2 Chronicles 1
1 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.
| سلیمان، پسر داوود پادشاه بر تمام قلمرو اسرائیل مسلط شد زیرا خداوند، خدایش با او بود و به او قدرت بسیار بخشیده بود. |
2 [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.
| او تمام فرماندهان سپاه، مقامات مملکتی و سایر رهبران اسرائیل را احضار کرد تا همراه او به جبعون بروند. در آنجا ایشان را به خیمهٔ ملاقات قدیمی که به‌وسیلۀ موسی خدمتگزار خداوند بر پا شده بود، برد. موسی این خیمه را هنگامی ساخت که بنی‌اسرائیل هنوز در بیابان سرگردان بودند. |
| (بعد داوود پادشاه، خیمه‌ای دیگر در اورشلیم بر پا نمود و صندوق عهد خداوند را از قریت یعاریم به آنجا انتقال داد.) |
| مذبح مفرغین که بِصَلئیل (پسر اوری، نوهٔ حور) ساخته بود، هنوز جلوی خیمهٔ ملاقات قرار داشت. سلیمان و کسانی که دعوت شده بودند، جلوی مذبح جمع شده، خداوند را عبادت کردند و سلیمان برای خداوند هزار قربانی سوختنی تقدیم کرد. |
6 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 That night God appeared to Solomon [in a dream] and said to him, “Request whatever you want me to give to you.”
| آن شب خدا به سلیمان ظاهر شد و به او فرمود: «هر چه می‌خواهی از من درخواست کن تا به تو بدهم.» |
8 Solomon replied, “You were very kind to David my father, and now you have appointed me to be the king to succeed him.
| سلیمان به خدا گفت: «تو به پدرم داوود بسیار محبت نشان دادی و حالا هم تاج و تخت او را به من بخشیده‌ای. |
9 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.
| ای یهوه خدا، به وعده‌ای که به پدرم داوود دادی وفا کن، زیرا مرا بر قومی پادشاه ساخته‌ای که چون غبارِ زمین بی‌شمارند. |
10 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].”
| به من حکمت و معرفت ببخش تا بتوانم این مردم را اداره کنم، زیرا کیست که بتواند این قوم عظیم تو را اداره کند؟» |
11 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.
| خداوند فرمود: «حال که بزرگترین آرزوی تو این است، و تو خواهان ثروت و افتخار و طول عمر نبودی و مرگ دشمنانت را از من نخواستی، بلکه خواستی به تو حکمت و معرفت ببخشم تا قوم مرا رهبری و اداره کنی، |
12 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.”
| پس من هم، حکمت و معرفتی را که درخواست نمودی به تو می‌دهم. در ضمن چنان ثروت و افتخاری به تو می‌بخشم که هیچ پادشاهی تا به حال آن را نداشته و بعد از این نیز نخواهد داشت.» |
13 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.
| بنابراین سلیمان از خیمهٔ ملاقات بالای تپهٔ جبعون به زیر آمد و به اورشلیم بازگشت تا بر قوم اسرائیل فرمانروایی کند. |
14 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.
| سلیمان هزار و چهارصد ارابه و دوازده هزار اسب داشت که برخی را در اورشلیم و بقیه را در شهرهای دیگر نگه می‌داشت. |
15 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.
| در روزگار سلیمان، نقره و طلا در اورشلیم مثل ریگ بیابان فراوان بود! و الوارهای گرانبهای سرو، مانند چوب معمولی مصرف می‌شد! |
16 Solomon’s horses were imported/brought from Egypt and from [the] Kue [region in Turkey].
| اسبهای سلیمان را از مصر و قیلیقیه می‌آوردند و تاجران سلیمان آنها را به قیمت معین می‌خریدند. |
17 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.
| قیمت یک ارابهٔ مصری ششصد مثقال نقره و قیمت یک اسب، صد و پنجاه مثقال نقره بود. آنها همچنین اسبهای اضافی را به پادشاهان حیتی و سوری می‌فروختند. |
