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1 Et la reine de Sheba entendit parler de la renommée de Salomon, en relation avec le nom de l’Éternel, et elle vint pour l’éprouver par des énigmes.
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].
2 Et elle vint à Jérusalem avec un fort grand train, avec des chameaux qui portaient des aromates, et de l’or en très grande quantité, et des pierres précieuses; et elle vint vers Salomon et lui parla de tout ce qu’elle avait sur son cœur.
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.
3 Et Salomon lui expliqua toutes les choses dont elle parlait: il n’y eut pas une chose cachée pour le roi, [pas une chose] qu’il ne lui explique.
Solomon answered all her questions. He explained everything that she asked about, even things that were very difficult.
4 Et la reine de Sheba vit toute la sagesse de Salomon, et la maison qu’il avait bâtie,
The queen realized that Solomon was very wise. She saw his palace;
5 et les mets de sa table, et la tenue de ses serviteurs, et l’ordre de service de ses officiers, et leurs vêtements, et ses échansons, et la rampe par laquelle il montait dans la maison de l’Éternel, et il n’y eut plus d’esprit en elle;
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 et elle dit au roi: Ce que j’ai entendu dire dans mon pays sur tout ton état et sur ta sagesse, était la vérité;
She said to King Solomon, “Everything that I heard in my own country about you and about how wise you are is true!
7 mais je n’ai pas cru ces choses, jusqu’à ce que je sois venue et que mes yeux aient vu; et voici, on ne m’avait pas rapporté la moitié; tu surpasses en sagesse et en prospérité la rumeur que j’en ai entendue.
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.
8 Heureux tes gens, heureux ceux-ci, tes serviteurs, qui se tiennent continuellement devant toi, et qui entendent ta sagesse!
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!
9 Béni soit l’Éternel, ton Dieu, qui a pris plaisir en toi pour te placer sur le trône d’Israël! Parce que l’Éternel aimait Israël à toujours, il t’a établi roi pour faire droit et justice.
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.”
10 Et elle donna au roi 120 talents d’or, et des aromates en très grande quantité, et des pierres précieuses. Il n’est plus venu une abondance d’aromates pareille à ce que la reine de Sheba en donna au roi Salomon.
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.
11 (La flotte aussi de Hiram qui amenait de l’or d’Ophir, apporta d’Ophir du bois d’almuggim en très grande quantité, et des pierres précieuses.
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.
12 Et, avec le bois d’almuggim, le roi fit des balustrades pour la maison de l’Éternel et pour la maison du roi, et des harpes et des luths pour les chanteurs. Il n’est pas venu de semblable bois d’almuggim, et on n’en a pas vu jusqu’à ce jour.)
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.
13 Et le roi Salomon donna à la reine de Sheba tout son désir, [tout ce] qu’elle demanda, outre ce qu’il lui donna selon le pouvoir du roi Salomon. Et elle s’en retourna, et s’en alla dans son pays, elle et ses serviteurs.
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.
14 Et le poids de l’or qui arrivait à Salomon dans une année était de 666 talents d’or,
Each year there was brought to Solomon a total of 25 tons of gold.
15 outre [ce qui lui venait] des commerçants ambulants et du trafic des marchands, et de tous les rois de l’Arabie, et des gouverneurs du pays.
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 Et le roi Salomon fit 200 grands boucliers d’or battu, mettant à chaque bouclier 600 [sicles] d’or,
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.
17 et 300 petits boucliers d’or battu, mettant à chaque bouclier trois mines d’or; et le roi les mit dans la maison de la forêt du Liban.
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.
18 Et le roi fit un grand trône d’ivoire, et le recouvrit d’or affiné:
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.
19 le trône avait six degrés, et le haut du trône par-derrière était arrondi; et il y avait des bras d’un côté et de l’autre à l’endroit du siège, et deux lions qui se tenaient à côté des bras,
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.
20 et douze lions qui se tenaient là sur les six degrés, d’un côté et de l’autre: il ne s’en était point fait de pareil dans aucun royaume.
21 Et tous les vases à boire du roi Salomon étaient d’or, et tous les vases de la maison de la forêt du Liban, d’or pur: aucun n’était d’argent, il n’était compté pour rien aux jours de Salomon.
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.
22 Car la flotte de Tarsis qu’avait le roi, tenait la mer avec la flotte de Hiram; une fois tous les trois ans la flotte de Tarsis venait, apportant de l’or et de l’argent, de l’ivoire, et des singes et des paons.
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).
23 Et le roi Salomon fut plus grand que tous les rois de la terre, en richesse et en sagesse.
King Solomon became richer and wiser than any other king.
24 Et toute la terre recherchait la face de Salomon, pour entendre sa sagesse, que Dieu avait mise dans son cœur.
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.
25 Et ils apportaient chacun son présent: des vases d’argent et des vases d’or, et des vêtements, et des armes, et des aromates, des chevaux et des mulets: chaque année le tribut de l’année.
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.
26 Et Salomon rassembla des chars et des cavaliers; et il eut 1 400 chars, et 12 000 cavaliers; et il les plaça dans les villes à chars et auprès du roi à Jérusalem.
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.
27 Et le roi fit que l’argent, dans Jérusalem, était comme les pierres, et il fit que les cèdres étaient, en quantité, comme les sycomores qui sont dans le pays plat.
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.
28 Et quant aux chevaux de Salomon, il les tirait d’Égypte: une caravane de marchands du roi prenait un convoi [de chevaux] pour un certain prix;
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].
29 et un char montait et sortait d’Égypte pour 600 [sicles] d’argent, et un cheval pour 150; et on en faisait venir ainsi, par leur main, pour tous les rois des Héthiens et pour les rois de Syrie.
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.
