2 Cronache 8
1 Passati i vent'anni durante i quali aveva edificato il tempio e la reggia,
Solomon’s [workers] worked for 20 years to build the temple and the king’s palace.
2 Salomone ricostruì le città che Curam gli aveva dato e vi stabilì gli Israeliti.
Then his [workers] rebuilt the cities that [King] Hiram had given back to Solomon, and Solomon sent Israelis to live in those cities.
3 Salomone andò ad Amat di Zoba e l'occupò.
Solomon’s [army] then went to Hamath-Zobah [town] and captured it.
4 Egli ricostruì Palmira nel deserto e tutte le città di rifornimento, che aveva costruito in Amat.
His workers also rebuilt walls around Tadmor [town] in the desert, and in [the] Hamath [region] in all the towns where they kept supplies.
5 Ricostruì Bet-Coròn superiore e Bet-Coròn inferiore, fortezze con mura, battenti e catenacci.
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 Lo stesso fece con Baalat, con tutte le città di rifornimento di sua proprietà e con tutte le città dei carri e dei cavalli; insomma eseguì tutto ciò che gli piacque di costruire in Gerusalemme, nel Libano e in tutto il territorio del suo dominio.
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.
7 Quanti rimanevano degli Hittiti, degli Amorrei, dei Perizziti, degli Evei e dei Gebusei, che non erano Israeliti,
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 cioè i loro discendenti, sopravvissuti dopo di loro nel paese, quanti non erano stati sterminati dagli Israeliti, Salomone li rese tributari, come lo sono fino ad oggi.
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 Ma degli Israeliti Salomone non impiegò nessuno come schiavo per i suoi lavori, perché essi erano guerrieri, capi dei suoi scudieri, capi dei suoi carri e dei suoi cavalieri.
But Solomon did not force Israelis to work for him. Israelis became his soldiers and commanders of his chariots and his chariot-drivers.
10 Questi capi di prefetti, eletti dal re Salomone, erano duecentocinquanta e avevano la sorveglianza sul popolo.
They were also King Solomon’s chief officials. There were 250 of them, and they supervised the workers.
11 Salomone trasferì la figlia del faraone dalla città di Davide alla casa che aveva costruita per lei, perché aveva stabilito: «Una donna non deve abitare per me nella casa di Davide, re di Israele, perché è sacro ogni luogo in cui ha sostato l'arca del Signore».
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.”
12 In quel tempo Salomone offrì olocausti al Signore sull'altare del Signore, che aveva costruito di fronte al vestibolo.
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 Ogni giorno offriva olocausti secondo il comando di Mosè, nei sabati, nei noviluni e nelle tre feste dell'anno, cioè nella festa degli azzimi, nella festa delle settimane e nella festa delle capanne.
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 Secondo le disposizioni di Davide suo padre, stabilì le classi dei sacerdoti per il loro servizio; anche per i leviti dispose che nel loro ufficio lodassero Dio e assistessero i sacerdoti ogni giorno; ai portieri nelle loro classi assegnò le singole porte, perché così aveva comandato Davide, uomo di Dio.
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 Non si allontanarono in nulla dalle disposizioni del re Davide riguardo ai sacerdoti e ai leviti; lo stesso avvenne riguardo ai tesori.
The priests and other descendants of Levi obeyed completely everything that the king commanded, including [taking care of] the storerooms.
16 Così fu realizzata tutta l'opera di Salomone da quando si gettarono le fondamenta del tempio fino al suo compimento definitivo.
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.
17 Allora Salomone andò ad Ezion-Ghèber e ad Elat sulla riva del mare, nella regione di Edom.
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 Curam gli mandò alcune navi con propri equipaggi e uomini esperti del mare. Costoro, insieme con i marinai di Salomone, andarono in Ofir e di là presero quattrocentocinquanta talenti d'oro e li portarono al re Salomone.
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.
