2 Tawarikh 1
1 Salomo putra Raja Daud telah menjadi raja yang kuat kedudukannya di dalam kerajaan Israel. TUHAN Allahnya memberkati dia dan menjadikan dia sangat berkuasa.
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.
2 Semua kepala pasukan 1.000 dan pasukan 100, semua pejabat pemerintah, dan semua kepala keluarga Israel diperintahkan oleh Raja Salomo
[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.
3 untuk pergi dengan dia ke tempat ibadat di Gibeon. Mereka pergi ke sana, karena di situlah terdapat Kemah TUHAN yang dibuat oleh Musa hamba TUHAN sewaktu di padang gurun.
4 (Tetapi Peti Perjanjian TUHAN berada di Yerusalem di dalam kemah yang dipasang oleh Raja Daud untuk Peti itu ketika ia memindahkannya dari Kiryat-Yearim.)
5 Mezbah perunggu yang dibuat oleh Bezaleel anak Uri, cucu Hur, juga terdapat di Gibeon di depan Kemah TUHAN. Raja Salomo dan seluruh rakyat beribadat kepada TUHAN di sana.
6 Di depan Kemah itu raja mempersembahkan di atas mezbah perunggu 1.000 binatang sebagai kurban bakaran bagi TUHAN.
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].
7 Malam itu Allah menampakkan diri kepada Salomo dan berkata, "Salomo, mintalah apa yang kauinginkan, itu akan Kuberikan kepadamu!"
That night God appeared to Solomon [in a dream] and said to him, “Request whatever you want me to give to you.”
8 Salomo menjawab, "Ya Allah, Engkau sudah menunjukkan bahwa Engkau sangat mengasihi ayahku Daud, dan Engkau telah mengangkat aku menjadi raja menggantikan dia.
Solomon replied, “You were very kind to David my father, and now you have appointed me to be the king to succeed him.
9 Sekarang, ya TUHAN Allah, semoga Engkau menepati janji-Mu kepada ayahku. Engkau telah mengangkat aku menjadi raja atas bangsa besar ini yang tak terhitung jumlahnya.
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.
10 Karena itu berikanlah kiranya kepadaku kebijaksanaan dan pengetahuan yang kuperlukan untuk memimpin mereka. Kalau tidak demikian, bagaimana mungkin aku dapat memerintah umat-Mu yang besar ini?"
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].”
11 Jawab Allah kepada Salomo, "Permintaanmu itu baik. Engkau tidak minta kekayaan atau harta atau kemasyhuran atau kematian musuh-musuhmu atau umur panjang untuk dirimu sendiri, melainkan kebijaksanaan dan pengetahuan untuk memerintah umat-Ku yang Kupercayakan kepadamu.
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.
12 Sebab itu kebijaksanaan dan pengetahuan akan Kuberikan kepadamu. Selain itu Aku akan menjadikan engkau lebih makmur, lebih kaya dan lebih masyhur daripada raja yang mana pun juga baik pada masa lalu maupun pada masa yang akan datang."
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.”
13 Kemudian Salomo meninggalkan tempat ibadah di Gibeon di mana terdapat Kemah TUHAN, lalu kembali ke Yerusalem. Dari situ ia menjalankan pemerintahan atas Israel.
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.
14 Ia melengkapi angkatan perangnya dengan 1.400 kereta perang dan 12.000 kuda perang. Sebagian ditempatkannya di Yerusalem, dan selebihnya di berbagai kota lain.
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.
15 Dalam zaman pemerintahan Salomo, emas dan perak merupakan barang biasa di Yerusalem, sama seperti batu; dan kayu cemara Libanon banyak sekali seperti kayu ara biasa.
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.
16 Melalui pedagang-pedagang yang membantu raja, kuda diimpor dari Mesir dan Kewe,
Solomon’s horses were imported/brought from Egypt and from [the] Kue [region in Turkey].
17 dan kereta-kereta perang diimpor dari Mesir, kemudian diekspor lagi kepada raja-raja Het dan raja-raja Siria dengan harga 150 uang perak untuk satu ekor kuda, dan 600 uang perak untuk satu kereta perang.
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.
