2 Krönikeboken 1
1 Och Salomo, Davids son, vardt i sitt rike förstärkt, och Herren hans Gud var med honom, och gjorde honom ju större och större.
David’s son [King] Solomon was able to gain complete control over his kingdom, because Yahweh his God helped him and enabled him to become very powerful.
2 Och Salomo talade med hela Israel, med de öfverstar öfver tusend och hundrade, med domare och alla Förstar i Israel, med de öfversta fäder;
[When] David [was king, he had arranged for a new] Sacred Tent [to be] made in Jerusalem. Then David [and the Israeli leaders] had brought God’s Sacred Chest from Kiriath-Jearim [city] to the new Sacred Tent in Jerusalem that he had prepared for it. But [when Solomon became the king, ] the first Sacred Tent was still at Gibeon [city]. That was the tent that Moses, the man who served God [well], had [arranged to be] made in the desert. And the bronze altar that Bezalel, the son of Uri and grandson of Hur, had made was also still in Gibeon, in front of the first Sacred Tent. [One day] Solomon summoned the army commanders of 1,000 soldiers and the commanders of 100 soldiers and the judges and all the other leaders in Israel. He told them to go with him to Gibeon. So they all went to a hill in Gibeon [where the Sacred Tent was], and Solomon and all the others with him worshiped Yahweh there.
3 Att de skulle gå, Salomo och hela menigheten med honom, bort till den höjden, som i Gibeon var; ty der var Guds vittnesbörds tabernakel, som Mose Herrans tjenare gjort hade i öknene.
4 Ty Guds ark hade David uppfört ifrå KiriathJearim, dit han för honom tillredt hade; förty han hade honom uppslagit ett tabernakel i Jerusalem.
5 Men det kopparaltaret som Bezaleel, Uri son, Hurs sons, gjort hade, var der för Herrans tabernakel; och Salomo och menigheten plägade söka det.
6 Och Salomo offrade för Herranom på kopparaltaret, som der för dörrene af vittnesbördsens tabernakel stod, tusende bränneoffer.
Then Solomon went up to the bronze altar in front of the Sacred Tent, and he offered 1,000 animals to be [killed and] completely burned [on the altar].
7 I samma nattene syntes Gud Salomo, och sade till honom: Bed, hvad skall jag gifva dig?
That night God appeared to Solomon [in a dream] and said to him, “Request whatever you want me to give to you.”
8 Och Salomo sade till Gud: Du hafver gjort stora barmhertighet med minom fader David, och hafver gjort mig till Konung i hans stad.
Solomon replied, “You were very kind to David my father, and now you have appointed me to be the king to succeed him.
9 Så låt nu, Herre Gud, din ord varda sann till min fader David; ty du hafver gjort mig till Konung öfver ett folk, det så mycket är som stoftet på jordene.
So Yahweh my God, you have caused me to become the king to rule people who are as many as the particles of dirt on the earth. So do what you promised my father David.
10 Så gif mig nu vishet och förstånd, att jag för detta folket må gå ut och in; ty ho förmår döma detta ditt myckna folk?
Please enable me to be wise and to know [what I should do], in order that I may rule these people [well], because there is no one who can rule all this great nation of yours [without your help].”
11 Då sade Gud till Salomo: Efter du hafver detta i sinnet, och hafver icke bedit om rikedomar, eller ägodelar, eller om härlighet, eller om dina fiendars själar, eller om långt lif; utan hafver bedit om visdom och förstånd, att du må döma mitt folk, der jag dig en Konung öfver gjort hafver;
God replied, “[I am pleased with what] you desire; you have not requested a huge amount of money or to be honored or that your enemies be killed. And you have not requested that you live for a long time. Instead, you have requested that [I enable] you [to] be wise and [to] know [what you should do] in order that you may govern [well] my people whom I have appointed you to rule.
12 Så vare dig visdom och förstånd gifvet; dertill vill jag ock gifva dig rikedomar, ägodelar och härlighet, så att din like ibland Konungarna för dig icke varit hafver, ej heller varda skall efter dig.
Therefore I will enable you to be wise and to know [what you should do to rule my people well]. But I will also enable you to have a huge amount of money and to be honored, more than anyone who was previously a king ever was honored, more than anyone who later becomes king will be honored.”
13 Alltså kom Salomo ifrå höjdene, som i Gibeon var, till Jerusalem, ifrå vittnesbördsens tabernakel, och regerade öfver Israel.
Then Solomon [and the people who were with him all] left from being in front of he Sacred Tent [on the hill in Gibeon], and they returned to Jerusalem. From there he ruled the Israeli people.
14 Och Salomo församlade sig vagnar och resenärar, så att han åstadkom tusende och fyrahundrade vagnar, och tolftusend resenärar, och lät dem uti vagnsstäderna, och när Konungenom i Jerusalem.
Solomon acquired 1,400 chariots and 12,000 men who rode [on horses]. He put some of the chariots and horses in Jerusalem, and put some of them in various other cities.
15 Och Konungen gjorde, att silfver och guld var i Jerusalem så mycket som stenar; och cedreträ så mycket som mulbärsträ i dalarna.
During the years that Solomon was king, silver and gold were as common in Jerusalem as stones, and [lumber from] cedar trees were as plentiful as [lumber from] ordinary sycamore trees in the foothills.
16 Och man förde Salomo hästar utur Egypten, och allahanda varor. Och Konungens köpmän köpte samma varor;
Solomon’s horses were imported/brought from Egypt and from [the] Kue [region in Turkey].
17 Och förde dem utur Egypten, hvar vagn för sexhundrad silfpenningar, och hvar häst för hundrade och femtio; alltså förde man dem ock till alla de Hetheers Konungar, och till de Konungar i Syrien, genom deras hand.
In Egypt his men paid 15 pounds of silver for each chariot and 3-3/4 pounds of silver for each horse. They also exported/sold many of them to the kings of the Heth and Aram people-groups.
