列王纪上 10
Chinese New Version (Simplified)
示巴女王来访所罗门(A)
10 示巴女王听到所罗门因耶和华的名所得的名声，就来要用难题试试他。 2 她带着大批随员到耶路撒冷来，又有骆驼驮着香料、许多金子和宝石。她来到所罗门那里，就把她心里所有的难题都对他说出来。 3 所罗门把她所有的问题都给她解说明白，没有一件事难倒王，使王不能回答她的。 4 示巴女王看见所罗门的一切智慧和他建造的宫殿、 5 桌上的食物、臣仆的座位、仆人的侍候、他们的服饰、王的酒政和王在耶和华的殿献上的燔祭，就惊奇得不知所措。 6 于是她对王说：“我在本国听见有关你的事和你的智慧，原来都是真的； 7 以前我并不相信那些话，等到我来了，亲眼看见，才知道人告诉我的还不到一半；你的智慧和财富，超过我所听闻的。 8 属你的人是有福的，你的这些臣仆是有福的，他们常常侍立在你面前，聆听你的智慧。 9 耶和华你的 神是应当称颂的！他喜悦你，使你坐在以色列的王位上；因为耶和华永远喜爱以色列，所以立你作王，要你秉行公义。”
示巴女王赠送的礼物(B)
10 于是示巴女王把约四千公斤金子、大批香料和宝石送给王；以后奉来的香料再也没有像示巴女王送给所罗门的那么多。 11 此外，从俄斐运金子来的希兰船队，又从俄斐运了大批檀香木和宝石来。 12 王用檀香木为耶和华的殿和王宫做栏杆，又为歌唱的做琴瑟。以后再也没有这样的檀香木运来，也没有人看见过，直到今日。
所罗门的回礼(C)
13 所罗门王照着示巴女王所愿所求的一切赐给她，另外又厚厚地馈赠她。于是女王和她的臣仆都返回本国去了。
所罗门的财富与智慧(D)
14 所罗门每年收入的金子重两万三千公斤。 15 另外，还有从商人和行商的课税，阿拉伯诸王和国内省长的收入。 16 所罗门王用锤炼好的金子做了二百面大盾牌，每一面大盾牌用金子七公斤； 17 又用锤炼好的金子做了三百面小盾牌，每一面小盾牌用金子两公斤。王把这些盾牌都放在黎巴嫩林宫。 18 王又做了一个象牙大宝座，贴上了精金。 19 那宝座有六级台阶，宝座的后背有一个圆顶，座处的两旁有一个扶手。扶手的旁边各有一只狮子站立着。 20 在六级台阶上共有十二只狮子站着，左边一只，右边一只。在列国中都没有这样做过。 21 所罗门的一切饮器都是金子做的；黎巴嫩林宫里的一切器皿也都是精金做的，没有用银子做的；原来在所罗门王的时代，银子算不得甚么。 22 因为王有他施船队与希兰船队一同在海上航行。他施船队三年一次运来金银、象牙、猿猴和孔雀。
23 所罗门王的财富和智慧，超过了世界上所有的君王。 24 世上所有的人都要求晋见所罗门，聆听 神赋予他心中的智慧。 25 他们各人都带着自己的贡物而来，就是银器、金器、衣裳、军械、香料、马和骡等，年年都是这样。
所罗门的兵力与财富(E)
26 所罗门聚集战车和骑兵，他有战车一千四百辆，骑兵一万二千人，安置在屯车城和耶路撒冷，就是与王在一起。 27 王在耶路撒冷使银子好象石头一样，使香柏木好象平原的桑树那么多。 28 所罗门的马是从埃及和古厄运出来的，是王的商人从古厄按着定价买来的。 29 从埃及运上来的车，每辆银子六千八百四十克，马每匹一千七百一十克。赫人众王和亚兰（“亚兰”即今天“叙利亚”一带的地方）诸王也都是这样经他们的手买来的。
1 Kings 10
New Catholic Bible
Chapter 10
The Queen of Sheba’s Visit.[a] 1 When the Queen of Sheba heard about Solomon’s reputation, she came to test him with difficult questions.[b] 2 She came to Jerusalem with a very large caravan, with camels carrying spices and large quantities of gold and precious stones. When she arrived upon her visit to Solomon, she told him everything that was on her mind. 3 Solomon answered all of her questions. There were no hidden things that Solomon could not tell her.
4 When the Queen of Sheba saw all of Solomon’s wisdom, the palace that he had built, 5 the food on his table, the assembly of his servants, the attendance of his ministers in their robes and their cupbearers, and the way that he went up into the temple of the Lord, she was overwhelmed. 6 She said to the king, “The report that I heard in my own land concerning your actions and your wisdom are true. 7 However, I could not believe the report until I had come and seen it with my own eyes. They did not tell me the half of it. Your wisdom and your wealth exceed the report that I heard. 8 Happy are your men and happy are these, your servants, who always stand before you and hear your wisdom. 9 Blessed be the Lord, your God, who delights in you, placing you upon the throne of Israel. The Lord of Israel has established you as king to exercise justice and righteousness because he has loved you forever.”
10 She then gave the king one hundred and twenty talents of gold, great quantities of spices, and precious stones. A more abundant quantity of spices never arrived than that which the Queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.
11 Furthermore, the ships of Hiram that had brought the gold from Ophir also brought large quantities of almug wood and precious stones from Ophir. 12 The king made steps of almug wood for the temple of the Lord and for the king’s palace as well as harps and stringed instruments for accompanying singers. Almug wood such as this has not arrived or been seen up to the present day.
13 King Solomon gave the Queen of Sheba whatever she desired. He gave her whatever she asked for in addition to what King Solomon had already given her. She then returned, going to her own country along with her servants.
14 Solomon’s Wealth.[c]The weight of the gold that Solomon would receive in a year was six hundred, sixty-six talents 15 in addition to what he received from merchants and the profits from trade, as well as from the Arabian kings and the governors of the land.
16 King Solomon made two hundred shields from beaten gold. Each of the shields contained six hundred shekels of gold. 17 He also made three hundred shields from beaten gold. Three minas of gold went into each shield. The king placed them in the palace built with the wood of Lebanon. 18 The king also made an ivory throne and had it overlaid with fine gold. 19 The throne had six steps, and the back of the throne had a rounded top. On either side of the seat there were armrests, and there was a lion standing alongside each of the armrests. 20 There were twelve lions standing upon the six steps, with one on each side of the step. Nothing like this had ever been made in any other kingdom.
21 All of King Solomon’s goblets were made of gold, and all of the other utensils in the palace made from Lebanon wood were also made from the finest gold. Nothing was made from silver, for it was not considered to be worth anything in Solomon’s time.
22 The king also had ships of Tarshish at sea along with Hiram’s ships. Once every three years the ships of Tarshish would return, bringing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and baboons with them. 23 King Solomon was greater in wealth and wisdom than all of the other kings on the earth.
24 Solomon’s Acclaim. Everyone on the earth sought to visit Solomon to listen to his wisdom which God had placed in his heart. 25 Year after year, everyone brought him presents of things made from silver, things made from gold, garments, armor, spices, horses, and donkeys.
26 Solomon’s Chariots and Horses. Solomon collected chariots and horsemen. He had one thousand, four hundred chariots and twelve thousand horsemen. He stationed them in cities and with the king in Jerusalem.
27 The king made silver as common as stones in Jerusalem. Cedar became as common as the sycamore that abounds in the Shephelah.[d] 28 Solomon brought horses from Egypt and Cilicia. The king’s merchants bought them in Cilicia. 29 They imported chariots from Egypt that cost six hundred silver shekels and horses that cost one hundred and fifty. They also exported them to all of the Hittite and Aramean kings.
Footnotes
- 1 Kings 10:1 Solomon’s reputation drew foreign rulers. The prophet Isaiah (60:6) will use the memory of the visit of the Queen of Sheba (Arabia) to exalt Jerusalem as spiritual capital of all peoples in Messianic times; it is due to Isaiah that the queen plays a part in our Epiphany liturgy. Our Lord will also recall her in his comparison of himself and Solomon (Mt 12:42).
- 1 Kings 10:1 The kingdom of Sheba was located in the southeastern part of the Arabian peninsula (this explains our Lord’s reference to the “queen of the south” in Mt 12:42; Lk 11:31); in fact, however, the visitor was probably the queen of a Sheban colony in northern Arabia.
- 1 Kings 10:14 God was generous to Solomon and rewarded him with enormous wealth and power because when presented with the opportunity, he had humbly asked for wisdom (1 Ki 3:13).
- 1 Kings 10:27 Shephelah: the hilly region between the mountains of Judea and the Mediterranean.
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