Chronicles II 7
1 And when Solomon had finished praying, then the fire came down from heaven, and devoured the whole burnt offerings and the sacrifices; and the glory of the Lord filled the house.
[祝聖聖殿]撒羅滿祈禱完了，有火從天上降下，焚燒了全燔祭和其他的犧牲；上主的榮耀充滿了聖殿。
2 And the priests could not enter into the house of the Lord at that time, for the glory of the Lord filled the house.
由於上主的榮耀充滿了上主的殿，司祭不能進入上主的殿。
3 And all the children of Israel saw the fire descending, and the glory of the Lord was upon the house: and they fell upon their face to the ground on the pavement, and worshipped, and praised the Lord; for [it is] good [to do so], because his mercy [endures] for ever.
所有的以色列子民看見有火降下，上主的榮耀充滿了聖殿，便俯伏在石鋪的地上，叩拜稱頌上主說：「因為他是聖善的，因為他的仁慈永遠常存。」
4 And the king and all the people [were] offering sacrifices before the Lord.
君王和眾百姓在上主面前祭殺了犧牲。
5 And king Solomon offered a sacrifice of calves twenty and two thousand, of sheep a hundred and twenty thousand: so the king and all the people dedicated the house of God.
撒羅滿王那時祭殺了二萬二千頭牛，十二萬隻羊；這樣君王和全百姓為上主的聖殿行了奉獻禮。
6 And the priests were standing at their watches, and the Levites with instruments of music of the Lord, belonging to king David, to give thanks before the Lord, for his mercy [endures] for ever, with the hymns of David, by their ministry: and the priests were blowing the trumpets before them, and all Israel standing.
司祭各站在自己的岡位上，肋未人拿著達味王所製的上主的樂器，奏「因為他的仁慈永遠常存」稱頌上主的歌；這讚美歌是達味令他們唱的；司祭們面對著他們吹號筒，同時全以色列人都站立不動。
7 And Solomon consecrated the middle of the court that was in the house of the Lord: for he offered there the whole burnt offerings and the fat of the peace-offerings, for the brazen altar which Solomon had made was not sufficient to receive the whole burnt offerings, and the meat-offerings, and the fat.
撒羅滿祝聖了上主殿前的內院，在那裏，獻了全燔祭與和平祭的脂油，因為他製造的銅壇容不下那麼多全燔祭、素祭和脂油。
8 And Solomon kept the feast at that time seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great assembly, from the entering in of Aemath, and as far as the river of Egypt.
那時，撒羅滿舉行慶節七天之久，所有的哈瑪特渡口到埃及小河的以色列百姓，都與他在一起，實是一大集會。
9 And on the eighth day he kept a solemn assembly: for he kept a feast of seven days as the dedication of the altar.
第八天又舉行了盛大的集會，如此舉行獻壇七天，過節七天。
10 And on the twenty-third day of the seventh month he dismissed the people to their tents, rejoicing, and with a glad heart because of the good deeds which the Lord had done to David, and to Solomon, and to Israel his people.
七月二十三日，君王遣散了民眾。他們因上主對達味、撒羅滿和他的百姓以色列所施的恩惠，都滿懷歡樂，回了自己的帳幕。[上主的俯允與警告]
11 So Solomon finished the house of the Lord, and the king's house: and in whatever Solomon wished in his heart to do in the house of the Lord and in his own house, he prospered.
撒羅滿完成了上主的殿和王宮，凡撒羅滿心中要在上主的殿和自己的宮內所作的，都順利完成了。
12 And the Lord appeared to Solomon by night, and said to him, I have heard your prayer, and I have chosen this place to myself for a house of sacrifice.
夜間上主顯示給撒羅滿，對他說：「我已聽了你的祈禱，我也為我揀選了這地方作為祭祀的大殿。
13 If I should restrain the heaven and there should be no rain, and if I should command the locust to devour the trees, and if I should send pestilence upon my people;
我如果使天閉塞不雨，使蝗蟲吞吃這地，或使瘟疫在我百姓中間流行，
14 then if my people, on whom my name is called, should repent, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their evil ways, I also will hear from heaven, and I will be merciful to their sins, and I will heal their land.
這稱為我名下的百姓，如果謙遜祈禱，尋求我的面，遠離自己的惡行，我必從天上俯聽，寬恕他們的罪過，使他們的土地生產。
15 And now my eyes shall be open, and my ears attentive to the prayer of this place.
自今以後，我必睜眼垂顧，側耳諦聽在此處發出的祈禱。
16 And now I have chosen and sanctified this house, that my name should be there for ever: and my eyes and my heart shall be there always.
現今我已選擇這殿，予以祝聖，使我的名永遠在這殿中；我的眼和我的心，也時時留在那裏。
17 And if you will walk before me as David your father [did], and will do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my ordinances and my judgements;
至於你，如果你在我面前行走，像你父親達味那樣行走，遵行我吩咐你的一切，恪守我的法律和典章，
18 then will I establish the throne of your kingdom, as I covenanted with David your father, saying, There shall not fail you a man ruling in Israel.
我必鞏固你的王位，一如我應許你父親達味所說：你的子孫中，決斷不了有人作以色列的統治者。
19 But if you should turn away, and forsake my ordinances and my commandments, which I have set before you, and go and serve other gods, and worship them;
但是，如果你們遠離我，離棄我在你們前所頒布的法律和誡命，而去服侍敬拜別的神，
20 then will I remove you from the land which I gave them; and this house which I have consecrated to my name I will remove out of my sight, and I will make it a proverb and a byword amongst all nations.
我必將你們從我賜予你們的地上根除，且要拋棄這座為我名而祝聖的殿，毫不顧惜，使它成為萬民的笑話和話柄。
21 And [as for] this lofty house, every one that passes by it shall be amazed, and shall say, Therefore has the Lord done [thus] to this land, and to this house?
這殿雖然宏大，凡經過的人必將驚愕說：上主為什麼這樣對待了這地方和這座殿﹖
22 And [men] shall say, Because they forsook the Lord God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and they attached themselves to other gods, and worshipped them, and served them: and therefore he has brought upon them all this evil.
人必回答說：是因為他們離棄了領他們出離埃及地的上主，他們祖先的天主，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身上。」
