اول پادشاهان 3
| سلیمان با فرعون مصر پیمان دوستی بسته، دختر او را به همسری گرفت و به شهر داوود آورد تا بنای کاخ سلطنتی خود و نیز خانۀ خداوند و دیوار شهر اورشلیم را تمام کند. | 1 |
Solomon went to see the king of Egypt. Solomon [made an agreement with him to] marry his daughter. They also made an alliance/agreement [that their armies would not attack each other]. Then Solomon brought the king’s daughter to live in [the part of Jerusalem called] ‘The City of David’. [She lived there] until Solomon’s workers had finished building his house and the temple of Yahweh and the wall around Jerusalem.
| در آن زمان، قوم اسرائیل به بالای تپه‌ها می‌رفتند و روی مذبحهای آنجا قربانی می‌کردند، چون هنوز خانهٔ خداوند ساخته نشده بود. | 2 |
[At that time] the temple of Yahweh had not yet been built, so the Israeli people were still offering sacrifices at many other places of worship.
| سلیمان خداوند را دوست می‌داشت و مطابق دستورهای پدر خود عمل می‌کرد، ولی او هم به بالای تپه‌ها می‌رفت و در آنجا قربانی می‌کرد و بخور می‌سوزانید. | 3 |
Solomon loved Yahweh, and he obeyed all the instructions that his father David had given him. But he also offered sacrifices and burned incense at various altars.
| یکبار سلیمان برای قربانی کردن به جبعون رفت، زیرا مهمترین تپه بود. او هزار گاو و گوسفند در آن محل قربانی کرد. | 4 |
One day the king went to Gibeon [city] to offer a sacrifice there, because that was where the most famous/important altar was. In previous years he had offered hundreds of sacrifices on that altar.
| آن شب در جبعون خداوند در عالم خواب به او ظاهر شد و فرمود: «از من چه می‌خواهی تا به تو بدهم؟» | 5 |
That night, Yahweh appeared to him in a dream. He asked Solomon, “What would you like me to give to you?”
| سلیمان گفت: «تو به پدرم داوود بسیار محبت نشان دادی چون او نسبت به تو صادق و امین بود و قلب پاکی داشت. به او پسری بخشیدی که امروز بر تختش نشسته است. با این کار، لطف خود را در حق او کامل کردی! | 6 |
Solomon replied, “You always greatly and faithfully loved my father David, who served you [well]. You did that because he (was faithful to/faithfully obeyed) you and acted righteously and honestly toward you. And you have showed how greatly and faithfully you loved him by giving to him me, his son, and now I am ruling [MTY] as he did [before he died].
| ای خداوند، خدای من، تو مرا به جای پدرم داوود به پادشاهی رسانده‌ای. ولی من مانند یک کودک هستم که راه خود را نمی‌داند. | 7 |
“Now, Yahweh my God, you have appointed me to be the king like my father was. But I am [very young, like] a little child [MET]. I do not know how to lead/rule my people at all [IDM].
| حال که رهبری قوم برگزیدهٔ تو با این همه جمعیت بی‌شمار به عهدهٔ من است، | 8 |
I am here among the people whom you have chosen. They are a very large group of people; there are very, very many of them, with the result that no one can count them [DOU].
| به من حکمت عطا کن تا بتوانم نیک و بد را تشخیص بدهم و با عدالت بر مردم حکومت کنم؛ و گرنه چطور می‌توانم این قوم بزرگ را اداره کنم؟» | 9 |
So please enable me to think clearly, in order that I may rule your people [well]. Enable me to know what is good and what is evil. [If you do not do that, ] I will never [RHQ] be able to rule this great group of people who belong to you.”
| خداوند درخواست سلیمان را بسیار پسندید و خشنود شد که سلیمان از او حکمت خواسته است. | 10 |
Yahweh was very pleased that Solomon had requested that.
| پس به سلیمان فرمود: «چون تو حکمت خواستی تا با عدالت حکومت کنی و عمر طولانی یا ثروت فراوان برای خود و یا مرگ دشمنانت را از من نخواستی، | 11 |
God said to him, “You did not request that you live for many years or that you become very rich or that you be able to kill all your enemies. Instead, you have requested that I enable you to be wise, in order that you will be able to know [and to do] what is right [while you govern these people].
| پس هر چه خواستی به تو می‌دهم. من به تو فهم و حکمتی می‌بخشم که تاکنون به کسی نداده‌ام و نخواهم داد. | 12 |
So, I will certainly do what you requested. I will enable you to be very wise [DOU]. The result will be that no one who has lived before you or who will live after you will be as [wise as] you are.
| در ضمن چیزهایی را هم که نخواستی به تو می‌دهم، یعنی ثروت و افتخار را، به طوری که در طول زندگی‌ات هیچ پادشاهی به پای تو نخواهد رسید. | 13 |
I will also give you things that you did not request: I will enable you to become very rich and honored, as long as you live. You will be richer and more honored than any other king.
| اگر مثل پدرت داوود از من اطاعت کنی و دستورهای مرا پیروی نمایی آنگاه عمر طولانی نیز به تو خواهم بخشید!» | 14 |
If you conduct your life [IDM] as I want you to, and if you obey all my laws and commandments, as your father David did, I will enable you to live for many years.”
| وقتی سلیمان بیدار شد، فهمید که خدا در خواب با او سخن گفته است. پس به اورشلیم رفت و به خیمهٔ عبادت وارد شده، در برابر صندوق عهد خداوند ایستاد و قربانیهای سوختنی و سلامتی به خداوند تقدیم کرد. سپس برای تمام درباریان خود، ضیافتی بزرگ ترتیب داد. | 15 |
Then Solomon awoke, and he realized that [God had spoken to him in] a dream. Then he went to Jerusalem and stood in front of [the Sacred Tent where] the Sacred Chest [was], and he offered many sacrifices that were completely burned [on the altar] and offerings to maintain fellowship with Yahweh. Then he made a feast for all his officials.
| چندی بعد دو فاحشه برای حل اختلاف خود به حضور پادشاه آمدند. | 16 |
One day two prostitutes came and stood in front of King Solomon.
| یکی از آنان گفت: «ای پادشاه، ما دو نفر در یک خانه زندگی می‌کنیم. چندی قبل من فرزندی به دنیا آوردم. | 17 |
One of them said, “Your Majesty, this woman and I live in the same house. I gave birth to a baby while she was there in the house.
| سه روز بعد از من، این زن هم فرزندی زایید. کسی جز ما در آن خانه نبود. | 18 |
Three days after my baby was born, this woman also gave birth to a baby. Only the two of us were in the house; there was no one else there.
| یک شب که او خواب بود، روی بچه‌اش افتاد و بچه‌اش خفه شد! | 19 |
“But one night this woman’s baby died because she [accidentally] rolled on top of her baby [while sleeping and smothered it].
| نصف شب وقتی من در خواب بودم، او برخاست و پسر مرا از کنارم برداشت و پیش خودش برد و بچهٔ مردهٔ خود را در بغل من گذاشت. | 20 |
So she got up at midnight and took my baby boy who was lying beside me while I was sleeping. She carried him to her bed and brought her dead baby and put it in my bed.
| صبح زود که برخاستم بچه‌ام را شیر بدهم دیدم مرده است. اما وقتی در روشنایی روز با دقت به او نگاه کردم متوجه شدم که آن کودک پسر من نیست.» | 21 |
When I awoke the next morning and was ready to nurse my baby, I saw that it was dead. But when I looked at it closely in the morning light, I saw that it was not my baby!”
| زن دوم حرف او را قطع کرد و گفت: «اینطور نیست، بچهٔ مرده مال اوست و اینکه زنده است پسر من است.» زن اولی گفت: «نه، آنکه مرده است مال تو است و اینکه زنده است مال من است.» و در حضور پادشاه به مجادله پرداختند. | 22 |
But the other woman said, “That is not true! The baby that is alive is mine, and the baby that is dead is yours!” Then the first woman said, “No, the dead baby is yours, and the one that is alive is mine!” And they continued to argue in front of the king.
| پس پادشاه گفت: «بگذارید ببینم حق با کیست. هر دو شما می‌گویید: بچهٔ زنده مال من است، و هر دو هم می‌گویید: بچهٔ مرده مال من نیست!» | 23 |
Then the king said, “Both of you are saying, ‘My baby is the one that is alive and the one that is dead is yours.’”
| سپس پادشاه دستور داد شمشیری بیاورند. پس یک شمشیر آوردند. | 24 |
So he said to one of his servants, “Bring me a sword.” So the servant brought a sword to the king.
| آنگاه سلیمان فرمود: «طفل زنده را دو نصف کنید و به هر کدام یک نصف بدهید!» | 25 |
Then the king said to the servant, “Cut the baby that is alive into two parts. Give one part to each of the women.”
| زنی که مادر واقعی بچه بود دلش بر پسرش سوخت و به پادشاه التماس کرده گفت: «ای پادشاه بچه را نکشید. او را به این زن بدهید!» ولی زن دیگر گفت: «نه، بگذار او را تقسیم کنند تا نه مال من باشد و نه مال تو!» | 26 |
But the woman whose baby was alive loved her baby very much, so she said to the king, “No, Your Majesty! Do not allow him to kill the baby! Give her the child that is alive!” But the other woman said to the king, “No, cut it in half. Then it will not be her baby or my baby.”
| آنگاه پادشاه فرمود: «بچه را نکشید! او را به این زن بدهید که نمی‌خواهد بچه کشته شود؛ چون مادرش همین زن است!» | 27 |
Then the king said to the servant, “Do not kill the baby. Give the baby to the woman who said ‘Do not cut the baby in half,’ because she is truly the baby’s mother.”
| این خبر به سرعت در سراسر اسرائیل پخش شد و همه از پادشاه ترسیدند، چون فهمیدند که خدا به سلیمان حکمت بخشیده تا بتواند عادلانه داوری کند. | 28 |
All the Israeli people heard about what the king had decided, and they revered him. They realized that God had truly enabled him to be very wise, to judge people’s matters fairly.
