Третья книга Царств 3
1 Егда же царство утвердися в руце Соломона, сватовство сотвори Соломон с фараоном царем Египетским: и поят дщерь фараоню и введе ю во град Давидов, дондеже сконча здати дом свой и дом Господень и стену Иерусалима окрест.
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.
2 Обаче людие тогда бяху жруще на высоких, яко не бе создан дом Господеви даже до дне онаго.
[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.
3 И возлюби Соломон Господа, ходити в заповеданиих Давида отца своего, токмо на холмех жряше и кадяше.
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.
4 И воста Соломон, и иде в Гаваон пожрети тамо, яко тамо бе высота велия: тысящу всесожжения вознесе на жертвеннице в Гаваоне.
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.
5 И явися Господь Соломону во сне нощию и рече ему: проси что хощеши себе.
That night, Yahweh appeared to him in a dream. He asked Solomon, “What would you like me to give to you?”
6 И рече Соломон: Ты сотворил еси с рабом Твоим Давидом отцем моим милость велию, якоже ходи пред Тобою истиною и правдою и правым сердцем с Тобою, и сохранил еси ему милость великую сию, еже дати сыну его седети на престоле его, якоже днесь:
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].
7 и ныне, Господи Боже мой, Ты дал еси раба Твоего вместо Давида отца моего: и аз есмь отрочищь мал, и не вем исхода моего и входа моего:
“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].
8 раб же Твой посреде людий Твоих, ихже избрал еси людий многих, иже не изочтутся от множества:
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].
9 и даси рабу Твоему сердце смыслено слышати и судити люди Твоя в правде, еже разумевати посреде добра и зла: яко кто может судити людем Твоим тяжким сим?
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.”
10 И угодно бысть слово сие пред Господем, яко испроси Соломон глагол сей.
Yahweh was very pleased that Solomon had requested that.
11 И рече Господь к нему: занеже просил еси от мене глагола сего, и не просил еси от мене дний многих, и не просил еси богатства, ниже просил еси душ враг твоих, но испросил еси себе разума, еже слышати суд:
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].
12 се, сотворих по глаголу твоему, се, дах ти сердце смыслено и мудро: якоже ты, не бысть муж прежде тебе и по тебе не востанет подобен тебе:
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.
13 и яже не просил еси, дах тебе, и богатство и славу, якоже ты, не бысть муж подобен тебе в царех во вся дни твоя:
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.
14 и аще пойдеши путем Моим сохранити заповеди Моя и повеления Моя, якоже хождаше Давид отец твой, и умножу дни твоя.
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.”
15 И возбудися Соломон, и се, сновидение. И воста, и иде во Иерусалим, и ста пред лицем жертвенника, пред лицем кивота завета Господня в Сионе, и вознесе всесожжения и сотвори мирная, и сотвори пир велий себе и всем отроком своим.
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.
16 Тогда явистеся две жене блуднице пред царем и стасте пред ним.
One day two prostitutes came and stood in front of King Solomon.
17 И рече жена едина: во мне, господи мой: аз и жена сия жихоме в дому единем и родихоме в дому:
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.
18 и бысть по третием дни рождения моего, и роди и жена сия: и бехом купно, и не бе никтоже с нами, кроме обоих нас в дому:
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.
19 и умре сын жены сея в нощи, яко лежа на нем:
“But one night this woman’s baby died because she [accidentally] rolled on top of her baby [while sleeping and smothered it].
20 и воста в полунощи, и взя отроча мое от объятий моих, и успи е на лоне своем, а отроча свое умершее положи на лоне моем:
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.
21 и востах заутра накормити отроча мое, и обретох и мертво: и се, разсмотрих его рано, и се, не бе сын мой, егоже родих:
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!”
22 и рече другая жена: ни, но се есть сын мой живый, се же есть сын твой умерый. И прястеся пред царем.
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.
23 И рече има царь: ты глаголеши, яко сей сын мой живый, сын же сея мертвый: и ты глаголеши: ни, но живый есть сын мой, твой же сын умерший.
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.’”
24 И рече царь: принесите ми мечь. И принесоша мечь пред царя.
So he said to one of his servants, “Bring me a sword.” So the servant brought a sword to the king.
25 И рече царь: разсецыте отроча ссущее живое на двое, и дадите половину его сей, и другую половину оней.
Then the king said to the servant, “Cut the baby that is alive into two parts. Give one part to each of the women.”
26 И отвеща жена, еяже бе сын живый, и рече ко царю, понеже смятеся утроба ея о сыне ея, и рече: во мне, господи мой, дадите ей отроча живое, смертию же не умертвите его. И та рече: да не будет ни мне, ни тебе, но пресецыте е.
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.”
27 И отвеща царь и рече: дадите детище живо жене рекшей: дадите сей е, смертию же не умертвите его: сия мати его.
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.”
28 И слыша весь Израиль суд сей, имже суди царь, и убояшася от лица царева, разумеша бо, яко разум Божий в нем еже творити оправдания.
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.
