歷代志下 9
1 示巴女王聽見所羅門的名聲，就來到耶路撒冷，要用難解的話試問所羅門；跟隨她的人甚多，又有駱駝馱着香料、寶石，和許多金子。她來見了所羅門，就把心裏所有的對所羅門都說出來。
And the queen of Sheba has heard of the fame of Solomon, and comes to Jerusalem to try Solomon with acute sayings, with a very great company, and camels carrying spices and gold in abundance, and precious stone; and she comes to Solomon, and speaks with him all that has been with her heart,
2 所羅門將她所問的都答上了，沒有一句不明白、不能答的。
and Solomon declares all her matters to her, and there has not been hid a thing from Solomon that he has not declared to her.
3 示巴女王見所羅門的智慧和他所建造的宮室、
And the queen of Sheba sees the wisdom of Solomon, and the house that he has built,
4 席上的珍饈美味、群臣分列而坐、僕人兩旁侍立，以及他們的衣服裝飾、酒政，和酒政的衣服裝飾，又見他上耶和華殿的臺階，就詫異得神不守舍，
and the food of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the standing of his ministers, and their clothing, and his stewards, and their clothing, and his burnt-offering that he offered up in the house of YHWH, and there has not been anymore spirit in her.
5 對王說：「我在本國裏所聽見論到你的事和你的智慧實在是真的！
And she says to the king, “The word [is] true that I heard in my land concerning your matters and concerning your wisdom,
6 我先不信那些話，及至我來親眼見了，才知道你的大智慧；人所告訴我的，還不到一半；你的實跡越過我所聽見的名聲。
and I have given no credence to their words until I have come and my eyes see, and behold, there has not been declared to me the half of the abundance of your wisdom—you have added to the report that I heard.
7 你的群臣、你的僕人常侍立在你面前聽你智慧的話是有福的。
O the blessedness of your men, and the blessedness of your servants—these—who are standing before you continually, and hearing your wisdom.
8 耶和華－你的上帝是應當稱頌的！他喜悅你，使你坐他的國位，為耶和華－你的上帝作王；因為你的上帝愛以色列人，要永遠堅立他們，所以立你作他們的王，使你秉公行義。」
Let your God YHWH be blessed who has delighted in you to put you on His throne for king for your God YHWH; in the love of your God to Israel, to establish it for all time, He has put you over them for king, to do judgment and righteousness.”
9 於是示巴女王將一百二十他連得金子和寶石，與極多的香料送給所羅門王；她送給王的香料，以後再沒有這樣的。
And she gives to the king one hundred and twenty talents of gold, and spices in great abundance, and precious stone; and there has not been any such spice as the queen of Sheba has given to King Solomon.
10 希蘭的僕人和所羅門的僕人從俄斐運了金子來，也運了檀香木和寶石來。
And also, servants of Huram, and servants of Solomon, who brought in gold from Ophir, have brought in algum-trees and precious stone.
11 王用檀香木為耶和華殿和王宮做臺，又為歌唱的人做琴瑟；猶大地從來沒有見過這樣的。
And the king makes the algum-trees [into] staircases for the house of YHWH, and for the house of the king, and harps and psalteries for singers; and there have been none seen like these before in the land of Judah.
12 所羅門王按示巴女王所帶來的，還她禮物，另外照她一切所要所求的，都送給她。於是女王和她臣僕轉回本國去了。
And King Solomon has given to the queen of Sheba all her desire that she asked, apart from that which she had brought to the king, and she turns and goes to her land, she and her servants.
13 所羅門每年所得的金子共有六百六十六他連得，
And the weight of the gold that is coming to Solomon in one year is six hundred and sixty-six talents of gold,
14 另外還有商人所進的金子，並且阿拉伯諸王與屬國的省長都帶金銀給所羅門。
apart from [what] the tourists and the merchants are bringing in; and all the kings of Arabia, and the governors of the land, are bringing in gold and silver to Solomon.
15 所羅門王用錘出來的金子打成擋牌二百面，每面用金子六百舍客勒；
And King Solomon makes two hundred bucklers of alloyed gold—he causes six hundred [shekels] of alloyed gold to go up on the one buckler;
16 又用錘出來的金子打成盾牌三百面，每面用金子三百舍客勒，都放在黎巴嫩林宮裏。
and three hundred shields of alloyed gold—he causes three hundred [shekels] of gold to go up on the one shield, and the king puts them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.
17 王用象牙製造一個大寶座，用精金包裹。
And the king makes a great throne of ivory, and overlays it with pure gold;
18 寶座有六層臺階，又有金腳凳，與寶座相連。寶座兩旁有扶手，靠近扶手有兩個獅子站立。
and six steps [are] to the throne, and a footstool of gold, [and] they are fastened to the throne; and [places for] hands [are] on this [side] and on that [side] on the place of the sitting, and two lions are standing near the hands,
19 六層臺階上有十二個獅子站立，每層有兩個：左邊一個，右邊一個；在列國中沒有這樣做的。
and twelve lions are standing there on the six steps on this [side] and on that [side]: it has not been made so for any kingdom.
20 所羅門王一切的飲器都是金的，黎巴嫩林宮裏的一切器皿都是精金的。所羅門年間，銀子算不了甚麼。
And all the drinking vessels of King Solomon [are] of gold, and all the vessels of the House of the Forest of Lebanon [are] of refined gold—silver is not reckoned in the days of Solomon for anything;
21 因為王的船隻與希蘭的僕人一同往他施去；他施船隻三年一次裝載金、銀、象牙、猿猴、孔雀回來。
for ships of the king are going to Tarshish with servants of Huram: once in three years the ships of Tarshish come carrying gold, and silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks [[or monkeys]].
22 所羅門王的財寶與智慧勝過天下的列王。
And King Solomon becomes greater than any of the kings of the earth for riches and wisdom;
23 普天下的王都求見所羅門，要聽上帝賜給他智慧的話。
and all the kings of the earth are seeking the presence of Solomon to hear his wisdom that God has put in his heart,
24 他們各帶貢物，就是金器、銀器、衣服、軍械、香料、騾馬，每年有一定之例。
and they are each bringing in his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and garments, harness, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year.
25 所羅門有套車的馬四千棚，有馬兵一萬二千，安置在屯車的城邑和耶路撒冷，就是王那裏。
And there are four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen for Solomon, and he placed them in cities of the chariot, and with the king in Jerusalem.
26 所羅門統管諸王，從大河到非利士地，直到埃及的邊界。
And he is ruling over all the kings from the River even to the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt.
27 王在耶路撒冷使銀子多如石頭，香柏木多如高原的桑樹。
And the king makes the silver in Jerusalem as stones, and he has made the cedars as sycamores that [are] in the low country, for abundance,
28 有人從埃及和各國為所羅門趕馬群來。
and they are bringing out horses from Egypt to Solomon, and from all the lands.
29 所羅門其餘的事，自始至終，不都寫在先知拿單的書上和示羅人亞希雅的預言書上，並先見易多論尼八兒子耶羅波安的默示書上嗎？
And the rest of the matters of Solomon, the first and the last, are they not written beside the matters of Nathan the prophet, and beside the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and with the visions of Iddo the seer concerning Jeroboam son of Nebat?
30 所羅門在耶路撒冷作以色列眾人的王共四十年。
And Solomon reigns in Jerusalem over all Israel [for] forty years,
31 所羅門與他列祖同睡，葬在他父大衛城裏。他兒子羅波安接續他作王。
and Solomon lies with his fathers, and they bury him in the city of his father David, and his son Rehoboam reigns in his stead.
