列王纪上 10
Chinese Contemporary Bible (Simplified)
示巴女王拜访所罗门
10 示巴女王听说所罗门因耶和华而名声大震，便来用难题考问他。 2 她率领许多随从，用骆驼驮着香料、宝石和大量黄金到耶路撒冷晋见所罗门王，与所罗门谈论她心中的疑问。 3 所罗门王解答了她所有的问题，没有一样难得住他。 4 示巴女王见所罗门智慧非凡，又看见他建的宫殿、 5 席上的美味、入座的群臣、侍立一旁的仆人及其服装、酒政以及他在耶和华殿里献的燔祭，感到万分惊奇。
6 她对所罗门说：“我在本国听到的有关你的功业和智慧原来都是真的。 7 若不是亲眼目睹，我不会相信。事实上，我听到的还不到一半！你的智慧和财富远超过我听到的传闻。 8 你的臣仆能经常侍立在你面前聆听智慧之言，真有福气！ 9 你的上帝耶和华当受称颂！祂喜爱你，立你为以色列的王。因为祂永远爱以色列，所以立你为王，使你秉公行义。”
10 示巴女王将四吨黄金、大量香料和宝石献给所罗门王。此后，再无人像示巴女王那样献给所罗门王那么多香料。
11 希兰王的船只从俄斐运来黄金、大量的檀香木和宝石。 12 所罗门王用这些檀香木为耶和华的殿和王宫造栏杆，又为歌乐手制作琴瑟。此后，再没有人运来或见过这样的檀香木。
13 所罗门王除了厚赠示巴女王礼物以外，还满足了她的一切要求。之后，女王和随从就回示巴去了。
所罗门的财富
14 所罗门每年收到的黄金约二十三吨。 15 此外，还有商人、阿拉伯诸王和国中各总督送来的贡税。 16 所罗门用锤好的金子打造了二百面大盾牌，每面用七公斤金子； 17 又用锤好的金子打造了三百面小盾牌，每面用三点五公斤金子，全部存放在黎巴嫩林宫。
18 王又造了一个象牙宝座，外面用纯金包裹。 19 这宝座有六级台阶，靠背是圆形的，两旁有扶手，扶手两边各站着一头狮子。 20 六级台阶上共站着十二头狮子，每级台阶两端各站一头。这宝座举世无双。 21 所罗门王所有的杯子都是金的，黎巴嫩林宫里的所有器皿都是纯金的，没有一件是用银子造的，因为所罗门年间银子不算什么。 22 王有他施船队和希兰的船队一起出海，每三年就运回金银、象牙、猿猴和孔雀。
23 所罗门王的财富和智慧超过天下诸王。 24 天下的人都纷纷来朝见他，聆听上帝赐给他的智言慧语。 25 他们年年都带来礼物，有金银器皿、衣服、兵器、香料和骡马。
26 所罗门组建了战车和骑兵，有一千四百辆战车、一万二千名骑兵，驻扎在屯车城和他所在的耶路撒冷。 27 王使耶路撒冷的金银多如石头，使香柏木多如丘陵的无花果树。 28 所罗门的马匹都是由王室商队从埃及和古厄按定价买来的。 29 他们从埃及买来车马，每辆车六百块银子，每匹马一百五十块银子，他们也把车马卖给赫人诸王和亚兰诸王。
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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