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1 Mais la reine de Saba aussi, ayant appris la renommée de Salomon au nom du Seigneur, vint 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 étant entrée dans Jérusalem avec une suite nombreuse, des richesses, des chameaux qui portaient des aromates, de l’or en quantité infinie et des pierres précieuses, elle vint vers le roi Salomon, et lui dit tout ce qu’elle avait en 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 l’instruisit sur toutes les paroles qu’elle lui avait proposées, et il n’y a point de mot qui put être caché au roi, et sur lequel il ne lui répondît.
Solomon answered all her questions. He explained everything that she asked about, even things that were very difficult.
4 Or la reine de Saba, voyant toute la sagesse de Salomon, la maison qu’il avait bâtie,
The queen realized that Solomon was very wise. She saw his palace;
5 Les mets de sa table, les logements de ses serviteurs, les divers ordres de ceux qui le servaient et leurs vêtements, ses échansons, et les holocaustes qu’il offrait dans la maison du Seigneur, n’avait plus son esprit;
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: Il est véritable le récit que j’ai ouï, dans mon pays,
She said to King Solomon, “Everything that I heard in my own country about you and about how wise you are is true!
7 De vos entretiens et de votre sagesse; et je n’ai pas cru ceux qui me parlaient, jusqu’à ce que je sois venue moi-même et que j’aie vu de mes yeux; et j’ai reconnu que la moitié ne m’avait pas été annoncée. Votre sagesse et vos œuvres sont plus grandes que la rumeur que j’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 vos sujets, et heureux vos serviteurs, qui sont toujours devant vous et qui écoutent votre 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 le Seigneur votre Dieu, à qui vous avez plu, et qui vous a placé sur le trône d’Israël, parce que le Seigneur a aimé Israël pour jamais, et qu’il vous a établi roi pour rendre les jugements et la 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 La reine de Saba donna donc au roi cent vingt talents d’or, des parfums en très grande quantité, et des pierres précieuses: on n’apporta jamais depuis à Jérusalem des parfums aussi nombreux que ceux que donna la reine de Saba 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 (Mais aussi la flotte d’Hiram, qui portait de l’or d’Ophir, apporta d’Ophir des bois odorants 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 le roi fit de ces bois odorants les balustres de la maison du Seigneur et de la maison du roi des harpes et des lyres pour les chantres: on n’a point apporté et on n’a point vu de tels bois odorants jusqu’au présent 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 Or le roi Salomon donna à la reine de Saba tout ce qu’elle voulut et ce qu’elle lui demanda, outre ce qu’il lui offrit de lui-même avec une munificence royale. Et la reine s’en retourna et s’en alla en son pays avec 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 Or, le poids de l’or qu’on apportait à Salomon chaque année était de six cent soixante-six talents d’or,
Each year there was brought to Solomon a total of 25 tons of gold.
15 Sans ce que lui apportaient les hommes préposés aux tributs, les marchands, tous ceux qui vendaient des choses recherchées, tous les rois d’Arabie et tous les chefs 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 Le roi Salomon fit aussi deux cents grands boucliers d’un or très pur: il donna pour chaque bouclier six cents 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 il fit trois cents petits boucliers d’un or éprouvé; trois cents mines d’or revêtaient chaque bouclier; et le roi les plaça dans la maison du bois 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 Le roi Salomon fit aussi un grand trône d’ivoire, et il le revêtit d’un or très jaune.
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 Ce trône avait six degrés: le haut était arrondi par derrière, et il y avait deux mains, l’une d’un côté et l’autre de l’autre, qui tenaient le siège, et deux lions auprès de chaque main;
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 lionceaux étaient sur les dix degrés, d’un côté et de l’autre: il n’a pas été fait un tel ouvrage dans aucun royaume.
21 Mais aussi tous les vases où le roi Salomon buvait étaient d’or, et toute la vaisselle de la maison du bois du Liban était d’un or très pur. L’argent n’était réputé d’aucun prix 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 Parce que la flotte du roi avec celle du roi Hiram, allait une fois tous les trois ans, en Tharsis, rapportant de là de l’or, de l’argent, des dents d’éléphant, 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 Le roi Salomon surpassa donc tous les rois du monde en richesses et en sagesse.
King Solomon became richer and wiser than any other king.
24 Et toute la terre désirait voir la face de Salomon, pour écouter sa sagesse que Dieu avait mise en 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 chacun lui envoyait des présents, des vases d’argent et d’or, des vêtements, des armes de guerre, des parfums, des chevaux et des mulets, à chaque 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 un grand nombre de chars et de cavaliers, et on lui disposa quatorze cents chars et douze mille cavaliers, et il les plaça dans les villes fortifiées, et près du roi dans 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 il fit qu’il y avait à Jérusalem une aussi grande abondance d’argent que de pierres, et il procura une multitude de cèdres, semblable à celle des sycomores, qui naissent dans les plaines.
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 l’on amenait des chevaux pour Salomon, de l’Egypte et de Coa; car les marchands du roi les achetaient à Coa, et les lui amenaient pour un prix convenu.
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 Or, il sortait un attelage de quatre chevaux d’Egypte pour six cents sicles d’argent, et un cheval pour cent cinquante: et c’est de cette manière que tous les rois des Héthéens et de Syrie lui vendaient des chevaux.
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.
