列王纪上 9
1 所罗门建造耶和华殿和王宫，并一切所愿意建造的都完毕了，
After Solomon had finished the Lord's Temple and the royal palace, having accomplished everything he'd wanted to do,
2 耶和华就二次向所罗门显现，如先前在基遍向他显现一样，
the Lord appeared to him a second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon.
3 对他说：“你向我所祷告祈求的，我都应允了。我已将你所建的这殿分别为圣，使我的名永远在其中；我的眼、我的心也必常在那里。
The Lord told him, “I have heard your prayer and your request to me. I have dedicated this Temple you have built by placing my name on it forever; I will always watch over it and take care of it.
4 你若效法你父大卫，存诚实正直的心行在我面前，遵行我一切所吩咐你的，谨守我的律例典章，
As for you, if you follow my ways as your father David did, doing everything I've told you to do, and if you keep my laws and regulations,
5 我就必坚固你的国位在以色列中，直到永远，正如我应许你父大卫说：‘你的子孙必不断人坐以色列的国位。’
then I will make your throne secure forever. I made this agreement with your father David, telling him, ‘You will always have a descendant to rule over Israel.’
6 倘若你们和你们的子孙转去不跟从我，不守我指示你们的诫命律例，去事奉敬拜别神，
But if you or your descendants turn away and do not keep the laws and the commandments I have given you, and if you go and serve and worship other gods,
7 我就必将以色列人从我赐给他们的地上剪除，并且我为己名所分别为圣的殿也必舍弃不顾，使以色列人在万民中作笑谈，被讥诮。
then I will cut Israel off from the land I have given them. I will banish from my presence this Temple I have dedicated to my honor, and I will make it an object lesson of ridicule among the nations.
8 这殿虽然甚高，将来经过的人必惊讶、嗤笑，说：‘耶和华为何向这地和这殿如此行呢？’
This Temple will become a pile of rubble. All who pass by it will be appalled and will hiss, saying, ‘Why has the Lord acted in such a way to this land and this Temple?’
9 人必回答说：‘是因此地的人离弃领他们列祖出埃及地之耶和华—他们的 神，去亲近别神，事奉敬拜他，所以耶和华使这一切灾祸临到他们。’”
The answer will come, ‘Because they abandoned the Lord their God, who brought their forefathers out of Egypt, and have embraced other gods, worshiping them and serving them. That's why the Lord has brought all this trouble upon them.’”
10 所罗门建造耶和华殿和王宫，这两所二十年才完毕了。
It took twenty years for Solomon to construct the two buildings—the Temple of the Lord and his own palace. After this,
11 泰尔王希兰曾照所罗门所要的，资助他香柏木、松木，和金子；所罗门王就把加利利地的二十座城给了希兰。
King Solomon gave twenty towns in Galilee to Hiram king of Tyre, because Hiram had provided him with all the cedar and juniper and gold he wanted.
12 希兰从泰尔出来，察看所罗门给他的城邑，就不喜悦，
But when Hiram went from Tyre to see the cities that Solomon had given him, he was not happy with them.
13 说：“我兄啊，你给我的是什么城邑呢？”他就给这城邑之地起名叫迦步勒，直到今日。
“What are these towns you have given me, my brother?” asked Hiram. He called them the land of Cabul, the name they are known by to this day.
14 希兰给所罗门一百二十他连得金子。
Even so, Hiram sent the king 120 talents of gold in payment.
15 所罗门王挑取服苦的人，是为建造耶和华的殿、自己的宫、米罗、耶路撒冷的城墙、夏琐、米吉多，并基 色。
Here is the account of the forced labor that King Solomon imposed to build the Lord's Temple, his own palace, the terraces, and the wall of Jerusalem, as well as Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.
16 先前埃及王法老上来攻取基色，用火焚烧，杀了城内居住的迦南人，将城赐给他女儿所罗门的妻作妆奁。
Pharaoh, king of Egypt, had attacked and captured Gezer. He had set it on fire, killed the Canaanites living in the town. He had then given it as a wedding dowry to his daughter, Solomon's wife.
17 所罗门建造基色、下伯·和 、
Solomon rebuilt Gezer and lower Beth-horon,
18 巴拉，并国中旷野里的达莫，
Baalath and Tamar in the wilderness, in the land of Judah,
19 又建造所有的积货城，并屯车和马兵的城，与耶路撒冷、黎巴嫩，以及自己治理的全国中所愿建造的。
and all of Solomon's towns for storage, and the towns for his chariots and for his horsemen, plus whatever Solomon wanted to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and throughout his entire kingdom.
20 至于国中所剩下不属以色列人的亚摩利人、赫人、比利洗人、希未人、耶布斯人，
The descendants of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites (people who were not Israelites)
21 就是以色列人不能灭尽的，所罗门挑取他们的后裔作服苦的奴仆，直到今日。
who remained in the land—those whom the Israelites were unable to destroy completely—were conscripted by Solomon to work as forced laborers, as they continue to do to this day.
22 惟有以色列人，所罗门不使他们作奴仆，乃是作他的战士、臣仆、统领、军长、车兵长、马兵长。
But Solomon did not enslave any of the Israelites. They were his soldiers, officials, commanders, captains, chariot commanders, and horsemen.
23 所罗门有五百五十督工的，监管工人。
They were also the chief officers in charge of Solomon's programs: 550 in command of the people who carried out the work.
24 法老的女儿从大卫城搬到所罗门为她建造的宫里。那时，所罗门才建造米罗。
Once Pharaoh's daughter had moved from the City of David to the palace that Solomon had built for her, he built the city terraces.
25 所罗门每年三次在他为耶和华所筑的坛上献燔祭和平安祭，又在耶和华面前的坛上烧香。这样，他建造殿的工程完毕了。
Three times each year Solomon sacrificed burnt offerings and friendship offerings on the altar he had built for the Lord, burning incense before the Lord with them, and so fulfilled what was required at the Temple.
26 所罗门王在以东地红海边，靠近以禄的以旬·迦别制造船只。
King Solomon built a fleet of ships at Ezion-geber, which is near Eloth on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.
27 希兰差遣他的仆人，就是熟悉泛海的船家，与所罗门的仆人一同坐船航海。
Hiram sent his sailors who knew the sea to serve in the fleet with Solomon's men.
28 他们到了俄斐，从那里得了四百二十他连得金子，运到所罗门王那里。
They sailed to Ophir and brought back 420 talents of gold from there and delivered it to Solomon.
