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示巴女王觐所罗门

示巴女王听见所罗门的名声,就来到耶路撒冷,要用难解的话试问所罗门。跟随她的人甚多,又有骆驼驮着香料、宝石和许多金子。她来见了所罗门,就把心里所有的对所罗门都说出来。 所罗门将她所问的都答上了,没有一句不明白不能答的。 示巴女王见所罗门的智慧,和他所建造的宫室, 席上的珍馐美味,群臣分列而坐,仆人两旁侍立,以及他们的衣服装饰,酒政和酒政的衣服装饰,又见他上耶和华殿的台阶,就诧异得神不守舍, 对王说:“我在本国里所听见论到你的事和你的智慧实在是真的! 我先不信那些话,及至我来,亲眼见了,才知道你的大智慧,人所告诉我的还不到一半。你的实迹越过我所听见的名声。 你的群臣、你的仆人常侍立在你面前听你智慧的话是有福的! 耶和华你的神是应当称颂的!他喜悦你,使你坐他的国位,为耶和华你的神做王。因为你的神爱以色列人,要永远坚立他们,所以立你做他们的王,使你秉公行义。”

于是示巴女王将一百二十他连得金子和宝石,与极多的香料送给所罗门王。她送给王的香料,以后再没有这样的。 10 希兰的仆人和所罗门的仆人从俄斐运了金子来,也运了檀香木[a]和宝石来。 11 王用檀香木为耶和华殿和王宫做台,又为歌唱的人做琴瑟;犹大地从来没有见过这样的。 12 所罗门王按示巴女王所带来的还她礼物,另外照她一切所要所求的,都送给她。于是女王和她臣仆转回本国去了。

所罗门之丰富

13 所罗门每年所得的金子共有六百六十六他连得, 14 另外还有商人所进的金子,并且阿拉伯诸王与属国的省长都带金银给所罗门 15 所罗门王用锤出来的金子打成挡牌二百面,每面用金子六百舍客勒, 16 又用锤出来的金子打成盾牌三百面,每面用金子三百舍客勒,都放在黎巴嫩林宫里。 17 王用象牙制造一个大宝座,用精金包裹。 18 宝座有六层台阶,又有金脚凳,与宝座相连。宝座两旁有扶手,靠近扶手有两个狮子站立。 19 六层台阶上有十二个狮子站立,每层有两个,左边一个,右边一个。在列国中没有这样做的。 20 所罗门王一切的饮器都是金的,黎巴嫩林宫里的一切器皿都是精金的,所罗门年间银子算不了什么。 21 因为王的船只与希兰的仆人一同往他施去,他施船只三年一次装载金银、象牙、猿猴、孔雀回来。

列王咸欲听其哲言

22 所罗门王的财宝与智慧胜过天下的列王。 23 普天下的王都求见所罗门,要听神赐给他智慧的话。 24 他们各带贡物,就是金器、银器、衣服、军械、香料、骡马,每年有一定之例。 25 所罗门有套车的马四千棚,有马兵一万二千,安置在屯车的城邑和耶路撒冷,就是王那里。 26 所罗门统管诸王,从大河到非利士地,直到埃及的边界。 27 王在耶路撒冷使银子多如石头,香柏木多如高原的桑树。 28 有人从埃及和各国为所罗门赶马群来。

所罗门卒其子罗波安继位

29 所罗门其余的事,自始至终,不都写在先知拿单的书上和示罗亚希雅的预言书上,并先见易多尼八儿子耶罗波安的默示书上吗? 30 所罗门耶路撒冷以色列众人的王共四十年。 31 所罗门与他列祖同睡,葬在他父大卫城里。他儿子罗波安接续他做王。

Footnotes

  1. 历代志下 9:10 或作:乌木。下同。

Solomon and the Queen of Sheba

Now the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, and she came to Jerusalem to test Solomon with hard questions, with much wealth and camels, bearing spices and much gold and precious stones. And she came to Solomon and told him all that was on her mind.[a] And Solomon answered all her questions.[b] Not a word was hidden from Solomon that he did not answer for her. When the queen of Sheba saw the wisdom of Solomon and the house he had built, and the food of his table, and the position of his officers, the duty of his servants and their clothing, his cupbearers and their clothing, and his burnt offerings that he offered at the house of Yahweh, there was no longer any breath[c] in her. And she said to the king, “The word which I heard in my land concerning your words and your wisdom is true, but I did not believe their words until I came and saw with my own eyes. And behold, half the greatness of your wisdom was not reported to me; you surpass the rumors that I had heard. Blessed are your men, and blessed are these your servants who stand before you regularly and hear your wisdom! Blessed be Yahweh your God who took delight in you, to put you on his throne as king for Yahweh your God! Because your God loved Israel, he established him forever and has put you over them as king to do justice and righteousness!” And she gave to the king one hundred and twenty talents of gold and a very great amount of spices and precious stones. And there were no spices such as those that the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.

10 Moreover the servants of Hiram and the servants of Solomon who brought gold from Ophir brought algum wood and precious stones. 11 And the king made steps for the house of Yahweh and the house of the king, and lyres and harps for the singers from the algum wood. And there was not seen anything like them before in the land of Judah. 12 Now King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba every desired thing she asked, besides what she had brought to the king. Then she turned and went to her land, she and her servants.

Solomon’s Great Wealth

13 And it happened that the weight of the gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and sixty-six talents of gold, 14 besides the gold and silver the traders and merchants brought, and all the kings of Arabia and the governors of the land brought. 15 And King Solomon made two hundred shields of beaten gold; six hundred shekels of beaten gold went into each shield. 16 And he made three hundred small shields of beaten gold; three hundred shekels went into each small shield. And the king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon. 17 And the king made a large ivory throne and overlaid it with pure gold. 18 And the throne had six steps, and a footstool of gold was attached to the throne. And there were armrests on each side.[d] And by the seat[e] were two lions standing beside the armrests. 19 And twelve lions were standing there on each of the six steps on each end.[f] And there was nothing like it made in all the kingdom. 20 And all the drinking vessels of King Solomon were of gold, and all the vessels of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were of pure gold. Silver was not valued as anything in the days of Solomon. 21 For the ships of the king went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram.[g] Once every three years[h] the ships of Tarshish came carrying gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.

22 Thus King Solomon was greater than all the kings of the earth in wealth and wisdom. 23 And all the kings of the earth sought the face of Solomon to hear his wisdom that God put in his heart. 24 And each of them brought his gifts, objects of silver, objects of gold, cloaks, myrrh, spices, horses, and mules, as an amount year by year. 25 And Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen. And he stationed them in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem. 26 And he ruled over all the kings from the River[i] to the land of the Philistines, to the boundary of Egypt. 27 And the king made silver in Jerusalem as stones, and he made cedar as the sycamore trees that are in the Shephelah for abundance. 28 And the horses were imported from Egypt and from all lands for Solomon.

The Death of Solomon

29 As for the remainder of the words of Solomon from the first to the last, are they not written in the chronicles[j] of Nathan the prophet and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer, concerning Jeroboam the son of Nebat? 30 And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years. 31 And Solomon slept with his ancestors,[k] and they buried him in the city of David his father. And Rehoboam his son reigned in his place.

Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 9:1 Literally “in her heart”
  2. 2 Chronicles 9:2 Literally “made known to her all her words”
  3. 2 Chronicles 9:4 Or “spirit”
  4. 2 Chronicles 9:18 Literally “from this and from that”
  5. 2 Chronicles 9:18 Literally “the place of sitting”
  6. 2 Chronicles 9:19 Literally “from this and from that”
  7. 2 Chronicles 9:21 This is the spelling in Hebrew, though many translations have “Hiram”
  8. 2 Chronicles 9:21 Literally “for three years”
  9. 2 Chronicles 9:26 That is, the Euphrates
  10. 2 Chronicles 9:29 Or “words”
  11. 2 Chronicles 9:31 Or “fathers”