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, en los que Salomón había edificado 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.
Salomón edificó las ciudades que Huram le había dado a Salomón, e hizo habitar a los hijos de Israel.
3 Solomon’s [army] then went to Hamath-Zobah [town] and captured it.
Salomón se dirigió a Hamat-Zobá y la venció.
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 Tadmor en el desierto, y todas las ciudades de almacenamiento que edificó 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].
También edificó Bet Horón, la de arriba, y Bet Horón, la de abajo, ciudades fortificadas con murallas, puertas y rejas;
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 Baalat, y todas las ciudades de almacenamiento que tenía Salomón, y todas las ciudades para sus carros, las ciudades para su gente de a caballo, y todo lo que Salomón quiso edificar a su gusto en Jerusalén, en el Líbano y en toda la tierra 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.
En cuanto a todos los pueblos que quedaron de los hititas, los amorreos, los ferezeos, los heveos y los jebuseos, que no eran de Israel —
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.
de sus hijos que quedaron después de ellos en la tierra, que los hijos de Israel no consumieron — de ellos Salomón reclutó mano de obra forzada 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.
Pero de los hijos de Israel, Salomón no hizo siervos para su trabajo, sino que fueron hombres de guerra, jefes de sus capitanes y gobernantes 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.
Estos eran los principales oficiales del rey Salomón, doscientos cincuenta, que gobernaban al pueblo.
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 sacó a la hija del faraón de la ciudad de David a la casa que le había construido, porque dijo: “Mi mujer no habitará en la casa de David, rey de Israel, porque los lugares donde ha llegado el arca de Yahvé son sagrados.”
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 Salomón ofreció holocaustos a Yahvé en el altar de Yahvé que había construido ante el 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.
tal como lo exigía el deber de cada día, ofreciendo según el mandamiento de Moisés en los sábados, en las lunas nuevas y en las fiestas establecidas, tres veces al año, durante la fiesta de los panes sin levadura, durante la fiesta de las semanas y durante la fiesta de las cabañas.
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.
Designó, según la ordenanza de su padre David, a las divisiones de los sacerdotes para su servicio, y a los levitas para sus oficios, para que alabaran y ministraran delante de los sacerdotes, según el deber de cada día, a los porteros también por sus divisiones en cada puerta, porque así lo había ordenado David, el hombre de Dios.
15 The priests and other descendants of Levi obeyed completely everything that the king commanded, including [taking care of] the storerooms.
No se apartaron del mandato del rey a los sacerdotes y a los levitas en cuanto a cualquier asunto o en cuanto 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 llevó a cabo desde el día de la fundación de la casa de Yahvé hasta su finalización. Así que la casa de Yahvé fue completada.
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 Ezión Geber y a Elot, a la orilla del mar en la tierra 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.
Huram le envió barcos y siervos que conocían el mar por mano de sus siervos; y vinieron con los siervos de Salomón a Ofir, y trajeron de allí cuatrocientos cincuenta talentos de oro, y los llevaron al rey Salomón.
