1وصاهر سليمان فرعون ملك مصر واخذ بنت فرعون واتى بها الى مدينة داود الى ان اكمل بناء بيته وبيت الرب وسور اورشليم حواليها.
1Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh’s daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he had made an end of building his own house, and the house of Yahweh, and the wall of Jerusalem all around.
2الا ان الشعب كانوا يذبحون في المرتفعات لانه لم يبن بيت لاسم الرب الى تلك الايام.
2Only the people sacrificed in the high places, because there was no house built for the name of Yahweh until those days.
3واحب سليمان الرب سائرا في فرائض داود ابيه الا انه كان يذبح ويوقد في المرتفعات.
3Solomon loved Yahweh, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
4وذهب الملك الى جبعون ليذبح هناك. لانها هي المرتفعة العظمى. واصعد سليمان الف محرقة على ذلك المذبح.
4The king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that was the great high place. Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on that altar.
5في جبعون تراءى الرب لسليمان في حلم ليلا. وقال الله اسأل ماذا اعطيك.
5In Gibeon Yahweh appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said, “Ask what I shall give you.”
6فقال سليمان انك قد فعلت مع عبدك داود ابي رحمة عظيمة حسبما سار امامك بامانة وبر واستقامة قلب معك فحفظت له هذه الرحمة العظيمة واعطيته ابنا يجلس على كرسيه كهذا اليوم.
6Solomon said, “You have shown to your servant David my father great loving kindness, according as he walked before you in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with you. You have kept for him this great loving kindness, that you have given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.
7والآن ايها الرب الهي انت ملّكت عبدك مكان داود ابي وانا فتى صغير لا اعلم الخروج والدخول.
7Now, Yahweh my God, you have made your servant king instead of David my father. I am but a little child. I don’t know how to go out or come in.
8وعبدك في وسط شعبك الذي اخترته شعب كثير لا يحصى ولا يعد من الكثرة.
8Your servant is in the midst of your people which you have chosen, a great people, that can’t be numbered nor counted for multitude.
9فاعط عبدك قلبا فهيما لاحكم على شعبك واميّز بين الخير والشر لانه من يقدر ان يحكم على شعبك العظيم هذا.
9Give your servant therefore an understanding heart to judge your people, that I may discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this your great people?”
10فحسن الكلام في عيني الرب لان سليمان سأل هذا الأمر.
10The speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing.
11فقال له الله من اجل انك قد سألت هذا الأمر ولم تسأل لنفسك اياما كثيرة ولا سألت لنفسك غنى ولا سألت انفس اعدائك بل سألت لنفسك تمييزا لتفهم الحكم
11God said to him, “Because you have asked this thing, and have not asked for yourself long life, neither have asked riches for yourself, nor have asked the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to discern justice;
12هوذا قد فعلت حسب كلامك. هوذا اعطيتك قلبا حكيما ومميزا حتى انه لم يكن مثلك قبلك ولا يقوم بعدك نظيرك.
12behold, I have done according to your word. Behold, I have given you a wise and an understanding heart; so that there has been none like you before you, neither after you shall any arise like you.
13وقد اعطيتك ايضا ما لم تسأله غنى وكرامة حتى انه لا يكون رجل مثلك في الملوك كل ايامك.
13I have also given you that which you have not asked, both riches and honor, so that there shall not be any among the kings like you, all your days.
14فان سلكت في طريقي وحفظت فرائضي ووصاياي كما سلك داود ابوك فاني اطيل ايامك.
14If you will walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your days.”
15فاستيقظ سليمان واذ هو حلم. وجاء الى اورشليم ووقف امام تابوت عهد الرب واصعد محرقات وقرّب ذبائح سلامة وعمل وليمة لكل عبيده
15Solomon awoke; and behold, it was a dream. Then he came to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, and offered up burnt offerings, offered peace offerings, and made a feast to all his servants.
16حينئذ اتت امرأتان زانيتان الى الملك ووقفتا بين يديه.
16Then two women who were prostitutes came to the king, and stood before him.
17فقالت المرأة الواحدة استمع يا سيدي. اني انا وهذه المرأة ساكنتان في بيت واحد وقد ولدت معها في البيت.
17The one woman said, “Oh, my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house. I delivered a child with her in the house.
18وفي اليوم الثالث بعد ولادتي ولدت هذه المرأة ايضا وكنا معا ولم يكن معنا غريب في البيت غيرنا نحن كلتينا في البيت.
18It happened the third day after I delivered, that this woman delivered also. We were together. There was no stranger with us in the house, just us two in the house.
19فمات ابن هذه في الليل لانها اضطجعت عليه.
19This woman’s child died in the night, because she lay on it.
20فقامت في وسط الليل واخذت ابني من جانبي وامتك نائمة واضجعته في حضنها واضجعت ابنها الميت في حضني.
20She arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while your handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.
21فلما قمت صباحا لارضع ابني اذا هو ميت. ولما تأملت فيه في الصباح اذا هو ليس ابني الذي ولدته.
21When I rose in the morning to nurse my child, behold, it was dead; but when I had looked at it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, whom I bore.”
22وكانت المرأة الاخرى تقول كلا بل ابني الحي وابنك الميت. وهذه تقول لا بل ابنك الميت وابني الحي. وتكلمتا امام الملك.
22The other woman said, “No; but the living is my son, and the dead is your son.” This said, “No; but the dead is your son, and the living is my son.” Thus they spoke before the king.
23فقال الملك هذه تقول هذا ابني الحي وابنك الميت وتلك تقول لا بل ابنك الميت وابني الحي.
23Then the king said, “The one says, ‘This is my son who lives, and your son is the dead;’ and the other says, ‘No; but your son is the dead one, and my son is the living one.’”
24فقال الملك ايتوني بسيف. فاتوا بسيف بين يدي الملك.
24The king said, “Get me a sword.” They brought a sword before the king.
25فقال الملك اشطروا الولد الحي اثنين واعطوا نصفا للواحدة ونصفا للاخرى.
25The king said, “Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.”
26فتكلمت المرأة التي ابنها الحي الى الملك. لان احشاءها اضطرمت على ابنها. وقالت استمع يا سيدي. اعطوها الولد الحي ولا تميتوه. واما تلك فقالت لا يكون لي ولا لك. اشطروه.
26Then the woman whose the living child was spoke to the king, for her heart yearned over her son, and she said, “Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and in no way kill it!” But the other said, “It shall be neither mine nor yours. Divide it.”
27فاجاب الملك وقال اعطوها الولد الحي ولا تميتوه فانها امه.
27Then the king answered, “Give her the living child, and in no way kill it. She is its mother.”
28ولما سمع جميع اسرائيل بالحكم الذي حكم به الملك خافوا الملك لانهم رأوا حكمة الله فيه لاجراء الحكم
28All Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king: for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do justice.