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

¹Tedaj reče Salomon: Jehova je rekel, da bo prebival v mrakoti.

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

²A jaz sem ti zgradil hišo v prebivališče, stan tebi za sedež na veke!

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

³In kralj obrne obličje in blagoslovi ves zbor Izraelov; in ves zbor Izraelov je stal.

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,

⁴In reče: Hvaljen bodi GOSPOD, Bog Izraelov, ki je obljubil z usti svojimi Davidu, očetu mojemu, in z roko svojo je to izpolnil, govoreč:

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:

⁵Od dne, ko sem odpeljal ljudstvo svoje iz dežele Egiptovske, nisem izvolil nobenega mesta iz vseh rodov Izraelovih, da se v njem zgradi hiša, ki naj bi v njej bilo ime moje; tudi nisem izvolil nikogar, da bodi vojvoda ljudstvu mojemu Izraelu;

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

⁶ali izvolil sem Jeruzalem, da bodi v njem moje ime, in izvolil sem Davida, da bodi nad ljudstvom mojim Izraelom.

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

⁷Bilo pa je na srcu Davidu, očetu mojemu, da zgradi hišo imenu GOSPODA, Boga Izraelovega.

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:

⁸Ali GOSPOD je rekel Davidu, očetu mojemu: Ker ti je bilo na srcu, sezidati hišo mojemu imenu, si dobro storil, da si to imel v srcu.

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.’

⁹Vendar pa ti ne boš zidal tiste hiše, temuč sin tvoj, ki pride iz ledja tvojega, ta bo zgradil hišo mojemu imenu.

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.

¹⁰In GOSPOD je vzdržal besedo svojo, ki jo je govoril: kajti jaz sem nastopil na očeta svojega Davida mestu in sedim na prestolu Izraelovem, kakor je bil GOSPOD obljubil, in zgradil sem hišo imenu Jehove, Boga Izraelovega.

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

¹¹In vanjo sem postavil skrinjo, v kateri je zaveza GOSPODOVA, ki jo je sklenil s sinovi Izraelovimi.

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

¹²In stopi pred oltar GOSPODOV vpričo vsega zbora Izraelovega in razprostre roke

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;)

¹³(naredil je bil namreč Salomon bronast oder, pet komolcev dolg in pet komolcev širok in tri komolce visok, in ga je postavil sredi dvorišča; in nanj stopivši, poklekne na kolena pred vsem zborom Izraelovim in razprostre roke proti nebu)

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;

¹⁴in reče: O GOSPOD, Bog Izraelov, tebi ni enakega Boga v nebesih ali na zemlji, ki hraniš zavezo in milost hlapcem svojim, ki hodijo pred obličjem tvojim z vsem srcem svojim;

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.

¹⁵ki si ohranil hlapcu svojemu Davidu, očetu mojemu, kar si mu bil obljubil. Z usti svojimi si govoril in z roko svojo si to izpolnil, kakor se danes vidi.

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.’

¹⁶In sedaj, GOSPOD, Bog Izraelov, ohrani hlapcu svojemu Davidu, očetu mojemu, kar si mu bil obljubil, govoreč: Ne bo ti zmanjkalo pred obličjem mojim moža, ki bo sedel na prestolu Izraelovem, samo če pazijo sinovi tvoji na pot svojo, da hodijo po moji postavi, kakor si ti hodil pred menoj.

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

¹⁷Sedaj torej, GOSPOD, Bog Izraelov, naj se uresniči beseda tvoja, ki si jo govoril hlapcu svojemu Davidu.

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!

¹⁸Toda prebiva li v istini Bog z ljudmi na zemlji? Glej, nebo in nebes nebesa te ne morejo obseči, koliko manj ta hiša, ki sem jo sezidal!

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;

¹⁹Vendar se ozri na molitev svojega hlapca in na njegovo prošnjo, GOSPOD, Bog moj, da poslušaš vpitje in molitev, ki jo moli hlapec tvoj pred teboj:

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.

²⁰da bodo oči tvoje odprte proti tej hiši po dne in po noči, proti mestu, o katerem si rekel, da postaviš tam ime svoje, da uslišiš molitev, ki jo bo molil hlapec tvoj na tem mestu.

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.

²¹Poslušaj torej prošnjo hlapca svojega in ljudstva svojega Izraela, ki jo bodo prosili, obrnjeni proti temu mestu, poslušaj na mestu prebivanja svojega, v nebesih, in ko poslušaš, odpuščaj!

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;

²²Ako se kdo pregreši zoper bližnjega svojega in se mu naloži prisega, da se zaveže s prisego, in ta prisega pride pred tvoj oltar v tej hiši:

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.

²³ti poslušaj v nebesih in stóri, da se pravica zgodi hlapcem tvojim s tem, da obsodiš krivičnega ter mu spraviš pot njegov na glavo, pravičnega pa opravičiš in mu poplačaš po pravičnosti njegovi.

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;

²⁴Kadar bo ljudstvo tvoje izraelsko poraženo pred sovražnikom, ker so grešili zoper tebe, pa se zopet obrnejo in pripoznajo tvoje ime in bodo molili in ponižno prosili pred teboj v tej hiši:

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.

²⁵ti poslušaj v nebesih in odpusti greh ljudstva svojega, Izraela, ter jih zopet pripelji v deželo, ki si jo dal njim in njih očetom.

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:

²⁶Kadar se zapre nebo, da ne bo dežja, ker so grešili zoper tebe, pa bodo molili, obrnjeni proti temu kraju, in pripoznavali tvoje ime in se izpreobrnejo od grehov svojih, ker si jih ponižal:

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.

²⁷ti poslušaj v nebesih in odpusti greh hlapcev svojih in ljudstva svojega, Izraela, da jih učiš dobro pot, po kateri naj hodijo, in pošlješ dežja deželi svoji, ki si jo dal ljudstvu svojemu v dediščino.

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;

²⁸Kadar bode v deželi lakota, kadar pride kuga ali snet ali strupena rosa, kobilice ali gosenice; ko jih bodo sovražniki oblegali v deželi njih mest; katerakoli pridi nadloga, katerakoli bolezen:

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:

²⁹kakršnokoli molitev in prošnjo bo molil kdo ali vse ljudstvo tvoje izraelsko, kadar spozna vsakteri svojo kazen in svojo nadlogo in iztegne roke proti tej hiši:

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;)

³⁰ti poslušaj v nebesih, v mestu prebivanja svojega, in odpusti in vsakemu povrni po vsem življenju njegovem, kakor spoznaš srce njegovo (zakaj ti, edini ti poznaš srca otrok človeških),

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

³¹da bi se te bali in hodili po potih tvojih, dokler žive v deželi, ki si jo dal njih očetom.

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:

³²Ako pa tudi inostranec, ki ni iz ljudstva tvojega, Izraela, pride iz daljne dežele zaradi imena tvojega velikega in zaradi močne roke tvoje in iztegnjene rame tvoje; ko torej pridejo in bodo molili proti tej hiši:

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.

³³ti poslušaj v nebesih, v mestu prebivanja svojega, in stóri vse, za kar te kliče inostranec; da spoznajo vsa ljudstva na zemlji tvoje ime, da bi se te bali kakor ljudstvo tvoje, Izrael, ter da se prepričajo, da se imenuje ta hiša, ki sem jo zgradil, po imenu tvojem.

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;

³⁴Kadar pojde ljudstvo tvoje v vojno zoper sovražnike svoje, po kateremkoli potu jih pošlješ, in bodo molili k tebi, ozirajoč se proti temu mestu, ki si ga izvolil, in proti hiši, ki sem jo zgradil imenu tvojemu:

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

³⁵ti poslušaj v nebesih njih molitev in prošnjo ter se potegni za njih pravdo.

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;

³⁶Kadar se pregreše zoper tebe (kajti ni ga človeka, ki ne greši) in se razsrdiš nad njimi in jih izročiš sovražniku, da jih ujete peljejo v deželo daljno ali bližnjo:

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;’

³⁷ako pa se premislijo v deželi, kamor so bili odpeljani v ujetništvo, in se izpreobrnejo in te ponižno prosijo v deželi ujetništva svojega, govoreč: Grešili smo, krivično smo delali, brezbožno smo ravnali!

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:

³⁸ako se k tebi povrnejo iz vsega srca svojega in iz vse duše svoje v deželi ujetništva svojega, kamor so jih ujete odpeljali, in molijo, ozirajoč se proti deželi svoji, ki si jo dal njih očetom, in mestu, ki si ga izvolil, in proti hiši, ki sem jo zgradil imenu tvojemu:

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.

³⁹ti poslušaj v nebesih, v mestu prebivanja svojega, njih molitev in prošnjo ter se potegni za njih pravdo, in odpusti ljudstvu svojemu, ki je grešilo zoper tebe.

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.

⁴⁰Sedaj torej, Bog moj, prosim, naj bodo odprte oči tvoje in pazijo naj ušesa tvoja na molitev, ki se opravlja na tem mestu.

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.

⁴¹Sedaj torej vstani, o GOSPOD Bog, pridi v počivališče svoje, ti in skrinja moči tvoje! Duhovniki tvoji, o GOSPOD Bog, naj bodo oblečeni z zveličanjem, in svetniki tvoji naj se vesele dobrote!O GOSPOD, Bog, ne zavrni obličja maziljenca svojega! Spominjaj se dobrot, obljubljenih Davidu, hlapcu svojemu!

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

⁴²O GOSPOD, Bog, ne zavrni obličja maziljenca svojega! Spominjaj se dobrot, obljubljenih Davidu, hlapcu svojemu!