2 Crónicas 8
1 Al cabo de veinte años, cuando Salomón había construido el templo del Señor y un palacio para sí mismo,
Solomon’s [workers] worked for 20 years to build the temple and the king’s palace.
2 Reconstruyó las ciudades que Hiram le había dado, haciendo que los hijos de Israel se establecieran allí.
Then his [workers] rebuilt the cities that [King] Hiram had given back to Solomon, and Solomon sent Israelis to live in those cities.
3 Y Salomón fue a Hamat-soba y la tomó.
Solomon’s [army] then went to Hamath-Zobah [town] and captured it.
4 También reconstruye Tadmor en el desierto, y de todas las ruinas de Hamat;
His workers also rebuilt walls around Tadmor [town] in the desert, and in [the] Hamath [region] in all the towns where they kept supplies.
5 Y de Beth-horon, las ciudades más altas y las más bajas, amuralladas, con paredes, puertas y barras;
They rebuilt Upper Beth-Horon [town] and Lower Beth-Horon [city], and built walls around them with gates [in the walls] and bars [to fasten the gates].
6 Y de Baalat, y todos los pueblos de tiendas que Salomón tenía, y las ciudades donde guardaba sus carros de guerra y sus caballeros, y todo lo que tenía el placer de poner en Jerusalén y en el Líbano y en toda la tierra bajo su mando.
They also rebuilt Baalath [town] and all the cities where supplies were kept and the cities where Solomon’s chariots and horses were kept. Solomon’s [workers] built whatever he wanted them to build, in Jerusalem and in Lebanon, and in other places in the area that he ruled.
7 En cuanto al resto de los hititas, amorreos, ferezeos, heveos y los jebuseos, que no eran de Israel:
Solomon forced people from many other groups who were not Israelis to work for him like slaves. They were people from the Heth, Amor, Periz, Hiv, and Jebus people-groups.
8 Sus hombres que todavía vivían en la tierra, y a quienes los hijos de Israel no habían puesto fin, estos, Salomón los hizo tributarios, como se hace hasta hoy;
They were descendants of groups whom the Israelis had not completely destroyed. Solomon forced them to become his slaves, and they are still slaves.
9 Pero Salomón no hizo uso de los hijos de Israel como siervos para su trabajo; eran hombres de guerra, sus jefes y sus capitanes, y capitanes de sus carros de guerra y sus jinetes.
But Solomon did not force Israelis to work for him. Israelis became his soldiers and commanders of his chariots and his chariot-drivers.
10 Y estos eran los principales hombres en autoridad que tenía el rey Salomón: doscientos cincuenta de ellos, en autoridad sobre el pueblo.
They were also King Solomon’s chief officials. There were 250 of them, and they supervised the workers.
11 Entonces Salomón hizo subir a la hija de Faraón de la ciudad de David a la casa que él había hecho para ella; porque él dijo: No permitiré que mi esposa viva en la casa de David, rey de Israel, porque los lugares donde el cofre del pacto ha venido son santos.
Solomon moved his wife, who was the daughter of the king of Egypt, from [the place outside Jerusalem called] ‘The City of David’ to the place that his workers had built for her. He said, “I do not want my wife to live in the palace that [my father] King David’s workers built, because the Sacred Chest [was in that palace for a while], and any place where the Sacred Chest has been is holy.”
12 Entonces Salomón hizo holocaustos al SEÑOR sobre el altar del Señor, que él había puesto delante del pórtico;
On the altar that Solomon’s [workers] had built in front of the entrance [to the temple], Solomon sacrificed many offerings that were to be completely burned.
13 Ofreciendo todos los días lo que Moisés había ordenado, en los sábados y en la luna nueva y en las fiestas regulares tres veces al año, es decir, en la fiesta del pan sin levadura, la fiesta de las semanas y la fiesta de los tabernáculos.
He did that to obey the rules about what sacrifices Moses had declared should be made. These included sacrifices for every day and for the Sabbath days and to celebrate each day on which there was a new moon and for the three other festivals that were celebrated each year. Those festivals were the Festival of Eating Unleavened Bread, the Harvest Festival, and the Festival of Living in Temporary Shelters.
14 Y les dio los turnos de los sacerdotes su lugar para su trabajo, como lo ordenó su padre David, y a los levitas les dio su trabajo de alabanza y ayudar a los sacerdotes, para hacer lo que se necesitaba día a día; y él les daba turnos a los guardias de las puertas en cada puerta; porque así David, el hombre de Dios, había dado órdenes.
Obeying what his father David had commanded, he appointed the groups of priests for their work, and he appointed the descendants of Levi to lead the people while they sang to praise Yahweh and while they assisted the priests in their daily work. He also appointed groups of them to guard all the gates, because that was also what David, the man who pleased God [very well], had commanded.
15 Todas las órdenes dadas por el rey a los sacerdotes y levitas, en relación con cualquier negocio o tesoros, se hicieron con cuidado.
The priests and other descendants of Levi obeyed completely everything that the king commanded, including [taking care of] the storerooms.
16 Y toda la obra de Salomón se completó, desde el día en que puso la base de la casa del Señor en posición, hasta que Salomón llegó al final de la construcción de la casa del Señor.
They did all the work [of building the temple] that Solomon told them to do, until it was all completed. So they finishing building the temple.
17 Entonces Salomón fue a Ezión-geber y a Elat junto al mar en la tierra de Edom.
Then some of Solomon’s men went to Ezion-Geber and Elath [cities] on the coast of the Red Sea, an area that belonged to the Edom people-group.
18 Hiram le envió, junto con sus siervos, barcos y marineros experimentados, que fueron con los siervos de Salomón a Ofir y regresaron con cuatrocientos cincuenta talentos de oro, que llevaron al rey Salomón.
King Hiram sent to Solomon from [Tyre city] some ships that were commanded by his officers. They were men who were experienced sailors. These men went in the ships with Solomon’s men to [the] Ophir [region] and brought back about 17 tons of gold, which they delivered to King Solomon.
