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耶和華再次向所羅門顯現(A)

所羅門建造完了耶和華的殿、王宮和所羅門渴想建造的一切以後, 耶和華就第二次向所羅門顯現,像先前在基遍向他顯現一樣。 耶和華對他說:“你在我面前所作的禱告和懇求,我都已經聽見了。你建造的這殿,我已經把它分別為聖,要使我的名永遠留在那裡;我的眼和我的心也必常在那裡。 至於你,如果你像你父親大衛那樣,存誠實和正直的心在我面前行事為人,遵行我一切所吩咐你的,謹守我的律例和典章, 我就必堅固你統治以色列的國位,直到永遠,正如我應許你父親大衛說:‘你的子孫,總不斷有人坐以色列的王位。 你們或是你們的子孫,若是轉去不跟從我,不遵守我賜給你們的誡命和律例,去事奉別的神,敬拜他們, 我就必把以色列人從我賜給他們的這地上剪除,甚至為自己的名分別為聖的這殿,我也必從我面前把它丟棄不顧,使以色列人在萬族中成為笑談和譏笑的對象。 這殿必成為廢墟(按照《馬索拉文本》,“成為廢墟”應作“甚高”;現參照《敘利亞譯本》翻譯),經過的人都必驚訝,取笑說:耶和華為甚麼向這地和這殿這樣作啊? 人要回答說:是因為他們離棄了那把他們的列祖從埃及地領出來的耶和華他們的 神,去親近別的神,敬拜他們,事奉他們,因此耶和華使這一切災禍臨到他們。’”

所羅門以二十座城回報希蘭

10 所羅門用了二十年的時間來建造耶和華的殿和王宮這兩座建築物。 11 因為推羅王希蘭曾照著所羅門所喜愛的,以香柏木、松木和金子幫助他,於是所羅門王把加利利地的二十座城給了希蘭。 12 希蘭從推羅出來,看看所羅門給他的這些城。他不喜歡這些城, 13 他說:“我的兄弟啊,這些就是你送給我的城嗎?”於是他給這些城起名叫迦步勒,直到今日。 14 希蘭送給所羅門約有四千公斤金子。

所羅門其他建樹與功績(B)

15 這是所羅門王徵召服勞役的建築耶和華的殿和他自己的王宮,以及米羅、耶路撒冷的城牆、夏瑣、米吉多和基色的記錄。 16 先前埃及王法老上來攻取基色,放火燒城,殺了住在城裡的迦南人,把城送給自己的女兒、所羅門的妻子作嫁妝。 17 所以所羅門重建基色、下伯.和崙、 18 巴拉和在猶大地曠野裡的他瑪, 19 以及屬於所羅門所有的一切積貨城、屯車城、馬兵城,與所羅門在耶路撒冷、黎巴嫩和他統治的各地他喜愛建造的。 20 所有亞摩利人、赫人、比利洗人、希未人和耶布斯人餘下的人,他們不是以色列人。 21 他們的子孫仍然留在那地,以色列人不能滅絕他們。於是所羅門徵召他們作苦工的奴僕,直到今日。 22 至於以色列人,所羅門卻沒有使他們作奴僕,而是作他的戰士、臣僕、統領、軍長、戰車長和騎兵長。

23 所羅門有督工五百五十人,負責管理作工的人和監督工程。

24 法老的女兒從大衛城搬到所羅門為她建造的宮裡以後,所羅門才重建米羅。

25 所羅門每年三次在他為耶和華建造的祭壇上獻上燔祭和平安祭;又在耶和華面前的壇上燒香,這樣,他完成了建殿的工程。

26 所羅門王又在以東地、紅海邊,靠近以祿的以旬.迦別,建造船隊。 27 希蘭派遣他船隊的僕人,就是熟悉航海的船員,與所羅門的僕人一同航海。 28 他們到達了俄斐,從那裡取得黃金約有一萬四千公斤,運到所羅門王那裡。

耶和华再次向所罗门显现(A)

所罗门建造完了耶和华的殿、王宫和所罗门渴想建造的一切以后, 耶和华就第二次向所罗门显现,像先前在基遍向他显现一样。 耶和华对他说:“你在我面前所作的祷告和恳求,我都已经听见了。你建造的这殿,我已经把它分别为圣,要使我的名永远留在那里;我的眼和我的心也必常在那里。 至于你,如果你像你父亲大卫那样,存诚实和正直的心在我面前行事为人,遵行我一切所吩咐你的,谨守我的律例和典章, 我就必坚固你统治以色列的国位,直到永远,正如我应许你父亲大卫说:‘你的子孙,总不断有人坐以色列的王位。 你们或是你们的子孙,若是转去不跟从我,不遵守我赐给你们的诫命和律例,去事奉别的神,敬拜他们, 我就必把以色列人从我赐给他们的这地上剪除,甚至为自己的名分别为圣的这殿,我也必从我面前把它丢弃不顾,使以色列人在万族中成为笑谈和讥笑的对象。 这殿必成为废墟(按照《马索拉文本》,“成为废墟”应作“甚高”;现参照《叙利亚译本》翻译),经过的人都必惊讶,取笑说:耶和华为甚么向这地和这殿这样作啊? 人要回答说:是因为他们离弃了那把他们的列祖从埃及地领出来的耶和华他们的 神,去亲近别的神,敬拜他们,事奉他们,因此耶和华使这一切灾祸临到他们。’”

所罗门以二十座城回报希兰

10 所罗门用了二十年的时间来建造耶和华的殿和王宫这两座建筑物。 11 因为推罗王希兰曾照着所罗门所喜爱的,以香柏木、松木和金子帮助他,于是所罗门王把加利利地的二十座城给了希兰。 12 希兰从推罗出来,看看所罗门给他的这些城。他不喜欢这些城, 13 他说:“我的兄弟啊,这些就是你送给我的城吗?”于是他给这些城起名叫迦步勒,直到今日。 14 希兰送给所罗门约有四千公斤金子。

所罗门其他建树与功绩(B)

15 这是所罗门王征召服劳役的建筑耶和华的殿和他自己的王宫,以及米罗、耶路撒冷的城墙、夏琐、米吉多和基色的记录。 16 先前埃及王法老上来攻取基色,放火烧城,杀了住在城里的迦南人,把城送给自己的女儿、所罗门的妻子作嫁妆。 17 所以所罗门重建基色、下伯.和仑、 18 巴拉和在犹大地旷野里的他玛, 19 以及属于所罗门所有的一切积货城、屯车城、马兵城,与所罗门在耶路撒冷、黎巴嫩和他统治的各地他喜爱建造的。 20 所有亚摩利人、赫人、比利洗人、希未人和耶布斯人余下的人,他们不是以色列人。 21 他们的子孙仍然留在那地,以色列人不能灭绝他们。于是所罗门征召他们作苦工的奴仆,直到今日。 22 至于以色列人,所罗门却没有使他们作奴仆,而是作他的战士、臣仆、统领、军长、战车长和骑兵长。

23 所罗门有督工五百五十人,负责管理作工的人和监督工程。

24 法老的女儿从大卫城搬到所罗门为她建造的宫里以后,所罗门才重建米罗。

25 所罗门每年三次在他为耶和华建造的祭坛上献上燔祭和平安祭;又在耶和华面前的坛上烧香,这样,他完成了建殿的工程。

26 所罗门王又在以东地、红海边,靠近以禄的以旬.迦别,建造船队。 27 希兰派遣他船队的仆人,就是熟悉航海的船员,与所罗门的仆人一同航海。 28 他们到达了俄斐,从那里取得黄金约有一万四千公斤,运到所罗门王那里。

耶和华再次向所罗门显现

所罗门建完耶和华的殿、自己的王宫和所有要建的建筑后, 耶和华像在基遍一样再次向他显现, 对他说:“我听了你的祷告和祈求。我已使你建的殿成为圣洁之地,让我的名永在其中,我会一直眷顾这殿。 如果你像你父亲大卫一样存诚实正直的心事奉我,遵行我的一切吩咐,谨守我的律例和典章, 我必使你的王位在以色列永远稳固,正如我曾向你父亲大卫应许要使他的王朝永不中断。

“然而,如果你们及你们的子孙离弃我,不守我的诫命和律例,去供奉、祭拜别的神明, 我必把以色列人从我赐给他们的土地上铲除,并离弃我为自己的名而使之圣洁的这殿,使以色列人在万民中成为笑柄,被人嘲讽。 这殿虽然宏伟,但将来经过的人必惊讶,讥笑说,‘耶和华为什么这样对待这地方和这殿呢?’ 人们会回答,‘因为他们背弃曾领他们祖先离开埃及的耶和华——他们的上帝,去追随、祭拜、供奉别的神明,所以耶和华把这一切灾祸降在他们身上。’”

所罗门的事迹

10 所罗门用二十年的时间兴建了耶和华的殿和自己的王宫。 11 泰尔王希兰供应了所罗门所需要的一切香柏木、松木和黄金,所罗门王就把加利利一带的二十座城送给他。 12 希兰从泰尔去视察这些城,然后满心不悦地对所罗门说: 13 “兄弟啊,你送给我的是什么城邑呀?”因此,他称这个地区为迦步勒[a],沿用至今。 14 希兰供应了所罗门王约四吨金子。

15 所罗门征召劳役兴建耶和华的殿、自己的王宫、米罗堡和耶路撒冷的城墙以及夏琐、米吉多和基色。 16 从前埃及王法老攻陷基色,火烧全城,杀了城内的迦南人,把基色赐予女儿,即所罗门之妻作嫁妆。 17 所罗门现在重建基色、下伯·和仑、 18 巴拉和境内沙漠地区的达莫。 19 他还建造了所有的储货城、屯车城、养马城和计划在耶路撒冷、黎巴嫩及全国兴建的城邑。

20 当时国中有亚摩利人、赫人、比利洗人、希未人和耶布斯人的后裔, 21 以色列人没能灭绝这些外族人,所罗门让他们服劳役,至今如此。 22 所罗门王没有让以色列人服劳役,而是让他们做战士、官长、统帅、将领、战车长和骑兵长。 23 他还任命五百五十名监工负责监管工人。

24 法老的女儿从大卫城迁到为她建造的宫殿以后,所罗门动工兴建米罗堡。 25 耶和华的殿落成以后,所罗门每年三次在他为耶和华筑的坛上献燔祭、平安祭并在耶和华面前烧香。

26 所罗门王在以东境内的红海边、靠近以禄的以旬·迦别制造船只。 27 希兰派有经验的水手与所罗门的水手一起出海, 28 从俄斐为所罗门王运回了十四吨黄金。

Footnotes

  1. 9:13 迦步勒”希伯来文的意思为“没有价值”。

When Solomon finished the building of the Lord’s house and the king’s house, and all he desired and was pleased to do,

The Lord appeared to Solomon the second time, as He had appeared to him at Gibeon.

The Lord told him, I have heard your prayer and supplication which you have made before Me; I have hallowed this house which you have built, and I have put My Name [and My Presence] there forever. My eyes and My heart shall be there perpetually.

And if you will walk before Me, as David your father walked, in integrity of heart and uprightness, doing according to all that I have commanded you, keeping My statutes and My precepts,

Then I will establish your royal throne over Israel forever, as I promised David your father, saying, There shall not fail you [to have] a man upon the throne of Israel.

But if you turn away from following Me, you or your children, and will not keep My commandments and My statutes which I have set before you but go and serve other gods and worship them,

Then I will cut off Israel from the land I have given them, and this house I have hallowed for My Name (renown) I will cast from My sight. And Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all the peoples.

This house shall become a heap of ruins; every passerby shall be astonished and shall hiss [with surprise] and say, Why has the Lord done thus to this land and to this house?

Then they will answer, Because they forsook the Lord their God, Who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have laid hold of other gods and have worshiped and served them; therefore the Lord has brought on them all this evil.

10 At the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the two houses, the Lord’s house and the king’s house,

11 For which Hiram king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with as much cedar and cypress timber and gold as he desired, King Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.

12 And Hiram came from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him, and they did not please him.

13 He said, What are these cities worth which you have given me, my brother? So they are called the Cabul [unproductive] Land to this day.

14 And Hiram sent to the king 120 talents of gold.

15 This is the account of the levy [of forced labor] which King Solomon raised to build the house of the Lord, his own house, the Millo, the wall of Jerusalem, Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.

16 For Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up and taken Gezer, burned it with fire, slew the Canaanites who dwelt in the city, and had given it as dowry to his daughter, Solomon’s wife.

17 So Solomon rebuilt Gezer and Lower Beth-horon,

18 Baalath and Tamar (Tadmor) in the wilderness, in the land of Judah,

19 And all the store cities which Solomon had and cities for his chariots and cities for his horsemen, and whatever Solomon desired to build [a]for his pleasure in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.

20 As for all the people who were left of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, who were not Israelites,

21 Their children who were left after them in the land, whom the Israelites were not able utterly to destroy, of them Solomon made a forced levy of slaves to this day.

22 But Solomon made no slaves of the Israelites; they were the soldiers, his officials, attendants, commanders, captains, chariot officers, and horsemen.

23 These were the chief officers over Solomon’s work, 550 who had charge of the people who did the work.

24 But Pharaoh’s daughter came up out of the City of David to her house which Solomon had built for her; then he built the Millo.

25 Three times a year Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar he built to the Lord, and he burned incense with them before the Lord. So he finished the house.

26 And King Solomon made a fleet of ships in Ezion-geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red Sea, in Edom.

27 And Hiram sent with the fleet his servants, shipmen who had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.

28 They came to Ophir and got 420 talents of gold and brought it to King Solomon.

Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 9:19 Once on the throne Solomon became a thoroughgoing despot. All political power was taken out of the hands of the tribal sheiks... and placed in the hands of officers who were simply puppets of Solomon. The resources of the nation were expended not on works of public utility but on the personal aggrandizement of the monarch. In the means he took to gratify his passions he showed himself to be little better than a savage (James Orr et al., eds., The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia). The division of the nation at Solomon’s death with all the weakness and misery that it caused [idolatry, ignoring God, captivity, exile, the loss of the ten tribes] through the coming centuries was the direct outgrowth of Solomon’s unholy self-indulgence (Amos R. Wells, Bible Miniatures). Because of his extensive building program and his extravagant expenditures in the maintenance of his luxurious court, he resorted to forced labor and heavy taxation. Bitter opposition to his rule thus engendered the division of the united kingdom after his death (The New Jewish Encyclopedia).

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