1 Kings 9

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Verse 1

When Solomon had finished building the temple of the Lord and the royal palace, and had achieved all he had desired to do,

وَبَعْدَ أَنْ أَتَمَّ سُلَيْمَانُ بِنَاءَ هَيْكَلِ الرَّبِّ وَقَصْرِ الْمَلِكِ، وَكُلِّ مَا رَغِبَ أَنْ يُقِيمَهُ مِنْ مَبَانٍ أُخْرَى.

Verse 2

the Lord appeared to him a second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon.

تَجَلَّى الرَّبُّ لِسُلَيْمَانَ ثَانِيَةً كَمَا تَجَلَّى لَهُ فِي جِبْعُونَ،

Verse 3

The Lord said to him:

“I have heard the prayer and plea you have made before me; I have consecrated this temple, which you have built, by putting my Name there forever. My eyes and my heart will always be there.

وَقَالَ لَهُ: «سَمِعْتُ صَلاتَكَ وَتَضَرُّعَكَ الَّذِي رَفَعْتَهُ أَمَامِي، لِهَذَا قَدَّسْتُ هَذَا الْهَيْكَلَ الَّذِي شَيَّدْتَهُ لأَضَعَ اسْمِي عَلَيْهِ إِلَى الأَبَدِ، فَتَكُونُ عَيْنَايَ وَقَلْبِي هُنَاكَ كُلَّ الأَيَّامِ.

Verse 4

“As for you, if you walk before me faithfully with integrity of heart and uprightness, as David your father did, and do all I command and observe my decrees and laws,

فَإِنْ سَلَكْتَ أَنْتَ أَمَامِي كَمَا سَلَكَ أَبُوكَ دَاوُدُ بِكَمَالِ الْقَلْبِ وَالاسْتِقَامَةِ، وَطَبَّقْتَ كُلَّ مَا أَمَرْتُكَ بِهِ، وَأَطَعْتَ فَرَائِضِي وَأَحْكَامِي،

Verse 5

I will establish your royal throne over Israel forever, as I promised David your father when I said, ‘You shall never fail to have a successor on the throne of Israel.’

فَإِنِّي أُثَبِّتُ كُرْسِيَّ مُلْكِكَ عَلَى إِسْرَائِيلَ إِلَى الأَبَدِ، كَمَا وَعَدْتُ دَاوُدَ أَبَاكَ قَائِلاً: لَا يَنْقَرِضُ مِنْ نَسْلِكَ مَنْ يَمْلِكُ عَلَى عَرْشِ إِسْرَائِيلَ.

Verse 6

“But if you^[a] or your descendants turn away from me and do not observe the commands and decrees I have given you^[b] and go off to serve other gods and worship them,

أَمَّا إِنِ انْحَرَفْتُمْ أَنْتُمْ أَوْ أَبْنَاؤُكُمْ عَنِ اتِّبَاعِي، وَلَمْ تُطِيعُوا وَصَايَايْ وَفَرَائِضِي الَّتِي سَنَنْتُهَا لَكُمْ، وَغَوَيْتُمْ عَابِدِينَ آلِهَةً أُخْرَى وَسَجَدْتُمْ لَهَا،

Verse 7

then I will cut off Israel from the land I have given them and will reject this temple I have consecrated for my Name. Israel will then become a byword and an object of ridicule among all peoples.

فَإِنِّي أُبِيدُ إِسْرَائِيلَ عَنْ وَجْهِ الأَرْضِ الَّتِي وَهَبْتُهَا لَهُمْ، وَأَنْبِذُ الْهَيْكَلَ الَّذِي قَدَّسْتُهُ لاِسْمِي، فَيُصْبِحُ إِسْرَائِيلُ مَثَلاً وَمَثَارَ هُزْءٍ لِجَمِيعِ الأُمَمِ.

Verse 8

This temple will become a heap of rubble. All^[c] who pass by will be appalled and will scoff and say, ‘Why has the Lord done such a thing to this land and to this temple?’

وَيُصْبِحُ هَذَا الْهَيْكَلُ عِبْرَةً يُثِيرُ عَجَبَ كُلِّ مَنْ يَمُرُّ بِهِ، فَيَصْفُرُ وَيَتَسَاءَلُ: لِمَاذَا صَنَعَ الرَّبُّ هَكَذَا بِهَذِهِ الأَرْضِ وَبِهَذَا الْهَيْكَلِ؟

Verse 9

People will answer, ‘Because they have forsaken the Lord their God, who brought their ancestors out of Egypt, and have embraced other gods, worshiping and serving them—that is why the Lord brought all this disaster on them.’”

Solomon’s Other Activities

فَيَأْتِيهُمُ الْجَوَابُ: لأَنَّهُمْ تَرَكُوا الرَّبَّ إِلَهَهُمُ الَّذِي أَخْرَجَ آبَاءَهُمْ مِنْ دِيَارِ مِصْرَ، وَتَشَبَّثُوا بِآلِهَةٍ أُخْرَى وَسَجَدُوا لَهَا وَعَبَدُوهَا، لِذَلِكَ جَلَبَ الرَّبُّ عَلَيْهِمْ كُلَّ هَذَا الْبَلاءِ».

منجزات سليمان الأخرى

Verse 10

At the end of twenty years, during which Solomon built these two buildings—the temple of the Lord and the royal palace—

وَفِي نِهَايَةِ الْعِشْرِينَ عَاماً الَّتِي بَنَى سُلَيْمَانُ فِي أَثْنَائِهَا هَيْكَلَ الرَّبِّ وَقَصْرَ الْمَلِكِ

Verse 11

King Solomon gave twenty towns in Galilee to Hiram king of Tyre, because Hiram had supplied him with all the cedar and juniper and gold he wanted.

أَعْطَى سُلَيْمَانُ حِيرَامَ مَلِكَ صُورَ عِشْرِينَ مَدِينَةً فِي أَرْضِ الْجَلِيلِ، لأَنَّهُ أَمَدَّ سُلَيْمَانَ بِخَشَبِ أَرْزٍ وَخَشَبِ سَرْوٍ وَذَهَبٍ عَلَى قَدْرِ طَلَبِهِ.

Verse 12

But when Hiram went from Tyre to see the towns that Solomon had given him, he was not pleased with them.

فَجَاءَ حِيرَامُ مِنْ صُورٍ لِيَتَفَقَّدَ الْمُدُنَ الَّتِي أَعْطَاهَا سُلَيْمَانُ لَهُ، فَلَمْ تَرُقْ لَهُ،

Verse 13

“What kind of towns are these you have given me, my brother?” he asked. And he called them the Land of Kabul,^[d] a name they have to this day.

فَتَسَاءَلَ: «مَا هَذِهِ الْمُدُنُ الَّتِي أَعْطَيْتَنِي إِيَّاهَا يَا أَخِي؟» وَدَعَاهَا «أَرْضَ كَابُولَ» (وَمَعْنَاهَا الأَرْضُ غَيْرُ الْمُثْمِرَةِ) إِلَى هَذَا الْيَوْمِ.

Verse 14

Now Hiram had sent to the king 120 talents^[e] of gold.

وَكَانَ الذَّهَبُ الَّذِي أَرْسَلَهُ حِيرَامُ إِلَى الْمَلِكِ سُلَيْمَانَ مِئَةً وَعِشْرِينَ وَزْنَةَ ذَهَبٍ (نَحْوَ أَرْبَعَةِ آلافٍ وَثَلاثِ مِئَةٍ وَعِشْرِينَ كِيلُو جِرَاماً).

Verse 15

Here is the account of the forced labor King Solomon conscripted to build the Lord’s temple, his own palace, the terraces,^[f] the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, Megiddo and Gezer.

أَمَّا خِدْمَةُ التَّسْخِيرِ الَّتِي فَرَضَهَا سُلَيْمَانُ، فَكَانَتْ بِدَاعِي بِنَاءِ هَيْكَلِ الرَّبِّ، وَقَصْرِ سُلَيْمَانَ، وَالْقَلْعَةِ، وَسُورِ أُورُشَلِيمَ، وَحَاصُورَ وَمَجِدُّو وَجَازَرَ.

Verse 16

(Pharaoh king of Egypt had attacked and captured Gezer. He had set it on fire. He killed its Canaanite inhabitants and then gave it as a wedding gift to his daughter, Solomon’s wife.

وَكَانَ فِرْعَوْنُ مَلِكُ مِصْرَ قَدْ هَاجَمَ جَازَرَ وَاسْتَوْلَى عَلَيْهَا وَأَحْرَقَهَا بِالنَّارِ، وَقَتَلَ أَهْلَهَا الْكَنْعَانِيِّينَ الْمُقِيمِينَ فِيهَا، ثُمَّ وَهَبَهَا مَهْراً لاِبْنَتِهِ زَوْجَةِ سُلَيْمَانَ.

Verse 17

And Solomon rebuilt Gezer.) He built up Lower Beth Horon,

وَأَعَادَ سُلَيْمَانُ بِنَاءَ جَازَرَ وَبَيْتِ حُورُونَ السُّفْلَى،

Verse 18

Baalath, and Tadmor^[g] in the desert, within his land,

وَبَعْلَةَ وَتَدْمُرَ فِي أَرْضِ الصَّحْرَاءِ،

Verse 19

as well as all his store cities and the towns for his chariots and for his horses^[h]—whatever he desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon and throughout all the territory he ruled.

وَبَنَى جَمِيعَ مُدُنِ مَخَازِنِ غَلّاتِهِ، وَمُدُناً لِمَرْكَبَاتِهِ، وَمُدُناً لإِقَامَةِ الْفُرْسَانِ. وَهَكَذَا بَنَى سُلَيْمَانُ كُلَّ مَا رَغِبَ فِيهِ فِي أُورُشَلِيمَ وَفِي لُبْنَانَ وَفِي جَمِيعِ أَرْجَاءِ سَلْطَنَتِهِ.

Verse 20

There were still people left from the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites (these peoples were not Israelites).

أَمَّا مَنْ تَبَقَّى مِنَ الأَمُورِيِّينَ وَالْحِثِّيِّينَ وَالْفَرِزِّيِّينَ وَالْحِوِّيِّينَ وَالْيَبُوسِيِّينَ الَّذِينَ لَا يَنْتَمُونَ إِلَى إِسْرَائِيلَ،

Verse 21

Solomon conscripted the descendants of all these peoples remaining in the land—whom the Israelites could not exterminate^[i]—to serve as slave labor, as it is to this day.

مِنْ ذَرَارِي الأُمَمِ الَّتِي عَجَزَ الإِسْرَائِيلِيُّونَ عَنْ إِفْنَائِهِمْ، فَقَدْ فَرَضَ عَلَيْهِمْ سُلَيْمَانُ خِدْمَةَ التَّسْخِيرِ كَالْعَبِيدِ إِلَى هَذَا الْيَوْمِ.

Verse 22

But Solomon did not make slaves of any of the Israelites; they were his fighting men, his government officials, his officers, his captains, and the commanders of his chariots and charioteers.

أَمَّا أَبْنَاءُ إِسْرَائِيلَ فَلَمْ يُسَخِّرْ سُلَيْمَانُ مِنْهُمْ أَحَداً، لأَنَّ مِنْهُمْ كَانَ يَتَأَلَّفُ جُنُودُهُ وَرِجَالُ حَاشِيَتِهِ وَأُمَرَاؤُهُ وَضُبَّاطُهُ وَقَادَةُ مَرْكَبَاتِهِ وَفُرْسَانُهُ،

Verse 23

They were also the chief officials in charge of Solomon’s projects—550 officials supervising those who did the work.

وَكَانَ عَدَدُ الْمُوَكَّلِينَ عَلَى الإِشْرَافِ عَلَى خِدْمَةِ الْعُمَّالِ الْمُسَخَّرِينَ لِتَنْفِيذِ أَعْمَالِ سُلَيْمَانَ خَمْسَ مِئَةٍ وَخَمْسِينَ رَجُلاً.

Verse 24

After Pharaoh’s daughter had come up from the City of David to the palace Solomon had built for her, he constructed the terraces.

وَبَعْدَ أَنِ انْتَقَلَتِ ابْنَةُ فِرْعَوْنَ مِنْ مَدِينَةِ دَاوُدَ إِلَى قَصْرِهَا الَّذِي بَنَاهُ لَهَا، عَمِلَ سُلَيْمَانُ عَلَى بِنَاءِ الْقَلْعَةِ.

Verse 25

Three times a year Solomon sacrificed burnt offerings and fellowship offerings on the altar he had built for the Lord, burning incense before the Lord along with them, and so fulfilled the temple obligations.

وَأَخَذَ سُلَيْمَانُ يُقَرِّبُ مُحْرَقَاتٍ وَذَبَائِحَ سَلامٍ عَلَى الْمَذْبَحِ الَّذِي بَنَاهُ لِلرَّبِّ ثَلاثَ مَرَّاتٍ فِي السَّنَةِ، كَمَا كَانَ يُحْرِقُ عَلَى الْمَذْبَحِ الَّذِي أَمَامَ الرَّبِّ. وَهَكَذَا أَتَمَّ بِنَاءَ الْهَيْكَلِ.

Verse 26

King Solomon also built ships at Ezion Geber, which is near Elath in Edom, on the shore of the Red Sea.^[j]

وَشَرَعَ سُلَيْمَانُ فِي بِنَاءِ سُفُنٍ فِي عِصْيُونَ جَابَرَ الْمُجَاوِرَةِ لأَيْلَةَ عَلَى شَاطِئِ الْبَحْرِ الأَحْمَرِ فِي أَرْضِ أَدُومَ،

Verse 27

And Hiram sent his men—sailors who knew the sea—to serve in the fleet with Solomon’s men.

فَأَرْسَلَ حِيرَامُ بَحَّارَتَهُ الْمُتَمَرِّسِينَ بِمَسَالِكِ الْبَحْرِ فِي تِلْكَ السُّفُنِ مَعَ بَحَّارَةِ سُلَيْمَانَ،

Verse 28

They sailed to Ophir and brought back 420 talents^[k] of gold, which they delivered to King Solomon.

فَبَلَغُوا أُوفِيرَ حَيْثُ جَلَبُوا مِنْ هُنَاكَ أَرْبَعَ مِئَةٍ وَعِشْرِينَ وَزْنَةً (نَحْوَ خَمْسَةَ عَشَرَ أَلْفاً وَمِئَةٍ وَعِشْرِينَ كِيلُو جْراماً) مِنَ الذَّهَبِ، حَمَلُوهَا إِلَى الْمَلِكِ سُلَيْمَانَ.