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ויתחזק שלמה בן דויד על מלכותו ויהוה אלהיו עמו ויגדלהו למעלה | 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.
ויאמר שלמה לכל ישראל לשרי האלפים והמאות ולשפטים ולכל נשיא לכל ישראל--ראשי האבות | 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.
וילכו שלמה וכל הקהל עמו לבמה אשר בגבעון כי שם היה אהל מועד האלהים אשר עשה משה עבד יהוה במדבר | 3 |
אבל ארון האלהים העלה דויד מקרית יערים בהכין לו דויד כי נטה לו אהל בירושלם | 4 |
ומזבח הנחשת אשר עשה בצלאל בן אורי בן חור--שם לפני משכן יהוה וידרשהו שלמה והקהל | 5 |
ויעל שלמה שם על מזבח הנחשת לפני יהוה אשר לאהל מועד ויעל עליו עלות אלף | 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].
בלילה ההוא נראה אלהים לשלמה ויאמר לו שאל מה אתן לך | 7 |
That night God appeared to Solomon [in a dream] and said to him, “Request whatever you want me to give to you.”
ויאמר שלמה לאלהים אתה עשית עם דויד אבי חסד גדול והמלכתני תחתיו | 8 |
Solomon replied, “You were very kind to David my father, and now you have appointed me to be the king to succeed him.
עתה יהוה אלהים--יאמן דברך עם דויד אבי כי אתה המלכתני על עם רב כעפר הארץ | 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.
עתה חכמה ומדע תן לי ואצאה לפני העם הזה ואבואה כי מי ישפט את עמך הזה הגדול | 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].”
ויאמר אלהים לשלמה יען אשר היתה זאת עם לבבך ולא שאלת עשר נכסים וכבוד ואת נפש שנאיך וגם ימים רבים לא שאלת ותשאל לך חכמה ומדע אשר תשפוט את עמי אשר המלכתיך עליו | 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.
החכמה והמדע נתון לך ועשר ונכסים וכבוד אתן לך--אשר לא היה כן למלכים אשר לפניך ואחריך לא יהיה כן | 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.”
ויבא שלמה לבמה אשר בגבעון ירושלם מלפני אהל מועד וימלך על ישראל | 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.
ויאסף שלמה רכב ופרשים ויהי לו אלף וארבע מאות רכב ושנים עשר אלף פרשים ויניחם בערי הרכב ועם המלך בירושלם | 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.
ויתן המלך את הכסף ואת הזהב בירושלם--כאבנים ואת הארזים נתן כשקמים אשר בשפלה--לרב | 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.
ומוצא הסוסים אשר לשלמה ממצרים ומקוא--סחרי המלך מקוא יקחו במחיר | 16 |
Solomon’s horses were imported/brought from Egypt and from [the] Kue [region in Turkey].
ויעלו ויוציאו ממצרים מרכבה בשש מאות כסף וסוס בחמשים ומאה וכן לכל מלכי החתים ומלכי ארם--בידם יוציאו | 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.