2 Nyakati 3
1 Ndipo Solomoni akaanza kujenga Hekalu la Bwana katika Yerusalemu juu ya Mlima Moria, pale ambapo Bwana alikuwa amemtokea Daudi baba yake. Ilikuwa katika kiwanja cha kupuria cha Arauna, Myebusi, mahali palipotolewa na Daudi.
Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where [the LORD] appeared to David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
2 Alianza kujenga siku ya pili ya mwezi wa pili katika mwaka wa nne wa utawala wake.
And he began to build in the second [day] of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.
3 Msingi aliouweka Solomoni kwa ajili ya kulijenga Hekalu la Mungu ulikuwa urefu wa dhiraa sitini na upana dhiraa ishirini.
Now these [are the things in which] Solomon was instructed for the building of the house of God. The length by cubits after the first measure [was] sixty cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.
4 Ukumbi wa mbele wa Hekalu ulikuwa na urefu wa dhiraa ishirini, yaani, kuanzia upande mmoja hadi upande mwingine wa upana wa nyumba hiyo na kimo chake dhiraa thelathini. Akaufunika ndani kwa dhahabu safi.
And the porch that [was] in the front [of the house], the length [of it was] according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the hight [was] a hundred and twenty: and he overlaid it within with pure gold.
5 Akaufunika ukumbi mkuu kwa mbao za miberoshi na kufunikwa kwa dhahabu safi na kuupamba kwa miti ya mitende na kuifanyizia kwa minyororo.
And the greater house he cieled with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set on it palm trees and chains.
6 Alilipamba Hekalu kwa vito vya thamani. Hiyo dhahabu aliyotumia ilikuwa dhahabu ya Parvaimu.
And he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty: and the gold [was] gold of Parvaim.
7 Akazifunika boriti za dari, miimo na vizingiti vya milango, kuta na milango ya Hekalu kwa dhahabu, naye akatia nakshi ya makerubi kwenye kuta.
He overlaid also the house, the beams, the posts, and the walls of it, and the doors of it, with gold; and engraved cherubim on the walls.
8 Akajenga Patakatifu pa Patakatifu, urefu na upana wake ulikuwa dhiraa ishirini, sawasawa na upana wa Hekalu. Alifunika ndani kwa talanta 120 za dhahabu safi.
And he made the most holy house, the length of which [was] according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the breadth of it twenty cubits: and he overlaid it with fine gold, [amounting] to six hundred talents.
9 Misumari ya dhahabu ilikuwa na uzito wa shekeli hamsini. Alivifunika pia vyumba vya juu kwa dhahabu.
And the weight of the nails [was] fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.
10 Katika sehemu ya Patakatifu pa Patakatifu akafanyiza jozi moja ya makerubi ya kuchongwa na kuyafunika kwa dhahabu.
And in the most holy house he made two cherubim of image work, and overlaid them with gold.
11 Urefu wa mabawa ya hao makerubi ulikuwa jumla ya dhiraa ishirini. Bawa moja la kerubi wa kwanza lilikuwa na urefu wa dhiraa tano, nalo liligusa ukuta wa Hekalu, bawa lake lingine, lilikuwa pia na urefu wa dhiraa tano, ambalo liligusa bawa la kerubi lingine.
And the wings of the cherubim [were] twenty cubits long: one wing [of the one cherub was] five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house: and the other wing [was likewise] five cubits, reaching to the wing of the other cherub.
12 Vivyo hivyo bawa moja la kerubi wa pili lilikuwa na urefu wa dhiraa tano na liligusa ukuta mwingine wa pili wa Hekalu na bawa lake lingine, lilikuwa pia na urefu wa dhiraa tano nalo liligusa bawa la kerubi wa kwanza.
And [one] wing of the other cherub [was] five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house: and the other wing [was] five cubits [also], joining to the wing of the other cherub.
13 Mabawa ya makerubi hawa yalitanda dhiraa ishirini. Walisimama kwa miguu yao, nyuso zao zikielekea ukumbi mkubwa.
The wings of these cherubim spread themselves forth twenty cubits: and they stood on their feet, and their faces [were] inward.
14 Akatengeneza pazia la nyuzi za rangi ya buluu, zambarau na nyekundu, na za kitani safi, na kutarizi makerubi juu yake.
And he made the vail [of] blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and wrought cherubim upon it.
15 Mbele ya Hekalu Solomoni akatengeneza nguzo mbili, ambazo kwa pamoja zilikuwa na dhiraa thelathini na tano kwenda juu kwake, na urefu wa kila moja ilikuwa na taji juu yake yenye dhiraa tano.
Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty and five cubits high, and the capital that [was] on the top of each of them [was] five cubits.
16 Akatengeneza minyororo iliyosokotwa, na kuiweka juu ya zile nguzo. Pia akatengeneza makomamanga 100, na kuyashikamanisha kwenye minyororo.
And he made chains, [as] in the oracle, and put them on the heads of the pillars; and made a hundred pomegranates, and put [them] on the chains.
17 Akazisimamisha hizo nguzo mbele ya Hekalu, moja upande wa kusini na nyingine upande wa kaskazini. Ile moja ya upande wa kusini akaiita Yakini, na ya upande wa kaskazini akaiita Boazi.
And he erected the pillars before the temple, one on the right hand, and the other on the left; and called the name of that on the right hand Jachin, and the name of that on the left Boaz.
