1 Kings 9

1 And it comes to pass, at Solomon’s finishing to build the house of YHWH, and the house of the king, and all the desire of Solomon that he delighted to do,

١ وَبَعْدَ أَنْ أَتَمَّ سُلَيْمَانُ بِنَاءَ هَيْكَلِ الرَّبِّ وَقَصْرِ الْمَلِكِ، وَكُلِّ مَا رَغِبَ أَنْ يُقِيمَهُ مِنْ مَبَانٍ أُخْرَى.

2 that YHWH appears to Solomon a second time, as He appeared to him in Gibeon,

٢ تَجَلَّى الرَّبُّ لِسُلَيْمَانَ ثَانِيَةً كَمَا تَجَلَّى لَهُ فِي جِبْعُونَ،

3 and YHWH says to him, “I have heard your prayer and your supplication with which you have made supplication before Me; I have hallowed this house that you have built to put My Name there for all time, and My eyes and My heart have been there [for] all the days.

٣ وَقَالَ لَهُ: «سَمِعْتُ صَلاتَكَ وَتَضَرُّعَكَ الَّذِي رَفَعْتَهُ أَمَامِي، لِهَذَا قَدَّسْتُ هَذَا الْهَيْكَلَ الَّذِي شَيَّدْتَهُ لأَضَعَ اسْمِي عَلَيْهِ إِلَى الأَبَدِ، فَتَكُونُ عَيْنَايَ وَقَلْبِي هُنَاكَ كُلَّ الأَيَّامِ.

4 And you—if you walk before Me as your father David walked, in simplicity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, [and] you keep My statutes and My judgments,

٤ فَإِنْ سَلَكْتَ أَنْتَ أَمَامِي كَمَا سَلَكَ أَبُوكَ دَاوُدُ بِكَمَالِ الْقَلْبِ وَالاسْتِقَامَةِ، وَطَبَّقْتَ كُلَّ مَا أَمَرْتُكَ بِهِ، وَأَطَعْتَ فَرَائِضِي وَأَحْكَامِي،

5 then I have established the throne of your kingdom over Israel for all time, as I spoke to your father David, saying, A man of yours is never cut off from [being] on the throne of Israel.

٥ فَإِنِّي أُثَبِّتُ كُرْسِيَّ مُلْكِكَ عَلَى إِسْرَائِيلَ إِلَى الأَبَدِ، كَمَا وَعَدْتُ دَاوُدَ أَبَاكَ قَائِلاً: لَا يَنْقَرِضُ مِنْ نَسْلِكَ مَنْ يَمْلِكُ عَلَى عَرْشِ إِسْرَائِيلَ.

6 If you at all turn back—you and your sons—from after Me, and do not keep My commands [and] My statutes that I have set before you, and have gone and served other gods, and bowed yourselves to them,

٦ أَمَّا إِنِ انْحَرَفْتُمْ أَنْتُمْ أَوْ أَبْنَاؤُكُمْ عَنِ اتِّبَاعِي، وَلَمْ تُطِيعُوا وَصَايَايْ وَفَرَائِضِي الَّتِي سَنَنْتُهَا لَكُمْ، وَغَوَيْتُمْ عَابِدِينَ آلِهَةً أُخْرَى وَسَجَدْتُمْ لَهَا،

7 then I have cut off Israel from the face of the ground that I have given to them, and the house that I have hallowed for My Name I send away from My presence, and Israel has been for an allegory and for a byword among all the peoples;

٧ فَإِنِّي أُبِيدُ إِسْرَائِيلَ عَنْ وَجْهِ الأَرْضِ الَّتِي وَهَبْتُهَا لَهُمْ، وَأَنْبِذُ الْهَيْكَلَ الَّذِي قَدَّسْتُهُ لاِسْمِي، فَيُصْبِحُ إِسْرَائِيلُ مَثَلاً وَمَثَارَ هُزْءٍ لِجَمِيعِ الأُمَمِ.

8 as for this house [that] is high, everyone passing by it is astonished, and has hissed, and they have said, Why has YHWH done this to this land and to this house?

٨ وَيُصْبِحُ هَذَا الْهَيْكَلُ عِبْرَةً يُثِيرُ عَجَبَ كُلِّ مَنْ يَمُرُّ بِهِ، فَيَصْفُرُ وَيَتَسَاءَلُ: لِمَاذَا صَنَعَ الرَّبُّ هَكَذَا بِهَذِهِ الأَرْضِ وَبِهَذَا الْهَيْكَلِ؟

9 And they have said, Because that they have forsaken their God YHWH, who brought out their fathers from the land of Egypt, and they lay hold on other gods, and bow themselves to them and serve them; therefore YHWH has brought all this calamity on them.”

٩ فَيَأْتِيهُمُ الْجَوَابُ: لأَنَّهُمْ تَرَكُوا الرَّبَّ إِلَهَهُمُ الَّذِي أَخْرَجَ آبَاءَهُمْ مِنْ دِيَارِ مِصْرَ، وَتَشَبَّثُوا بِآلِهَةٍ أُخْرَى وَسَجَدُوا لَهَا وَعَبَدُوهَا، لِذَلِكَ جَلَبَ الرَّبُّ عَلَيْهِمْ كُلَّ هَذَا الْبَلاءِ».

10 And it comes to pass, at the end of twenty years, that Solomon has built the two houses, the house of YHWH, and the house of the king.

١٠ وَفِي نِهَايَةِ الْعِشْرِينَ عَاماً الَّتِي بَنَى سُلَيْمَانُ فِي أَثْنَائِهَا هَيْكَلَ الرَّبِّ وَقَصْرَ الْمَلِكِ

11 Hiram king of Tyre has assisted Solomon with cedar-trees, and with fir-trees, and with gold, according to all his desire; then King Solomon gives to Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.

١١ أَعْطَى سُلَيْمَانُ حِيرَامَ مَلِكَ صُورَ عِشْرِينَ مَدِينَةً فِي أَرْضِ الْجَلِيلِ، لأَنَّهُ أَمَدَّ سُلَيْمَانَ بِخَشَبِ أَرْزٍ وَخَشَبِ سَرْوٍ وَذَهَبٍ عَلَى قَدْرِ طَلَبِهِ.

12 And Hiram comes out from Tyre to see the cities that Solomon has given to him, and they have not been right in his eyes,

١٢ فَجَاءَ حِيرَامُ مِنْ صُورٍ لِيَتَفَقَّدَ الْمُدُنَ الَّتِي أَعْطَاهَا سُلَيْمَانُ لَهُ، فَلَمْ تَرُقْ لَهُ،

13 and he says, “What [are] these cities that you have given to me, my brother?” And one calls them the land of Cabul to this day.

١٣ فَتَسَاءَلَ: «مَا هَذِهِ الْمُدُنُ الَّتِي أَعْطَيْتَنِي إِيَّاهَا يَا أَخِي؟» وَدَعَاهَا «أَرْضَ كَابُولَ» (وَمَعْنَاهَا الأَرْضُ غَيْرُ الْمُثْمِرَةِ) إِلَى هَذَا الْيَوْمِ.

14 And Hiram sends one hundred and twenty talents of gold to the king.

١٤ وَكَانَ الذَّهَبُ الَّذِي أَرْسَلَهُ حِيرَامُ إِلَى الْمَلِكِ سُلَيْمَانَ مِئَةً وَعِشْرِينَ وَزْنَةَ ذَهَبٍ (نَحْوَ أَرْبَعَةِ آلافٍ وَثَلاثِ مِئَةٍ وَعِشْرِينَ كِيلُو جِرَاماً).

15 And this [is] the matter of the tribute that King Solomon has lifted up, to build the house of YHWH, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer

١٥ أَمَّا خِدْمَةُ التَّسْخِيرِ الَّتِي فَرَضَهَا سُلَيْمَانُ، فَكَانَتْ بِدَاعِي بِنَاءِ هَيْكَلِ الرَّبِّ، وَقَصْرِ سُلَيْمَانَ، وَالْقَلْعَةِ، وَسُورِ أُورُشَلِيمَ، وَحَاصُورَ وَمَجِدُّو وَجَازَرَ.

16 (Pharaoh king of Egypt has gone up and captures Gezer, and burns it with fire, and he has slain the Canaanite who is dwelling in the city, and gives it [as] presents to his daughter, wife of Solomon).

١٦ وَكَانَ فِرْعَوْنُ مَلِكُ مِصْرَ قَدْ هَاجَمَ جَازَرَ وَاسْتَوْلَى عَلَيْهَا وَأَحْرَقَهَا بِالنَّارِ، وَقَتَلَ أَهْلَهَا الْكَنْعَانِيِّينَ الْمُقِيمِينَ فِيهَا، ثُمَّ وَهَبَهَا مَهْراً لاِبْنَتِهِ زَوْجَةِ سُلَيْمَانَ.

17 And Solomon builds Gezer, and the lower Beth-Horon,

١٧ وَأَعَادَ سُلَيْمَانُ بِنَاءَ جَازَرَ وَبَيْتِ حُورُونَ السُّفْلَى،

18 and Ba‘alath, and Tadmor in the wilderness, in the land,

١٨ وَبَعْلَةَ وَتَدْمُرَ فِي أَرْضِ الصَّحْرَاءِ،

19 and all the cities of stores that King Solomon has, and the cities of the chariots, and the cities of the horsemen, and the desire of Solomon that he desired to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.

١٩ وَبَنَى جَمِيعَ مُدُنِ مَخَازِنِ غَلّاتِهِ، وَمُدُناً لِمَرْكَبَاتِهِ، وَمُدُناً لإِقَامَةِ الْفُرْسَانِ. وَهَكَذَا بَنَى سُلَيْمَانُ كُلَّ مَا رَغِبَ فِيهِ فِي أُورُشَلِيمَ وَفِي لُبْنَانَ وَفِي جَمِيعِ أَرْجَاءِ سَلْطَنَتِهِ.

20 The whole of the people that is left of the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, who [are] not of the sons of Israel—

٢٠ أَمَّا مَنْ تَبَقَّى مِنَ الأَمُورِيِّينَ وَالْحِثِّيِّينَ وَالْفَرِزِّيِّينَ وَالْحِوِّيِّينَ وَالْيَبُوسِيِّينَ الَّذِينَ لَا يَنْتَمُونَ إِلَى إِسْرَائِيلَ،

21 their sons who are left behind them in the land, whom the sons of Israel have not been able to devote—he has even lifted up a tribute of service [on] them to this day.

٢١ مِنْ ذَرَارِي الأُمَمِ الَّتِي عَجَزَ الإِسْرَائِيلِيُّونَ عَنْ إِفْنَائِهِمْ، فَقَدْ فَرَضَ عَلَيْهِمْ سُلَيْمَانُ خِدْمَةَ التَّسْخِيرِ كَالْعَبِيدِ إِلَى هَذَا الْيَوْمِ.

22 And Solomon has not appointed a servant out of the sons of Israel, for they [are] the men of war, and his servants, and his heads, and his captains, and the heads of his chariots, and his horsemen.

٢٢ أَمَّا أَبْنَاءُ إِسْرَائِيلَ فَلَمْ يُسَخِّرْ سُلَيْمَانُ مِنْهُمْ أَحَداً، لأَنَّ مِنْهُمْ كَانَ يَتَأَلَّفُ جُنُودُهُ وَرِجَالُ حَاشِيَتِهِ وَأُمَرَاؤُهُ وَضُبَّاطُهُ وَقَادَةُ مَرْكَبَاتِهِ وَفُرْسَانُهُ،

23 These [are] the five hundred and fifty heads of the officers who [are] over the work of Solomon, those ruling among the people who are laboring in the work.

٢٣ وَكَانَ عَدَدُ الْمُوَكَّلِينَ عَلَى الإِشْرَافِ عَلَى خِدْمَةِ الْعُمَّالِ الْمُسَخَّرِينَ لِتَنْفِيذِ أَعْمَالِ سُلَيْمَانَ خَمْسَ مِئَةٍ وَخَمْسِينَ رَجُلاً.

24 Only, the daughter of Pharaoh went up out of the City of David to her house that [Solomon] built for her; then he built Millo.

٢٤ وَبَعْدَ أَنِ انْتَقَلَتِ ابْنَةُ فِرْعَوْنَ مِنْ مَدِينَةِ دَاوُدَ إِلَى قَصْرِهَا الَّذِي بَنَاهُ لَهَا، عَمِلَ سُلَيْمَانُ عَلَى بِنَاءِ الْقَلْعَةِ.

25 And Solomon caused burnt-offerings and peace-offerings to ascend three times in a year on the altar that he built for YHWH, and he burned it as incense with that which [is] before YHWH, and finished the house.

٢٥ وَأَخَذَ سُلَيْمَانُ يُقَرِّبُ مُحْرَقَاتٍ وَذَبَائِحَ سَلامٍ عَلَى الْمَذْبَحِ الَّذِي بَنَاهُ لِلرَّبِّ ثَلاثَ مَرَّاتٍ فِي السَّنَةِ، كَمَا كَانَ يُحْرِقُ عَلَى الْمَذْبَحِ الَّذِي أَمَامَ الرَّبِّ. وَهَكَذَا أَتَمَّ بِنَاءَ الْهَيْكَلِ.

26 And King Solomon has made a navy in Ezion-Geber, that is beside Eloth, on the edge of the Sea of Suph, in the land of Edom.

٢٦ وَشَرَعَ سُلَيْمَانُ فِي بِنَاءِ سُفُنٍ فِي عِصْيُونَ جَابَرَ الْمُجَاوِرَةِ لأَيْلَةَ عَلَى شَاطِئِ الْبَحْرِ الأَحْمَرِ فِي أَرْضِ أَدُومَ،

27 And Hiram sends his servants in the navy, shipmen knowing the sea, with servants of Solomon,

٢٧ فَأَرْسَلَ حِيرَامُ بَحَّارَتَهُ الْمُتَمَرِّسِينَ بِمَسَالِكِ الْبَحْرِ فِي تِلْكَ السُّفُنِ مَعَ بَحَّارَةِ سُلَيْمَانَ،

28 and they come to Ophir, and take four hundred and twenty talents of gold from there, and bring [it] to King Solomon.

٢٨ فَبَلَغُوا أُوفِيرَ حَيْثُ جَلَبُوا مِنْ هُنَاكَ أَرْبَعَ مِئَةٍ وَعِشْرِينَ وَزْنَةً (نَحْوَ خَمْسَةَ عَشَرَ أَلْفاً وَمِئَةٍ وَعِشْرِينَ كِيلُو جْراماً) مِنَ الذَّهَبِ، حَمَلُوهَا إِلَى الْمَلِكِ سُلَيْمَانَ.