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所罗门其他建树与功绩(A)

所罗门建造耶和华的殿和自己的王宫,用了二十年才完成。 所罗门又修筑希兰送给他的那些城市,使以色列人住在那里。 所罗门到哈玛琐巴去,占领了那地方。 所罗门又修筑了在旷野的达莫,和他在哈玛建造的一切贮藏货物的城市。 他又建造上伯.和仑和下伯.和仑,成了有墙、有门和有闩的设防城; 又建造巴拉和所罗门拥有的一切贮藏货物的城市,以及一切囤放战车的城市,马兵驻扎的城市,和所罗门在耶路撒冷、黎巴嫩,以及他统治的全境内喜爱建造的一切。

至于以色列人以外的赫人、亚摩利人、比利洗人、希未人和耶布斯人剩下来的人民, 他们的子孙仍然留在那地,以色列人没有消灭他们。于是,所罗门征召他们作苦工,直到今日。 唯独以色列人,所罗门没有驱使他们为他的工程作奴仆;他们作了他的战士、军长、车兵长和马兵长。 10 所罗门王有二百五十名监工,监督工人。

11 所罗门把法老的女儿从大卫城,带到他为她建造的宫里去;因为他说:“我的妻子不可住在以色列王大卫的宫里,因为耶和华的约柜所到的地方都是神圣的。”

12 那时,所罗门在耶和华的坛上,就是在走廊前面他建筑的坛上,向耶和华献上燔祭, 13 又照着摩西的吩咐,在安息日、初一和一年三次特定的节期,就是除酵节、七七节、住棚节,献上每日当献的。

14 所罗门又照着他父亲大卫所定的,设立了祭司的班次,执行他们的事奉,又派遣利未人,各守本职,赞美耶和华,在祭司面前照着每日的本分事奉。又派守门的按着班次看守各门。因为这是神人大卫的吩咐。 15 王对祭司和利未人所吩咐的,无论是甚么事务,或是有关库房的事,他们都没有违抗。

16 从耶和华的殿奠基的日子起,直到建成,所罗门的一切工程都进行顺利。这样,耶和华的殿就完成了。

17 那时,所罗门往以东地,到靠近海边的以旬.迦别和以禄去了。 18 希兰派他的臣仆,把船只和熟悉航海的仆人,送到所罗门那里。他们和所罗门的仆人一同去到俄斐,从那里得了一万五千公斤金子,运到所罗门王那里。

Chapter 8

Public Works. (A)After the twenty years during which Solomon built the house of the Lord and his own house, he built up the cities which Huram had given him,[a] and settled Israelites there. Then Solomon went to Hamath of Zoba and conquered it. He built Tadmor[b] in the wilderness and all the supply cities, which he built in Hamath. (B)He built Upper Beth-horon and Lower Beth-horon, fortified cities with walls, gates, and bars; also Baalath, all the supply cities belonging to Solomon, and all the cities for the chariots, the cities for horses, and whatever else Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in the entire land under his dominion. All the people who were left of the Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites who were not Israelites— those of their descendants who were left in the land and whom the Israelites had not destroyed—Solomon conscripted as forced laborers, as they are to this day. But Solomon made none of the Israelites forced laborers for his works, for they were his fighting force, commanders, adjutants, chariot officers, and cavalry. 10 They were also King Solomon’s two hundred and fifty overseers who directed the people.

Solomon’s Piety. 11 Solomon brought the daughter of Pharaoh up from the City of David to the house which he had built for her, for he said, “No wife of mine shall dwell in the house of David, king of Israel, for the places where the ark of the Lord has come are holy.”

12 In those times Solomon sacrificed burnt offerings to the Lord upon the altar of the Lord which he had built in front of the porch, 13 as was required to be done day by day according to the command of Moses, especially on the sabbaths, at the new moons, and on the fixed festivals three times a year: on the feast of the Unleavened Bread, the feast of Weeks, and the feast of Booths.(C)

14 And according to the ordinance of David his father he appointed the various divisions of the priests for their service, and the Levites according to their functions of praise and attendance upon the priests, as the daily duty required. The gatekeepers by their divisions stood guard at each gate, since such was the command of David, the man of God.(D) 15 There was no deviation from the king’s command in whatever related to the priests and Levites or the treasuries. 16 All of Solomon’s work was carried out successfully from the day the foundation of the house of the Lord was laid until its completion. The house of the Lord was finished.

Glories of the Court. 17 In those times Solomon went to Ezion-geber and to Elath on the seashore of the land of Edom.(E) 18 Huram had his servants send him ships and his own servants, expert seamen; they went with Solomon’s servants to Ophir, and obtained there four hundred and fifty talents of gold and brought it to King Solomon.(F)

Footnotes

  1. 8:2 The cities which Huram had given him: according to 1 Kgs 9:10–14, it was Solomon who ceded the cities to the king of Tyre as payment for the timber and gold received from him. Since, however, 1 Kgs 9:12 states that Hiram was not satisfied with the cities, the Chronicler may have inferred that he gave them back to Solomon.
  2. 8:4 Tadmor: later known as Palmyra, an important caravan city in the Syrian desert. The parallel passage in 1 Kgs 9:18 has “Tamar,” in southern Judah; cf. Ez 47:19; 48:28. But Solomon may well have fortified Tadmor against the Arameans.