1 Kings 4
1 Now Solomon was king over all Israel.
[撒羅滿的朝臣]撒羅滿王作王統治全以色列。
2 And these were his chief men: Azariah, the son of Zadok, was the priest;
以下是他所有的官吏﹕匝多克的兒子阿匝黎雅作大司祭，
3 Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha, were scribes; Jehoshaphat, the son of Ahilud, was the recorder;
史沙的兩個兒子厄里曷勒夫和阿希雅作書記，阿希路得的兒子約沙特作御史，
4 Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, was head of the army; Zadok and Abiathar were priests;
約雅達的兒子貝納雅統率軍隊，【匝多克和厄貝雅塔爾為司祭，】
5 Azariah, the son of Nathan, was over those in authority in the different divisions of the country; Zabud, the son of Nathan, was priest and the king's friend;
納堂的兒子阿匝黎雅為太守之長，納堂的兒子匝步得為君王的朋友，
6 Ahishar was controller of the king's house; Adoniram, the son of Abda, was overseer of the forced work.
阿希沙爾為家宰，阿貝達的兒子阿多尼蘭管理苦役。十二太守
7 And Solomon put twelve overseers over all Israel, to be responsible for the stores needed for the king and those of his house; every man was responsible for one month in the year.
撒羅滿另立了十二太守管理全以色列，供應君王和王室的食糧；一年之中每人供應一個月。
8 And these are their names: ... the son of Hur in the hill country of Ephraim;
他們的名字如下﹕胡爾的兒子.....管理厄弗辣因山地；
9 ... the son of Deker in Makaz and Shaalbim and Beth-shemesh and Elonbeth-hanan;
德刻爾的兒子...管理瑪卡茲、沙耳賓、貝特舍默士、阿雅隆及貝特哈南；
10 ... the son of Hesed in Arubboth; Socoh and all the land of Hepher were under his control;
赫達布的兒子...管理阿魯波特、索苛及赫斐爾全地；
11 ... the son of Abinadab in all Naphath-dor; his wife was Taphath, the daughter of Solomon.
阿彼納達布的兒子...管理多爾全境，他娶了撒落滿的女兒塔法特為妻；
12 Baana, the son of Ahilud, in Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth-shean which is by the side of Zarethan, under Jezreel, from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah, as far as the far side of Jokmeam;
阿希路得的兒子巴阿納，管理塔納客、默基多直到約刻默罕外，以及位於依次勒耳下邊的全貝特商，曾貝特商直到靠近匝爾堂的阿貝耳默曷拉；
13 ... the son of Geber in Ramoth-gilead; he had the towns of Jair, the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead, and the country of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great towns with walls and locks of brass.
革貝爾的兒子...管理辣摩特基肋阿得，和在基肋阿得地的默納協的兒子雅依爾的鄉村；在巴商阿爾哥布地，所有的六十座設有城牆和銅閂的大城市，也歸他管理；
14 Ahinadab, the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim;
依多的兒子阿希納達布管理瑪哈納殷；
15 Ahimaaz in Naphtali; he took Basemath, the daughter of Solomon, as his wife;
阿希瑪茲管理納斐塔里，他也娶了撒羅滿的女兒巴色瑪特為妻；
16 Baana, the son of Hushai, in Asher and Aloth;
胡瑟的兒子巴阿納管理阿協爾和則步隆；
17 Jehoshaphat, the son of Paruah, in Issachar;
帕魯亞的兒童約沙特管理依撒加爾；
18 Shimei, the son of Ela, in Benjamin;
厄拉的兒子史米管理本雅明；
19 Geber, the son of Uri, in the land of Gilead, the country of Sihon, king of the Amorites, and Og, king of Bashan; and one overseer had authority over all the overseers who were in the land.
烏黎的兒子革貝爾管理加得，即昔日屬阿摩黎王息紅和巴商王敖格的地區。猶大地區另派太守管理。
20 Judah and Israel were as great in number as the sand by the seaside, and they took their food and drink with joy in their hearts.
當時猶大和以色列人數，像海邊的沙粒那麼多；他們有吃有喝，非常快樂。
21 And Solomon was ruler over all the kingdoms from the River to the land of the Philistines, and as far as the edge of Egypt; men gave him offerings and were his servants all the days of his life.
[撒羅滿的富貴]由大河直至培肋舍特人地和埃及邊界諸王國，都在撒羅滿統治下；撒羅滿一生歲月中，這些王國都向他進貢，表示臣服。
22 And the amount of Solomon's food for one day was thirty measures of crushed grain and sixty measures of meal;
撒羅滿每月所用的食品﹕細麵十「苛爾，」粗麵六十「苛爾；」
23 Ten fat oxen and twenty oxen from the fields, and a hundred sheep, in addition to harts and gazelles and roes and fat fowls.
肥牛十隻，牧放的牛二十隻，羊一百隻；此外還有鹿、羚羊、麃子和肥禽。
24 For he had authority over all the country on this side of the River, from Tiphsah to Gaza, over all the kings on this side of the River; and he had peace round him on every side.
因為他統治大河西岸全境，從提斐撒到迦薩，大河西岸諸王都屬他權下，於是四鄰邊境都相安無事。
25 So Judah and Israel were living safely, every man under his vine and his fig-tree, from Dan as far as Beer-sheba, all the days of Solomon.
撒羅滿一生歲月中，從丹到貝爾舍巴的猶大和以色列人，都各安居在自己的葡萄樹和無花果樹下。
26 And Solomon had four thousand boxed-off spaces for horses for his carriages, and twelve thousand horsemen.
撒羅滿有四千廄套車的馬，並有一萬二千匹坐騎。
27 And those overseers, every man in his month, saw that food was produced for Solomon and all his guests, they took care that nothing was overlooked.
那些太守每人各按自己的月份，供應撒羅滿王和所有赴撒羅滿王宴席的人，而一無所缺。
28 And they took grain and dry grass for the horses and the carriage-horses, to the right place, every man as he was ordered.
每人各按所受的命令，將飼養戰馬及駿馬的大麥和草料，送到所指定的地方。撒羅滿的智慧
29 And God gave Solomon a great store of wisdom and good sense, and a mind of wide range, as wide as the sand by the seaside.
天主賜給了撒羅滿絕大的智慧和聰明，心胸寬大，有如海邊的沙灘。
30 And Solomon's wisdom was greater than the wisdom of all the people of the East and all the wisdom of Egypt.
撒羅滿的智慧超過所有東方人和埃及人的一切智慧。
31 For he was wiser than all men, even than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman and Calcol and Darda, the sons of Mahol; and he had a great name among all the nations round about.
他比所有的人更有智慧﹕比則辣黑人厄堂，比瑪曷耳的兒子赫曼、加耳苛耳和達爾達都更有智慧﹔他的聲譽傳遍周圍列國。
32 He was the maker of three thousand wise sayings, and of songs to the number of a thousand and five.
他說過三千句箴言，作的詩歌有一千五百首。
33 He made sayings about all plants, from the cedar in Lebanon to the hyssop hanging on the wall; and about all beasts and birds and fishes and the small things of the earth.
他講論過草木，從黎巴嫩山上長的香柏，到牆上寄生的牛膝草﹔也講論過走獸和飛禽，爬蟲和魚類。
34 People came from every nation to give ear to the wisdom of Solomon, from all the kings of the earth who had word of his wisdom.
為此，萬民和各國的君王，凡聽說撒羅滿智慧的，都來聽他的智慧。準備建築聖殿
