列王紀上 9
Chinese Contemporary Bible (Traditional)
耶和華再次向所羅門顯現
9 所羅門建完耶和華的殿、自己的王宮和所有要建的建築後， 2 耶和華像在基遍一樣再次向他顯現， 3 對他說：「我聽了你的禱告和祈求。我已使你建的殿成為聖潔之地，讓我的名永在其中，我會一直眷顧這殿。 4 如果你像你父親大衛一樣存誠實正直的心事奉我，遵行我的一切吩咐，謹守我的律例和典章， 5 我必使你的王位在以色列永遠穩固，正如我曾向你父親大衛應許要使他的王朝永不中斷。
6 「然而，如果你們及你們的子孫離棄我，不守我的誡命和律例，去供奉、祭拜別的神明， 7 我必把以色列人從我賜給他們的土地上剷除，並離棄我為自己的名而使之聖潔的這殿，使以色列人在萬民中成為笑柄，被人嘲諷。 8 這殿雖然宏偉，但將來經過的人必驚訝，譏笑說，『耶和華為什麼這樣對待這地方和這殿呢？』 9 人們會回答，『因為他們背棄曾領他們祖先離開埃及的耶和華——他們的上帝，去追隨、祭拜、供奉別的神明，所以耶和華把這一切災禍降在他們身上。』」
所羅門的事蹟
10 所羅門用二十年的時間興建了耶和華的殿和自己的王宮。 11 泰爾王希蘭供應了所羅門所需要的一切香柏木、松木和黃金，所羅門王就把加利利一帶的二十座城送給他。 12 希蘭從泰爾去視察這些城，然後滿心不悅地對所羅門說： 13 「兄弟啊，你送給我的是什麼城邑呀？」因此，他稱這個地區為迦步勒[a]，沿用至今。 14 希蘭供應了所羅門王約四噸金子。
15 所羅門徵召勞役興建耶和華的殿、自己的王宮、米羅堡和耶路撒冷的城牆以及夏瑣、米吉多和基色。 16 從前埃及王法老攻陷基色，火燒全城，殺了城內的迦南人，把基色賜予女兒，即所羅門之妻作嫁妝。 17 所羅門現在重建基色、下伯·和崙、 18 巴拉和境內沙漠地區的達莫。 19 他還建造了所有的儲貨城、屯車城、養馬城和計劃在耶路撒冷、黎巴嫩及全國興建的城邑。
20 當時國中有亞摩利人、赫人、比利洗人、希未人和耶布斯人的後裔， 21 以色列人沒能滅絕這些外族人，所羅門讓他們服勞役，至今如此。 22 所羅門王沒有讓以色列人服勞役，而是讓他們做戰士、官長、統帥、將領、戰車長和騎兵長。 23 他還任命五百五十名監工負責監管工人。
24 法老的女兒從大衛城遷到為她建造的宮殿以後，所羅門動工興建米羅堡。 25 耶和華的殿落成以後，所羅門每年三次在他為耶和華築的壇上獻燔祭、平安祭並在耶和華面前燒香。
26 所羅門王在以東境內的紅海邊、靠近以祿的以旬·迦別製造船隻。 27 希蘭派有經驗的水手與所羅門的水手一起出海， 28 從俄斐為所羅門王運回了十四噸黃金。
Footnotes
- 9·13 「迦步勒」希伯來文的意思為「沒有價值」。
列王纪上 9
Chinese New Version (Traditional)
耶和華再次向所羅門顯現(A)
9 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， 2 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。 3 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。 4 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， 5 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。 6 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， 7 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。 8 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？ 9 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。
1 Kings 9
Evangelical Heritage Version
God Renews His Promises to Solomon
9 When Solomon had finished building the house for the Lord and the house for the king, and he had done all that he desired, 2 the Lord appeared to Solomon a second time, just as he had appeared to him in Gibeon. 3 The Lord said to him:
I have heard your prayer and the plea for mercy that you offered before me. I have consecrated this house, which you built, by putting my Name there forever. My eyes and my heart will be there for all time.
4 As for you, if you walk before me in purity of heart and with integrity as your father David did, so that you carry out everything that I command you, and you keep all my statutes and my ordinances, 5 then I will maintain your royal throne over Israel forever, just as I said to your father David, “You will not fail to have a man upon the throne of Israel.”
6 But if any of you[a] or your sons turn away from me and do not keep my commands and statutes, which I set before you, but you serve other gods and bow down to them, 7 then I will cut off Israel from the face of the ground which I gave them. I will take my presence away from the house which I consecrated for my Name. Israel will become proverbial as an object of ridicule for all peoples.
8 Though this house is now exalted,[b] all who pass by it will be appalled and will hiss[c] and say, “Why did the Lord do this to this land and to this house?”
9 They will reply, “Because they abandoned the Lord their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and they embraced other gods and worshipped and served them. That is why the Lord brought all this evil on them.”
Solomon Completes His Projects
10 At the end of twenty years, when Solomon had completed these two buildings, the house of the Lord and the house of the king, 11 King Solomon gave Hiram twenty towns in the land of Galilee, because Hiram king of Tyre had been supplying Solomon with cedar and fir wood and with as much gold as he desired. 12 So Hiram left Tyre to see the towns which Solomon had given him, but he was not pleased.
13 He said, “What kind of towns are these towns which you have given me, my brother?” He called them the Land of Kabul,[d] a name they have to this day. 14 Hiram had sent the king one hundred twenty talents[e] of gold.
15 This is the account of the forced labor, which King Solomon raised to build the house for the Lord, his own house, the Millo,[f] and the walls of Jerusalem, as well as Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer. 16 (Pharaoh king of Egypt had come up and captured Gezer. He burned it and killed the Canaanites who were living in the city. Then he gave it as a wedding present to his daughter, Solomon’s wife.) 17 So Solomon built Gezer, lower Beth Horon, 18 Baalath, Tadmor[g] in the wilderness, 19 all of Solomon’s towns for storehouses, the towns for his chariots, the towns for charioteers,[h] and everything Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land he ruled.
20 All the people who remained from the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not part of the people of Israel— 21 their descendants who remained in the land, whom the Israelites were not able to destroy completely—were drafted for forced labor by Solomon. They are serving right up to this day. 22 But Solomon did not press the people of Israel into service. Rather, they were his warriors, his government officials, his staff, his military officers, the commanders of his chariots, and his charioteers. 23 These were the officials who were overseeing Solomon’s work. Five hundred fifty officials were overseeing the people doing the work.
24 Pharaoh’s daughter moved up from the City of David to the house Solomon built for her. Then he built the Millo.
25 Three times a year Solomon offered whole burnt offerings and fellowship offerings on the altar which he had built before the Lord, and he burned incense before the Lord. In this way he completed the temple.
26 King Solomon built a fleet at Ezion Geber, which is near Elat on the shore of the Red Sea in the land of Edom. 27 Then, along with that fleet, Hiram sent his servants, men who worked on ships and who knew the sea, to serve with the servants of Solomon. 28 They went to Ophir, and they obtained four hundred twenty talents[i] of gold there and brought it to King Solomon.
Footnotes
- 1 Kings 9:6 You and your in this verse are plural.
- 1 Kings 9:8 The ancient versions read this house will become ruins.
- 1 Kings 9:8 Literally whistle, a derisive gesture
- 1 Kings 9:13 Kabul means worthless or good-for-nothing.
- 1 Kings 9:14 About nine thousand pounds
- 1 Kings 9:15 The word Millo appears to be derived from the Hebrew word for fill. Millo probably refers to the stone rampart that supported the palace area.
- 1 Kings 9:18 Some Hebrew manuscripts, the ancient versions, and 2 Chronicles 8:4 support the reading Tadmor. The main Hebrew text reads Tamar.
- 1 Kings 9:19 The word is sometimes translated horsemen, but it does not seem that cavalry was being used at this time.
- 1 Kings 9:28 More than thirty thousand pounds. The parallel text in 2 Chronicles 8:18 reads four hundred fifty talents.
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