歷代志下 1

Chinese Contemporary Bible (Traditional)

所羅門王求智慧

1 大衛的兒子所羅門鞏固了自己的王位。因為他的上帝耶和華與他同在，使他極其偉大。

²所羅門召集所有以色列人，包括千夫長、百夫長、審判官、首領和族長， ³與他們一起去基遍的邱壇，因為那裡有上帝的會幕，是耶和華的僕人摩西在曠野製造的。 ⁴大衛已經把上帝的約櫃從基列·耶琳搬到耶路撒冷，因為他在那裡為約櫃搭了一個帳篷。 ⁵戶珥的孫子、烏利的兒子比撒列造的銅壇在基遍耶和華的會幕前，所羅門和會眾就在那裡求問耶和華。 ⁶所羅門上到耶和華會幕前的銅壇那裡，獻上一千頭祭牲作為燔祭。

⁷當天晚上，上帝向所羅門顯現，問他：「你要我給你什麼？只管求吧。」 ⁸所羅門回答說：「你厚待我父大衛，並讓我繼位。 ⁹耶和華上帝啊，求你成就你給我父大衛的應許。你立我為王，使我統治這多如地上塵土的百姓。 ¹⁰現在，求你賜我智慧和知識以帶領他們。不然，誰能治理這麼多的百姓呢？」 ¹¹上帝對所羅門說：「你既然有此心願，不為自己求富貴、資財、尊榮、長壽，也沒有求滅絕你的敵人，只求智慧和知識以治理我的子民——我交在你王權之下的百姓， ¹²我必賜你智慧和知識，並且我還要賜你空前絕後的富貴、資財和尊榮。」

¹³於是，所羅門從基遍邱壇的會幕前回到耶路撒冷治理以色列。

所羅門王的兵力和財富

¹⁴所羅門組建了戰車和騎兵，有一千四百輛戰車、一萬二千名騎兵，駐紮在屯車城和他所在的耶路撒冷。 ¹⁵王使耶路撒冷的金銀多如石頭，使香柏木多如丘陵的無花果樹。 ¹⁶所羅門的馬匹都是由王室商隊從埃及和古厄按定價買來的。 ¹⁷他們從埃及買來的車馬，每輛車六百塊銀子，每匹馬一百五十塊銀子，他們也把車馬賣給赫人諸王和亞蘭諸王。

2 Chronicles 1

Contemporary English Version

The Lord Makes Solomon Wise

(1 Kings 3.1-15)

1 King Solomon, the son of David, was now in complete control of his kingdom, because the Lord God had blessed him and made him a powerful king.

^2-5^(A) At that time, the sacred tent that Moses the servant of the Lord had made in the desert was still kept at Gibeon, and in front of the tent was the bronze altar that Bezalel^[a] had made.

One day, Solomon told the people of Israel, the army commanders, the officials, and the family leaders, to go with him to the place of worship at Gibeon, even though his father King David had already moved the sacred chest from Kiriath-Jearim to the tent that he had set up for it in Jerusalem. Solomon and the others went to Gibeon to worship the Lord, ⁶and there at the bronze altar, Solomon offered a thousand animals as sacrifices to please the Lord.^[b]

⁷God appeared to Solomon that night in a dream and said, “Solomon, ask for anything you want, and I will give it to you.”

⁸Solomon answered:

Lord God, you were always loyal to my father David, and now you have made me king of Israel. ⁹^(B) I am supposed to rule these people, but there are as many of them as there are specks of dust on the ground. So keep the promise you made to my father ¹⁰and make me wise. Give me the knowledge I'll need to be the king of this great nation of yours.

¹¹God replied:

Solomon, you could have asked me to make you rich or famous or to let you live a long time. Or you could have asked for your enemies to be destroyed. Instead, you asked for wisdom and knowledge to rule my people. ¹²So I will make you wise and intelligent. But I will also make you richer and more famous than any king before or after you.

¹³Solomon then left Gibeon and returned to Jerusalem, the capital city of Israel.

Solomon's Wealth

(1 Kings 10.26-29)

¹⁴^(C) Solomon had a force of 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horses that he kept in Jerusalem and other towns.

¹⁵While Solomon was king of Israel, there was silver and gold everywhere in Jerusalem, and cedar was as common as ordinary sycamore trees in the foothills.

^16-17^(D) Solomon's merchants bought his horses and chariots in the regions of Musri and Kue.^[c] They paid 600 pieces of silver for a chariot and 150 pieces of silver for a horse. They also sold horses and chariots to the Hittite and Syrian kings.

Footnotes

1.2-5 Bezalel: Hebrew “Bezalel son of Uri son of Hur.”
1.6 sacrifices to please the Lord: These sacrifices have traditionally been called “whole burnt offerings,” because the whole animal was burned on the altar. A main purpose of such sacrifices was to please the Lord with the smell of the sacrifice, and so in the CEV they are often called “sacrifices to please the Lord.”
1.16,17 Musri and Kue: Hebrew “Egypt and Kue.” Musri and Kue were regions located in what is today southeast Turkey.

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