1 و َبَعْدَ أنْ أكمَلَ سُلَيْمانُ بِناءَ بَيتِ اللهِ وَقَصْرِهِ المَلَكِيِّ. وَعَمِلَ فِيهِما كُلَّ ما شاءَ،

And it came to pass, when Solomon had finished the building of the house of Jehovah, and the king's house, and all Solomon's desire which he was pleased to do,

2 ظ َهَرَ اللهُ لِسُلَيْمانَ مَرَّةً أُخْرَى كَما سَبَقَ أنْ ظَهَرَ لَهُ فِي جِبْعُونَ.

that Jehovah appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared unto him at Gibeon.

3 و َقالَ لَهُ اللهُ: «سَمِعْتُ صَلاتَكَ وَطِلْباتِكَ. أنتَ بَنَيتَ لِي هَذا الهَيكَلَ، وَأنا قَدَّسْتُهُ لأجلِ اسْمِي وَلِكَي أُكَرَّمَ فِيهِ إلَى الأبَدِ. سَأحرُسُهُ وَأضَعُهُ فِي قَلْبِي عَلَى الدَّوامِ.

And Jehovah said unto him, I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication, that thou hast made before me: I have hallowed this house, which thou hast built, to put my name there for ever; and mine eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually.

4 و َأنْتَ يا سُلَيْمانُ، عَلَيكَ أنْ تَخدِمَنِي كَداوُدَ أبِيكَ بِقَلبٍ مُخلِصٍ مُستَقِيمٍ، وَتُطِيعَ ما أوصَيتُكَ بِهِ، وَتَحفَظَ شَرائِعِي وَأحكامِي.

And as for thee, if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded thee, and wilt keep my statutes and mine ordinances;

5 ف َإنْ فَعَلْتَ، فَإنَّ مَلِكَ إسْرائِيلَ سَيَكُونَ مِنْ نَسلِكَ دائِماً كَما وَعَدُّتُ أباكَ داوُدَ وَقُلْتُ لَهُ، سَيَكُونُ رَجُلٌ مِنْ نَسلِهِ دائِماً مَلِكاً عَلَى إسْرائِيلَ.»

then I will establish the throne of thy kingdom over Israel for ever, according as I promised to David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man upon the throne of Israel.

6 « لَكِنْ إذا تَمَرَّدْتُمْ عَلَيَّ أنتُمْ وَأبناؤُكُمْ، وَلَمْ تَعُودُوا تَحفَظُونَ شَرائِعِي وَوَصايايَ الَّتِي أوصِيكُمْ بِها، وَإذا خَدَمْتُمْ وَعَبَدْتُمْ آلِهَةً أُخْرَى،

But if ye shall turn away from following me, ye or your children, and not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but shall go and serve other gods, and worship them;

7 ف َإنِّي سَأنفِي بَنِي إسْرائِيلَ مِنَ الأرْضِ الَّتِي أعطَيتُها لَهُمْ. سَأجعَلُ إسْرائِيلَ عِبْرَةً لِكُلِّ الشُّعُوبِ، وَسَتَصِيرُ أُضحُوكَةً لِلآخَرِينَ. أمّا الهَيكَلُ الَّذِي قَدَّسْتُهُ لِكَي أُكَرَّمَ فِيهِ، فَسَأهْدِمُهُ،

then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

8 ف َيَصِيرُ هَذا البَيتُ أيضاً عِبْرَةً لِكُلِّ الشُّعُوبِ. وَكُلُّ مَنْ يَراهُ سَيَصْفُرُ دَهشَةً وَيَقُولُ: ‹لِماذا فَعَلَ اللهُ هَذا الأمرَ الفَظِيعَ بِهَذِهِ الأرْضِ وَبِهَذا الشَّعبِ؟›

And though this house is so high, yet shall every one that passeth by it be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath Jehovah done thus unto this land, and to this house?

9 ف َيُقالُ: ‹لِأنَّهُمْ تَرَكُوا إلَهَهُمْ. أخرَجَ آباءَهُمْ مِنْ مِصْرَ، لَكِنَّهُمْ تَنَكَّرُوا لَهُ وَتَبِعُوا آلِهَةً أُخْرَى. فَعَبَدُوها وَخَدَمُوها. وَلِهَذا جَلَبَ اللهُ عَلَيهِمْ كُلَّ هَذا.›»

and they shall answer, Because they forsook Jehovah their God, who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath Jehovah brought all this evil upon them.

10 ا ستَغرَقَ بِناءُ سُلَيْمانَ لِبَيتِ اللهِ وَبَيتِه الخاصِّ بهِ عشرِينَ سَنَةً.

And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, wherein Solomon had built the two houses, the house of Jehovah and the king's house,

11 و َبَعْدَ تِلْكَ السَّنَواتِ العِشْرِينَ أعطَى سُلَيْمانُ لِحِيرامَ مَلِكِ صُورَ عِشْرِينَ بَلْدَةً فِي الجَلِيلِ، لأنَّهُ ساعَدَهُ فِي بِناءِ الهَيكَلِ وَالقَصْرِ. فَقَدْ زَوَّدَ حِيرامُ سُلَيْمانَ بِكُلِّ الأرْزِ وَالنَّخِيلِ وَالذَّهَبِ الَّلازِمِ لِذَلِكَ.

(now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar-trees and fir-trees, and with gold, according to all his desire), that then king Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.

12 ف َذَهَبَ حِيرامُ مِنْ صُورَ إلَى البَلْداتِ الَّتِي أعطاها سُلَيْمانُ لَهُ، فَلَمّا رَآها، لَمْ تُعجِبْهُ.

And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and they pleased him not.

13 ف َقالَ: «ما هَذِهِ البَلداتُ الَّتِي أعطَيتَنِي إيّاها، يا أخِي؟» فَسَمَّى المَلِكُ حِيرامُ تِلْكَ الأرْضَ كابُولَ حَتَّى هَذا اليَومِ.

And he said, What cities are these which thou hast given me, my brother? And he called them the land of Cabul unto this day.

14 و َكانَ حِيرامُ قَدْ أرسَلَ لِلمَلِكِ سُلَيْمانَ مِئَةً وَعِشْرِينَ قِنْطاراً مِنَ الذَّهَبِ.

And Hiram sent to the king sixscore talents of gold.

15 و َكانَ سُلَيْمانُ قَدْ جَنَّدَ العُمّالَ لِبِناءِ بَيتِ اللهِ وَقَصْرِهِ. ثُمَّ اسْتَخدَمَ المَلِكُ هَؤُلاءِ العُمّالَ لِبِناءِ مِلُّو وَالسُّورِ المُحِيطِ بِمَدِينَةِ القُدْسِ، وَفِي إعادَةِ بِناءِ مُدُنِ حاصُورَ وَمَجِدُّو وَجازَرَ.

And this is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised, to build the house of Jehovah, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.

16 و َفِي ماضِي الزَّمانِ هاجَمَ فِرعَوْنُ مِصْرَ مَدِينَةَ جازَرَ وَأحرَقَها، وَقَتَلَ أهلَها الكَنعانِيِّينَ. وَعِندَما تَزَوَّجَ سُلَيْمانُ مِنَ ابْنَةِ فِرعَوْنَ، أعطَى تِلْكَ المَدِينَةَ هَدِيَّةَ زَواجٍ لِسُلَيْمانَ.

Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and taken Gezer, and burnt it with fire, and slain the Canaanites that dwelt in the city, and given it for a portion unto his daughter, Solomon's wife.

17 ف َأعادَ سُلَيْمانُ بِناءَ جازَرَ. وَبَنَى أيضاً بَيتَ حُورُونَ السُّفلِيَّ.

And Solomon built Gezer, and Beth-horon the nether,

18 ث ُمَّ بَنَى سُلَيْمانُ مَدِينَتَي بَعلَةَ وَثامارَ فِي بَرِّيَةِ اليَهُودِيَّةِ.

and Baalath, and Tamar in the wilderness, in the land,

19 ك َما بَنَى مُدُناً حَيثُما أمكَنَهُ ذَلِكَ مِنْ أجلِ خَزْنِ الحُبُوبِ وَغَيرِها. وَبَنَى أماكِنَ مُخَصَّصَةً لِمَرْكَباتِهِ وَأُخرَى لِخَيلِهِ. وَبَنَى سُلَيْمانُ كُلَّ ما رَغِبَ فِي بِنائِهِ فِي القُدْسِ وَفِي لُبْنانَ وَفِي كُلِّ الأراضِي الخاضِعَةِ لِحُكْمِهِ.

and all the store-cities that Solomon had, and the cities for his chariots, and the cities for his horsemen, and that which Solomon desired to build for his pleasure in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.

20 و َكانَ فِي الأرْضِ كَثِيرُونَ مِنْ غَيرِ بَنِي إسْرائِيلَ، مِمَّنْ لَمْ يَسْتَطِيعُوا القَضاءَ عَلَيْهِمْ. فَكانَ هُناكَ أمُّورِيُّونَ، وَحِثِّيُّونَ، وَفِرِزِّيُّونَ، وَحَوِيُّونَ، وَيَبُوسِيُّونَ.

As for all the people that were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of the children of Israel;

21 ل َمْ يَكُنْ بَنُو إسْرائِيلَ قَدْ قَدِرُوا عَلَى القَضاءِ عَلَى هَؤُلاءِ. لَكِنَّ سُلَيْمانَ أجْبَرَهُمْ عَلَى أنْ يَكُونوا عَبِيداً لَدَيهِ. وَما زالُوا عَبِيداً إلَى هَذا اليَومِ.

their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel were not able utterly to destroy, of them did Solomon raise a levy of bondservants unto this day.

22 و َلَمْ يُجْبِرْ سُلَيْمانُ أيّاً مِنْ بَنِي إسْرائِيلَ عَلَى أنْ يَكُونوا عَبِيداً لَدَيهِ. بَلْ كانُوا جُنُوداً، وَمَسْؤُولِينَ إدارِيِّينَ، وَضُبّاطاً، وَمَسْؤُولِينَ كِباراً، وَقادَةَ مَركَباتِهِ، وفرساناً.

But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no bondservants; but they were the men of war, and his servants, and his princes, and his captains, and rulers of his chariots and of his horsemen.

23 و َأشْرَفَ عَلَى مَشارِيعِ سُلَيْمانَ خَمْسُ مِئَةٍ وَخَمْسُونَ رَجُلاً. فَكانُوا يُوَجِّهُونَ العُمّالَ فِي عَمَلِهِمْ.

These were the chief officers that were over Solomon's work, five hundred and fifty, who bare rule over the people that wrought in the work.

24 و َانتَقَلَتِ ابْنَةُ فِرعَوْنَ مِنْ مَدِينَةِ داوُدَ إلَى البَيتِ الكَبِيرِ الَّذِي بَناهُ سُلَيْمانُ لَها، ثُمَّ بَنَى مِلُّو.

But Pharaoh's daughter came up out of the city of David unto her house which Solomon had built for her: then did he build Millo.

25 و َاعتادَ سُلَيْمانُ أنْ يُقَدِّمَ ذَبائِحَ صاعِدَةً وَذَبائِحَ سَلامٍ عَلَى المَذبَحِ الَّذِي بَناهُ للهِ ثَلاثَ مَرّاتٍ فِي السَّنَةِ. وَكانَ يَحرِقُ بَخُوراً للهِ ، وَيُزَوِّدُ الهَيكَلَ بِكُلِّ ما يَحتاجُهُ.

And three times a year did Solomon offer burnt-offerings and peace-offerings upon the altar which he built unto Jehovah, burning incense therewith, upon the altar that was before Jehovah. So he finished the house.

26 و َصَنَعَ سُلَيْمانُ أيَضاً سُفُناً فِي عِصْيُونِ جابِرَ، وَهِيَ بَلْدَةٌ قُرْبَ أيلَةَ عَلَى شاطِئِ البَحرِ الأحمَرِ في أرْضِ أدومَ.

And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion-geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.

27 ف َأرسَلَ المَلِكُ حِيرامُ بَعضاً مِنْ رِجالِهِ الخَبِيرِينَ بِالمِلاحَةِ وَبِالسُّفُنِ لِمُساعَدَةِ رِجالِ سُلَيْمانَ فِي العملِ.

And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.

28 و َأبحَرَتْ سُفُنُ سُلَيْمانَ إلَى مَدينَةِ أُوفِيرَ، وَجَلَبَتْ أربَعَ مِئَةٍ وَعِشْرِينَ قِنْطاراً مِنَ الذَّهَبِ مِنْ هُناكَ إلَى المَلِكِ سُلَيْمانَ.

And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.