2 Chronicles 8
1 Solomon’s [workers] worked for 20 years to build the temple and the king’s palace.
Al cabo de veinte años, cuando Salomón hubo acabado de edificar la Casa de Yahvé y su propia casa,
2 Then his [workers] rebuilt the cities that [King] Hiram had given back to Solomon, and Solomon sent Israelis to live in those cities.
reconstruyó las ciudades que Huram le había dado, y estableció allí a los hijos de Israel.
3 Solomon’s [army] then went to Hamath-Zobah [town] and captured it.
Salomón marchó contra Hamat-Sobá, y se apoderó de ella;
4 His workers also rebuilt walls around Tadmor [town] in the desert, and in [the] Hamath [region] in all the towns where they kept supplies.
edificó a Tadmor en el desierto, y todas las ciudades de abastecimientos que construyó en Hamat;
5 They rebuilt Upper Beth-Horon [town] and Lower Beth-Horon [city], and built walls around them with gates [in the walls] and bars [to fasten the gates].
edificó a Bethorón la alta, y a Bethorón la baja, ciudades fortificadas, que tenían murallas, puertas y barras,
6 They also rebuilt Baalath [town] and all the cities where supplies were kept and the cities where Solomon’s chariots and horses were kept. Solomon’s [workers] built whatever he wanted them to build, in Jerusalem and in Lebanon, and in other places in the area that he ruled.
y a Baalat, con todas las ciudades de abastecimientos que le pertenecían, y todas las ciudades de los carros y las ciudades de la caballería, y todo lo que le gustó edificar en Jerusalén, en el Líbano y en todo el país de su dominio.
7 Solomon forced people from many other groups who were not Israelis to work for him like slaves. They were people from the Heth, Amor, Periz, Hiv, and Jebus people-groups.
A toda la gente que había quedado de los heteos, los amorreos, los fereceos, los heveos y los jebuseos, que no eran israelitas;
8 They were descendants of groups whom the Israelis had not completely destroyed. Solomon forced them to become his slaves, and they are still slaves.
(es decir), a sus hijos, que después de ellos habían quedado en el país y a quienes los israelitas no habían exterminado, los destinó Salomón para prestación personal, hasta el día de hoy.
9 But Solomon did not force Israelis to work for him. Israelis became his soldiers and commanders of his chariots and his chariot-drivers.
No empleó Salomón a ninguno de los hijos de Israel como esclavo para sus obras, sino que ellos eran hombres de guerra, jefes y oficiales, comandantes de sus carros y de su caballería.
10 They were also King Solomon’s chief officials. There were 250 of them, and they supervised the workers.
Los jefes de las guarniciones que tenía Salomón eran doscientos cincuenta. Ellos gobernaban a la gente.
11 Solomon moved his wife, who was the daughter of the king of Egypt, from [the place outside Jerusalem called] ‘The City of David’ to the place that his workers had built for her. He said, “I do not want my wife to live in the palace that [my father] King David’s workers built, because the Sacred Chest [was in that palace for a while], and any place where the Sacred Chest has been is holy.”
Salomón trasladó a la hija del Faraón de la ciudad de David a la casa que para ella había edificado; pues se decía: “No ha de habitar mi mujer en la casa de David, rey de Israel; porque sagrados son aquellos (lugares) adonde ha entrado el Arca de Yahvé.”
12 On the altar that Solomon’s [workers] had built in front of the entrance [to the temple], Solomon sacrificed many offerings that were to be completely burned.
Entonces ofreció Salomón holocaustos a Yahvé sobre el altar de Yahvé que había erigido delante del pórtico,
13 He did that to obey the rules about what sacrifices Moses had declared should be made. These included sacrifices for every day and for the Sabbath days and to celebrate each day on which there was a new moon and for the three other festivals that were celebrated each year. Those festivals were the Festival of Eating Unleavened Bread, the Harvest Festival, and the Festival of Living in Temporary Shelters.
ofreciendo lo que para cada día había prescrito Moisés, para los sábados, los novilunios y las fiestas, tres veces al año: en la fiesta de los Ázimos, en la fiesta de las Semanas y en la fiesta de los Tabernáculos.
14 Obeying what his father David had commanded, he appointed the groups of priests for their work, and he appointed the descendants of Levi to lead the people while they sang to praise Yahweh and while they assisted the priests in their daily work. He also appointed groups of them to guard all the gates, because that was also what David, the man who pleased God [very well], had commanded.
Estableció también las clases de los sacerdotes en sus ministerios, conforme al reglamento de su padre David, y a los levitas en su cargo de cantar y servir bajo vigilancia de los sacerdotes, según el rito de cada día; y a los porteros con arreglo a sus clases, en cada puerta; porque así lo había mandado David, varón de Dios.
15 The priests and other descendants of Levi obeyed completely everything that the king commanded, including [taking care of] the storerooms.
Y no se apartaron en nada del mandamiento del rey respecto a los sacerdotes y los levitas, ni tampoco en lo relativo a los tesoros.
16 They did all the work [of building the temple] that Solomon told them to do, until it was all completed. So they finishing building the temple.
Toda la obra de Salomón se hallaba bien preparada, desde el día en que se echaron los cimientos de la Casa de Yahvé hasta su terminación. Así fue acabada la Casa de Yahvé.
17 Then some of Solomon’s men went to Ezion-Geber and Elath [cities] on the coast of the Red Sea, an area that belonged to the Edom people-group.
Entonces Salomón fue a Esionguéber y a Elat, a orillas del Mar en el país de Edom,
18 King Hiram sent to Solomon from [Tyre city] some ships that were commanded by his officers. They were men who were experienced sailors. These men went in the ships with Solomon’s men to [the] Ophir [region] and brought back about 17 tons of gold, which they delivered to King Solomon.
y Huram envió, por mano de sus siervos, navíos cuyos marineros eran conocedores del mar. Fueron estos con los siervos de Salomón a Ofir, de donde trajeron cuatrocientos cincuenta talentos de oro, que entregaron al rey Salomón.
