1 Reyes 10
1 Ahora bien, la reina de Saba, oyendo grandes cosas de Salomón, vino a poner a prueba su sabiduría con preguntas difíciles.
The queen [who ruled the] Sheba [area] heard that Yahweh had caused Solomon to become famous, so she traveled to Jerusalem to ask him questions that were difficult [to answer].
2 Llegó a Jerusalén con una caravana muy grande, con camellos cargados de especias y gran cantidad de oro y joyas. Cuando llegó a Salomón, habló con él de todo lo que tenía en mente.
She came with a large group of wealthy/influential people, and she brought camels that were loaded with spices, and valuable gems, and a lot of gold. When she met Solomon, she asked him questions about all the topics/things in which she was interested.
3 Y Salomón dio sus respuestas a todas sus preguntas; No había ningún secreto que el rey no le aclarara.
Solomon answered all her questions. He explained everything that she asked about, even things that were very difficult.
4 Y cuando la reina de Sabá vio toda la sabiduría de Salomón y la casa que había hecho,
The queen realized that Solomon was very wise. She saw his palace;
5 Y la comida en su mesa, y todos sus siervos se sentaron allí, y los que lo servían en sus lugares, y sus ropas, y sus siervos, y las ofrendas quemadas que hizo en el templo del Señor, se quedó muy asombrada.
she saw the food that was served on his table [every day]; she saw where his officials lived (OR, how his officials were seated at the table), their uniforms, the servants who served the food and wine, and the sacrifices that he took to the temple to be offered. She was extremely amazed.
6 Y ella le dijo al rey: El relato que me fue dado en mi país por tus actos y tu sabiduría fue verdadero.
She said to King Solomon, “Everything that I heard in my own country about you and about how wise you are is true!
7 Pero no creía en lo que se decía de ti, hasta que vine y vi por mí mismo; y ahora veo que no fue la mitad de la historia; Tu sabiduría y tu riqueza son mucho más grandes de lo que dijeron.
But I did not believe it was true until I came here and saw it myself. But really, what they told me is only half [of what they could have told me about you]. You are extremely wise and rich, more than what people told me.
8 Felices son estos tus siervos cuyo lugar está siempre delante de ti, escuchando tus palabras de sabiduría.
Your wives are very fortunate! Your officials who are constantly standing in front of you and listening to the wise things that you say are also fortunate!
9 Alabado sea él Señor tu Dios, cuyo placer fue entregarte el trono del reino de Israel; Porque el amor del Señor por Israel es eterno, él te ha hecho rey, para ser su juez en justicia.
Praise Yahweh, your God, who has shown that he is pleased with you by causing you to become the king of Israel! God has always loved the Israeli people, and therefore he has appointed you to be their king, in order that you will rule them fairly and righteously.”
10 Y le dio al rey ciento veinte talentos de oro, y una gran cantidad de especias y joyas: nunca más se vio tal riqueza de especias como la que la reina de Saba le dio al rey Salomón.
Then the queen gave to the king [the things that she had brought. She gave him] almost five tons of gold and a large amount of spices and valuable gems. Never again did King Solomon receive more spices than the queen gave him at that time.
11 Y la flota mercante de Hiram, además del oro de Ofir, volvió con mucha madera de sándalo y joyas.
In the ships that belonged to King Hiram, in which they had previously brought gold from Ophir, they also brought a large amount of juniper wood and gems/valuable stones.
12 Y con la madera del sándalo, el rey construyó pilares para el templo del Señor y para la casa del rey, e instrumentos de música; arpas y liras para los cantores; hasta ahora no se ha visto semejante madera de sándalo.
King Solomon told his workers to use that wood to make railings/supports in the temple of Yahweh and in the king’s palace and also to make harps and lyres for the (musicians/men who played musical instruments). That wood was the largest amount of (OR, the finest) wood that had ever been seen [in Israel]. And no one since then has ever seen so much wood of that kind.
13 Y el rey Salomón le dio a la reina de Saba todo lo que ella deseaba, cualquier cosa que ella pidiera, además de lo que él le dio libremente por el impulso de su corazón. Así que ella volvió a su país, ella y sus sirvientes.
King Solomon gave to the queen from Sheba everything that she wanted. He gave her those gifts in addition to the gifts that he always gave [to other rulers who visited him]. Then she and the people who came with her returned to her own land.
14 Ahora bien, el peso del oro que vino a Salomón en un año era seiscientos sesenta y seis talentos;
Each year there was brought to Solomon a total of 25 tons of gold.
15 Además de lo que vino a él de los negocios de los comerciantes, y de todos los reyes de arabia, y de los gobernantes del país.
That was in addition to [the taxes] paid to him by the merchants and traders, and the annual taxes paid by the kings of Arabia and by the governors of [the regions in] Israel.
16 E hizo Salomón doscientos escudos de oro martillado, cada uno con seiscientos siclos de oro.
King Solomon’s workers [took this] gold and hammered it into thin sheets and covered 200 large shields with those thin sheets of gold; they put (almost 15 pounds/more than 6 kg.) of gold on each shield.
17 E hizo trescientas cubiertas más pequeñas de oro batido, con tres libras de oro en cada cubierta: y el rey las puso en la casa de los Bosques del Líbano.
His workers made 300 smaller shields. They covered each of them with (almost 4 pounds/1.5 kg.) of gold. Then the king put those shields in the Hall of the Forest of Lebanon.
18 Entonces el rey hizo un gran trono de marfil, bañado con el mejor oro.
His workers also made for him a large throne. [Part of it was] covered with (ivory [decorations made from)] tusks of elephants and [part of it was covered] with very fine gold.
19 Había seis escalones que subían, y su parte superior era redonda en la parte posterior, había brazos en los dos lados del asiento y dos leones al lado de los brazos;
There were six steps in front of the throne. There was a statue of a lion on both sides of each step. So altogether there were twelve statues of lions. The back of the throne was rounded at the top. At each side of the throne there was an armrest, and alongside each armrest there was a small statue of a lion. No throne like that had ever existed in any other kingdom.
20 Y doce leones fueron colocados a un lado y al otro lado en las seis escaleras: no había nada igual en ningún reino.
21 Y todos los vasos del rey Salomón eran de oro, y todos los vasos de la casa de los Bosques del Líbano eran del mejor oro; ninguno era de plata, porque nadie pensó en plata en los días del rey Salomón.
All of Solomon’s cups were made of gold, and all the various dishes in the Hall of the Forest of Lebanon were made of gold. They did not make things from silver, because during the years that Solomon [ruled], silver was not considered to be valuable.
22 Porque el rey tenía barcos Tarsis en el mar con los barcos de Hiram; una vez cada tres años las naves Tarsis venían con oro y plata, marfil, monos y pavos reales.
The king had a (fleet/large number) of ships that sailed with the ships that King Hiram owned. Every three years the ships returned [from the places to which they had sailed], bringing gold, silver, ivory, monkeys, and baboons (OR, peacocks).
23 Y el rey Salomón fue mayor que todos los reyes de la tierra en riqueza y en sabiduría.
King Solomon became richer and wiser than any other king.
24 Y de todas partes de la tierra vinieron a ver a Salomón y a escuchar su sabiduría, que Dios había puesto en su corazón.
People from all over the world wanted to come and listen to the wise things that Solomon said, things that God had put into his mind.
25 Y todos llevaban con él una ofrenda, vasos de plata y vasos de oro, túnicas, armaduras, y especias, caballos, y bestias de transporte, regularmente año tras año.
All the people who came to him brought presents: They brought things made from silver or gold, or robes, or weapons (OR, myrrh), or spices, or horses, or mules. The people continued to do this every year.
26 Y Salomón juntó en carruajes de guerra y jinetes; tenía mil cuatrocientos carruajes y doce mil jinetes, a quienes los puso en los establos de carruajes de combate y otros al rey en Jerusalén.
Solomon acquired 1,400 chariots and 12,000 men who rode [on the horses] (OR, [in the chariots]). Solomon put some of them in Jerusalem and some of them in other cities where he kept his chariots.
27 Y el rey hizo plata tan común como las piedras en Jerusalén y los cedros como los sicómoros de las tierras bajas en número.
During the years that Solomon was king, silver became as common in Jerusalem as stones; and [lumber from] cedar trees in the foothills of Judah was as plentiful as [lumber from] fig trees.
28 Y los caballos, estambre y lino de Salomón vinieron de Egipto; Los comerciantes del rey lo compraban de allí.
Solomon’s agents bought horses and supervised the men who brought them into Israel from the areas of Musri and Cilicia [that were famous for breeding horses].
29 Se podría obtener un carro de guerra de Egipto por seiscientos siclos de plata, y un caballo por ciento cincuenta; los compraban por medio de los agentes de Salomón, los reyes de los hititas y los reyes de Siria.
In Musri they bought chariots and horses; they paid 600 pieces of silver for each chariot and 150 pieces of silver for each horse. They brought them to Israel. Then they sold many of them to the kings of the Heth people-group and the kings of Syria.
