2 Cronache 5
1 Così fu compiuta tutta l’opera che Salomone fece eseguire per la casa dell’Eterno. E Salomone fece portare l’argento, l’oro e tutti gli utensili che Davide suo padre avea consacrati, e li mise nei tesori della casa di Dio.
After Solomon’s workers had finished building the temple, Solomon put in the temple storage rooms everything that his father David had dedicated to Yahweh—all the silver and gold and all the other things that were used at the temple.
2 Allora Salomone radunò a Gerusalemme gli anziani d’Israele e tutti i capi delle tribù, i principi delle famiglie patriarcali dei figliuoli d’Israele, per portar su l’arca del patto dell’Eterno, dalla città di Davide, cioè da Sion.
Then King Solomon summoned to Jerusalem all the elders of Israel, all the leaders of the tribes and of the families/clans. He wanted them to help to bring to the temple Yahweh’s Sacred Chest from Zion [Hill], where it was in [the part of the city called] ‘The City of David’.
3 Tutti gli uomini d’Israele si radunarono presso il re per la festa che cadeva il settimo mese.
So all the leaders of Israel gathered together along with the king, during the Festival of [Living in Temporary] Shelters, in October.
4 Arrivati che furono tutti gli anziani d’Israele, i Leviti presero l’arca,
When they had all arrived, the descendants of Levi lifted up the Sacred Chest,
5 e portarono su l’arca, la tenda di convegno, e tutti gli utensili sacri che erano nella tenda. I sacerdoti ed i Leviti eseguirono il trasporto.
and they carried it and the Sacred Tent and the sacred things that were inside it. The priests, who were also descended from Levi, carried them.
6 Il re Salomone e tutta la raunanza d’Israele convocata presso di lui, si raccolsero davanti all’arca, e immolarono pecore e buoi in tal quantità da non potersi contare ne calcolare.
King Solomon and many of the other people of Israel who had gathered there walked in front of the Sacred Chest. And they sacrificed a huge amount of sheep and cattle. No one was able to count them [because there were very many].
7 I sacerdoti portarono l’arca del patto dell’Eterno al luogo destinatole, nel santuario della casa, nel luogo santissimo, sotto le ali dei cherubini;
The priests then brought the Sacred Chest into the Most Holy Place, the inner room of the temple, and they placed it under the wings of the statues of winged creatures.
8 poiché i cherubini aveano le ali spiegate sopra il sito dell’arca, e coprivano dall’alto l’arca e le sue stanghe.
The wings of those statues spread out over the Sacred Chest and over the poles by which it was carried.
9 Le stanghe aveano una tale lunghezza che le loro estremità si vedevano sporgere dall’arca, davanti al santuario, ma non si vedevano dal di fuori. Esse son rimaste quivi fino al dì d’oggi.
The poles were very long, with the result that they could be seen by [those who were standing] at the entrance to the Most Holy Place, but they could not be seen by anyone standing outside the temple. Those poles are still there.
10 Nell’arca non v’era altro se non le due tavole di pietra che Mosè vi avea deposte sullo Horeb, quando l’Eterno fece patto coi figliuoli d’Israele, dopo che questi furono usciti dal paese d’Egitto.
The only things that were inside the Sacred Chest were the two stone tablets that Moses had put there at Sinai Mountain, where Yahweh made an agreement with the Israeli people after they came out of Egypt.
11 Or avvenne che mentre i sacerdoti uscivano dal luogo santo giacché tutti i sacerdoti presenti s’erano santificati senza osservare l’ordine delle classi,
Then the priests left the Holy Place. All the priests who were there, from every group, had performed the rituals to cause them to be acceptable to God.
12 e tutti i Leviti cantori Asaf, Heman, Jeduthun, i loro figliuoli e i loro fratelli, vestiti di bisso, con cembali, saltèri e cetre stavano in piè a oriente dell’altare, e con essi centoventi sacerdoti che sonavan la tromba
All the descendants of Levi who were musicians—Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, their sons and their other relatives—stood on the east side of the altar. They were wearing linen clothes, and they were playing cymbals, harps, and lyres. There were 120 other priests who were blowing trumpets.
13 mentre, dico, quelli che sonavan la tromba e quelli che cantavano, come un sol uomo, fecero udire un’unica voce per celebrare e per lodare l’Eterno, e alzarono la voce al suon delle trombe, de’ cembali e degli altri strumenti musicali, e celebrarono l’Eterno dicendo: “Celebrate l’Eterno, perch’egli è buono, perché la sua benignità dura in perpetuo”, avvenne che la casa, la casa dell’Eterno, fu riempita da una nuvola,
The men blowing trumpets, those playing the cymbals and other musical instruments, and the singers, made music together, praising Yahweh and singing this song: “Yahweh is good [to us]; he faithfully loves us forever.” Then [suddenly] the temple was filled with a cloud.
14 e i sacerdoti non poterono rimanervi per farvi l’ufficio loro, a motivo della nuvola; poiché la gloria dell’Eterno riempiva la casa di Dio.
The glorious radiance of Yahweh filled the temple, with the result that the priests were not able to continue doing their work.
