have dealt wickedly;’

³⁸如果他們在被擄去的地方一心一意歸向你，又向著他們自己的地，就是你賜給他們列祖的地，和向著你揀選的這城，以及向著我為你的名建造的這殿禱告，

³⁸if they return to you with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, where they have carried them captive, and pray toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, and the city which you have chosen, and toward the house which I have built for your name:

³⁹求你從天上，從你的居所垂聽他們的禱告祈求，為他們伸冤，赦免得罪了你的那些子民。

³⁹then hear from heaven, even from your dwelling place, their prayer and their petitions, and maintain their cause, and forgive your people who have sinned against you.

⁴⁰“我的　神啊，現在求你張開眼睛，求你的耳朵垂聽在這地方獻上的禱告。

⁴⁰“Now, my God, let, I beg you, your eyes be open, and let your ears be attentive, to the prayer that is made in this place.

⁴¹現在，耶和華　神啊，求你起來，願你和你有大能的約櫃進入你安息的地方；耶和華　神啊，願你的祭司都披上救恩；願你的聖民在福樂中歡欣。

⁴¹“Now therefore arise, Yahweh God, into your resting place, you, and the ark of your strength: let your priests, Yahweh God, be clothed with salvation, and let your saints rejoice in goodness.

⁴²耶和華　神啊，求你不要轉臉不顧你所膏的人：願你記念你向你僕人大衛所施的慈愛。”

⁴²“Yahweh God, don’t turn away the face of your anointed. Remember your loving kindnesses to David your servant.”