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.
1所羅門娶法老女兒為妻所羅門與埃及王法老結親，娶了法老的女兒，把她迎進大衛城，直等到他的王宮、耶和華的殿和耶路撒冷周圍的城牆都建造完了。
2Only the people sacrificed in the high places, because there was no house built for the name of Yahweh until those days.
2不過在那些日子，人民仍然在邱壇上獻祭，因為還沒有為耶和華的名建造殿宇。
3Solomon loved Yahweh, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
3所羅門愛耶和華，遵行他父親大衛的律例；只是他仍然在邱壇上宰殺和焚燒祭牲。
4The king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that was the great high place. Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on that altar.
4所羅門祈求智慧（代下1:6~12）有一次，王到基遍去獻祭，因為那裡有極大的邱壇。所羅門在那祭壇上獻上了一千燔祭。
5In Gibeon Yahweh appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said, “Ask what I shall give you.”
5那天晚上在基遍，耶和華在夢中向所羅門顯現； 神說：“你無論求甚麼，我必賜給你。”
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.
6所羅門說：“你僕人我父親大衛以誠實、公義和正直的心在你面前行事為人，你就以極大的慈愛待他；你又為他存留這極大的慈愛，賜給他一個兒子坐在他的王位上，正如今日一樣。
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.
7耶和華我的 神啊，現在你使僕人接續我的父親大衛作王，但我還年輕，不知道應當怎樣處事。
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.
8僕人住在你揀選的子民中；這些子民很多，多得不能數算。
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?”
9所以，求你賜給僕人一顆明辨的心，可以判斷你的子民，能辨別是非，因為誰能判斷你這眾多的子民呢？”
10The speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing.
10所羅門因為求這些事，就蒙主的喜悅。
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;
11 神對他說：“因為你求這事，不為自己求長壽，不為自己求財富，也不求你仇敵的性命，單單為自己求聰明可以明辨是非公平，
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.
12我就照著你所求的而行；賜給你一個智慧和明辨的心，在你以前沒有人像你，在你以後也不會有人像你。
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.
13連你所沒有求的，我也賜給你，就是財富、尊榮，以至你一生的年日，在列王之中沒有一人能像你。
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.”
14如果你遵行了我的道，謹守我的律例、誡命，正如你父親大衛所行的，我就必延長你的壽數。”
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.
15所羅門醒來，原來是一個夢。於是他回到耶路撒冷，站在耶和華的約櫃前，獻上燔祭，又獻上平安祭，也為他的眾臣僕擺設筵席。
16Then two women who were prostitutes came to the king, and stood before him.
16智慧的判斷有一天，有兩個作妓女的婦人來見王，站在他面前。
17The one woman said, “Oh, my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house. I delivered a child with her in the house.
17其中一個婦人說：“我主啊，我和這婦人同住；她與我在房子裡的時候，我生了一個孩子。
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.
18我生了孩子以後的第三天，這婦人也生了一個孩子。我們都住在一起。除了我們兩個人在房子裡以外，再沒有別人與我們一起在這房子裡。
19This woman’s child died in the night, because she lay on it.
19夜間，這婦人睡覺的時候，壓死了她的孩子。
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.
20她卻在半夜，趁著婢女睡著的時候，起來，從我身旁把兒子抱去，放在她的懷裡；又把她死了的兒子放在我的懷裡。
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.”
21第二天早上我起來，要給我的兒子吃奶的時候，發覺他死了。那天早晨我再仔細察看，發覺他並不是我所生的兒子！”
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.
22那一個婦人說：“不！活的兒子是我的，死的兒子才是你的。”但這一個婦人說：“不！死的兒子是你的，活的兒子才是我的。”她們在王面前彼此爭辯。
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.’”
23王說：“這個婦人說：‘活的兒子是我的，死的兒子才是你的’，那個婦人卻說：‘不！死的兒子是你的，活的兒子才是我的。’”
24The king said, “Get me a sword.” They brought a sword before the king.
24王就吩咐：“給我拿一把刀來！”人就把刀帶到王面前。
25The king said, “Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.”
25王說：“把活的孩子劈成兩半，一半給這個婦人，一半給那個婦人。”
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.”
26那活孩子的母親因為愛子心切，就對王說：“我主啊，把那活的孩子給她吧，千萬不可殺死他！”另一個婦人卻說：“這孩子也不歸我，也不歸你，把他劈開吧！”
27Then the king answered, “Give her the living child, and in no way kill it. She is its mother.”
27王回答說：“把活孩子給這個婦人，千萬不可殺死他，這個婦人實在是他的母親。”
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.
28以色列眾人聽見王判斷的這案件，就都敬畏他，因為看見他心裡有 神的智慧，能夠判案。