2 Chronicles 8
1 And at the end of twenty years after Solomon had built the house of the Lord and his own house:
所羅門建造耶和華殿和王宮，二十年才完畢了。
2 He built the cities which Hiram had given to Solomon, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there.
以後所羅門重新修築希蘭送給他的那些城邑，使以色列人住在那裏。
3 He went also into Emath Suba, and possessed it.
所羅門往哈馬瑣巴去，攻取了那地方。
4 And he built Palmira in the desert, and he built other strong cities in Emath.
所羅門建造曠野裏的達莫，又建造哈馬所有的積貨城，
5 And he built Beth-horon the upper, and Beth-horon the nether, walled cities with Rates and bars and locks.
又建造上伯‧和崙、下伯‧和崙作為保障，都有牆，有門，有閂；
6 Balaath also and all the strong cities that were Solomon’s, and all the cities of the chariots, and the cities of the horsemen. All that Solomon had a mind, and designed, he built in Jerusalem and in Libanus, and in all the land of his dominion.
又建造巴拉和所有的積貨城，並屯車輛馬兵的城，與耶路撒冷、黎巴嫩，以及自己治理的全國中所願意建造的。
7 All the people that were left of the Hethites, and the Amorrhites, and the Pherezites, and the Hevites, and the Jebusites, that were not of the stock of Israel:
至於國中所剩下不屬以色列人的赫人、亞摩利人、比利洗人、希未人、耶布斯人，
8 Of their children, and of the posterity, whom the children of Israel had not slain, Solomon made to be the tributaries, unto this day.
就是以色列人未曾滅絕的，所羅門挑取他們的後裔作服苦的奴僕，直到今日。
9 But of the children of Israel he set none to serve in the king’s works: for they were men of war, and chief captains, and rulers of his chariots and horsemen.
惟有以色列人，所羅門不使他們當奴僕做工，乃是作他的戰士、軍長的統領、車兵長、馬兵長。
10 And all the chief captains of king Solomon’s army were two hundred and fifty, who taught the people.
所羅門王有二百五十督工的，監管工人。
11 And he removed the daughter of Pharao from the city of David, to the house which he had built for her. For the king said: My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, for it is sanctified: because the ark of the Lord came into it.
所羅門將法老的女兒帶出大衛城，上到為她建造的宮裏；因所羅門說：「耶和華約櫃所到之處都為聖地，所以我的妻不可住在以色列王大衛的宮裏。」
12 Then Solomon offered holocausts to the Lord upon the altar of the Lord which he had built before the porch,
所羅門在耶和華的壇上，就是在廊子前他所築的壇上，與耶和華獻燔祭；
13 That every day an offering might be made on it according to the ordinance of Moses, in the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the festival days three times a year, that is to say, in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles.
又遵着摩西的吩咐在安息日、月朔，並一年三節，就是除酵節、七七節、住棚節，獻每日所當獻的祭。
14 And he appointed according to the order of David his father the offices of the priests in their ministries: and the Levites in their order to give praise, and minister before the priests according to the duty of every day: and the porters in their divisions by gate and gate: for so David the man of God had commanded.
所羅門照着他父大衛所定的例，派定祭司的班次，使他們各供己事，又使利未人各盡其職，讚美耶和華，在祭司面前做每日所當做的；又派守門的按着班次看守各門，因為神人大衛是這樣吩咐的。
15 And the priests and Levites departed not from the king’s commandments, as to any thing that he had commanded, and as to the keeping of the treasures.
王所吩咐眾祭司和利未人的，無論是管府庫或辦別的事，他們都不違背。
16 Solomon had all charges prepared, from the day that he founded the house of the Lord, until the day wherein he finished it.
所羅門建造耶和華的殿，從立根基直到成功的日子，工料俱備。這樣，耶和華的殿全然完畢。
17 Then Solomon went to Asiongaber, and to Ailath, on the coast of the Red Sea, which is in the land of Edom.
那時，所羅門往以東地靠海的以旬‧迦別和以祿去。
18 And Hiram sent him ships by the hands of his servants, and skillful mariners, and they went with Solomon’s servants to Ophir, and they took thence four hundred and fifty talents of gold, and brought it to king Solomon.
希蘭差遣他的臣僕，將船隻和熟悉泛海的僕人送到所羅門那裏。他們同着所羅門的僕人到了俄斐，得了四百五十他連得金子，運到所羅門王那裏。
