列王纪上 8
1 那时，所罗门将以色列的长老和各支派的首领，并以色列的族长，招聚到耶路撒冷，要把耶和华的约柜从大卫城—就是锡安—运上来。
Then all those greater by birth of Israel, with the leaders of the tribes and the rulers of the families of the sons of Israel, gathered together before king Solomon at Jerusalem, so that they might carry the ark of the covenant of the Lord, from the city of David, that is, from Zion.
2 以他念月，就是七月，在节前，以色列人都聚集到所罗门王那里。
And all of Israel assembled before king Solomon, on the solemn day in the month of Ethanim, which is the seventh month.
3 以色列长老来到，祭司便抬起约柜，
And all the elders of Israel arrived, and the priests took up the ark.
4 祭司和利未人将耶和华的约柜运上来，又将会幕和会幕的一切圣器具都带上来。
And they carried the ark of the Lord, and the tabernacle of the covenant, and all the vessels of the Sanctuary, which were in the tabernacle; and the priests and the Levites carried these.
5 所罗门王和聚集到他那里的以色列全会众，一同在约柜前献牛羊为祭，多得不可胜数。
Then king Solomon, and the entire multitude of Israel, who had assembled before him, advanced with him before the ark. And they immolated sheep and oxen, which could not be numbered or estimated.
6 祭司将耶和华的约柜抬进内殿，就是至圣所，放在两个基路伯的翅膀底下。
And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the Lord to its place, into the oracle of the temple, in the Holy of Holies, under the wings of the cherubim.
7 基路伯张着翅膀在约柜之上，遮掩约柜和抬柜的杠。
For indeed, the cherubim extended their wings over the place of the ark, and they protected the ark and its bars from above.
8 这杠甚长，杠头在内殿前的圣所可以看见，在殿外却不能看见，直到如今还在那里。
And since the bars projected outward, their ends were visible from without, in the Sanctuary before the oracle; but they were not visible farther outward. And they have been in that place even to the present day.
9 约柜里惟有两块石版，就是以色列人出埃及地后，耶和华与他们立约的时候摩西在何烈山所放的。除此以外，并无别物。
Now inside the ark, there was nothing other than the two tablets of stone, which Moses had placed in it at Horeb, when the Lord formed a covenant with the sons of Israel, when they departed from the land of Egypt.
10 祭司从圣所出来的时候，有云充满耶和华的殿；
Then it happened that, when the priests had exited from the Sanctuary, a cloud filled the house of the Lord.
11 甚至祭司不能站立供职，因为耶和华的荣光充满了殿。
And the priests were unable to stand and minister, because of the cloud. For the glory of the Lord had filled the house of the Lord.
12 那时所罗门说： 耶和华曾说， 他必住在幽暗之处。
Then Solomon said: “The Lord has said that he would dwell in a cloud.
13 我已经建造殿宇作你的居所， 为你永远的住处。
Building, I have built a house as your dwelling place, your most firm throne forever.”
14 王转脸为以色列会众祝福，以色列会众就都站立。
And the king turned his face, and he blessed the entire assembly of Israel. For the entire assembly of Israel was standing.
15 所罗门说：“耶和华—以色列的 神是应当称颂的！因他亲口向我父大卫所应许的，也亲手成就了。
And Solomon said: “Blessed is the Lord, the God of Israel, who spoke with his mouth to my father David, and who, with his own hands, has perfected it, saying:
16 他说：‘自从我领我民以色列出埃及以来，我未曾在以色列各支派中选择一城建造殿宇—为我名的居所，但拣选大卫治理我民以色列。’”
‘From the day when I led my people Israel away from Egypt, I did not choose any city out of all the tribes of Israel, so that a house would be built, and so that my name might be there. Instead, I chose David to be over my people Israel.’
17 所罗门说：“我父大卫曾立意，要为耶和华—以色列 神的名建殿。
And my father David wanted to build a house to the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.
18 耶和华却对我父大卫说：‘你立意为我的名建殿，这意思甚好。
But the Lord said to my father David: ‘Since you have planned in your heart to build a house to my name, you have done well by considering this plan in your mind.
19 只是你不可建殿，惟你所生的儿子必为我名建殿。’
Yet truly, you shall not build a house for me. Instead, your son, who shall go forth from your loins, he himself shall build a house to my name.’
20 现在耶和华成就了他所应许的话，使我接续我父大卫坐以色列的国位，又为耶和华—以色列 神的名建造了殿。
The Lord has confirmed his word which he spoke. And so I stand in place of my father David, and I sit upon the throne of Israel, just as the Lord said. And I have built a house to the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.
21 我也在其中为约柜预备一处。约柜内有耶和华的约，就是他领我们列祖出埃及地的时候，与他们所立的约。”
And there I have appointed a place for the ark, in which is the covenant of the Lord that he struck with our fathers, when they went forth from the land of Egypt.”
22 所罗门当着以色列会众，站在耶和华的坛前，向天举手说：
Then Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord, in the sight of the assembly of Israel, and he extended his hands toward heaven.
23 “耶和华—以色列的 神啊，天上地下没有神可比你的！你向那尽心行在你面前的仆人守约施慈爱；
And he said: “Lord God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven above, nor on the earth below. You preserve covenant and mercy with your servants, who walk before you with all their heart.
24 向你仆人—我父大卫所应许的话现在应验了。你亲口应许，亲手成就，正如今日一样。
You have fulfilled, for your servant David, my father, that which you said to him. With your mouth, you spoke; and with your hands, you completed; just as this day proves.
25 耶和华—以色列的 神啊，你所应许你仆人—我父大卫的话说：‘你的子孙若谨慎自己的行为，在我面前行事像你所行的一样，就不断人坐以色列的国位。’现在求你应验这话。
Now therefore, O Lord God of Israel, fulfill, for your servant David, my father, that which you spoke to him, saying, ‘There shall not be taken away from you a man before me, who may sit upon the throne of Israel, if only your sons will guard their way, so that they walk before me, just as you have walked in my sight.’
26 以色列的 神啊，求你成就向你仆人—我父大卫所应许的话。
And now, O Lord God of Israel, establish your words, which you spoke to your servant David, my father.
27 “神果真住在地上吗？看哪，天和天上的天尚且不足你居住的，何况我所建的这殿呢？
Is it, then, to be understood that truly God would dwell upon the earth? For if heaven, and the heavens of heavens, are not able to contain you, how much less this house, which I have built?
28 惟求耶和华—我的 神垂顾仆人的祷告祈求，俯听仆人今日在你面前的祈祷呼吁。
Yet look with favor upon the prayer of your servant and upon his petitions, O Lord, my God. Listen to the hymn and the prayer, which your servant prays before you this day,
29 愿你昼夜看顾这殿，就是你应许立为你名的居所；求你垂听仆人向此处祷告的话。
so that your eyes may be open over this house, night and day, over the house about which you said, ‘My name shall be there,’ so that you may heed the prayer that your servant is praying in this place to you.
30 你仆人和你民以色列向此处祈祷的时候，求你在天上你的居所垂听，垂听而赦免。
So may you heed the supplication of your servant and of your people Israel, whatever they will pray for in this place, and so may you heed them in your dwelling place in heaven. And when you heed, you will be gracious.
31 “人若得罪邻舍，有人叫他起誓，他来到这殿在你的坛前起誓，
But if any man sins against his neighbor, and he has any kind of an oath by which he is bound, and he arrives because of the oath, before your altar in your house,
32 求你在天上垂听，判断你的仆人：定恶人有罪，照他所行的报应在他头上；定义人有理，照他的义赏赐他。
you will hear in heaven, and you will act and judge your servants, condemning the impious, and repaying his own way upon his own head, but justifying the just, and rewarding him in accord with his justice.
33 “你的民以色列若得罪你，败在仇敌面前，又归向你，承认你的名，在这殿里祈求祷告，
And if your people Israel will have fled from their enemies, because they have sinned against you, and doing penance and confessing to your name, shall arrive and pray and petition you in this house,
34 求你在天上垂听，赦免你民以色列的罪，使他们归回你赐给他们列祖之地。
listen in heaven, and forgive the sin of your people Israel, and lead them back to the land, which you gave to their fathers.
35 “你的民因得罪你，你惩罚他们，使天闭塞不下雨；他们若向此处祷告，承认你的名，离开他们的罪，
And if the heavens have closed, so that there is no rain, because of their sins, and they, praying in this place, shall do penance to your name, and shall be converted from their sins, by occasion of their afflictions,
36 求你在天上垂听，赦免你仆人以色列民的罪，将当行的善道指教他们，且降雨在你的地，就是你赐给你民为业之地。
hear them from heaven, and forgive the sins of your servants and of your people Israel. And reveal to them the good way, along which they should walk, and grant rain upon your land, which you have given to your people as a possession.
37 “国中若有饥荒、瘟疫、旱风、霉烂、蝗虫、蚂蚱，或有仇敌犯境围困城邑，无论遭遇什么灾祸疾病，
Then, if famine rises over the land, or pestilence, or corrupt air, or blight, or locust, or mildew, or if their enemy afflicts them, besieging the gates, or any harm or infirmity,
38 你的民以色列，或是众人，或是一人，自觉有罪，向这殿举手，无论祈求什么，祷告什么，
or whatever curse or divine intervention may happen to any man among your people Israel, if anyone understands, having been wounded in his heart, and if he will have extended his hands in this house,
39 求你在天上你的居所垂听赦免。你是知道人心的，要照各人所行的待他们（惟有你知道世人的心），
you will hear in heaven, in your dwelling place, and you will forgive. And you will act so that you give to each one in accord with his own ways, just as you see in his heart, for you alone know the heart of all the sons of men.
40 使他们在你赐给我们列祖之地上一生一世敬畏你。
So may they fear you, all the days that they live upon the face of the land, which you have given to our fathers.
41 “论到不属你民以色列的外邦人，为你名从远方而来，
Moreover, the foreigner too, who is not of your people Israel, when he will have arrived from a distant land because of your name, for they shall hear about your great name, and your strong hand,
42 （他们听人论说你的大名和大能的手，并伸出来的膀臂）向这殿祷告，
and your outstretched arm everywhere: so when he arrives and prays in this place,
43 求你在天上你的居所垂听，照着外邦人所祈求的而行，使天下万民都认识你的名，敬畏你像你的民以色列一样；又使他们知道我建造的这殿是称为你名下的。
you will listen in heaven, in the firmament of your dwelling place. And you will do all the things, for which that foreigner will have called upon you. So may all the peoples of the earth learn to fear your name, just as your people Israel do. And so may they show that your name has been invoked over this house, which I have built.
44 “你的民若奉你的差遣，无论往何处去与仇敌争战，向耶和华所选择的城与我为你名所建造的殿祷告，
And if your people have gone out to war against their enemies, along whatever way you will send them, they shall pray to you in the direction of the city, which you have chosen, and toward the house, which I have built to your name.
45 求你在天上垂听他们的祷告祈求，使他们得胜。
And you will hear in heaven their prayers and their petitions. And you will accomplish judgment for them.
46 “你的民若得罪你（世上没有不犯罪的人），你向他们发怒，将他们交给仇敌掳到仇敌之地，或远或近，
But if they sin against you, for there is no man who does not sin, and you, being angry, deliver them to their enemies, and they will have been led away as captives to the land of their enemies, whether far or near,
47 他们若在掳到之地想起罪来，回心转意，恳求你说：‘我们有罪了，我们悖逆了，我们作恶了’；
and if they do penance in their heart, in the place of captivity, and having been converted, make supplication to you in their captivity, saying, ‘We have sinned; we acted unjustly; we committed impiety,’
48 他们若在掳到之地尽心尽性归服你，又向自己的地，就是你赐给他们列祖之地和你所选择的城，并我为你名所建造的殿祷告，
and they return to you with all their heart and all their soul, in the land of their enemies, to which they have been led away as captives, and if they pray to you in the direction of their land, which you gave to their fathers, and of the city, which you have chosen, and of the temple, which I have built to your name:
49 求你在天上你的居所垂听他们的祷告祈求，为他们伸冤；
you will hear in heaven, in the firmament of your throne, their prayers and their petitions. And you will accomplish their judgment.
50 饶恕得罪你的民，赦免他们的一切过犯，使他们在掳他们的人面前蒙怜恤。
And you will forgive your people, who have sinned against you, and all their iniquities, by which they have transgressed against you. And you will grant to them mercy in the sight of those who have made them captives, so that they may take pity on them.
51 因为他们是你的子民，你的产业，是你从埃及领出来脱离铁炉的。
For they are your people and your inheritance, whom you have led away from the land of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron.
52 愿你的眼目看顾仆人，听你民以色列的祈求，无论何时向你祈求，愿你垂听。
So may your eyes be open to the supplication of your servant and of your people Israel. And so may you heed them in all the things about which they will call upon you.
53 主耶和华啊，你将他们从地上的万民中分别出来作你的产业，是照你领我们列祖出埃及的时候，借你仆人摩西所应许的话。”
For you have separated them to yourself as an inheritance, from among all the peoples of the earth, just as you spoke by Moses, your servant, when you led our fathers away from Egypt, O Lord God.”
54 所罗门在耶和华的坛前屈膝跪着，向天举手，在耶和华面前祷告祈求已毕，就起来，
And it happened that, when Solomon had completed praying this entire prayer and supplication to the Lord, he rose up from the sight of the altar of the Lord. For he had fixed both knees upon the ground, and he had extended his hands toward heaven.
55 站着，大声为以色列全会众祝福，说：
Then he stood and blessed the entire assembly of Israel in a great voice, saying:
56 “耶和华是应当称颂的！因为他照着一切所应许的赐平安给他的民以色列人，凡借他仆人摩西应许赐福的话，一句都没有落空。
“Blessed is the Lord, who has given rest to his people Israel, in accord with all that he said. Not even one word, out of all the good things that he spoke by his servant Moses, has fallen away.
57 愿耶和华—我们的 神与我们同在，像与我们列祖同在一样，不撇下我们，不丢弃我们，
May the Lord our God be with us, just as he was with our fathers, not abandoning us, and not rejecting us.
58 使我们的心归向他，遵行他的道，谨守他吩咐我们列祖的诫命、律例、典章。
But may he incline our hearts to himself, so that we may walk in all his ways, and keep his commandments, and his ceremonies, and whatever judgments he commanded to our fathers.
59 我在耶和华面前祈求的这些话，愿耶和华—我们的 神昼夜垂念，每日为他仆人与他民以色列伸冤，
And may these my words, by which I have prayed before the Lord, be near to the Lord our God, day and night, so that he may accomplish judgment for his servant and for his people Israel, throughout each day.
60 使地上的万民都知道惟独耶和华是 神，并无别神。
So may all the peoples of the earth know that the Lord himself is God, and there is no other beside him.
61 所以你们当向耶和华—我们的 神存诚实的心，遵行他的律例，谨守他的诫命，至终如今日一样。”
Also, may our hearts be perfect with the Lord our God, so that we may walk in his decrees, and keep his commandments, as also on this day.”
62 王和以色列众民一同在耶和华面前献祭。
Then the king, and all of Israel with him, immolated victims before the Lord.
63 所罗门向耶和华献平安祭，用牛二万二千，羊十二万。这样，王和以色列众民为耶和华的殿行奉献之礼。
And Solomon slew sacrifices of peace offerings, which he immolated to the Lord: twenty-two thousand oxen, and twenty thousand one hundred sheep. And the king and all the sons of Israel dedicated the temple of the Lord.
64 当日，王因耶和华殿前的铜坛太小，容不下燔祭、素祭，和平安祭牲的脂油，便将耶和华殿前院子当中分别为圣，在那里献燔祭、素祭，和平安祭牲的脂油。
On that day, the king sanctified the middle of the atrium, which was before the house of the Lord. For in that place, he offered holocaust, and sacrifice, and the fat of peace offerings. For the bronze altar, which was before the Lord, was too small and was not able to hold the holocaust, and the sacrifice, and the fat of the peace offerings.
65 那时，所罗门和以色列众人，就是从哈马口直到埃及小河所有的以色列人，都聚集成为大会，在耶和华—我们的 神面前守节七日又七日，共十四日。
Then Solomon made, at that time, a celebratory festival, and all of Israel with him, a great multitude, from the entrance of Hamath to the river of Egypt, in the sight of the Lord our God, for seven days plus seven days, that is, fourteen days.
66 第八日，王遣散众民；他们都为王祝福。因见耶和华向他仆人大卫和他民以色列所施的一切恩惠，就都心中喜乐，各归各家去了。
And on the eighth day, he dismissed the people. And blessing the king, they set out for their tents, rejoicing and cheerful in heart over all the good things that the Lord had done for his servant David and for his people Israel.
