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Dios visita otra vez a Salomón

(2 Cr 7:11-22)

Cuando Salomón terminó de construir el templo del SEÑOR, su propio palacio y todo lo que quería, el SEÑOR se le apareció a Salomón por segunda vez, al igual que había hecho en Gabaón. El SEÑOR le dijo:

«He escuchado tu oración y lo que me pediste que hiciera. Tú construiste este templo y yo lo hice un lugar santo. Así que yo seré honrado aquí para siempre. Lo cuidaré y me fijaré en él.

»En cuando a ti, si me sirves con honestidad y rectitud como David tu papá, me obedeces en todo lo que te he ordenado y cumples mis leyes y decretos, entonces yo confirmaré para siempre tu dinastía en Israel de acuerdo a la promesa que le hice a David tu papá, cuando le aseguré que siempre gobernaría un descendiente de él en el trono de Israel.

»Pero si ustedes y sus descendientes dejan de seguirme y se apartan de mí para servir y adorar a otros dioses, y ya no cumplen los mandamientos y leyes que les di, yo arrancaré a Israel de la tierra que les he dado y también arrojaré de mi vista el templo que consagré para que se dé honra a mi nombre. Israel se convertirá en objeto de burla y escarnio entre todas las naciones. Entonces este templo se convertirá en un montón de ruinas; todo el que pase quedará impresionado y dirá burlonamente: “¿Por qué le hizo el SEÑOR esto tan horrible a este país y a este templo?” Se le contestará: “Sucedió así porque ellos abandonaron al SEÑOR su Dios que sacó a sus antepasados de Egipto, y se aferraron a otros dioses, los adoraron y sirvieron. Por eso el SEÑOR hizo que les ocurriera este desastre”».

Otras construcciones de Salomón

(2 Cr 8:1-18)

10 Le llevó 20 años a Salomón construir el templo del SEÑOR y el palacio del rey. 11 Y después de 20 años el rey Salomón le dio 20 aldeas de Galilea a Hiram, rey de Tiro. Salomón le dio al rey Hiram estas aldeas porque Hiram le ayudó a construir el templo y el palacio. Hiram le dio a Salomón todo el cedro, pino y oro que él quería. 12 Hiram viajó desde Tiro a ver las aldeas que Salomón le había dado, pero cuando las vio, no le gustaron para nada, 13 y dijo: «¿Qué son estas aldeas que me diste, mi hermano?» Él llamó a ese territorio Cabul[a], y hasta el día de hoy esa región se llama así. 14 Hiram le había mandado al rey Salomón 3960 kilos de oro para la construcción del templo.

15 El rey Salomón obligó a trabajadores a estar a su servicio para la construcción del templo del SEÑOR y de su propio palacio. Después los usó para construir el Milo, el muro alrededor de la ciudad de Jerusalén y luego para reconstruir las ciudades de Jazor, Meguido y Guézer. 16 El faraón, rey de Egipto, había peleado contra la ciudad de Guézer y la había incendiado matando a los cananeos que vivían ahí. Salomón se casó con la hija del faraón y el faraón le dio esa ciudad a Salomón como regalo de bodas. 17 Salomón la reconstruyó y también construyó la ciudad de Bet Jorón de abajo. 18 El rey Salomón también hizo construir las ciudades de Balat y Tadmor en el desierto de Judea. 19 También construyó ciudades de almacenaje, cuarteles para sus carros, cuarteles para alojar la caballería y todo lo que Salomón quiso construir tanto en Jerusalén como en el Líbano y en todo el territorio que gobernaba.

20 A la gente que quedaba de los amorreos, hititas, ferezeos, heveos y jebuseos, los cuales no eran israelitas, 21 o sea a los descendientes de ellos que aun quedaban en el país y que los israelitas no habían podido destruir, Salomón los obligó a trabajos forzados como esclavos, y así siguen hasta el día de hoy. 22 Pero Salomón no obligó a ningún israelita a ser su esclavo, sino que los empleaba como soldados, comandantes y oficiales de los carros de combate y de la caballería.

23 Había 550 supervisores a cargo de los proyectos de Salomón. Ellos dirigían a la gente que realizaba el trabajo. 24 La hija del faraón se mudó de la Ciudad de David al palacio que Salomón construyó para ella. Luego él construyó el Milo.

25 Tres veces al año Salomón ofrecía sacrificios que deben quemarse completamente y ofrendas para festejar en el altar que construyó para el SEÑOR. El rey Salomón también quemaba incienso ante el SEÑOR. Así que conseguía lo que necesitaba para el templo.

26 El rey Salomón también construyó barcos en Ezión Guéber. Esta aldea está cerca de Elat, a la orilla del mar Rojo, en la tierra de Edom. 27 El rey Hiram tenía hombres muy entendidos en cuanto al mar que viajaban mucho en barcos. Él los mandó para servir en la flotilla de Salomón y trabajar junto a los hombres de Salomón. 28 Las naves de Salomón fueron a Ofir y sus barcos trajeron casi 14 000 kilos[b] de oro de Ofir para el rey Salomón.

Footnotes

  1. 9:13 Cabul La palabra Cabul suena como una frase que significa como si fuera nada.
  2. 9:28 14 000 kilos Textualmente 420 talentos. Ver tabla de pesas y medidas.

The Lord’s Response

When Solomon finished building the temple of the Lord,(A) the royal palace, and all that Solomon desired to do,(B) the Lord appeared to Solomon a second time just as He had appeared to him at Gibeon.(C) The Lord said to him:

I have heard your prayer and petition you have made before Me. I have consecrated this temple you have built, to put My name there forever;(D) My eyes and My heart will be there at all times.(E)

As for you, if you walk before Me as your father David walked, with a heart of integrity and in what is right, doing everything I have commanded you, and if you keep My statutes and ordinances,(F) I will establish your royal throne over Israel forever, as I promised your father David: You will never fail to have a man on the throne of Israel.(G)

If you or your sons turn away from following Me and do not keep My commands—My statutes that I have set before you—and if you go and serve other gods and worship them,(H) I will cut off Israel from the land I gave them,(I) and I will reject[a] the temple I have sanctified for My name.(J) Israel will become an object of scorn and ridicule among all the peoples.(K) Though this temple is now exalted,[b] everyone who passes by will be appalled and will mock.[c] They will say: Why did the Lord do this to this land and this temple?(L) Then they will say: Because they abandoned the Lord their God who brought their ancestors out of the land of Egypt. They clung to other gods and worshiped and served them. Because of this, the Lord brought all this ruin on them.(M)

King Hiram’s 20 Towns

10 At the end of 20 years during which Solomon had built the two houses, the Lord’s temple and the royal palace(N) 11 Hiram king of Tyre(O) having supplied him with cedar and cypress logs and gold(P) for his every wish(Q)—King Solomon gave Hiram 20 towns in the land of Galilee. 12 So Hiram went out from Tyre to look over the towns that Solomon had given him, but he was not pleased with them. 13 So he said, “What are these towns you’ve given me, my brother?” So he called them the Land of Cabul,[d] as they are still called today.(R) 14 Now Hiram had sent the king 9,000 pounds[e] of gold.(S)

Solomon’s Forced Labor

15 This is the account of the forced labor(T) that King Solomon had imposed to build the Lord’s temple, his own palace, the supporting terraces,(U) the wall of Jerusalem,(V) and Hazor,(W) Megiddo,(X) and Gezer.(Y) 16 Pharaoh king of Egypt had attacked and captured Gezer. He then burned it down, killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and gave it as a dowry to his daughter, Solomon’s wife.(Z) 17 Then Solomon rebuilt Gezer, Lower Beth-horon,(AA) 18 Baalath,(AB) Tamar[f][g] in the Wilderness of Judah, 19 all the storage cities that belonged to Solomon, the chariot cities,(AC) the cavalry cities,(AD) and whatever Solomon desired to build(AE) in Jerusalem, Lebanon, or anywhere else in the land of his dominion.

20 As for all the peoples who remained of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, who were not Israelites— 21 their descendants who remained in the land after them, those whom the Israelites were unable to completely destroy(AF)—Solomon imposed forced labor on them; it is this way until today.(AG) 22 But Solomon did not consign the Israelites to slavery;(AH) they were soldiers, his servants, his commanders, his captains, and commanders of his chariots and his cavalry. 23 These were the deputies(AI) who were over Solomon’s work: 550 who ruled over the people doing the work.(AJ)

Solomon’s Other Activities

24 Pharaoh’s daughter moved from the city of David(AK) to the house that Solomon had built for her;(AL) he then built the terraces.(AM)

25 Three times a year Solomon offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings on the altar he had built for the Lord, and he burned incense with them in the Lord’s presence.(AN) So he completed the temple.(AO)

26 King Solomon put together a fleet of ships at Ezion-geber,(AP) which is near Eloth on the shore of the Red Sea in the land of Edom. 27 With the fleet, Hiram sent his servants, experienced seamen, along with Solomon’s servants. 28 They went to Ophir(AQ) and acquired gold there—16 tons[h]—and delivered it to Solomon.(AR)

Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 9:7 Lit send from My presence
  2. 1 Kings 9:8 Some ancient versions read temple will become a ruin
  3. 1 Kings 9:8 Lit hiss
  4. 1 Kings 9:13 = Like Nothing
  5. 1 Kings 9:14 Lit 120 talents
  6. 1 Kings 9:18 Alt Hb traditions, LXX, Syr, Tg, Vg read Tadmor; 2Ch 8:4
  7. 1 Kings 9:18 Tamar was a city in southern Judah; Ezk 47:19; 48:28.
  8. 1 Kings 9:28 Lit 420 talents

The Lord Appears to Solomon(A)

When Solomon had finished(B) building the temple of the Lord and the royal palace, and had achieved all he had desired to do, the Lord appeared(C) to him a second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon. The Lord said to him:

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

“As for you, if you walk before me faithfully with integrity of heart(G) and uprightness, as David(H) your father did, and do all I command and observe my decrees and laws,(I) I will establish(J) your royal throne over Israel forever, as I promised David your father when I said, ‘You shall never fail(K) to have a successor on the throne of Israel.’

“But if you[a] or your descendants turn away(L) from me and do not observe the commands and decrees I have given you[b] and go off to serve other gods(M) and worship them, then I will cut off Israel from the land(N) I have given them and will reject this temple I have consecrated for my Name.(O) Israel will then become a byword(P) and an object of ridicule(Q) among all peoples. This temple will become a heap of rubble. All[c] who pass by will be appalled(R) and will scoff and say, ‘Why has the Lord done such a thing to this land and to this temple?’(S) People will answer,(T) ‘Because they have forsaken(U) 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(V) on them.’”

Solomon’s Other Activities(W)

10 At the end of twenty years, during which Solomon built these two buildings—the temple of the Lord and the royal palace— 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(X) he wanted. 12 But when Hiram went from Tyre to see the towns that Solomon had given him, he was not pleased with them. 13 “What kind of towns are these you have given me, my brother?” he asked. And he called them the Land of Kabul,[d](Y) a name they have to this day. 14 Now Hiram had sent to the king 120 talents[e] of gold.(Z)

15 Here is the account of the forced labor King Solomon conscripted(AA) to build the Lord’s temple, his own palace, the terraces,[f](AB) the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor,(AC) Megiddo and Gezer.(AD) 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,(AE) Solomon’s wife. 17 And Solomon rebuilt Gezer.) He built up Lower Beth Horon,(AF) 18 Baalath,(AG) and Tadmor[g] in the desert, within his land, 19 as well as all his store cities(AH) and the towns for his chariots(AI) and for his horses[h]—whatever he desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon and throughout all the territory he ruled.

20 There were still people left from the Amorites, Hittites,(AJ) Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites(AK) (these peoples were not Israelites). 21 Solomon conscripted the descendants(AL) of all these peoples remaining in the land—whom the Israelites could not exterminate[i](AM)—to serve as slave labor,(AN) as it is to this day. 22 But Solomon did not make slaves(AO) 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. 23 They were also the chief officials(AP) in charge of Solomon’s projects—550 officials supervising those who did the work.

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

25 Three(AS) 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.

26 King Solomon also built ships(AT) at Ezion Geber,(AU) which is near Elath(AV) in Edom, on the shore of the Red Sea.[j] 27 And Hiram sent his men—sailors(AW) who knew the sea—to serve in the fleet with Solomon’s men. 28 They sailed to Ophir(AX) and brought back 420 talents[k] of gold,(AY) which they delivered to King Solomon.

Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 9:6 The Hebrew is plural.
  2. 1 Kings 9:6 The Hebrew is plural.
  3. 1 Kings 9:8 See some Septuagint manuscripts, Old Latin, Syriac, Arabic and Targum; Hebrew And though this temple is now imposing, all
  4. 1 Kings 9:13 Kabul sounds like the Hebrew for good-for-nothing.
  5. 1 Kings 9:14 That is, about 4 1/2 tons or about 4 metric tons
  6. 1 Kings 9:15 Or the Millo; also in verse 24
  7. 1 Kings 9:18 The Hebrew may also be read Tamar.
  8. 1 Kings 9:19 Or charioteers
  9. 1 Kings 9:21 The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the Lord, often by totally destroying them.
  10. 1 Kings 9:26 Or the Sea of Reeds
  11. 1 Kings 9:28 That is, about 16 tons or about 14 metric tons