¹Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon; for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the place of his father: for Hiram was ever a lover of David.

¹In Hiram, kralj tirski, je poslal služabnike svoje k Salomonu, zakaj slišal je bil, da so ga pomazilili za kralja namesto očeta njegovega; Hiram je namreč ljubil Davida vse dni.

²Solomon sent to Hiram, saying,

²In Salomon pošlje k Hiramu sporočit:

³“You know how that David my father could not build a house for the name of Yahweh his God for the wars which were about him on every side, until Yahweh put them under the soles of his feet.

³Ti veš, da ni mogel David, oče moj, zgraditi hiše imenu GOSPODA, Boga svojega, spričo sosedov, ki so ga zapletali v vojne, dokler jih ni položil GOSPOD pod stopala nog njegovih.

⁴But now Yahweh my God has given me rest on every side. There is neither adversary, nor evil occurrence.

⁴Sedaj pa mi je dal GOSPOD, Bog moj, mir vseokrog; nobenega ni nasprotnika, ne hude prigodbe.

⁵Behold, I purpose to build a house for the name of Yahweh my God, as Yahweh spoke to David my father, saying, ‘Your son, whom I will set on your throne in your place, he shall build the house for my name.’

⁵Glej torej, zgraditi nameravam hišo imenu GOSPODA, Boga svojega, kakor je GOSPOD govoril Davidu, očetu mojemu, rekoč: Sin tvoj, ki ga posadim na prestol tvoj na tvoje mesto, sezida hišo imenu mojemu.

⁶Now therefore command that they cut me cedar trees out of Lebanon. My servants shall be with your servants; and I will give you wages for your servants according to all that you shall say. For you know that there is not among us any who knows how to cut timber like the Sidonians.”

⁶Zdaj torej ukaži, da mi nasekajo ceder z Libanona, in hlapci moji bodo s hlapci tvojimi, tudi plačilo ti dam za hlapce tvoje, kakršnokoli boš zahteval; saj veš, da ga ni med nami, ki bi znal sekati les kakor Sidonci.

⁷It happened, when Hiram heard the words of Solomon, that he rejoiced greatly, and said, “Blessed is Yahweh this day, who has given to David a wise son over this great people.”

⁷In ko je slišal Hiram besede Salomonove, se silno razveseli ter reče: Hvaljen bodi danes GOSPOD, ki je dal Davidu modrega sina nad tem velikim ljudstvom!

⁸Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, “I have heard the message which you have sent to me. I will do all your desire concerning timber of cedar, and concerning timber of fir.

⁸In Hiram pošlje Salomonu sporočit: Slišal sem, kar si mi sporočil. Storil bom vso voljo tvojo glede cedrovega in cipresovega lesa.

⁹My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon to the sea. I will make them into rafts to go by sea to the place that you shall appoint me, and will cause them to be broken up there, and you shall receive them. You shall accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household.”

⁹Hlapci moji ga bodo spravljali z Libanona doli k morju, in zložim ga v splave, da pojde po morju do mesta, ki mi ga določiš; in tam ga dam razvezati, in ti si ga odpraviš. Ti pa izpolniš voljo mojo, da boš dajal živeža moji družini.

¹⁰So Hiram gave Solomon timber of cedar and timber of fir according to all his desire.

¹⁰Tako je dal Hiram Salomonu cedrovega in cipresovega lesa po vsej volji njegovi.

¹¹Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat for food to his household, and twenty measures of pure oil. Solomon gave this to Hiram year by year.

¹¹Salomon pa je dajal Hiramu po dvajset tisoč meric pšenice v živež njegovi družini in po dvajset meric čistega olja; toliko je dal Salomon Hiramu vsako leto.

¹²Yahweh gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him; and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon; and they two made a treaty together.

¹²In GOSPOD je dal Salomonu modrost, kakor mu je obljubil; in bil je mir med Hiramom in Salomonom, in oba sta sklenila zavezo.

¹³King Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men.

¹³In kralj Salomon je vzel davek od vsega Izraela, in davek je bil trideset tisoč mož.

¹⁴He sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by courses; a month they were in Lebanon, and two months at home; and Adoniram was over the men subject to forced labor.

¹⁴In pošiljal jih je na Libanon, po deset tisoč vsak mesec, menoma: mesec dni so bili na Libanonu in dva meseca doma. Adoniram pa je bil nad temi robotniki.

¹⁵Solomon had seventy thousand who bore burdens, and eighty thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains;

¹⁵In Salomon jih je imel sedemdeset tisoč, ki so nosili bremena, in osemdeset tisoč njih, ki so sekali v gorah,

¹⁶besides Solomon’s chief officers who were over the work, three thousand and three hundred, who bore rule over the people who labored in the work.

¹⁶razen višjih uradnikov, ki so nadzorovali delo, tri tisoč in tristo; ti so gospodovali ljudstvu, ki je opravljalo delo.

¹⁷The king commanded, and they cut out great stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the house with worked stone.

¹⁷In kralj je ukazal, in pripravili so velikih in dragih kamenov, obsekanih kamenov za podstavo hiši.In obdelovali so jih Salomonovi stavbarji in Hiramovi stavbarji in Gebaljani; in pripravljali so les in kamenje za stavbo hiše.

¹⁸Solomon’s builders and Hiram’s builders and the Gebalites cut them, and prepared the timber and the stones to build the house.

¹⁸In obdelovali so jih Salomonovi stavbarji in Hiramovi stavbarji in Gebaljani; in pripravljali so les in kamenje za stavbo hiše.