2 Cronache 1
1 Salomone figlio di Davide si affermò nel regno. Il Signore suo Dio era con lui e lo rese molto grande.
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 Salomone mandò ordini a tutto Israele, ai capi di migliaia e di centinaia, ai magistrati, a tutti i principi di tutto Israele e ai capifamiglia.
[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 Poi Salomone e tutto Israele con lui si recarono all'altura di Gàbaon, perché là si trovava la tenda del convegno di Dio, eretta da Mosè, servo di Dio, nel deserto.
4 Ma l'arca di Dio Davide l'aveva trasportata da Kiriat-Iearìm nel luogo che aveva preparato per essa, perché egli aveva innalzato per essa una tenda in Gerusalemme.
5 L'altare di bronzo, opera di Bezalèel figlio di Uri, figlio di Cur, era là davanti alla Dimora del Signore. Salomone e l'assemblea vi andarono per consultare il Signore.
6 Salomone salì all'altare di bronzo davanti al Signore nella tenda del convegno e vi offrì sopra mille olocausti.
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 In quella notte Dio apparve a Salomone e gli disse: «Chiedimi ciò che vuoi che io ti conceda».
That night God appeared to Solomon [in a dream] and said to him, “Request whatever you want me to give to you.”
8 Salomone disse a Dio: «Tu hai trattato mio padre Davide con grande benevolenza e mi hai fatto regnare al suo posto.
Solomon replied, “You were very kind to David my father, and now you have appointed me to be the king to succeed him.
9 Ora, Signore Dio, si avveri la tua parola a Davide mio padre, perché mi hai costituito re su un popolo numeroso come la polvere della terra.
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 Ora concedimi saggezza e scienza e che io possa guidare questo popolo; perché chi potrebbe mai governare questo tuo grande popolo?».
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 Dio disse a Salomone: «Poiché ti sta a cuore una cosa simile e poiché non hai domandato né ricchezze, né beni, né gloria, né la vita dei tuoi nemici e neppure una lunga vita, ma hai domandato piuttosto saggezza e scienza per governare il mio popolo, su cui ti ho costituito re,
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 saggezza e scienza ti saranno concesse. Inoltre io ti darò ricchezze, beni e gloria, quali non ebbero mai i re tuoi predecessori e non avranno mai i tuoi successori».
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 Salomone poi dall'altura, che si trovava in Gàbaon, tornò a Gerusalemme, lontano dalla tenda del convegno, e regnò su Israele.
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 Salomone radunò carri e cavalli; aveva millequattrocento carri e dodicimila cavalli, distribuiti nelle città dei carri e presso il re in Gerusalemme.
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 Il re fece in modo che in Gerusalemme l'argento e l'oro abbondassero come i sassi e i cedri fossero numerosi come i sicomòri nella Sefela.
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 I cavalli di Salomone provenivano da Muzri e da Kue; i mercanti del re li acquistavano in Kue.
Solomon’s horses were imported/brought from Egypt and from [the] Kue [region in Turkey].
17 Essi facevano venire e importavano da Muzri un carro per seicento sicli d'argento, un cavallo per centocinquanta. In tal modo ne importavano per fornirli a tutti i re degli Hittiti e ai re di Aram.
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.
