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1 ౧ షేబ రాణి సొలొమోను గొప్పతనం గూర్చి విని క్లిష్టమైన ప్రశ్నలతో అతనిని పరీక్షించాలని, గొప్ప పరివారంతో, సుగంధ ద్రవ్యాలు, విస్తారమైన బంగారం, ప్రశస్తమైన రత్నాలు ఒంటెల మీద ఎక్కించుకుని యెరూషలేముకు వచ్చింది. ఆమె సొలొమోను దగ్గరికి వచ్చి తన మనస్సులోని విషయాలన్నిటి గురించి అతనితో మాటలాడింది.
၁ရှေဘပြည်ဘုရင်မသည်ရှောလမုန်၏ဂုဏ် သတင်းကိုကြားသိရသဖြင့် ခက်ခဲသောပုစ္ဆာ များဖြင့်မင်းကြီးအားပညာစမ်းရန်ယေရု ရှလင်မြို့သို့ကြွလာတော်မူ၏။ ဘုရင်မ သည်များစွာသောအခြွေအရံလိုက်ပါ လျက်နံ့သာမျိုးများ၊ ကျောက်မျက်ရတနာ များ၊ ရွှေအမြောက်အမြားတင်ဆောင်သည့် ကုလားအုတ်များနှင့်ရောက်ရှိလာလေသည်။ သူသည်မင်းကြီး၏ရှေ့တော်သို့ရောက်ရှိ လာသောအခါမိမိစဉ်းစားရသမျှသော ပုစ္ဆာတို့ကိုမေးတော်မူ၏။-
2 ౨ సొలొమోను ఆమె ప్రశ్నలన్నిటినీ ఆమెకు విడమర్చి చెప్పాడు. అతడు ఆమెకు జవాబు చెప్పలేని గూఢమైన మాట ఏదీ లేకపోయింది.
၂မင်းကြီးသည်တစ်ခုမကျန်ဖြေကြားတော်မူ သည်။ မင်းကြီးမဖြေရှင်းနိုင်သောပုစ္ဆာဟူ၍ မရှိ။-
3 ౩ షేబ రాణి సొలొమోను జ్ఞానాన్నీ అతడు కట్టించిన నగరాన్నీ
၃ရှေဘပြည်ဘုရင်မသည်ရှောလမုန်ထံမှ ဉာဏ်ပညာနှင့်ယှဉ်သောစကားများကိုကြား ၍ သူဆောက်လုပ်ထားသည့်နန်းတော်ကိုမြင် တော်မူ၏။-
4 ౪ అతని భోజనపు బల్ల మీది పదార్ధాలు, అతని అధిపతులు కూర్చుండడం, అతని సేవకులు కనిపెట్టడం, వారి వస్త్రాలు, అతనికి గిన్నెలందించేవారు, వారి వస్త్రాలు, యెహోవా మందిరంలో అతడు అర్పించే దహన బలులు, వీటన్నిటినీ చూసినప్పుడు, ఆమె ఎంతో విస్మయానికి గురైంది.
၄ဘုရင်မသည်မင်းကြီးပွဲတော်တည်သော အစားအစာများ၊ မှူးမတ်တို့၏နေအိမ် များ၊ နန်းတော်အမှုထမ်းအရာထမ်းများ အားဖွဲ့စည်းပုံနှင့်သူတို့ဝတ်ဆင်ကြသည့် ဆင်တူဝတ်စုံများ၊ ပွဲလမ်းသဘင်အခါတွင် မင်းကြီးအားခစားရသူအစေခံများနှင့် သူတို့၏ဝတ်စုံများ၊ ဗိမာန်တော်တွင်မင်း ကြီးပူဇော်သည့်ယဇ်များကိုတွေ့မြင်သော အခါလွန်စွာအံ့သြလေသည်။
5 ౫ ఆమె రాజుతో “నీ పనులను గురించీ, నీ జ్ఞానం గురించీ నేను నా దేశంలో విన్న సమాచారం నిజమైనదే గాని, నేను వచ్చి నా కళ్ళారా చూసేటంత వరకూ వారి మాటలు నమ్మలేదు.
၅ဘုရင်မကမင်းကြီးအား``အကျွန်ုပ်သည် ကျွန်ုပ်၏တိုင်းပြည်တွင်ရှိစဉ်အခါကအဆွေ တော်နှင့်အဆွေတော်၏ဉာဏ်ပညာအကြောင်း ကိုကြားသိခဲ့ရသည့်သတင်းသည်မှန်ပါ သည်တကား။-
6 ౬ నీ గొప్ప జ్ఞానం గూర్చి సగమైనా వారు నాకు చెప్పలేదు. నిన్ను గూర్చి నేను విన్నదాని కంటే నీ కీర్తి ఎంతో ఎక్కువగా ఉంది.
၆ကိုယ်တိုင်မျက်မြင်ဒိဌမတွေ့မမြင်ရမီ အခါကထိုသတင်းကိုကျွန်ုပ်မယုံပါ။ အဆွေ တော်သည်လူတို့ပြောဆိုနေကြသည်ထက်ပင် ပို၍ဉာဏ်ပညာရှိတော်မူပါ၏။-
7 ౭ నీ సేవకులెంత భాగ్యవంతులు! ఎల్లకాలం నీ సన్నిధిలో ఉండి నీ జ్ఞాన సంభాషణ వింటూ ఉండే నీ సేవకులు ఎంత ధన్యులు.
၇အဆွေတော်၏အပါးတော်တွင်အစဉ်ခစား လျက် အဆွေတော်ထံမှဉာဏ်ပညာနှင့်ယှဉ် သောစကားများကိုကြားရသူတို့သည် အလွန်မင်္ဂလာရှိကြပါသည်တကား။-
8 ౮ నీ దేవుడైన యెహోవా సన్నిధిలో రాజుగా ఆయన సింహాసనం మీద ఆసీనుడయ్యే విధంగా నీ పైన అనుగ్రహం చూపినందుకు నీ దేవుడైన యెహోవాకు స్తోత్రాలు కలుగు గాక. ఇశ్రాయేలీయులను నిత్యమూ స్థిరపరచాలన్న దయగల ఆలోచన నీ దేవునికి కలగడం వల్లనే నీతిన్యాయాలు జరిగించడానికి ఆయన నిన్ను వారిమీద రాజుగా నియమించాడు” అని చెప్పింది.
၈အဆွေတော်၏ဘုရားသခင်ထာဝရဘုရား အားထောမနာပြုကြပါစေသတည်း။ ကိုယ် တော်သည်အဆွေတော်ကိုလွန်စွာနှစ်သက် မြတ်နိုးတော်မူသည်ဖြစ်၍ မိမိ၏ကိုယ်စား အုပ်စိုးနိုင်ရန်ဣသရေလဘုရင်အဖြစ်ချီး မြှောက်တော်မူပြီ။ ကိုယ်တော်သည်မိမိလူမျိုး တော်ဣသရေလအမျိုးသားတို့အားချစ် တော်မူ၍ထာဝစဉ်စောင့်ရှောက်တော်မူလို သဖြင့်တရားဥပဒေစိုးမိုးမှုနှင့်တရား မျှတမှုရှိနိုင်စေရန်အဆွေတော်အား သူတို့၏ဘုရင်အဖြစ်ဖြင့်ချီးမြှောက် တော်မူပြီ'' ဟုပြော၏။
9 ౯ ఆమె రాజుకు 4,000 కిలోగ్రాముల బంగారాన్ని, విస్తారమైన సుగంధ ద్రవ్యాలనూ రత్నాలనూ ఇచ్చింది. షేబదేశపు రాణి సొలొమోను రాజుకి ఇచ్చిన సుగంధ ద్రవ్యాలతో మరేదీ సాటి రాదు.
၉ဘုရင်မသည်ရှောလမုန်မင်းအားရွှေချိန် ငါးတန်၊ နံ့သာမျိုးနှင့်ကျောက်မျက်ရတနာ အမြောက်အမြားကိုလက်ဆောင်အဖြစ်ပေး ဆက်တော်မူ၏။ ရှောလမုန်မင်းအားရှေဘ ပြည်ဘုရင်မပေးဆက်သည့်နံ့သာမျိုး ကဲ့သို့ကောင်းသည့်နံ့သာမျိုးကိုနောင် အဘယ်အခါ၌မျှမတွေ့ရတော့ချေ။
10 ౧౦ అంతే కాక, ఓఫీరు నుండి బంగారం తెచ్చిన హీరాము పనివారూ సొలొమోను పనివారూ అక్కడి నుంచి గంధం మానులు, ప్రశస్తమైన రత్నాలు కూడా తెచ్చారు.
၁၀(သြဖိရမြို့မှရွှေကိုယူဆောင်လာသော ဟိရံမင်းနှင့်ရှောလမုန်မင်း၏လူတို့သည် ထင်းရှူးသားနှင့်ကျောက်မျက်ရတနာများ ကိုလည်းယူဆောင်လာကြ၏။-
11 ౧౧ ఆ గంధం కొయ్యలతో రాజు యెహోవా మందిరానికి, రాజనగరానికి మెట్లూ, గాయకులకి తంబురలూ సితారాలూ చేయించాడు. అటువంటి చెక్కడపు పని అంతకు ముందు యూదా దేశంలో ఎవ్వరూ చూడలేదు.
၁၁ရှောလမုန်သည်ထင်းရှူးသားကိုဗိမာန်တော်နှင့် မိမိ၏နန်းတော်လှေကားများပြုလုပ်ရာတွင် လည်းကောင်း၊ ဂီတဆရာများအတွက်စောင်း ကြီးစောင်းငယ်များပြုလုပ်ရာတွင်လည်း ကောင်းအသုံးပြုတော်မူ၏။ ထိုမျှကောင်း သောထင်းရှူးသားမျိုးကို ယခင်အဘယ်အခါ ကမျှယုဒပြည်တွင်မတွေ့မမြင်ဘူးကြ။)
12 ౧౨ షేబ దేశపు రాణి రాజుకు తీసుకు వచ్చిన వాటికి అతడిచ్చిన ప్రతి బహుమానాలు కాక ఆమె ఇష్టపడి అడిగిన వాటన్నిటినీ సొలొమోను ఆమెకిచ్చాడు. ఆ తరువాత ఆమె తన సేవకులతో తన దేశానికి తిరిగి వెళ్లిపోయింది.
၁၂ရှောလမုန်မင်းသည်ဘုရင်မထံမှရရှိသည့် လက်ဆောင်များအတွက် မိမိပြန်လည်ပေးသည့် လက်ဆောင်များအပြင်ဘုရင်မအလိုရှိ သမျှသောအရာများကိုပေးတော်မူ၏။ ထို နောက်ဘုရင်မနှင့်အခြွေအရံတို့သည် ရှေဘပြည်သို့ပြန်သွားကြ၏။
13 ౧౩ సుగంధ ద్రవ్యాలు అమ్మే వర్తకులు, ఇతర వర్తకులు తీసుకొచ్చే బంగారం కాక సొలొమోనుకు ప్రతి సంవత్సరం వచ్చే బంగారం బరువు 23 వేల కిలోలు.
၁၃ကုန်သည်တို့ပေးသွင်းသည့်အခွန်တော်များ အပြင်နှစ်စဉ်နှစ်တိုင်းရှောလမုန်မင်းထံဆက် သွင်းရသောရွှေချိန်မှာနှစ်ဆယ့်ငါးတန်ကျော် ကျော်ဖြစ်၏။ အာရပ်ဘုရင်များနှင့်ဣသရေလ နယ်မြေဘုရင်ခံများကလည်းမင်းကြီးထံ ရွှေ၊ နှင့်ငွေများကိုဆက်သွင်းရကြသည်။-
14 ౧౪ అరబ్బు దేశపు రాజులు, దేశాధిపతులు కూడా సొలొమోను దగ్గరికి బంగారం, వెండి తీసుకు వచ్చారు.
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15 ౧౫ సొలొమోను రాజు బంగారాన్ని సాగగొట్టి 200 డాళ్ళు చేయించాడు. ఒక్కొక్క డాలుకు ఆరు కిలోగ్రాముల బంగారం పట్టింది.
၁၅ရှောလမုန်သည်တစ်ဆယ့်ငါးပေါင်နီးပါး စီရှိသည့်ရွှေပြားများဖြင့်မွမ်းမံထားသည့် ဒိုင်းကြီးနှစ်ရာ၊-
16 ౧౬ సాగగొట్టిన బంగారంతో 300 కవచాలు చేయించాడు. ఒక్కొక్క కవచానికి మూడు కిలోగ్రాముల బంగారం పట్టింది. వాటిని రాజు లెబానోను అరణ్యంలో ఉన్న తన అంతఃపురంలో ఉంచాడు.
၁၆ရှစ်ပေါင်နီးပါးစီရှိသည့်ရွှေပြားများဖြင့် မွမ်းမံထားသောဒိုင်းငယ်သုံးရာကိုပြုလုပ် တော်မူသည်။ သူသည်ထိုဒိုင်းအားလုံးကို လေဗနုန်တောခန်းမဆောင်တွင်ထားရှိ စေ၏။
17 ౧౭ సొలొమోను రాజు దంతంతో ఒక గొప్ప సింహాసనం చేయించి మేలిమి బంగారంతో దాన్ని పొదిగించాడు.
၁၇မင်းကြီးသည်တစ်ပိုင်းကိုဆင်စွယ်ဖြင့်လည်း ကောင်း၊ ကျန်တစ်ပိုင်းကိုရွှေစင်ဖြင့်လည်း ကောင်းမွမ်းမံထားသောရာဇပလ္လင်ကြီး ကိုပြုလုပ်စေတော်မူ၏။-
18 ౧౮ ఆ సింహాసనానికి ఆరు బంగారు మెట్లు ఉన్నాయి. సింహాసనానికి బంగారు పాదపీఠం కట్టి ఉంది. కూర్చునే చోటికి రెండు వైపులా చేతి ఊతలున్నాయి. ఊతల దగ్గర రెండు సింహాలున్నాయి.
၁၈ထိုရာဇပလ္လင်သို့တတ်ရန်လှေကားခြောက် ထစ်ရှိလေသည်။ ရာဇပလ္လင်နှင့်တစ်စပ်တည်း ရွှေဖြင့်မွမ်းမံထားသောခြေတော်တင်ခုံရှိ၏။ ရာဇပလ္လင်၏တစ်ဖက်တစ်ချက်တွင်လက်ရုံး တန်းတစ်ခုစီရှိ၍ယင်းတို့၏နံဘေးတွင် ရပ်လျက်နေသောခြင်္သေ့ရုပ်တစ်ကောင်စီ ရှိ၏။-
19 ౧౯ ఆ ఆరు మెట్ల మీద రెండు వైపులా 12 సింహాల ఆకారాలు నిలబడి ఉన్నాయి. మరి ఏ రాజ్యంలోనూ అలాటి పని ఎవరూ చేసి ఉండలేదు.
၁၉လှေကားထစ်များ၏အစွန်းတစ်ဖက်တစ်ချက် စီတွင်ခြင်္သေ့ရုပ်တစ်ကောင်စီဖြင့်ခြင်္သေ့ရုပ်တစ် ဆယ့်နှစ်ကောင်ရှိလေသည်။ အခြားအဘယ် တိုင်းပြည်တွင်မျှဤကဲ့သို့သောရာဇပလ္လင် မျိုးမရှိခဲ့ဘူးချေ။
20 ౨౦ సొలొమోను రాజుకున్న పానపాత్రలన్నీ బంగారంతో చేసినవే. లెబానోను అరణ్యం అంతఃపురంలో ఉన్న వస్తువులన్నీ కూడా బంగారంతో చేశారు. హీరాము పంపిన పనివారితో కలిసి రాజు ఓడలు తర్షీషుకు పోయి మూడు సంవత్సరాలకు ఒకసారి బంగారం, వెండి, ఏనుగు దంతం, కోతులు, నెమళ్ళు మొదలైన సరకులతో వచ్చేవి.
၂၀ရှောလမုန်မင်း၏သောက်တော်ရေဖလားမှန် သမျှသည်ရွှေဖြင့်ပြီး၍ လေဗနုန်တောခန်း မဆောင်တွင်ရှိသမျှသောခွက်ယောက်အသုံး အဆောင်များသည်လည်းရွှေစင်ဖြင့်ပြီး သတည်း။ ရှောလမုန်၏ခေတ်၌ငွေကိုတန် ဖိုးမထားကြ။-
21 ౨౧ సొలొమోను కాలంలో వెండి అసలు లెక్కకు రాలేదు.
၂၁မင်းကြီး၌ဟိရံမင်း၏သင်္ဘောစုနှင့်အတူပင် လယ်သွားသင်္ဘောများရှိ၏။ သူ၏သင်္ဘောတို့ သည် ရွှေ၊ ငွေ၊ ဆင်စွယ်၊ လူဝံနှင့်မျောက်များကို တင်ဆောင်၍သုံးနှစ်တစ်ကြိမ်ပြန်လည်ရောက် ရှိလေသည်။-
22 ౨౨ సొలొమోను రాజు భూమి పైన రాజులందరికంటే ఐశ్వర్యంలో, జ్ఞానంలో అధికుడయ్యాడు.
၂၂ရှောလမုန်မင်းသည်ကမ္ဘာပေါ်ရှိဘုရင်တကာ တို့ထက်ချမ်းသာကြွယ်ဝ၍ဉာဏ်ပညာရှိ တော်မူ၏။-
23 ౨౩ దేవుడు సొలొమోను హృదయంలో ఉంచిన జ్ఞానోక్తులు వినడానికి భూరాజులంతా అతనిని దర్శించాలని కోరేవారు.
၂၃သူတို့သည်ရှောလမုန်အားထာဝရဘုရား ပေးတော်မူသောဉာဏ်ပညာတော်နှင့် ယှဉ် သည့်စကားများကြားနာရန်သူ့ထံသို့ လာရောက်ကြ၏။-
24 ౨౪ ఒక్కొక్కరూ ప్రతి సంవత్సరం వెండి, బంగారు వస్తువులు, వస్త్రాలు, ఆయుధాలు, సుగంధద్రవ్యాలు, గుర్రాలు, కంచర గాడిదలు కానుకలుగా తీసుకు వచ్చారు.
၂၄ထိုသူအသီးသီးတို့သည်ရွှေထည်၊ ငွေထည်၊ အဝတ်ထည်၊ လက်နက်၊ နံ့သာမျိုး၊ မြင်းနှင့် လားတို့ကိုလက်ဆောင်အဖြစ်ဖြင့်ရှောလမုန် ထံနှစ်စဉ်ဆက်သကြလေသည်။
25 ౨౫ సొలొమోనుకు రథాలు నిలిపి ఉంచే పట్టణాల్లో, తన దగ్గర, యెరూషలేములో, గుర్రాలకు, రథాలకు 4,000 శాలలు ఉండేవి. 12,000 గుర్రపు రౌతులు ఉండేవారు.
၂၅ရှောလမုန်မင်းတွင်စစ်ရထားများနှင့်မြင်းများ အတွက်မြင်းစောင်းလေးထောင်ရှိ၍တိုက်မြင်း တစ်သောင်းနှစ်ထောင်လည်းရှိလေသည်။ ထိုမြင်း အချို့တို့ကိုယေရုရှလင်မြို့၌လည်းကောင်း၊ အချို့တို့ကိုအခြားမြို့များ၌လည်းကောင်း ထားရှိတော်မူ၏။-
26 ౨౬ యూఫ్రటిసు నది మొదలుకుని ఫిలిష్తీయుల దేశం వరకూ, ఐగుప్తు సరిహద్దు వరకూ ఉన్న రాజులందరిపై అతడు పరిపాలన చేశాడు.
၂၆ရှောလမုန်သည်ဥဖရတ်မြစ်မှသည်ဖိလိတ္တိ ပြည်နှင့်အီဂျစ်ပြည်နယ်စပ်တိုင်အောင် အရပ် ရပ်ရှိဘုရင်တို့ကိုအုပ်စိုးရ၏။-
27 ౨౭ సొలొమోను యెరూషలేములో వెండిని రాళ్లంత విస్తారంగా, దేవదారు మ్రానులను షెఫేలా ప్రదేశంలో ఉన్న మేడివృక్షాలంత విస్తారంగా ఉండేలా చేశాడు.
၂၇သူ၏လက်တော်၌ယေရုရှလင်မြို့တွင်ငွေသည် ကျောက်ခဲကဲ့သို့လည်းကောင်း၊ သစ်ကတိုးသား သည်ယုဒတောင်ခြေတွင်အလေ့ကျပေါက် သောသဖန်းပင်ကဲ့သို့လည်းကောင်းပေါများ လေသည်။-
28 ౨౮ ఐగుప్తు నుండీ ఇతర అన్ని దేశాల నుండీ సొలొమోనుకు గుర్రాలు సరఫరా అవుతూ ఉండేవి.
၂၈ရှောလမုန်သည်မြင်းများကိုမုသရိ ခေါ်အီဂျစ်နှင့်အခြားတိုင်းပြည်များမှ တင်သွင်းခဲ့သည်။
29 ౨౯ సొలొమోను చేసిన కార్యాలన్నిటి గూర్చి నాతాను ప్రవక్త రాసిన గ్రంథంలో, షిలోనీయుడైన అహీయా రచించిన ప్రవచన గ్రంథంలో, నెబాతు కొడుకు యరొబాము గూర్చి దీర్ఘదర్శి ఇద్దో గ్రంథంలో రాసి ఉంది.
၂၉ကြွင်းကျန်သောရှောလမုန်၏အကြောင်းကို အစမှအဆုံးတိုင်အောင်ပရောဖက်နာသန် ၏ကျမ်း၊ ရှိလောမြို့သားအဟိယ၏ပရောဖက် ကျမ်း၊ ဣသရေလဘုရင်ယေရောဗောင်၏နန်း ဆက်အကြောင်းကိုလည်းဖော်ပြပါရှိသည့် ပရောဖက်ဣဒ္ဒေါ၏ဗျာဒိတ်ရူပါရုံကျမ်းများ တွင်မှတ်တမ်းတင်ထားသတည်း။-
30 ౩౦ సొలొమోను యెరూషలేములో ఇశ్రాయేలీయులందరి మీద 40 సంవత్సరాలు పరిపాలించాడు.
၃၀ရှောလမုန်သည်ယေရုရှလင်မြို့တွင်နန်းစံ တော်မူ၍ဣသရေလတစ်နိုင်ငံလုံးကို အနှစ်လေးဆယ်အုပ်စိုးတော်မူ၏။-
31 ౩౧ ఆ తరవాత సొలొమోను తన పూర్వీకులతో కన్నుమూశాడు. అతనిని అతని తండ్రి అయిన దావీదు పట్టణంలో పాతిపెట్టారు. అతనికి బదులుగా అతని కొడుకు రెహబాము రాజయ్యాడు.
၃၁သူကွယ်လွန်သောအခါသားတော်ရောဗောင် သည်ခမည်းတော်၏အရိုက်အရာကိုဆက်ခံ ၍နန်းတက်လေသည်။