1وكان لما اكمل سليمان بناء بيت الرب وبيت الملك وكل مرغوب سليمان الذي سرّ ان يعمل
1It happened, when Solomon had finished the building of the house of Yahweh, and the king’s house, and all Solomon’s desire which he was pleased to do,
2ان الرب تراءى لسليمان ثانية كما تراءى له في جبعون.
2that Yahweh appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon.
3وقال له الرب قد سمعت صلاتك وتضرعك الذي تضرعت به امامي. قدّست هذا البيت الذي بنيته لاجل وضع اسمي فيه الى الابد وتكون عيناي وقلبي هناك كل الايام.
3Yahweh said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your supplication, that you have made before me. I have made this house holy, which you have built, to put my name there forever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually.
4وانت ان سلكت امامي كما سلك داود ابوك بسلامة قلب واستقامة وعملت حسب كل ما اوصيتك وحفظت فرائضي واحكامي
4As for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my ordinances;
5فاني اقيم كرسي ملكك على اسرائيل الى الابد كما كلمت داود اباك قائلا لا يعدم لك رجل عن كرسي اسرائيل.
5then I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever, according as I promised to David your father, saying, ‘There shall not fail you a man on the throne of Israel.’
6ان كنتم تنقلبون انتم او ابناؤكم من ورائي ولا تحفظون وصاياي فرائضي التي جعلتها امامكم بل تذهبون وتعبدون آلهة اخرى وتسجدون لها
6But if you turn away from following me, you or your children, and not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but shall go and serve other gods, and worship them;
7فاني اقطع اسرائيل عن وجه الارض التي اعطيتهم اياها والبيت الذي قدسته لاسمي انفيه من امامي ويكون اسرائيل مثلا وهزأة في جميع الشعوب.
7then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
8وهذا البيت يكون عبرة. كل من يمرّ عليه يتعجب ويصفر ويقولون لماذا عمل الرب هكذا لهذه الارض ولهذا البيت.
8Though this house is so high, yet shall everyone who passes by it be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, ‘Why has Yahweh done thus to this land, and to this house?’
9فيقولون من اجل انهم تركوا الرب الههم الذي اخرج آباءهم من ارض مصر وتمسّكوا بآلهة اخرى وسجدوا لها وعبدوها لذلك جلب الرب عليهم كل هذا الشر
9and they shall answer, ‘Because they forsook Yahweh their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold of other gods, and worshiped them, and served them. Therefore Yahweh has brought all this evil on them.’”
10وبعد نهاية عشرين سنة بعدما بني سليمان البيتين بيت الرب وبيت الملك.
10It happened at the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the two houses, the house of Yahweh and the king’s house
11وكان حيرام ملك صور قد ساعف سليمان بخشب ارز وخشب سرو وذهب حسب كل مسرّته. اعطى حينئذ الملك سليمان حيرام عشرين مدينة في ارض الجليل.
11(now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees and fir trees, and with gold, according to all his desire), that then king Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.
12فخرج حيرام من صور ليرى المدن التي اعطاه اياها سليمان فلم تحسن في عينيه.
12Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and they didn’t please him.
13فقال ما هذه المدن التي اعطيتني يا اخي. ودعاها ارض كابول الى هذا اليوم.
13He said, “What cities are these which you have given me, my brother?” He called them the land of Cabul to this day.
14وارسل حيرام للملك مئة وعشرين وزنة ذهب
14Hiram sent to the king one hundred twenty talents of gold.
15وهذا هو سبب التسخير الذي جعله الملك سليمان لبناء بيت الرب وبيته والقلعة وسور اورشليم وحاصور ومجدو وجازر.
15This is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised, to build the house of Yahweh, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.
16صعد فرعون ملك مصر واخذ جازر واحرقها بالنار وقتل الكنعانيين الساكنين في المدينة واعطاها مهرا لابنته امرأة سليمان.
16Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and taken Gezer, and burnt it with fire, and slain the Canaanites who lived in the city, and given it for a portion to his daughter, Solomon’s wife.
17وبنى سليمان جازر وبيت حورون السفلى
17Solomon built Gezer, and Beth Horon the lower,
18وبعلة وتدمر في البرية في الارض
18and Baalath, and Tamar in the wilderness, in the land,
19وجميع مدن المخازن التي كانت لسليمان ومدن المركبات ومدن الفرسان ومرغوب سليمان الذي رغب ان يبنيه في اورشليم وفي لبنان وفي كل ارض سلطنته.
19and all the storage cities that Solomon had, and the cities for his chariots, and the cities for his horsemen, and that which Solomon desired to build for his pleasure in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.
20جميع الشعب الباقين من الاموريين والحثّيين والفرزّيين والحويين واليبوسيين الذين ليسوا من بني اسرائيل
20As for all the people who were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of the children of Israel;
21ابناؤهم الذين بقوا بعدهم في الارض الذين لم يقدر بنو اسرائيل ان يحرموهم جعل عليهم سليمان تسخير عبيد الى هذا اليوم.
21their children who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel were not able utterly to destroy, of them Solomon raised a levy of bondservants to this day.
22واما بنو اسرائيل فلم يجعل سليمان منهم عبيدا لانهم رجال القتال وخدامه وامراؤه وثوالثه ورؤساء مركباته وفرسانه.
22But of the children of Israel Solomon made no bondservants; but they were the men of war, and his servants, and his princes, and his captains, and rulers of his chariots and of his horsemen.
23هؤلاء رؤساء الموكلين على اعمال سليمان خمس مئة وخمسون الذين كانوا يتسلطون على الشعب العاملين العمل
23These were the chief officers who were over Solomon’s work, five hundred fifty, who bore rule over the people who labored in the work.
24ولكن بنت فرعون صعدت من مدينة داود الى بيتها الذي بناه لها. حينئذ بنى القلعة.
24But Pharaoh’s daughter came up out of the city of David to her house which Solomon had built for her: then he built Millo.
25وكان سليمان يصعد ثلاث مرات في السنة محرقات وذبائح سلامة على المذبح الذي بناه للرب وكان يوقد على الذي امام الرب. واكمل البيت
25Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar which he built to Yahweh three times a year, burning incense with them, on the altar that was before Yahweh. So he finished the house.
26وعمل الملك سليمان سفنا في عصيون جابر التي بجانب ايلة على شاطئ بحر سوف في ارض ادوم.
26King Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion Geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red Sea or, Sea of Reeds , in the land of Edom.
27فارسل حيرام في السفن عبيده النواتي العارفين بالبحر مع عبيد سليمان.
27Hiram sent in the navy his servants, sailors who had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.
28فأتوا الى اوفير واخذوا من هناك ذهبا اربع مئة وزنة وعشرين وزنة وأتوا بها الى الملك سليمان
28They came to Ophir, and fetched from there gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.