2 Crónicas 2

1 Salomón se propuso edificar una Casa al Nombre de Yavé y un palacio real para él.

And Solomon resolved to build a house to the name of the Lord, and a palace for himself.

2 Salomón designó 70.000 cargadores y 80.000 canteros para labrar piedras en la región montañosa, y 3.600 supervisores.

And he numbered seventy thousand men to carry upon shoulders, and eighty thousand who were hewing stones in the mountains, and three thousand six hundred as their overseers.

3 Salomón envió a decir a Hiram, rey de Tiro: Haz conmigo como hiciste con mi padre David, al enviarle cedros para que edificara una casa para vivir.

Also, he sent to Hiram, the king of Tyre, saying: “Just as you did for my father David, when you sent him cedar wood, so that he might build a house for himself, in which he then lived,

4 Ciertamente yo voy a edificar una Casa al Nombre de Yavé mi ʼElohim para consagrarla a Él y quemar incienso aromático ante Él para la presentación continua de los panes, para los holocaustos de la mañana, la llegada de la noche, los holocaustos de los sábados, las lunas nuevas y las fiestas solemnes de Yavé nuestro ʼElohim, lo cual se hará perpetuamente en Israel.

do so also for me, so that I may build a house to the name of the Lord my God, so that I may consecrate it for the burning of incense before him, and for the smoke of aromatics, and for the perpetual bread of the presence, and for the holocausts, in morning and in evening, as well as on the Sabbaths and new moons and solemnities of the Lord our God forever, which have been commanded to Israel.

5 La Casa que voy a edificar es grande, pues nuestro ʼElohim es más grande que todos los ʼelohim.

For the house that I desire to build is great. For our God is great, above all gods.

6 Pero ¿quién será capaz de edificarle Casa, cuando el cielo y el más alto cielo no lo pueden contener? ¿Quién soy yo para que le edifique Casa, sino solo para quemar incienso ante Él?

So then, who will be able prevail, so that he may build a worthy house for him? If heaven and the heavens of heavens cannot contain him, what am I that I would be able to build a house to him? But let it be for this only, so that incense may be burned before him.

7 Ahora pues, envíame un hombre hábil para trabajar en oro, plata, bronce, hierro, [tela de] púrpura, carmesí y azul, y que sepa cómo hacer grabados para que trabaje con los expertos que están conmigo en Judá y Jerusalén, a quienes mi padre David contrató.

Therefore, send to me a learned man, who knows how to work with gold and silver, with brass and iron, with purple, scarlet, and hyacinth, and who knows how to carve engravings, along with these artisans that I have with me in Judea and Jerusalem, whom my father David has prepared.

8 Envíame también cedros, cipreses y sándalos del Líbano. Ciertamente mis esclavos irán con los tuyos porque yo sé que tus esclavos saben talar los árboles del Líbano

Then too, send to me cedar wood, and juniper, and pine from Lebanon. For I know that your servants know how to cut timber from Lebanon, and my servants will be with your servants,

9 a fin de preparar madera en abundancia, porque la Casa que tengo que edificar será grande y portentosa.

so that very much wood may be prepared for me. For the house that I desire to build is exceedingly great and glorious.

10 Mira, para el sustento de tus esclavos que cortan y labran la madera doy 4.400.000 litros de trigo, 4.400.000 litros de cebada, 440.000 litros de vino y 440.000 litros de aceite.

In addition, I will give to your servants, the workers who will cut down the trees, for provisions: twenty thousand cor of wheat, and the same number of cor of barley, and twenty thousand measures of wine, as well as twenty thousand good measures of oil.”

11 Hiram, rey de Tiro, respondió en una carta que envió a Salomón: A causa del amor de Yavé por su pueblo, te designó rey.

Then Hiram, the king of Tyre, said, by a letter that had been sent to Solomon: “Because the Lord loved his people, for this reason he appointed you to reign over them.”

12 Y Hiram añadió: ¡Bendito sea Yavé ʼElohim de Israel, Quien hizo el cielo y la tierra, Quien dio al rey David un hijo sabio, dotado de discreción y entendimiento, quien edificará una Casa para Yavé y un palacio real para él!

And he added, saying: “Blessed is the Lord, the God of Israel, who made heaven and earth, who gave to king David a son who is wise, and learned, and intelligent as well as prudent, so that he may build a house to the Lord, and a palace for himself.

13 Yo, pues, te envío a Hiram-abí, hombre hábil dotado de entendimiento,

Therefore, I have sent my father Hiram to you; he is a prudent and very knowledgeable man,

14 hijo de una mujer de las hijas de Dan, y su padre es de Tiro. Él sabe trabajar en oro, plata, bronce, hierro, piedra, madera, y [tela de] púrpura, azul, carmesí y lino fino. Puede hacer toda clase de grabados y ejecutar cualquier proyecto que le sea encomendado, quien se podrá colocar entre tus peritos y los peritos de mi ʼadón David, tu padre.

the son of a woman from the daughters of Dan, whose father was a Tyrian, who knows how to work with gold and silver, with brass and iron, and with marble and timber, as well as with purple, and hyacinth, and fine linen, and scarlet. And he knows how to carve every kind of engraving, and how to devise prudently whatever may be necessary to the work, with your artisans and with the artisans of my lord David, your father.

15 En cuanto al trigo, la cebada, el aceite y el vino de los cuales mi ʼadón habló, entréguelos a sus esclavos,

Therefore, send the wheat and barley and oil and wine, which you, my lord, have promised, to your own servants.

16 y nosotros mismos talaremos árboles del Líbano de acuerdo con todas tus necesidades. Te los llevaremos en balsas por mar a Jope, y tú los subirás a Jerusalén.

Then we will cut down as much wood from Lebanon as you will need, and we will convey them as rafts by sea to Joppa. Then it will be for you to transfer them to Jerusalem.”

17 Salomón contó todos los extranjeros que estaban en la tierra de Israel, según el censo que hizo su padre David. Se halló que había 153.600.

And so Solomon numbered all the new converts who were in the land of Israel, after the numbering that David his father had done, and they were found to be one hundred fifty thousand and three thousand six hundred.

18 Designó a 70.000 de ellos como cargadores, a 80.000 para tallar piedras en la región montañosa y a 3.600 supervisores para vigilar la labor de la gente.

And he appointed seventy thousand of them, who would carry burdens on shoulders, and eighty thousand who would hew stones in the mountains, then three thousand and six hundred as overseers of the work of the people.