< 列王紀上 9 >
1 [上主再次顯現]撒羅滿建造完了上主的殿、王宮和他所喜歡建造的一切建築物以後,
And it came to pass when Solomon had finished building the house of the Lord, and the king's house, and all the work of Solomon, whatever he wished to perform,
2 上主第二次顯現給撒羅滿,像在基貝紅顯現給他一樣。
that the Lord appeared to Solomon a second time, as he appeared in Gabaon.
3 上主對他說:「我已應允了你在我面前所行的祈禱和哀求,我也祝聖了你所建築的這殿,將我的名永遠安放在那裏,我的眼和我的心,也將時常留在那裏。
And the Lord said to him, I have heard the voice of your prayer, and your supplication which you made before me: I have done for you according to all your prayer: I have hallowed this house which you have built to put my name there for ever, and mine eyes and my heart shall be there always.
4 至於你,如果你在我面前行走,像你父親達味那樣行走,心地純樸,公正無私,遵守我所吩咐你的一切,恪守我的法律和點章,
And if you will walk before me as David your father walked, in holiness of heart and uprightness, and so as to do according to all that I commanded him, and shall keep my ordinances and my commandments:
5 我必永遠鞏固你在以色列中的王位,照我應許你父親達味所說:你的子孫中,決不缺人坐上以色列的寶座。
then will I establish the throne of your kingdom in Israel for ever, as I spoke to David your father, saying, There shall not fail you a man to rule in Israel.
6 但是,如果你們或你們的子孫遠離我,不遵守我給你們頒賜的誡命和律例,而去服侍敬拜別的神,
But if you or your children do in any wise revolt from me, and do not keep my commandments and my ordinances, which Moses set before you, and you go and serve other gods, and worship them:
7 我必要將以色列從我賜給他們的地面上除掉,而我為我的名所祝聖的這殿,我也必要棄之不顧,使以色列成為萬民中的話柄和笑談,
then will I cut off Israel from the land which I have given them, and this house which I have consecrated to my name I will cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a desolation and a byword to all nations.
8 這殿要成為廢墟,凡從這裏經過的人,都要驚愕嗟歎說:上主為什麼這樣對待了這地和這殿﹖
And this house, which is high, shall be [so that] every one that passes by it shall be amazed, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Therefore has the Lord done thus to this land, and to this house?
9 人必回答說:是因為他們離棄了領他們祖先出離埃及的上主,他們的天主,而歸依、崇拜、服侍了別的神,為此,上主使這一切災禍臨到他們的身上。」撒羅滿與希蘭的交易
And [men] shall say, Because they forsook the Lord their God, who brought out their fathers from Egypt, out of the house of bondage, and they attached themselves to strange gods, and worshipped them, and served them: therefore the Lord has brought this evil upon them. Then Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharao out of the city of David into his house which he built for himself in those days.
10 撒羅滿費時二十年,纔完成了那兩大殿宇:即上主的殿宇和君王的宮殿。
[During] twenty years in which Solomon was building the two houses, the house of the Lord, and the house of the king,
11 其間提洛王希蘭曾依照撒羅滿的要求,供給了他香柏木、柏木和黃金。此時撒羅滿王便將加里肋亞境內二十座城,送給了希蘭。
Chiram king of Tyre helped Solomon with cedar wood, and fir wood, and with gold, and all that he wished for: then the king gave Chiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.
12 希蘭從提洛前來,觀看撒羅滿送給他的城,一見就不滿意,
So Chiram departed from Tyre, and went into Galilee to see the cities which Solomon gave to him; and they pleased him not. And he said,
13 說「吾兄,你送給我的這些城,是什麼城﹖」因此直到今日,這些城仍稱為加步耳地。
What [are] these cities which you have given me, brother? And he called them Boundary until this day.
14 希蘭原送給了撒羅滿王一百二十「塔冷通」黃金。建城造船
And Chiram brought to Solomon a hundred and twenty talents of gold,
15 此段記載撒羅滿徵夫服役,建造上主的殿、王宮、米羅、耶路撒冷的城牆、哈祚爾、默基多、革則爾、【
16 以前,埃及王法郎曾上來,攻取了革則爾,放火燒城,屠殺了城裏的客納罕人,將這城賜給了自己的女兒,撒羅滿的妻子,作為妝奩。
19 撒羅滿所有的貯貨城、屯車城和養馬城,以及撒羅滿在耶路撒冷,在黎巴嫩,在他管轄的各地內,喜歡建造的一切建築物。
20 至於不屬於以色列子民的阿摩黎人、赫特人、培黎齊人、希威人和耶步斯人的遺族,
21 就是以色列人子民未能消滅而留在地方上的外族子孫,撒羅滿都徵來充作苦役,直到今天。
22 至於以色列子民,他不令他們作苦役,只叫他們服兵役,作朝臣、將帥、軍官、戰車長和騎兵長。
23 管理撒羅滿工程的主任官員,計有五百五十人,他們負責監督作工的人。
24 法郎的女兒從達味城,搬進撒羅滿為她建造的宮室之後,撒羅滿纔開始建造米羅。
25 撒羅滿每年三次在他建的祭壇上,向上主奉獻全燔祭與和平祭,在上主面前的香壇上焚香;又常修理聖殿。
26 此後,撒羅滿王又在厄東城,紅海之濱,靠近厄拉特的厄茲雍革貝爾建造船隻。
even that for which king Solomon built a ship in Gasion Gaber near Aelath on the shore of the extremity of the sea in the land of Edom.
27 希蘭派遣自己的臣僕,善於航海的船員,與撒羅滿的僕人同船航行,
And Chiram sent in the ship together with the servants of Solomon servants of his own, mariners to row, men acquainted with the sea.
28 去了敖非爾,從那裏裝載了四百二十「塔冷通」黃金,運到撒羅滿王那裏。
And they came to Sophira, and took thence a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and brought them to king Solomon.