1 Kings 10
1 The queen [who ruled the] Sheba [area] heard that Yahweh had caused Solomon to become famous, so she traveled to Jerusalem to ask him questions that were difficult [to answer].
| ملکهٔ سبا وقتی شنید که خداوند به سلیمان حکمت خاصی داده است، تصمیم گرفت به دیدار او برود و با طرح مسائل دشوار او را آزمایش کند. |
2 She came with a large group of wealthy/influential people, and she brought camels that were loaded with spices, and valuable gems, and a lot of gold. When she met Solomon, she asked him questions about all the topics/things in which she was interested.
| پس با سواران بسیار و کاروانی از شتر با بار طلا همراه با جواهرات و ادویه به شهر اورشلیم آمد و مسائل خود را با سلیمان در میان گذاشت. |
3 Solomon answered all her questions. He explained everything that she asked about, even things that were very difficult.
| سلیمان به تمام سؤالات او جواب داد. پاسخ هیچ مسئله‌ای برای سلیمان مشکل نبود. |
4 The queen realized that Solomon was very wise. She saw his palace;
| وقتی ملکهٔ سبا حکمت سلیمان را دید و کاخ زیبا، خوراک شاهانه، تشریفات درباریان و مقامات، خدمت منظم خدمتکاران و ساقیان، و قربانیهایی که در خانهٔ خداوند تقدیم می‌شد، همه را از نظر گذراند مات و مبهوت ماند! |
5 she saw the food that was served on his table [every day]; she saw where his officials lived (OR, how his officials were seated at the table), their uniforms, the servants who served the food and wine, and the sacrifices that he took to the temple to be offered. She was extremely amazed.
6 She said to King Solomon, “Everything that I heard in my own country about you and about how wise you are is true!
| پس به سلیمان گفت: «حال باور می‌کنم که هر چه در مملکتم دربارهٔ حکمت تو و کارهای بزرگت شنیده‌ام، همه راست بوده است. |
7 But I did not believe it was true until I came here and saw it myself. But really, what they told me is only half [of what they could have told me about you]. You are extremely wise and rich, more than what people told me.
| باور نمی‌کردم تا اینکه آمدم و با چشمان خود دیدم، حتی نصفش را هم برایم تعریف نکرده بودند. حکمت و ثروت تو خیلی بیشتر از آن است که تصورش را می‌کردم. |
8 Your wives are very fortunate! Your officials who are constantly standing in front of you and listening to the wise things that you say are also fortunate!
| خوشا به حال این قوم و خوشا به حال این درباریان که همیشه سخنان حکیمانهٔ تو را می‌شنوند! |
9 Praise Yahweh, your God, who has shown that he is pleased with you by causing you to become the king of Israel! God has always loved the Israeli people, and therefore he has appointed you to be their king, in order that you will rule them fairly and righteously.”
| خداوند، خدای تو را ستایش می‌کنم که تو را برگزیده تا بر تخت سلطنت اسرائیل بنشینی. خداوند چقدر این قوم بزرگ را دوست دارد که تو را به پادشاهی ایشان گمارده تا به عدل و انصاف بر آنان سلطنت کنی!» |
10 Then the queen gave to the king [the things that she had brought. She gave him] almost five tons of gold and a large amount of spices and valuable gems. Never again did King Solomon receive more spices than the queen gave him at that time.
| سپس ملکهٔ سبا به سلیمان هدایای فراوان داد. این هدایا عبارت بودند از: چهار تن طلا، مقدار زیادی ادویه و سنگهای گرانبها. تا به حال کسی این همه ادویه به سلیمان هدیه نکرده بود. |
11 In the ships that belonged to King Hiram, in which they had previously brought gold from Ophir, they also brought a large amount of juniper wood and gems/valuable stones.
| (کشتیهای حیرام پادشاه از اوفیر برای سلیمان طلا و نیز مقدار زیادی چوب صندل و سنگهای گرانبها آوردند. |
12 King Solomon told his workers to use that wood to make railings/supports in the temple of Yahweh and in the king’s palace and also to make harps and lyres for the (musicians/men who played musical instruments). That wood was the largest amount of (OR, the finest) wood that had ever been seen [in Israel]. And no one since then has ever seen so much wood of that kind.
| سلیمان پادشاه از این چوبهای صندل، ستونهای خانهٔ خداوند و کاخ سلطنتی خود را بر پا ساخت و برای دستهٔ نوازندگان خود از این چوبها عود و بربط درست کرد. تا به آن روز چوبهایی بدان خوبی به اسرائیل وارد نشده بود و بعد از آن نیز هیچگاه وارد نشده است.) |
13 King Solomon gave to the queen from Sheba everything that she wanted. He gave her those gifts in addition to the gifts that he always gave [to other rulers who visited him]. Then she and the people who came with her returned to her own land.
| سلیمان پادشاه علاوه بر آنچه که ملکهٔ سبا از او خواسته بود، از سخاوتمندی شاهانه خویش نیز هدایایی به او بخشید. سپس ملکه و همراهانش به سرزمین خود بازگشتند. |
14 Each year there was brought to Solomon a total of 25 tons of gold.
| سلیمان پادشاه علاوه بر دریافت مالیات و سود بازرگانی و باج و خراج از پادشاهان عرب و حاکمان سرزمین خود، هر سال بیست و سه تن طلا نیز نصیبش می‌شد. |
15 That was in addition to [the taxes] paid to him by the merchants and traders, and the annual taxes paid by the kings of Arabia and by the governors of [the regions in] Israel.
16 King Solomon’s workers [took this] gold and hammered it into thin sheets and covered 200 large shields with those thin sheets of gold; they put (almost 15 pounds/more than 6 kg.) of gold on each shield.
| سلیمان از این طلا دویست سپر بزرگ، هر کدام به وزن چهار کیلو |
17 His workers made 300 smaller shields. They covered each of them with (almost 4 pounds/1.5 kg.) of gold. Then the king put those shields in the Hall of the Forest of Lebanon.
| و سیصد سپر کوچک هر یک به وزن دو کیلو ساخت. پادشاه این سپرها را در تالار بزرگ قصر خود که نامش «جنگل لبنان» بود، گذاشت. |
18 His workers also made for him a large throne. [Part of it was] covered with (ivory [decorations made from)] tusks of elephants and [part of it was covered] with very fine gold.
| او یک تخت سلطنتی بزرگ نیز از عاج با روکش طلای ناب ساخت. |
19 There were six steps in front of the throne. There was a statue of a lion on both sides of each step. So altogether there were twelve statues of lions. The back of the throne was rounded at the top. At each side of the throne there was an armrest, and alongside each armrest there was a small statue of a lion. No throne like that had ever existed in any other kingdom.
| این تخت شش پله داشت و قسمت بالای پشتی تخت گرد بود. در دو طرف آن دو دسته بود که کنار هر دسته یک مجسمهٔ شیر قرار داشت. |
| همچنین دوازده شیر در دو طرف این شش پله ایستاده بودند. این تخت در تمام دنیا بی‌نظیر بود. |
21 All of Solomon’s cups were made of gold, and all the various dishes in the Hall of the Forest of Lebanon were made of gold. They did not make things from silver, because during the years that Solomon [ruled], silver was not considered to be valuable.
| تمام جامهای سلیمان و ظروف «تالار جنگل لبنان» از طلای خالص بود. در میان آنها حتی یک ظرف از جنس نقره هم پیدا نمی‌شد، چون در زمان حکومت سلیمان طلا به حدی فراوان بود که دیگر نقره ارزشی نداشت! |
22 The king had a (fleet/large number) of ships that sailed with the ships that King Hiram owned. Every three years the ships returned [from the places to which they had sailed], bringing gold, silver, ivory, monkeys, and baboons (OR, peacocks).
| کشتیهای تجاری سلیمان پادشاه با کمک کشتیهای حیرام هر سه سال یکبار با بارهای طلا و نقره و عاج، میمون و طاووس وارد بنادر اسرائیل می‌شدند. |
23 King Solomon became richer and wiser than any other king.
| سلیمان از تمام پادشاهان دنیا ثروتمندتر و حکیمتر بود. |
24 People from all over the world wanted to come and listen to the wise things that Solomon said, things that God had put into his mind.
| تمام مردم دنیا مشتاق دیدن سلیمان بودند تا شاهد حکمتی باشند که خدا به او داده بود. |
25 All the people who came to him brought presents: They brought things made from silver or gold, or robes, or weapons (OR, myrrh), or spices, or horses, or mules. The people continued to do this every year.
| هر سال عده‌ای به دیدن او می‌آمدند و با خود هدایایی از طلا و نقره، لباس، ادویه، اسلحه، اسب و قاطر برایش می‌آوردند. |
26 Solomon acquired 1,400 chariots and 12,000 men who rode [on the horses] (OR, [in the chariots]). Solomon put some of them in Jerusalem and some of them in other cities where he kept his chariots.
| سلیمان هزار و چهارصد ارابه و دوازده هزار اسب داشت که برخی را در اورشلیم و بقیه را در شهرهای دیگر نگه می‌داشت. |
27 During the years that Solomon was king, silver became as common in Jerusalem as stones; and [lumber from] cedar trees in the foothills of Judah was as plentiful as [lumber from] fig trees.
| در روزگار سلیمان در اورشلیم نقره مثل ریگ بیابان فراوان بود و الوارهای گران قیمت سرو، مانند چوب معمولی مصرف می‌شد! |
28 Solomon’s agents bought horses and supervised the men who brought them into Israel from the areas of Musri and Cilicia [that were famous for breeding horses].
| اسبهای سلیمان را از مصر و قیلیقیه می‌آوردند و تاجران سلیمان همه را یک جا به قیمتهای عمده می‌خریدند. |
29 In Musri they bought chariots and horses; they paid 600 pieces of silver for each chariot and 150 pieces of silver for each horse. They brought them to Israel. Then they sold many of them to the kings of the Heth people-group and the kings of Syria.
| یک ارابهٔ مصری به قیمت ششصد مثقال نقره و هر اسب به قیمت صد و پنجاه مثقال نقره فروخته می‌شد. آنها همچنین اسبهای اضافی را به پادشاهان حیتی و سوری می‌فروختند. |
