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

And it came to pass when Solomon had completed 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 to 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 to him, I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication which 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 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, 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 will I establish the throne of thy kingdom over Israel for ever, 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،

if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your children, and will not keep my commandments, my statutes which I have set before you, but 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 the house, which I have hallowed to my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a by word 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 this house, is high, every one that passes by it shall be astonished at, and shall hiss, and they shall say, Why has Jehovah done thus to 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 say, Because they forsook Jehovah their God, who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have attached themselves to other gods, and have worshipped them and served them; therefore has Jehovah brought upon them all this evil.

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

And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, when 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.

Hiram the king of Tyre having furnished Solomon with cedar-trees and cypress-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 that Solomon had given him; and they did not please him.

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 to this day.

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

And Hiram had sent to the king one hundred and twenty 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 account 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 burned it with fire, and slain the Canaanites that dwelt in the city, and given it as a dowry to his daughter, Solomon's wife.

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

—And Solomon built Gezer, and lower Beth-horon,

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

and Baalath, and Tadmor 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 cities for chariots, and cities for the horsemen, and that which Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, and on 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.

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, upon them did Solomon impose a tribute of bondservice until 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 bondmen; but they were men of war, and his servants, and his chiefs, and his captains, and captains of his chariots, and his horsemen.

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

These were the chief superintendents that were over Solomon's work, five hundred and fifty, that ruled 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 to her house which he had built for her: then he built 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 in the year did Solomon offer up burnt-offerings and peace-offerings upon the altar that he had built to Jehovah, and he burned incense upon that which 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 fleet 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 fleet 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 went to Ophir, and fetched thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.