2 इतिहास 8
Solomon’s [workers] worked for 20 years to build the temple and the king’s palace.
Then his [workers] rebuilt the cities that [King] Hiram had given back to Solomon, and Solomon sent Israelis to live in those cities.
Solomon’s [army] then went to Hamath-Zobah [town] and captured it.
His workers also rebuilt walls around Tadmor [town] in the desert, and in [the] Hamath [region] in all the towns where they kept supplies.
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].
6 ६ उसने बालात को और सुलैमान के जितने भण्डार-नगर थे और उसके रथों और सवारों के जितने नगर थे उनको, और जो कुछ सुलैमान ने यरूशलेम, लबानोन और अपने राज्य के सब देश में बनाना चाहा, उन सब को बनाया।
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.
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.
8 ८ उनके वंश जो उनके बाद देश में रह गए, और जिनका इस्राएलियों ने अन्त न किया था, उनमें से तो बहुतों को सुलैमान ने बेगार में रखा और आज तक उनकी वही दशा है।
They were descendants of groups whom the Israelis had not completely destroyed. Solomon forced them to become his slaves, and they are still slaves.
9 ९ परन्तु इस्राएलियों में से सुलैमान ने अपने काम के लिये किसी को दास न बनाया, वे तो योद्धा और उसके हाकिम, उसके सरदार और उसके रथों और सवारों के प्रधान हुए।
But Solomon did not force Israelis to work for him. Israelis became his soldiers and commanders of his chariots and his chariot-drivers.
They were also King Solomon’s chief officials. There were 250 of them, and they supervised the workers.
11 ११ फिर सुलैमान फ़िरौन की बेटी को दाऊदपुर में से उस भवन में ले आया जो उसने उसके लिये बनाया था, क्योंकि उसने कहा, “जिस-जिस स्थान में यहोवा का सन्दूक आया है, वह पवित्र है, इसलिए मेरी रानी इस्राएल के राजा दाऊद के भवन में न रहने पाएगी।”
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.”
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.
13 १३ वह मूसा की आज्ञा और प्रतिदिन के नियम के अनुसार, अर्थात् विश्राम और नये चाँद और प्रतिवर्ष तीन बार ठहराए हुए पर्वों अर्थात् अख़मीरी रोटी के पर्व, और सप्ताहों के पर्व, और झोपड़ियों के पर्व में बलि चढ़ाया करता था।
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.
14 १४ उसने अपने पिता दाऊद के नियम के अनुसार याजकों के सेवाकार्यों के लिये उनके दल ठहराए, और लेवियों को उनके कामों पर ठहराया, कि हर एक दिन के प्रयोजन के अनुसार वे यहोवा की स्तुति और याजकों के सामने सेवा-टहल किया करें, और एक-एक फाटक के पास द्वारपालों को दल-दल करके ठहरा दिया; क्योंकि परमेश्वर के भक्त दाऊद ने ऐसी आज्ञा दी थी।
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.
15 १५ राजा ने भण्डारों या किसी और बात के सम्बंध में याजकों और लेवियों को जो-जो आज्ञा दी थी, उन्होंने उसे न टाला।
The priests and other descendants of Levi obeyed completely everything that the king commanded, including [taking care of] the storerooms.
16 १६ सुलैमान का सब काम जो उसने यहोवा के भवन की नींव डालने से लेकर उसके पूरा करने तक किया वह ठीक हुआ। इस प्रकार यहोवा का भवन पूरा हुआ।
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.
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.
18 १८ हीराम ने उसके पास अपने जहाजियों के द्वारा जहाज और समुद्र के जानकार मल्लाह भेज दिए, और उन्होंने सुलैमान के जहाजियों के संग ओपीर को जाकर वहाँ से साढ़े चार सौ किक्कार सोना राजा सुलैमान को ला दिया।
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.
