1 Reis 5
1 E enviou Hirão, rei de Tyro, os seus servos a Salomão (porque ouvira que ungiram a Salomão rei em logar de seu pae), porquanto Hirão sempre tinha amado a David.
Hiram, the king of Tyre [city], had always been a close friend of King David. When he heard that Solomon had been appointed to become the king after his father was no longer king, he sent some messengers to Solomon [to congratulate him].
2 Então Salomão enviou a Hirão, dizendo:
Solomon [gave those messengers] this message to take back to Hiram:
3 Bem sabes tu que David, meu pae, não poude edificar uma casa ao nome do Senhor seu Deus, por causa da guerra com que o cercaram, até que o Senhor os poz debaixo das plantas dos pés.
“You know that my father David [led his soldiers to] fight many wars against his enemies in the nearby countries. So he could not [arrange to] build a temple in which we [MTY] could worship Yahweh our God, until after Yahweh enabled [the Israeli army] to defeat [IDM] all his enemies.
4 Porém agora o Senhor meu Deus me tem dado descanço de todos os lados: adversario não ha, nem algum mau encontro.
But now Yahweh our God has enabled us to have peace with all the surrounding countries. [(There is no danger that/We do not need to worry that)] we will be attacked.
5 E eis que eu, meu Deus, intento edificar uma casa ao nome do Senhor, como fallou o Senhor a David, meu pae, dizendo: Teu filho, que porei em teu logar no teu throno, elle edificará uma casa ao meu nome.
Yahweh promised my father David, ‘Your son, whom I will enable to be king after you are no longer king, will build a temple for me [MTY].’ Because of that, I have decided to build a temple in which we can worship [MTY] Yahweh our God.
6 Dá ordem pois agora que do Libano me cortem cedros, e os meus servos estarão com os teus servos, e eu te darei a soldada dos teus servos, conforme a tudo o que disseres; porque bem sabes tu que entre nós ninguem ha que saiba cortar a madeira como os sidonios.
“So [I am requesting that] you command your workers to cut cedar trees for me. My men will work with them, and I will pay your workers whatever you decide. [But] my men [cannot do the work alone, ] because they do not know how to cut down trees like your workers from Sidon [city] do.”
7 E aconteceu que, ouvindo Hirão as palavras de Salomão, muito se alegrou, e disse: Bemdito seja hoje o Senhor, que deu a David um filho sabio sobre este tão grande povo.
When Hiram heard the message from Solomon, he was very happy and said, “I praise Yahweh today for giving David a very wise son to rule that great nation!”
8 E enviou Hirão a Salomão, dizendo: Ouvi o que me mandaste dizer. Eu farei toda a tua vontade ácerca dos cedros e ácerca das faias.
He sent this message back to Solomon: “I have heard the message that you sent to me, and I am ready to do what you ask. I will provide cedar and cypress logs.
9 Os meus servos os levarão desde o Libano até ao mar, e eu os farei conduzir em jangadas pelo mar até ao logar que me designares, e ali os desamarrarei; e tu os tomarás: tu tambem farás a minha vontade, dando sustento á minha casa.
My workers will bring the logs down from [the] Lebanon [mountains] to the [Mediterranean] sea. Then they will [tie them together to] make rafts to float them [in the water] along the coast to the place that you indicate. Then my workers will untie the logs, and your workers will take them from there. What I want you to do is to supply food for the people who work in my palace.”
10 Assim deu Hirão a Salomão madeira de cedros e madeira de faias, conforme a toda a sua vontade.
So Hiram [arranged for his workers to] supply all the cedar and cypress logs that Solomon wanted.
11 E Salomão deu a Hirão vinte mil coros de trigo, para sustento da sua casa, e vinte coros de azeite batido: isto dava Salomão a Hirão de anno em anno.
Each year Solomon gave Hiram 100,000 bushels of wheat and 110,000 gallons of pure [olive] oil to feed the people who worked in his palace.
12 Deu pois o Senhor a Salomão sabedoria, como lhe tinha dito: e houve paz entre Hirão e Salomão, e ambos fizeram alliança.
Yahweh enabled Solomon to be wise, just like he had promised. Solomon and Hiram made a treaty/agreement that there would be peace between their [two governments/countries].
13 E o rei Salomão fez subir leva de gente d'entre todo o Israel: e foi a leva de gente trinta mil homens.
King Solomon forced 30,000 men from all over Israel to become his workers.
14 E os enviou ao Libano, cada mez dez mil por suas vezes: um mez estavam no Libano, e dois mezes cada um em sua casa: e Adoniram estava sobre a leva de gente.
Adoniram was their boss. Solomon divided the men into three groups. Each month 10,000 of them went to Lebanon and worked for a month there, and then they came back home for two months.
15 Tinha tambem Salomão setenta mil que levavam as cargas, e oitenta mil que cortavam nas montanhas,
Solomon also forced 80,000 men to cut stones in the hilly area and 70,000 men to haul the stones [to Jerusalem].
16 Afóra os chefes dos officiaes de Salomão, os quaes estavam sobre aquella obra, tres mil e trezentos que davam as ordens ao povo que fazia aquella obra.
And he also assigned 3,600 men to supervise their work.
17 E mandou o rei que trouxessem pedras grandes, e pedras preciosas, pedras lavradas, para fundarem a casa.
The king also commanded his workers to cut huge blocks of stones from the quarries and to smooth the sides of the stones. Those huge stones were for the foundation of the temple.
18 E as lavravam os edificadores de Hirão e os giblitas: e preparavam a madeira e as pedras para edificar a casa.
Solomon’s workers and Hiram’s workers and men from Gebal/Byblos [city] shaped the stones and prepared the timber to build the temple.
