I Regum 9
1 Factum est autem cum perfecisset Salomon aedificium domus Domini, et aedificium regis, et omne quod optaverat et voluerat facere,
After Solomon had finished the Lord's Temple and the royal palace, having accomplished everything he'd wanted to do,
2 apparuit ei Dominus secundo sicut apparuerat ei in Gabaon.
the Lord appeared to him a second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon.
3 Dixitque Dominus ad eum: Exaudivi orationem tuam et deprecationem tuam, quam deprecatus es coram me: sanctificavi domum hanc, quam aedificasti, ut ponerem nomen meum ibi in sempiternum, et erunt oculi mei et cor meum ibi cunctis diebus.
The Lord told him, “I have heard your prayer and your request to me. I have dedicated this Temple you have built by placing my name on it forever; I will always watch over it and take care of it.
4 Tu quoque si ambulaveris coram me, sicut ambulavit pater tuus, in simplicitate cordis, et in aequitate: et feceris omnia, quae praecepi tibi, et legitima mea et iudicia mea servaveris,
As for you, if you follow my ways as your father David did, doing everything I've told you to do, and if you keep my laws and regulations,
5 ponam thronum regni tui super Israel in sempiternum, sicut locutus sum David patri tuo, dicens: Non auferetur vir de genere tuo de solio Israel.
then I will make your throne secure forever. I made this agreement with your father David, telling him, ‘You will always have a descendant to rule over Israel.’
6 Si autem aversione aversi fueritis vos et filii vestri, non sequentes me, nec custodientes mandata mea, et ceremonias meas, quas proposui vobis, sed abieritis et colueritis deos alienos, et adoraveritis eos:
But if you or your descendants turn away and do not keep the laws and the commandments I have given you, and if you go and serve and worship other gods,
7 auferam Israel de superficie terrae, quam dedi eis: et templum quod sanctificavi nomini meo, proiiciam a conspectu meo, eritque Israel in proverbium, et in fabulam cunctis populis.
then I will cut Israel off from the land I have given them. I will banish from my presence this Temple I have dedicated to my honor, and I will make it an object lesson of ridicule among the nations.
8 Et domus haec erit in exemplum: omnis, qui transierit per eam, stupebit, et sibilabit, et dicet: Quare fecit Dominus sic terrae huic, et domui huic?
This Temple will become a pile of rubble. All who pass by it will be appalled and will hiss, saying, ‘Why has the Lord acted in such a way to this land and this Temple?’
9 Et respondebunt: Quia dereliquerunt Dominum Deum suum, qui eduxit patres eorum de Terra Aegypti, et secuti sunt deos alienos, et adoraverunt eos, et coluerunt eos: idcirco induxit Dominus super eos omne malum hoc.
The answer will come, ‘Because they abandoned the Lord their God, who brought their forefathers out of Egypt, and have embraced other gods, worshiping them and serving them. That's why the Lord has brought all this trouble upon them.’”
10 Expletis autem annis viginti postquam aedificaverat Salomon duas domos, id est domum Domini, et domum regis,
It took twenty years for Solomon to construct the two buildings—the Temple of the Lord and his own palace. After this,
11 (Hiram rege Tyri praebente Salomoni ligna cedrina et abiegna, et aurum iuxta omne quod opus habuerat) tunc dedit Salomon Hiram viginti oppida in Terra Galilaeae.
King Solomon gave twenty towns in Galilee to Hiram king of Tyre, because Hiram had provided him with all the cedar and juniper and gold he wanted.
12 Et egressus est Hiram de Tyro, ut videret oppida, quae dederat ei Salomon, et non placuerunt ei,
But when Hiram went from Tyre to see the cities that Solomon had given him, he was not happy with them.
13 et ait: Haecine sunt civitates, quas dedisti mihi, frater? Et appellavit eas Terram chabul, usque in diem hanc.
“What are these towns you have given me, my brother?” asked Hiram. He called them the land of Cabul, the name they are known by to this day.
14 Misit quoque Hiram ad regem Salomonem centum viginti talenta auri.
Even so, Hiram sent the king 120 talents of gold in payment.
15 Haec est summa expensarum, quam obtulit rex Salomon ad aedificandam domum Domini et domum suam, et Mello, et murum Ierusalem, et Heser, et Mageddo et Gazer.
Here is the account of the forced labor that King Solomon imposed to build the Lord's Temple, his own palace, the terraces, and the wall of Jerusalem, as well as Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.
16 Pharao rex Aegypti ascendit, et cepit Gazar, succenditque eam igni: et Chananaeum, qui habitabat in civitate, interfecit, et dedit eam in dotem filiae suae uxori Salomonis.
Pharaoh, king of Egypt, had attacked and captured Gezer. He had set it on fire, killed the Canaanites living in the town. He had then given it as a wedding dowry to his daughter, Solomon's wife.
17 Aedificavit ergo Salomon Gazer, et Bethoron inferiorem,
Solomon rebuilt Gezer and lower Beth-horon,
18 et Balaath, et Palmiram in Terra solitudinis.
Baalath and Tamar in the wilderness, in the land of Judah,
19 Et omnes vicos, qui ad se pertinebant, et erant absque muro, munivit, et civitates curruum et civitates equitum, et quodcumque ei placuit ut aedificaret in Ierusalem, et in Libano, et in omni terra potestatis suae.
and all of Solomon's towns for storage, and the towns for his chariots and for his horsemen, plus whatever Solomon wanted to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and throughout his entire kingdom.
20 Universum populum, qui remanserat de Amorrhaeis, et Hethaeis, et Pherezaeis, et Hevaeis, et Iebusaeis, qui non sunt de filiis Israel:
The descendants of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites (people who were not Israelites)
21 horum filios, qui remanserant in terra, quos scilicet non potuerant filii Israel exterminare: fecit Salomon tributarios, usque in diem hanc.
who remained in the land—those whom the Israelites were unable to destroy completely—were conscripted by Solomon to work as forced laborers, as they continue to do to this day.
22 De filiis autem Israel non constituit Salomon servire quemquam, sed erant viri bellatores, et ministri eius, et principes, et duces, et praefecti curruum et equorum.
But Solomon did not enslave any of the Israelites. They were his soldiers, officials, commanders, captains, chariot commanders, and horsemen.
23 Erant autem principes super omnia opera Salomonis praepositi quingenti quinquaginta, qui habebant subiectum populum, et statutis operibus imperabant.
They were also the chief officers in charge of Solomon's programs: 550 in command of the people who carried out the work.
24 Filia autem Pharaonis ascendit de civitate David in domum suam, quam aedificaverat ei Salomon: tunc aedificavit Mello.
Once Pharaoh's daughter had moved from the City of David to the palace that Solomon had built for her, he built the city terraces.
25 Offerebat quoque Salomon tribus vicibus per annos singulos holocausta, et pacificas victimas super altare, quod aedificaverat Domino, et adolebat thymiama coram Domino: perfectumque est templum.
Three times each year Solomon sacrificed burnt offerings and friendship offerings on the altar he had built for the Lord, burning incense before the Lord with them, and so fulfilled what was required at the Temple.
26 Classem quoque fecit rex Salomon in Asiongaber, quae est iuxta Ailath in littore Maris rubri, in Terra Idumaeae.
King Solomon built a fleet of ships at Ezion-geber, which is near Eloth on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.
27 Misitque Hiram in classe illa servos suos viros nauticos et gnaros maris, cum servis Salomonis.
Hiram sent his sailors who knew the sea to serve in the fleet with Solomon's men.
28 Qui cum venissent in Ophir, sumptum inde aurum quadringentorum viginti talentorum, detulerunt ad regem Salomonem.
They sailed to Ophir and brought back 420 talents of gold from there and delivered it to Solomon.
