اَلْمُلُوكِ ٱلْأَوَّلُ 9

١ 1 وَكَانَ لَمَّا أَكْمَلَ سُلَيْمَانُ بِنَاءَ بَيْتِ ٱلرَّبِّ وَبَيْتِ ٱلْمَلِكِ وَكُلَّ مَرْغُوبِ سُلَيْمَانَ ٱلَّذِي سُرَّ أَنْ يَعْمَلَ،

And it came to pass when Solomon had finished the building of the house of the LORD, and the king’s house, and all Solomon’s desire which he was pleased to do,

٢ 2 أَنَّ ٱلرَّبَّ تَرَاءَى لِسُلَيْمَانَ ثَانِيَةً كَمَا تَرَاءَى لَهُ فِي جِبْعُونَ.

that the LORD appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared unto him at Gibeon.

٣ 3 وَقَالَ لَهُ ٱلرَّبُّ: «قَدْ سَمِعْتُ صَلَاتَكَ وَتَضَرُّعَكَ ٱلَّذِي تَضَرَّعْتَ بِهِ أَمَامِي. قَدَّسْتُ هَذَا ٱلْبَيْتَ ٱلَّذِي بَنَيْتَهُ لِأَجْلِ وَضْعِ ٱسْمِي فِيهِ إِلَى ٱلْأَبَدِ، وَتَكُونُ عَيْنَايَ وَقَلْبِي هُنَاكَ كُلَّ ٱلْأَيَّامِ.

And the LORD said unto him, I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication, that thou hast made before me: I have hallowed this house, which thou hast built, to put my name there for ever; and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.

٤ 4 وَأَنْتَ إِنْ سَلَكْتَ أَمَامِي كَمَا سَلَكَ دَاوُدُ أَبُوكَ بِسَلَامَةِ قَلْبٍ وَٱسْتِقَامَةٍ، وَعَمِلْتَ حَسَبَ كُلِّ مَا أَوْصَيْتُكَ وَحَفِظْتَ فَرَائِضِي وَأَحْكَامِي،

And as for thee, if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded thee, and wilt keep my statutes and my judgments;

٥ 5 فَإِنِّي أُقِيمُ كُرْسِيَّ مُلْكِكَ عَلَى إِسْرَائِيلَ إِلَى ٱلْأَبَدِ كَمَا كَلَّمْتُ دَاوُدَ أَبَاكَ قَائِلًا: لَا يُعْدَمُ لَكَ رَجُلٌ عَنْ كُرْسِيِّ إِسْرَائِيلَ.

then I will establish the throne of thy kingdom over Israel for ever; according as I promised to David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man upon the throne of Israel.

٦ 6 إِنْ كُنْتُمْ تَنْقَلِبُونَ أَنْتُمْ أَوْ أَبْنَاؤُكُمْ مِنْ وَرَائِي، وَلَا تَحْفَظُونَ وَصَايَايَ، فَرَائِضِيَ ٱلَّتِي جَعَلْتُهَا أَمَامَكُمْ، بَلْ تَذْهَبُونَ وَتَعْبُدُونَ آلِهَةً أُخْرَى وَتَسْجُدُونَ لَهَا،

But if ye shall turn away from following me, ye 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:

٧ 7 فَإِنِّي أَقْطَعُ إِسْرَائِيلَ عَنْ وَجْهِ ٱلْأَرْضِ ٱلَّتِي أَعْطَيْتُهُمْ إِيَّاهَا، وَٱلْبَيْتُ ٱلَّذِي قَدَّسْتُهُ لِٱسْمِي أَنْفِيهِ مِنْ أَمَامِي، وَيَكُونُ إِسْرَائِيلُ مَثَلًا وَهُزْأَةً فِي جَمِيعِ ٱلشُّعُوبِ،

then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all peoples:

٨ 8 وَهَذَا ٱلْبَيْتُ يَكُونُ عِبْرَةً. كُلُّ مَنْ يَمُرُّ عَلَيْهِ يَتَعَجَّبُ وَيَصْفِرُ، وَيَقُولُونَ: لِمَاذَا عَمِلَ ٱلرَّبُّ هَكَذَا لِهَذِهِ ٱلْأَرْضِ وَلِهَذَا ٱلْبَيْتِ؟

And though this house be so high, yet shall every one that passeth by be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and to this house?

٩ 9 فَيَقُولُونَ: مِنْ أَجْلِ أَنَّهُمْ تَرَكُوا ٱلرَّبَّ إِلَهَهُمُ ٱلَّذِي أَخْرَجَ آبَاءَهُمْ مِنْ أَرْضِ مِصْرَ، وَتَمَسَّكُوا بِآلِهَةٍ أُخْرَى وَسَجَدُوا لَهَا وَعَبَدُوهَا، لِذَلِكَ جَلَبَ ٱلرَّبُّ عَلَيْهِمْ كُلَّ هَذَا ٱلشَّرِّ».

and they shall answer, Because they forsook the LORD their God, which brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath the LORD brought all this evil upon them.

١٠ 10 وَبَعْدَ نِهَايَةِ عِشْرِينَ سَنَةً بَعْدَمَا بَنَى سُلَيْمَانُ ٱلْبَيْتَيْنِ، بَيْتَ ٱلرَّبِّ وَبَيْتَ ٱلْمَلِكِ.

And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, wherein Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the LORD and the king’s house,

١١ 11 وَكَانَ حِيرَامُ مَلِكُ صُورَ قَدْ سَاعَفَ سُلَيْمَانَ بِخَشَبِ أَرْزٍ وَخَشَبِ سَرْوٍ وَذَهَبٍ، حَسَبَ كُلِّ مَسَرَّتِهِ. أَعْطَى حِينَئِذٍ ٱلْمَلِكُ سُلَيْمَانُ حِيرَامَ عِشْرِينَ مَدِينَةً فِي أَرْضِ ٱلْجَلِيلِ.

(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.

١٢ 12 فَخَرَجَ حِيرَامُ مِنْ صُورَ لِيَرَى ٱلْمُدُنَ ٱلَّتِي أَعْطَاهُ إِيَّاهَا سُلَيْمَانُ، فَلَمْ تَحْسُنْ فِي عَيْنَيْهِ.

And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and they pleased him not.

١٣ 13 فَقَالَ: «مَا هَذِهِ ٱلْمُدُنُ ٱلَّتِي أَعْطَيْتَنِي يَا أَخِي؟» وَدَعَاهَا «أَرْضَ كَابُولَ» إِلَى هَذَا ٱلْيَوْمِ.

And he said, What cities are these which thou hast given me, my brother? And he called them the land of Cabul, unto this day.

١٤ 14 وَأَرْسَلَ حِيرَامُ لِلْمَلِكِ مِئَةً وَعِشْرِينَ وَزْنَةَ ذَهَبٍ.

And Hiram sent to the king sixscore talents of gold.

١٥ 15 وَهَذَا هُوَ سَبَبُ ٱلتَّسْخِيرِ ٱلَّذِي جَعَلَهُ ٱلْمَلِكُ سُلَيْمَانُ لِبِنَاءِ بَيْتِ ٱلرَّبِّ وَبَيْتِهِ وَٱلْقَلْعَةِ وَسُورِ أُورُشَلِيمَ وَحَاصُورَ وَمَجِدُّو وَجَازَرَ.

And this is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised; for to build the house of the LORD, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.

١٦ 16 صَعِدَ فِرْعَوْنُ مَلِكُ مِصْرَ وَأَخَذَ جَازَرَ وَأَحْرَقَهَا بِٱلنَّارِ، وَقَتَلَ ٱلْكَنْعَانِيِّينَ ٱلسَّاكِنِينَ فِي ٱلْمَدِينَةِ، وَأَعْطَاهَا مَهْرًا لِٱبْنَتِهِ ٱمْرَأَةِ سُلَيْمَانَ.

Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and taken Gezer, and burnt it with fire, and slain the Canaanites that dwelt in the city, and given it for a portion unto his daughter, Solomon’s wife.

١٧ 17 وَبَنَى سُلَيْمَانُ جَازَرَ وَبَيْتَ حُورُونَ ٱلسُّفْلَى

Solomon built Gezer, and Beth-horon the nether,

١٨ 18 وَبَعْلَةَ وَتَدْمُرَ فِي ٱلْبَرِّيَّةِ فِي ٱلْأَرْضِ،

and Baalath, and Tamar in the wilderness, in the land,

١٩ 19 وَجَمِيعَ مُدُنِ ٱلْمَخَازِنِ ٱلَّتِي كَانَتْ لِسُلَيْمَانَ، وَمُدُنَ ٱلْمَرْكَبَاتِ وَمُدُنَ ٱلْفُرْسَانِ، وَمَرْغُوبَ سُلَيْمَانَ ٱلَّذِي رَغِبَ أَنْ يَبْنِيَهُ فِي أُورُشَلِيمَ وَفِي لُبْنَانَ وَفِي كُلِّ أَرْضِ سَلْطَنَتِهِ.

and all the store 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.

٢٠ 20 جَمِيعُ ٱلشَّعْبِ ٱلْبَاقِينَ مِنَ ٱلْأَمُورِيِّينَ وَٱلْحِثِّيِّينَ وَٱلْفِرِزِّيِّينَ وَٱلْحِوِّيِّينَ وَٱلْيَبُوسِيِّينَ ٱلَّذِينَ لَيْسُوا مِنْ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ،

As for all the people that were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which were not of the children of Israel;

٢١ 21 أَبْنَاؤُهُمُ ٱلَّذِينَ بَقُوا بَعْدَهُمْ فِي ٱلْأَرْضِ، ٱلَّذِينَ لَمْ يَقْدِرْ بَنُو إِسْرَائِيلَ أَنْ يُحَرِّمُوهُمْ، جَعَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ سُلَيْمَانُ تَسْخِيرَ عَبِيدٍ إِلَى هَذَا ٱلْيَوْمِ.

their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel were not able utterly to destroy, of them did Solomon raise a levy of bondservants, unto this day.

٢٢ 22 وَأَمَّا بَنُو إِسْرَائِيلَ فَلَمْ يَجْعَلْ سُلَيْمَانُ مِنْهُمْ عَبِيدًا لِأَنَّهُمْ رِجَالُ ٱلْقِتَالِ وَخُدَّامُهُ وَأُمَرَاؤُهُ وَثَوَالِثُهُ وَرُؤَسَاءُ مَرْكَبَاتِهِ وَفُرْسَانُهُ.

But of the children of Israel did Solomon make 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.

٢٣ 23 هَؤُلَاءِ رُؤَسَاءُ ٱلْمُوَكَّلِينَ عَلَى أَعْمَالِ سُلَيْمَانَ خَمْسُ مِئَةٍ وَخَمْسُونَ، ٱلَّذِينَ كَانُوا يَتَسَلَّطُونَ عَلَى ٱلشَّعْبِ ٱلْعَامِلِينَ ٱلْعَمَلَ.

These were the chief officers that were over Solomon’s work, five hundred and fifty, which bare rule over the people that wrought in the work.

٢٤ 24 وَلَكِنَّ بِنْتَ فِرْعَوْنَ صَعِدَتْ مِنْ مَدِينَةِ دَاوُدَ إِلَى بَيْتِهَا ٱلَّذِي بَنَاهُ لَهَا، حِينَئِذٍ بَنَى ٱلْقَلْعَةَ.

But Pharaoh’s daughter came up out of the city of David unto her house which [Solomon] had built for her: then did he build Millo.

٢٥ 25 وَكَانَ سُلَيْمَانُ يُصْعِدُ ثَلَاثَ مَرَّاتٍ فِي ٱلسَّنَةِ مُحْرَقَاتٍ وَذَبَائِحَ سَلَامَةٍ عَلَى ٱلْمَذْبَحِ ٱلَّذِي بَنَاهُ لِلرَّبِّ، وَكَانَ يُوقِدُ عَلَى ٱلَّذِي أَمَامَ ٱلرَّبِّ. وَأَكْمَلَ ٱلْبَيْتَ.

And three times in a year did Solomon offer burnt offerings and peace offerings upon the altar which he built unto the LORD, burning incense therewith, [upon the altar] that was before the LORD. So he finished the house.

٢٦ 26 وَعَمِلَ ٱلْمَلِكُ سُلَيْمَانُ سُفُنًا فِي عِصْيُونَ جَابَرَ ٱلَّتِي بِجَانِبِ أَيْلَةَ عَلَى شَاطِئِ بَحْرِ سُوفٍ فِي أَرْضِ أَدُومَ.

And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion-geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.

٢٧ 27 فَأَرْسَلَ حِيرَامُ فِي ٱلسُّفُنِ عَبِيدَهُ ٱلنَّوَاتِيَّ ٱلْعَارِفِينَ بِٱلْبَحْرِ مَعَ عَبِيدِ سُلَيْمَانَ،

And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.

٢٨ 28 فَأَتَوْا إِلَى أُوفِيرَ، وَأَخَذُوا مِنْ هُنَاكَ ذَهَبًا أَرْبَعَ مِئَةِ وَزْنَةٍ وَعِشْرِينَ وَزْنَةً، وَأَتَوْا بِهَا إِلَى ٱلْمَلِكِ سُلَيْمَانَ.

And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.