1 GLT وَكَانَ لَمَّا أَكْمَلَ سُلَيْمَانُ بِنَاءَ بَيْتِ ٱلرَّبِّ وَبَيْتِ ٱلْمَلِكِ وَكُلَّ مَرْغُوبِ سُلَيْمَانَ ٱلَّذِي سُرَّ أَنْ يَعْمَلَ، BSB BSB: Now when Solomon had finished building the house of the LORD and the royal palace, and had achieved all that he had desired to do,
2 GLT أَنَّ ٱلرَّبَّ تَرَاءَى لِسُلَيْمَانَ ثَانِيَةً كَمَا تَرَاءَى لَهُ فِي جِبْعُونَ. BSB BSB: the LORD appeared to him a second time, as He had appeared to him at Gibeon.
3 GLT وَقَالَ لَهُ ٱلرَّبُّ:«قَدْ سَمِعْتُ صَلَاتَكَ وَتَضَرُّعَكَ ٱلَّذِي تَضَرَّعْتَ بِهِ أَمَامِي. قَدَّسْتُ هَذَا ٱلْبَيْتَ ٱلَّذِي بَنَيْتَهُ لِأَجْلِ وَضْعِ ٱسْمِي فِيهِ إِلَى ٱلْأَبَدِ، وَتَكُونُ عَيْنَايَ وَقَلْبِي هُنَاكَ كُلَّ ٱلْأَيَّامِ. BSB BSB: And the LORD said to him: “I have heard your prayer and petition before Me. I have consecrated this temple, which you have built, by putting My Name there forever; My eyes and My heart will be there for all time.
4 GLT وَأَنْتَ إِنْ سَلَكْتَ أَمَامِي كَمَا سَلَكَ دَاوُدُ أَبُوكَ بِسَلَامَةِ قَلْبٍ وَٱسْتِقَامَةٍ، وَعَمِلْتَ حَسَبَ كُلِّ مَا أَوْصَيْتُكَ وَحَفِظْتَ فَرَائِضِي وَأَحْكَامِي، BSB BSB: And as for you, if you walk before Me as your father David walked, with a heart of integrity and uprightness, doing all I have commanded you, and if you keep My statutes and ordinances,
5 GLT فَإِنِّي أُقِيمُ كُرْسِيَّ مُلْكِكَ عَلَى إِسْرَائِيلَ إِلَى ٱلْأَبَدِ كَمَا كَلَّمْتُ دَاوُدَ أَبَاكَ قَائِلًا: لَا يُعْدَمُ لَكَ رَجُلٌ عَنْ كُرْسِيِّ إِسْرَائِيلَ. BSB BSB: then I will establish your royal throne over Israel forever, as I promised your father David when I said, ‘You will never fail to have a man on the throne of Israel.’
6 GLT إِنْ كُنْتُمْ تَنْقَلِبُونَ أَنْتُمْ أَوْ أَبْنَاؤُكُمْ مِنْ وَرَائِي، وَلَا تَحْفَظُونَ وَصَايَايَ، فَرَائِضِيَ ٱلَّتِي جَعَلْتُهَا أَمَامَكُمْ، بَلْ تَذْهَبُونَ وَتَعْبُدُونَ آلِهَةً أُخْرَى وَتَسْجُدُونَ لَهَا، BSB BSB: But if indeed you or your sons turn away from following Me and do not keep the commandments and statutes I have set before you, and if you go off to serve and worship other gods,
7 GLT فَإِنِّي أَقْطَعُ إِسْرَائِيلَ عَنْ وَجْهِ ٱلْأَرْضِ ٱلَّتِي أَعْطَيْتُهُمْ إِيَّاهَا، وَٱلْبَيْتُ ٱلَّذِي قَدَّسْتُهُ لِٱسْمِي أَنْفِيهِ مِنْ أَمَامِي، وَيَكُونُ إِسْرَائِيلُ مَثَلًا وَهُزْأَةً فِي جَمِيعِ ٱلشُّعُوبِ، BSB BSB: then I will cut off Israel from the land that I have given them, and I will banish from My presence this temple I have sanctified for My Name. Then Israel will become an object of scorn and ridicule among all peoples.
8 GLT وَهَذَا ٱلْبَيْتُ يَكُونُ عِبْرَةً. كُلُّ مَنْ يَمُرُّ عَلَيْهِ يَتَعَجَّبُ وَيَصْفِرُ، وَيَقُولُونَ: لِمَاذَا عَمِلَ ٱلرَّبُّ هَكَذَا لِهَذِهِ ٱلْأَرْضِ وَلِهَذَا ٱلْبَيْتِ؟ BSB BSB: And when this temple has become a heap of rubble, all who pass by it will be appalled and will hiss and say, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land and to this temple?’
9 GLT فَيَقُولُونَ: مِنْ أَجْلِ أَنَّهُمْ تَرَكُوا ٱلرَّبَّ إِلَهَهُمُ ٱلَّذِي أَخْرَجَ آبَاءَهُمْ مِنْ أَرْضِ مِصْرَ، وَتَمَسَّكُوا بِآلِهَةٍ أُخْرَى وَسَجَدُوا لَهَا وَعَبَدُوهَا، لِذَلِكَ جَلَبَ ٱلرَّبُّ عَلَيْهِمْ كُلَّ هَذَا ٱلشَّرِّ». BSB BSB: And others will answer, ‘Because they have forsaken the LORD their God who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have embraced other gods, worshiping and serving them—because of this, the LORD has brought all this disaster upon them.’”
10 GLT وَبَعْدَ نِهَايَةِ عِشْرِينَ سَنَةً بَعْدَمَا بَنَى سُلَيْمَانُ ٱلْبَيْتَيْنِ، بَيْتَ ٱلرَّبِّ وَبَيْتَ ٱلْمَلِكِ. BSB BSB: Now at the end of the twenty years during which Solomon built these two houses, the house of the LORD and the royal palace,
11 GLT وَكَانَ حِيرَامُ مَلِكُ صُورَ قَدْ سَاعَفَ سُلَيْمَانَ بِخَشَبِ أَرْزٍ وَخَشَبِ سَرْوٍ وَذَهَبٍ، حَسَبَ كُلِّ مَسَرَّتِهِ. أَعْطَى حِينَئِذٍ ٱلْمَلِكُ سُلَيْمَانُ حِيرَامَ عِشْرِينَ مَدِينَةً فِي أَرْضِ ٱلْجَلِيلِ. BSB BSB: King Solomon gave twenty towns in the land of Galilee to Hiram king of Tyre, who had supplied him with cedar and cypress logs and gold for his every desire.
12 GLT فَخَرَجَ حِيرَامُ مِنْ صُورَ لِيَرَى ٱلْمُدُنَ ٱلَّتِي أَعْطَاهُ إِيَّاهَا سُلَيْمَانُ، فَلَمْ تَحْسُنْ فِي عَيْنَيْهِ. BSB BSB: So Hiram went out from Tyre to inspect the towns that Solomon had given him, but he was not pleased with them.
13 GLT فَقَالَ:«مَا هَذِهِ ٱلْمُدُنُ ٱلَّتِي أَعْطَيْتَنِي يَا أَخِي؟» وَدَعَاهَا«أَرْضَ كَابُولَ» إِلَى هَذَا ٱلْيَوْمِ. BSB BSB: “What are these towns you have given me, my brother?” asked Hiram, and he called them the Land of Cabul, as they are called to this day.
14 GLT وَأَرْسَلَ حِيرَامُ لِلْمَلِكِ مِئَةً وَعِشْرِينَ وَزْنَةَ ذَهَبٍ. BSB BSB: And Hiram had sent the king 120 talents of gold.
16 GLT صَعِدَ فِرْعَوْنُ مَلِكُ مِصْرَ وَأَخَذَ جَازَرَ وَأَحْرَقَهَا بِٱلنَّارِ، وَقَتَلَ ٱلْكَنْعَانِيِّينَ ٱلسَّاكِنِينَ فِي ٱلْمَدِينَةِ، وَأَعْطَاهَا مَهْرًا لِٱبْنَتِهِ ٱمْرَأَةِ سُلَيْمَانَ. BSB BSB: Pharaoh king of Egypt had attacked and captured Gezer. He had set it on fire, killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and given it as a dowry to his daughter, Solomon’s wife.
17 GLT وَبَنَى سُلَيْمَانُ جَازَرَ وَبَيْتَ حُورُونَ ٱلسُّفْلَى BSB BSB: So Solomon rebuilt Gezer, Lower Beth-horon,
18 GLT وَبَعْلَةَ وَتَدْمُرَ فِي ٱلْبَرِّيَّةِ فِي ٱلْأَرْضِ، BSB BSB: Baalath, and Tamar in the Wilderness of Judah,
20 GLT جَمِيعُ ٱلشَّعْبِ ٱلْبَاقِينَ مِنَ ٱلْأَمُورِيِّينَ وَٱلْحِثِّيِّينَ وَٱلْفِرِزِّيِّينَ وَٱلْحِوِّيِّينَ وَٱلْيَبُوسِيِّينَ ٱلَّذِينَ لَيْسُوا مِنْ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ، BSB BSB: As for all the people who remained of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites (the people who were not Israelites)—
21 GLT أَبْنَاؤُهُمُ ٱلَّذِينَ بَقُوا بَعْدَهُمْ فِي ٱلْأَرْضِ، ٱلَّذِينَ لَمْ يَقْدِرْ بَنُو إِسْرَائِيلَ أَنْ يُحَرِّمُوهُمْ، جَعَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ سُلَيْمَانُ تَسْخِيرَ عَبِيدٍ إِلَى هَذَا ٱلْيَوْمِ. BSB BSB: their descendants who remained in the land, those whom the Israelites were unable to devote to destruction—Solomon conscripted these people to be forced laborers, as they are to this day.
22 GLT وَأَمَّا بَنُو إِسْرَائِيلَ فَلَمْ يَجْعَلْ سُلَيْمَانُ مِنْهُمْ عَبِيدًا لِأَنَّهُمْ رِجَالُ ٱلْقِتَالِ وَخُدَّامُهُ وَأُمَرَاؤُهُ وَثَوَالِثُهُ وَرُؤَسَاءُ مَرْكَبَاتِهِ وَفُرْسَانُهُ. BSB BSB: But Solomon did not consign any of the Israelites to slavery, because they were his men of war, his servants, his officers, his captains, and the commanders of his chariots and cavalry.
23 GLT هَؤُلَاءِ رُؤَسَاءُ ٱلْمُوَكَّلِينَ عَلَى أَعْمَالِ سُلَيْمَانَ خَمْسُ مِئَةٍ وَخَمْسُونَ، ٱلَّذِينَ كَانُوا يَتَسَلَّطُونَ عَلَى ٱلشَّعْبِ ٱلْعَامِلِينَ ٱلْعَمَلَ. BSB BSB: They were also the chief officers over Solomon’s projects: 550 supervisors over the people who did the work.
24 GLT وَلَكِنَّ بِنْتَ فِرْعَوْنَ صَعِدَتْ مِنْ مَدِينَةِ دَاوُدَ إِلَى بَيْتِهَا ٱلَّذِي بَنَاهُ لَهَا، حِينَئِذٍ بَنَى ٱلْقَلْعَةَ. BSB BSB: As soon as Pharaoh’s daughter had come up from the City of David to the palace that Solomon had built for her, he built the supporting terraces.
25 GLT وَكَانَ سُلَيْمَانُ يُصْعِدُ ثَلَاثَ مَرَّاتٍ فِي ٱلسَّنَةِ مُحْرَقَاتٍ وَذَبَائِحَ سَلَامَةٍ عَلَى ٱلْمَذْبَحِ ٱلَّذِي بَنَاهُ لِلرَّبِّ، وَكَانَ يُوقِدُ عَلَى ٱلَّذِي أَمَامَ ٱلرَّبِّ. وَأَكْمَلَ ٱلْبَيْتَ. BSB BSB: Three times a year Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar he had built for the LORD, burning incense with them before the LORD. So he completed the temple.
26 GLT وَعَمِلَ ٱلْمَلِكُ سُلَيْمَانُ سُفُنًا فِي عِصْيُونَ جَابَرَ ٱلَّتِي بِجَانِبِ أَيْلَةَ عَلَى شَاطِئِ بَحْرِ سُوفٍ فِي أَرْضِ أَدُومَ. BSB BSB: King Solomon also assembled a fleet of ships at Ezion-geber, which is near Eloth in Edom, on the shore of the Red Sea.
27 GLT فَأَرْسَلَ حِيرَامُ فِي ٱلسُّفُنِ عَبِيدَهُ ٱلنَّوَاتِيَّ ٱلْعَارِفِينَ بِٱلْبَحْرِ مَعَ عَبِيدِ سُلَيْمَانَ، BSB BSB: And Hiram sent his servants, sailors who knew the sea, to serve in the fleet with Solomon’s servants.
28 GLT فَأَتَوْا إِلَى أُوفِيرَ، وَأَخَذُوا مِنْ هُنَاكَ ذَهَبًا أَرْبَعَ مِئَةِ وَزْنَةٍ وَعِشْرِينَ وَزْنَةً، وَأَتَوْا بِهَا إِلَى ٱلْمَلِكِ سُلَيْمَانَ. BSB BSB: They sailed to Ophir and imported gold from there—420 talents—and delivered it to Solomon.
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