2 Chronicles 1
1 and to strengthen: strengthen Solomon son: child David upon royalty his and LORD God his with him and to magnify him to/for above [to]
David’s son [King] Solomon was able to gain complete control over his kingdom, because Yahweh his God helped him and enabled him to become very powerful.
2 and to say Solomon to/for all Israel to/for ruler [the] thousand and [the] hundred and to/for to judge and to/for all leader to/for all Israel head [the] father
[When] David [was king, he had arranged for a new] Sacred Tent [to be] made in Jerusalem. Then David [and the Israeli leaders] had brought God’s Sacred Chest from Kiriath-Jearim [city] to the new Sacred Tent in Jerusalem that he had prepared for it. But [when Solomon became the king, ] the first Sacred Tent was still at Gibeon [city]. That was the tent that Moses, the man who served God [well], had [arranged to be] made in the desert. And the bronze altar that Bezalel, the son of Uri and grandson of Hur, had made was also still in Gibeon, in front of the first Sacred Tent. [One day] Solomon summoned the army commanders of 1,000 soldiers and the commanders of 100 soldiers and the judges and all the other leaders in Israel. He told them to go with him to Gibeon. So they all went to a hill in Gibeon [where the Sacred Tent was], and Solomon and all the others with him worshiped Yahweh there.
3 and to go: went Solomon and all [the] assembly with him to/for high place which in/on/with Gibeon for there to be tent meeting [the] God which to make Moses servant/slave LORD in/on/with wilderness
4 truly ark [the] God to ascend: establish David from Kiriath-jearim Kiriath-jearim in/on/with to establish: prepare to/for him David for to stretch to/for him tent in/on/with Jerusalem
5 and altar [the] bronze which to make Bezalel son: child Uri son: child Hur to set: make to/for face: before tabernacle LORD and to seek him Solomon and [the] assembly
6 and to ascend: rise Solomon there upon altar [the] bronze to/for face: before LORD which to/for tent meeting and to ascend: offer up upon him burnt offering thousand
Then Solomon went up to the bronze altar in front of the Sacred Tent, and he offered 1,000 animals to be [killed and] completely burned [on the altar].
7 in/on/with night [the] he/she/it to see: see God to/for Solomon and to say to/for him to ask what? to give: give to/for you
That night God appeared to Solomon [in a dream] and said to him, “Request whatever you want me to give to you.”
8 and to say Solomon to/for God you(m. s.) to make: do with David father my kindness great: large and to reign me underneath: instead him
Solomon replied, “You were very kind to David my father, and now you have appointed me to be the king to succeed him.
9 now LORD God be faithful word your with David father my for you(m. s.) to reign me upon people many like/as dust [the] land: soil
So Yahweh my God, you have caused me to become the king to rule people who are as many as the particles of dirt on the earth. So do what you promised my father David.
10 now wisdom and knowledge to give: give to/for me and to come out: come to/for face: before [the] people [the] this and to come (in): come for who? to judge [obj] people your [the] this [the] great: large
Please enable me to be wise and to know [what I should do], in order that I may rule these people [well], because there is no one who can rule all this great nation of yours [without your help].”
11 and to say God to/for Solomon because which to be this with heart your and not to ask riches wealth and glory and [obj] soul: life to hate you and also day many not to ask and to ask to/for you wisdom and knowledge which to judge [obj] people my which to reign you upon him
God replied, “[I am pleased with what] you desire; you have not requested a huge amount of money or to be honored or that your enemies be killed. And you have not requested that you live for a long time. Instead, you have requested that [I enable] you [to] be wise and [to] know [what you should do] in order that you may govern [well] my people whom I have appointed you to rule.
12 [the] wisdom and [the] knowledge to give: give to/for you and riches and wealth and glory to give: give to/for you which not to be so to/for king which to/for face: before your and after you not to be so
Therefore I will enable you to be wise and to know [what you should do to rule my people well]. But I will also enable you to have a huge amount of money and to be honored, more than anyone who was previously a king ever was honored, more than anyone who later becomes king will be honored.”
13 and to come (in): come Solomon to/for high place which in/on/with Gibeon Jerusalem from to/for face: before tent meeting and to reign upon Israel
Then Solomon [and the people who were with him all] left from being in front of he Sacred Tent [on the hill in Gibeon], and they returned to Jerusalem. From there he ruled the Israeli people.
14 and to gather Solomon chariot and horseman and to be to/for him thousand and four hundred chariot and two ten thousand horseman and to rest them in/on/with city [the] chariot and with [the] king in/on/with Jerusalem
Solomon acquired 1,400 chariots and 12,000 men who rode [on horses]. He put some of the chariots and horses in Jerusalem, and put some of them in various other cities.
15 and to give: make [the] king [obj] [the] silver: money and [obj] [the] gold in/on/with Jerusalem like/as stone and [obj] [the] cedar to give: make like/as sycamore which in/on/with Shephelah to/for abundance
During the years that Solomon was king, silver and gold were as common in Jerusalem as stones, and [lumber from] cedar trees were as plentiful as [lumber from] ordinary sycamore trees in the foothills.
16 and exit [the] horse which to/for Solomon from Egypt and from Kue to trade [the] king from Kue to take: buy in/on/with price
Solomon’s horses were imported/brought from Egypt and from [the] Kue [region in Turkey].
17 and to ascend: establish and to come out: send from Egypt chariot in/on/with six hundred silver: money and horse in/on/with fifty and hundred and so to/for all king [the] Hittite and king Syria in/on/with hand: by their to come out: send
In Egypt his men paid 15 pounds of silver for each chariot and 3-3/4 pounds of silver for each horse. They also exported/sold many of them to the kings of the Heth and Aram people-groups.
