1 Kings 3

Solomon made an alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt and married his daughter. He brought her to the City of David until he finished building his palace and the temple of the Lord, and the wall around Jerusalem.

A tak nech sa deje čokoľvek, radujte sa v Pánovi. Musím to opakovať znova a znova, lebo v tej radosti je vaša sila.

The people, however, were still sacrificing at the high places, because a temple had not yet been built for the Name of the Lord.

A nedajte sa zmiasť zvodcami, čo ustavične brechajú ako psy, že sa máte dať obrezať.

Solomon showed his love for the Lord by walking according to the instructions given him by his father David, except that he offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places.

Božími deťmi nás predsa nerobí ten kúštik kože odrezaný z nášho tela, ale Duch, v ktorom slúžime Bohu, a chválime sa tým, čo pre nás urobil Ježiš Kristus.

The king went to Gibeon to offer sacrifices, for that was the most important high place, and Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on that altar.

Tým a iba tým sa máme chváliť! Napokon, keby Bohu stačil iba rodový pôvod a náboženská príslušnosť, kto by mohol mať u neho väčšiu prednosť ako ja?

At Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon during the night in a dream, and God said, “Ask for whatever you want me to give you.”

Narodil som sa z pravoverných židovských rodičov, ktorých rodokmeň siaha až k Benjamínovi, obrezaný som bol týždeň po narodení. Navyše som bol ako farizej vychovaný tak, aby som čo najprísnejšie dodržiaval zákon,

Solomon answered, “You have shown great kindness to your servant, my father David, because he was faithful to you and righteous and upright in heart. You have continued this great kindness to him and have given him a son to sit on his throne this very day.

a pri prenasledovaní kresťanov bol sotvakto horlivejší ako ja. Ak ide o spravodlivosť podľa zákona, nemožno mi nič vyčítať.

“Now, Lord my God, you have made your servant king in place of my father David. But I am only a little child and do not know how to carry out my duties.

Ale to všetko, na čom som si kedysi zakladal, stratilo pre mňa akúkoľvek cenu, keď som poznal Krista.

Your servant is here among the people you have chosen, a great people, too numerous to count or number.

V porovnaní s ním je mi všetko ostatné ničím a patriť jemu, získať ho a dôverovať mu je mi nadovšetko.

So give your servant a discerning heart to govern your people and to distinguish between right and wrong. For who is able to govern this great people of yours?”

Nespolieham sa už na vlastnú spravodlivosť, ktorá je zo zákona, ale iba na tú, ktorú mi dáva Kristus prostredníctvom viery.

The Lord was pleased that Solomon had asked for this.

Vzdať sa všetkého je jediná cesta, ako skutočne poznať Krista aj moc jeho vzkriesenia a pravdaže, aj jeho utrpenie,

So God said to him, “Since you have asked for this and not for long life or wealth for yourself, nor have asked for the death of your enemies but for discernment in administering justice,

lebo mať účasť na jeho slávnom zmŕtvychvstaní znamená najprv zakúsiť jeho umieranie a smrť.

I will do what you have asked. I will give you a wise and discerning heart, so that there will never have been anyone like you, nor will there ever be.

Nechcem tým o sebe tvrdiť, že som už dokonalý, to určite nie som. Ale neprestávam sa o tento cieľ usilovať, kým nebudem taký, akého ma Kristus chce mať.

Moreover, I will give you what you have not asked for—both wealth and honor—so that in your lifetime you will have no equal among kings.

Nie, milí bratia, ešte nie som taký, ale všetky svoje sily upínam na jediné: bez ohliadania sa do minulosti ženiem sa dopredu,

And if you walk in obedience to me and keep my decrees and commands as David your father did, I will give you a long life.”

k cieľu, aby som získal nebeskú odmenu -- život v Božej sláve. Veď k tomu nás Boh prostredníctvom Ježiša Krista povolal.

Then Solomon awoke—and he realized it had been a dream.

He returned to Jerusalem, stood before the ark of the Lord’s covenant and sacrificed burnt offerings and fellowship offerings. Then he gave a feast for all his court.

A Wise Ruling

Všetci, ktorí sme už vo svojej viere dorástli do dospelosti, zmýšľame podobne. Ak by ste mali ešte nejaké pochybnosti, Boh vám aj to časom objasní.

Now two prostitutes came to the king and stood before him.

Ale držme sa pevne pravdy, ktorú už poznáme.

One of them said, “Pardon me, my lord. This woman and I live in the same house, and I had a baby while she was there with me.

Milí bratia, vezmite si príklad zo mňa a z ľudí, ktorí žijú ako ja.

The third day after my child was born, this woman also had a baby. We were alone; there was no one in the house but the two of us.

Lebo už neraz som vám hovoril a teraz s plačom opakujem: Chráňte sa tých, ktorí o sebe tvrdia, že sú Kristovi, ale svojím životom ukazujú, že sú nepriateľmi Kristovho kríža.

“During the night this woman’s son died because she lay on him.

Ich cesta vedie do zahynutia, zbožňujú len svoj vlastný žalúdok, pýšia sa tým, za čo by sa mali hanbiť, a myslia iba na to, ako sa mať na svete dobre. Tí svoju večnosť prehrali.

So she got up in the middle of the night and took my son from my side while I your servant was asleep. She put him by her breast and put her dead son by my breast.

Ale naša pravá vlasť je tam, kde je Ježiš Kristus, a tešíme sa, že sa k nám odtiaľ vráti,

The next morning, I got up to nurse my son—and he was dead! But when I looked at him closely in the morning light, I saw that it wasn’t the son I had borne.”

aby premenil naše smrteľné telá a odial ich takou slávou, akou je odiate aj jeho telo. On je schopný to urobiť, lebo má moc nad všetkým.

The other woman said, “No! The living one is my son; the dead one is yours.”

But the first one insisted, “No! The dead one is yours; the living one is mine.” And so they argued before the king.

The king said, “This one says, ‘My son is alive and your son is dead,’ while that one says, ‘No! Your son is dead and mine is alive.’”

Then the king said, “Bring me a sword.” So they brought a sword for the king.

He then gave an order: “Cut the living child in two and give half to one and half to the other.”

The woman whose son was alive was deeply moved out of love for her son and said to the king, “Please, my lord, give her the living baby! Don’t kill him!”

But the other said, “Neither I nor you shall have him. Cut him in two!”

Then the king gave his ruling: “Give the living baby to the first woman. Do not kill him; she is his mother.”

When all Israel heard the verdict the king had given, they held the king in awe, because they saw that he had wisdom from God to administer justice.