రాజులు~ మొదటి~ గ్రంథము 5
1 ౧ తరవాత, తన తండ్రికి బదులుగా సొలొమోనుకు పట్టాభిషేకం జరిగిందని తూరు రాజు హీరాము విని తన సేవకులను సొలొమోను దగ్గరకి పంపాడు. ఎందుకంటే హీరాము దావీదుకు మంచి స్నేహితుడు.
၁တုရုဘုရင်ဟိရံသည် ဒါဝိဒ်မင်း၏အဆွေ တော်အဖြစ်နှင့်အစဉ်နေထိုင်ခဲ့သူဖြစ်၏။ ထို့ကြောင့်ခမည်းတော်ဒါဝိဒ်၏အရိုက်အရာ ကိုရှောလမုန်ဆက်ခံ၍ နန်းတက်သည့်အကြောင်း ကိုကြားသိသောအခါသံတမန်များကို ရှောလမုန်ထံသို့စေလွှတ်လေသည်။-
၂ရှောလမုန်သည်ဟိရံအား``ကျွန်ုပ်ခမည်း တော်ဒါဝိဒ်သည် မိမိပတ်လည်ရှိရန်သူ နိုင်ငံများကိုအမြဲတစေတိုက်ခိုက်လျက် နေရသဖြင့် သူ၏ဘုရားသခင်ထာဝရ ဘုရားကိုဝတ်ပြုရန်အတွက် ဗိမာန်တော် ကိုမတည်မဆောက်နိုင်ခဲ့ကြောင်းအဆွေ တော်သိပါ၏။ သူ၏ရန်သူအပေါင်းတို့ အား ထာဝရဘုရားမနှိမ်နင်းမချင်း သူသည်ဗိမာန်တော်ကိုမတည်မဆောက် နိုင်ပါ။-
3 ౩ “యెహోవా నా తండ్రి అయిన దావీదు శత్రువులను అతని పాదాల కింద అణచివేసే వరకూ అన్ని వైపులా అతనికి యుధ్ధాలు ఉన్నాయి.
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4 ౪ తన దేవుడు యెహోవా నామ ఘనతకు అతడు ఒక మందిరం కట్టించడానికి వీలు లేకపోయింది. ఈ సంగతి మీకు తెలుసు. ఇప్పుడైతే శత్రువులెవరూ లేకుండా, ఏ అపాయమూ కలగకుండా నా దేవుడు యెహోవా నలుదిక్కులా శాంతి నెలకొల్పాడు.
၄သို့ရာတွင်ယခုအခါ၌ကျွန်ုပ်၏ဘုရားသခင်ထာဝရဘုရားသည် ပတ်ဝန်းကျင် အရပ်ရပ်၌ငြိမ်းချမ်းသာယာမှုကိုပေး တော်မူပါပြီ။ ကျွန်ုပ်မှာရန်သူမရှိပါ။ ရန် သူတိုက်ခိုက်မည့်အန္တရာယ်လည်းမရှိပါ။-
5 ౫ కాబట్టి ‘నీ సింహాసనం మీద నీకు బదులుగా నేను నిలిపే నీ కొడుకు నా నామ ఘనత కోసం ఒక మందిరం కట్టిస్తాడు’ అని యెహోవా నా తండ్రి దావీదుకు మాట ఇచ్చిన విధంగా నేను నా దేవుడు యెహోవా నామ ఘనత కోసం ఒక మందిరం కట్టించడానికి నిర్ణయించాను.
၅ထာဝရဘုရားကကျွန်ုပ်၏ခမည်းတော် အား`သင့်နောက်၌ငါမင်းမြှောက်မည့်သူသင် ၏သားသည် ငါ့အတွက်ဗိမာန်တော်ကို တည်ဆောက်လိမ့်မည်' ဟုကတိထားတော် မူခဲ့ပါ၏။ ကျွန်ုပ်၏ဘုရားသခင်ထာဝရ ဘုရားအားကိုးကွယ်ဝတ်ပြုရန်အတွက် ထိုဗိမာန်တော်ကိုတည်ဆောက်ရန်ယခု ကျွန်ုပ်စိတ်ပိုင်းဖြတ်လိုက်ပါပြီ။-
6 ౬ లెబానోనులో నా కోసం దేవదారు మానులను నరికించడానికి అనుమతి ఇవ్వండి. నా సేవకులు మీ సేవకులతో కలిసి పని చేస్తారు. ఎందుకంటే మానులు నరకడంలో సీదోనీయులకు సాటి మాలో ఎవరూ లేరు అని మీకు తెలుసు గదా.
၆သို့ဖြစ်၍ကျွန်ုပ်အတွက်သစ်ကတိုးပင် များကိုခုတ်လှဲပေးရန် လေဗနုန်တောသို့ အဆွေတော်၏လူတို့ကိုစေလွှတ်ပေးစေ လိုပါသည်။ ကျွန်ုပ်အစေခံများသည်လည်း ကူညီစေပါမည်။ အဆွေတော်ဆုံးဖြတ် သည့်အခကြေးငွေကိုကျွန်ုပ်ပေးပါမည်။ အဆွေတော်သိသည့်အတိုင်း ကျွန်ုပ်၏လူ တို့သည်အဆွေတော်၏လူတို့ကဲ့သို့သစ် ခုတ်မှုတွင်မကျွမ်းကျင်ကြပါ'' ဟုမှာ ကြားလိုက်၏။
7 ౭ మీరు నిర్ణయించిన విధంగా నేను మీ సేవకులకు జీతం ఇస్తాను” అన్నాడు. హీరాము సొలొమోను చెప్పిన మాటలు విని చాలా సంతోషపడి “ఇంత గొప్ప జాతిగా విస్తరించిన ప్రజానీకాన్ని పాలించడానికి జ్ఞానవంతుడైన కొడుకుని దావీదుకు దయచేసిన యెహోవాకు ఈ రోజున స్తుతి కలుగు గాక” అన్నాడు.
၇ရှောလမုန်မင်းမှာကြားသောစကားကို ကြားရသောအခါ ဟိရံမင်းသည်လွန်စွာ အားရနှစ်သက်သဖြင့်``ဤသို့ကြီးမားသည့် နိုင်ငံတော်ကိုအုပ်စိုးရန်အတွက် ဒါဝိဒ် အားဤမျှပညာရှိသောသားကိုပေးတော် မူသောထာဝရဘုရားအား ယနေ့ထော မနာပြုကြလော့'' ဟုမြွက်ဆိုတော်မူ၏။-
8 ౮ అతడు సొలొమోనుకు జవాబు పంపుతూ “నీవు నాకు పంపిన సందేశాన్ని నేను అంగీకరించాను. దేవదారు, సరళ మానులను గురించి నీవు కోరినట్టే చేయిస్తాను.
၈ထိုနောက်ဟိရံသည် ရှောလမုန်ထံသို့``အဆွေ တော်ပေးပို့သောအမှာတော်စကားကိုကြား သိပါပြီ။ ကျွန်ုပ်သည်အဆွေတော်မှာကြား လိုက်သည့်အတိုင်းဆောင်ရွက်ရန်အသင့်ရှိ ပါ၏။ အဆွေတော်၏ထံသို့သစ်ကတိုး နှင့်ထင်းရှူးသစ်များကိုပေးပို့လိုက်ပါ မည်။-
9 ౯ నా సేవకులు వాటిని లెబానోను నుండి సముద్రం దగ్గరకి తెస్తారు. అప్పుడు వాటిని తెప్పలుగా కట్టించి నీవు చెప్పిన చోటికి సముద్రం మీద చేరేలా చేసి, అక్కడ వాటిని నీకు అప్పగించే ఏర్పాటు నేను చేస్తాను. నీవు వాటిని తీసుకోవచ్చు. ఇందుకు బదులుగా నీవు నా సేవకుల పోషణ కోసం ఆహారం పంపించు” అన్నాడు.
၉ကျွန်ုပ်၏လူတို့သည်သစ်လုံးများကိုလေ ဗနုန်တောင်မှပင်လယ်ကမ်းခြေအထိယူ ဆောင်ကာဖောင်ဖွဲ့၍ အဆွေတော်အလိုရှိ ရာဆိပ်ကမ်းသို့မျှောချပေးပါမည်။ သူ တို့သည်ထိုဆိပ်ကမ်းတွင်ဖောင်များကို ဖျက်၍ သစ်လုံးများကိုအဆွေတော်၏လူ တို့အားပေးအပ်ကြပါမည်။ အဆွေတော် အနေဖြင့်ကျွန်ုပ်၏လူများအတွက်စား နပ်ရိက္ခာကိုထောက်ပံ့စေလိုပါသည်'' ဟု ပြန်ကြားလိုက်၏။
၁၀ထို့ကြောင့်ဟိရံကရှောလမုန်လိုသမျှ သော သစ်ကတိုးနှင့်ထင်းရှူးသစ်ကိုပေးပို့၍၊-
11 ౧౧ సొలొమోను హీరాముకూ అతని పరివారం పోషణకు 2,00,000 తూముల గోదుమలు, 4, 16, 350 లీటర్ల స్వచ్ఛమైన నూనె పంపించాడు. ఈ విధంగా సొలొమోను ప్రతి సంవత్సరం హీరాముకు ఇస్తూ వచ్చాడు.
၁၁ရှောလမုန်ကလည်းဟိရံ၏လူများစားသုံး ရန်အတွက် တစ်နှစ်လျှင်ဂျုံဆန်တင်းတစ်သိန်း နှင့်သံလွင်ဆီအစစ်ဂါလံတစ်သိန်းတစ် သောင်းကိုပေးပို့လေသည်။
12 ౧౨ యెహోవా సొలొమోనుకు చేసిన వాగ్దానం ప్రకారం అతనికి జ్ఞానం ప్రసాదించాడు. హీరాము, సొలొమోను సంధి చేసుకున్నారు, వారిద్దరి మధ్య శాంతి నెలకొంది.
၁၂ထာဝရဘုရားသည်ကတိတော်ရှိသည့်အတိုင်း ရှောလမုန်အားဉာဏ်ပညာကိုပေးတော်မူ၏။ ဟိရံနှင့်ရှောလမုန်တို့သည်ငြိမ်းချမ်းစွာ နေထိုင်လျက် မဟာမိတ်စာချုပ်ချုပ်ဆိုကြ လေသည်။
13 ౧౩ సొలొమోను రాజు ఇశ్రాయేలీయులందరి చేతా బలవంతంగా వెట్టి పని చేయించాడు. వారిలో 30,000 మంది వెట్టి చాకిరీ చేసే వారయ్యారు.
၁၃ရှောလမုန်သည်ဣသရေလပြည်တစ်ပြည်လုံး မှ လူသုံးသောင်းကိုချွေးတပ်သားအဖြစ်ဖြင့် ဆင့်ခေါ်တော်မူပြီးလျှင်၊-
14 ౧౪ అతడు వంతుల ప్రకారం వీరిని నెలకు 10,000 మందిని లెబానోనుకు పంపించాడు. వారు ఒక నెల లెబానోనులో, రెండు నెలలు ఇంటి దగ్గరా ఉండేవారు. ఆ వెట్టివారి మీద అదోనీరాము అధికారిగా ఉన్నాడు.
၁၄အဒေါနိရံအားသူတို့ကိုအုပ်ချုပ်စေတော် မူ၏။ မင်းကြီးသည်ထိုသူတို့အားလူတစ် သောင်းစီအဖွဲ့သုံးဖွဲ့ဖွဲ့တော်မူ၍ တစ်ဖွဲ့ကို တစ်လကျလေဗနုန်တောင်သို့စေလွှတ်ပြီး လျှင် နှစ်လမျှအိမ်သို့ပြန်၍နေထိုင်ခွင့်ပြု တော်မူ၏။-
15 ౧౫ అంతేగాక, సొలొమోనుకి బరువులు మోసేవారు 70,000 మందీ పర్వతాల్లో మానులు నరికే వారు 80,000 మందీ ఉన్నారు.
၁၅ရှောလမုန်သည်ကျောက်ဆစ်ရန်လူရှစ်သောင်း ကိုလည်းကောင်း၊ ကျောက်သယ်မည့်သူလူခုနစ် သောင်းနှင့်အတူတောင်ပေါ်ဒေသသို့စေ လွှတ်တော်မူ၏။-
၁၆ထို့နောက်မင်းကြီးသည်ထိုသူတို့၏အလုပ် ကိုကြီးကြပ်သူ လူသုံးထောင်သုံးရာကိုခန့် ထားတော်မူ၏။-
17 ౧౭ రాజు ఆజ్ఞ ప్రకారం వారు మందిర పునాదిని చెక్కిన రాళ్లతో వేయడానికి గొప్పవి, చాలా విలువైనవి అయిన రాళ్ళు గనుల్లో నుండి తవ్వి తెప్పించారు.
၁၇ရှောလမုန်မင်း၏အမိန့်တော်အရထို ချွေးတပ်သားတို့သည် ဗိမာန်တော်တိုက်မြစ် အတွက်ကျောက်တုံးကြီးများကိုဆစ်ရ ကြ၏။-
18 ౧౮ ఈ విధంగా సొలొమోను పంపిన శిల్పకారులు, గిబ్లీయులు, హీరాము శిల్పకారులు మానులు నరికి రాళ్లను మలిచి మందిరం కట్టడానికి వాటిని సిద్ధపరిచారు.
၁၈ရှောလမုန်၏အလုပ်သမားများနှင့်ဟိရံ၏ အလုပ်သမားများသည်ဗိမာန်တော်ဆောက်လုပ် ရန်အတွက် ဂေဗာလမြို့သားများနှင့်အတူ ကျောက်များနှင့်သစ်များကိုပြင်ဆင်ကြ လေသည်။
