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2 Chronik 8
Schlachter 2000

Salomos Unternehmungen und sein Gottesdienst

8 Und es geschah, als die 20 Jahre verflossen waren, in denen Salomo das Haus des Herrn und sein eigenes Haus gebaut hatte,

2 da baute Salomo auch die Städte aus, die Huram dem Salomo gegeben hatte, und er ließ die Kinder Israels darin wohnen.

3 Und Salomo zog nach Hamat-Zoba und überwältigte es,

4 und er baute Tadmor in der Wüste [aus] und alle Vorratsstädte, die er in Hamat baute.

5 Er baute auch das obere Beth-Horon und das untere Beth-Horon [aus], feste Städte mit Mauern, Toren und Riegeln,

6 auch Baalat und alle Vorratsstädte, die Salomo gehörten, und alle Wagenstädte und Reiterstädte und alles, wozu Salomo Lust hatte zu bauen in Jerusalem und auf dem Libanon und im ganzen Land seiner Herrschaft.

7 Und alles Volk, das von den Hetitern, Amoritern, Pheresitern, Hewitern und Jebusitern übrig geblieben war und nicht zu Israel gehörte,

8 ihre Söhne, die im Land nach ihnen übrig geblieben waren, welche die Kinder Israels nicht vertilgt hatten, machte Salomo fronpflichtig bis zu diesem Tag.

9 Aber von den Kindern Israels machte er keine zu Leibeigenen für seine Arbeit, sondern sie waren seine Kriegsleute und Oberste seiner Wagenkämpfer und Oberste über seine Streitwagen und über seine Reiter.

10 Und die Zahl der Oberaufseher, die der König Salomo hatte, betrug 250; die geboten über das Volk.

11 Und Salomo brachte die Tochter des Pharao aus der Stadt Davids herauf in das Haus, das er für sie gebaut hatte. Denn er sprach: Meine Frau soll nicht im Haus Davids, des Königs von Israel, wohnen; denn die Stätten sind heilig, weil die Lade des Herrn hineingekommen ist!

12 Von da an opferte Salomo dem Herrn Brandopfer auf dem Altar des Herrn, den er vor der Halle gebaut hatte,

13 was an jedem Tag zu opfern war nach dem Gesetz Moses, an den Sabbaten und Neumonden und an den Festzeiten, dreimal im Jahr, nämlich am Fest der ungesäuerten Brote, am Wochenfest und am Laubhüttenfest.

14 Und er bestimmte die Abteilungen der Priester, wie sein Vater David sie geordnet hatte, zu ihrem Dienst, und die Leviten zu ihren Aufgaben, um zu loben und zu dienen vor den Priestern, wie es jeder Tag erforderte; und die Torhüter nach ihren Abteilungen zu jedem Tor; denn so hatte es David, der Mann Gottes, geboten.

15 Und sie wichen nicht ab vom Gebot des Königs betreffs der Priester und Leviten, in keinem Wort, auch hinsichtlich der Schätze nicht.

16 So kam das ganze Werk Salomos zustande, bis zu dem Tag, als das Haus des Herrn gegründet wurde, [und] bis zu seiner Vollendung, bis das Haus des Herrn vollständig fertig war.

17 Damals ging Salomo nach Ezjon-Geber und Elat, das am Ufer des Meeres liegt, im Land Edom.

18 Und Huram sandte ihm Schiffe durch seine Knechte, die sich auf dem Meer auskannten; die fuhren mit den Knechten Salomos nach Ophir und holten von dort 450 Talente Gold und brachten es dem König Salomo.

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2 Chronicles 8
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Building Projects and Commercial Efforts

8 After twenty years, during which Solomon built the Lord’s temple and his royal palace, 2 Solomon rebuilt the cities that Huram[a] had given him and settled Israelites there. 3 Solomon went to Hamath Zobah and seized it. 4 He built up Tadmor in the wilderness and all the storage cities he had built in Hamath. 5 He made upper Beth Horon and lower Beth Horon fortified cities with walls and barred gates,[b] 6 and built up Baalath, all the storage cities that belonged to him,[c] and all the cities where chariots and horses were kept.[d] He built whatever he wanted in Jerusalem, Lebanon, and throughout his entire kingdom.[e]

7 Now several non-Israelite peoples were left in the land after the conquest of Joshua, including the Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.[f] 8 Their descendants remained in the land (the Israelites were unable to wipe them out). Solomon conscripted them for his work crews, and they continue in that role to this very day.[g] 9 Solomon did not assign Israelites to these work crews;[h] the Israelites served as his soldiers, officers, charioteers, and commanders of his chariot forces.[i] 10 These men worked for King Solomon as supervisors; there were a total of 250 of them who were in charge of the people.[j]

11 Solomon moved Pharaoh’s daughter up from the City of David[k] to the palace he had built for her, for he said, “My wife must not live in the palace of King David of Israel, for the places where the ark of the Lord has entered are holy.”

12 Then Solomon offered burnt sacrifices to the Lord on the altar of the Lord which he had built in front of the temple’s porch.[l] 13 He observed the daily requirements for sacrifices that Moses had specified for Sabbaths, new moon festivals, and the three annual celebrations—the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Shelters.[m] 14 As his father David had decreed, Solomon[n] appointed the divisions of the priests to do their assigned tasks, the Levitical orders to lead worship and help the priests with their daily tasks,[o] and the divisions of the gatekeepers to serve at their assigned gates.[p] This was what David the man of God had ordered.[q] 15 They did not neglect any detail of the king’s orders pertaining to the priests, Levites, and treasuries.[r]

16 All the work ordered by Solomon was completed, from the day the foundation of the Lord’s temple was laid until it was finished; the Lord’s temple was completed.

17 Then Solomon went to Ezion Geber and to Elat on the coast in the land of Edom. 18 Huram sent him ships and some of his sailors, men who were well acquainted with the sea. They sailed with Solomon’s men to Ophir[s] and took from there 450 talents[t] of gold, which they brought back to King Solomon.

Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 8:2 tn Heb “Huram” (also in v. 18). Some medieval Hebrew mss, along with the LXX, Syriac, and Vulgate spell the name “Hiram,” agreeing with 1 Chr 14:1. “Huram” is a variant spelling referring to the same individual.
  2. 2 Chronicles 8:5 tn Heb “and he built…[as] cities of fortification, [with] walls, doors, and a bar.”
  3. 2 Chronicles 8:6 tn Heb “Solomon.” The recurrence of the proper name is unexpected in terms of contemporary English style, so the pronoun has been used in the translation instead.
  4. 2 Chronicles 8:6 tn Heb “the cities of the chariots and the cities of the horses.”
  5. 2 Chronicles 8:6 tn Heb “and all the desire of Solomon which he desired to build in Jerusalem and in Lebanon and in all the land of his kingdom.”
  6. 2 Chronicles 8:7 tn Heb “all the people who were left from the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not from Israel.”
  7. 2 Chronicles 8:8 tn Heb “from their sons who were left after them in the land, whom the sons of Israel did not wipe out, and Solomon raised them up for a work crew to this day.”
  8. 2 Chronicles 8:9 tn Heb “and from the sons of Israel whom Solomon did not assign to the laborers for his work.”
  9. 2 Chronicles 8:9 tn Heb “officers of his chariots and his horses.”
  10. 2 Chronicles 8:10 tn Heb “these [were] the officials of the governors who belonged to the king, Solomon, 250, the ones ruling over the people.”
  11. 2 Chronicles 8:11 sn The phrase the City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.
  12. 2 Chronicles 8:12 tn Heb “the porch.”
  13. 2 Chronicles 8:13 tn The Hebrew phrase הַסֻּכּוֹת[חַג] (khag hassukkot, “[Feast of] shelters” [or “huts”]) is traditionally known as the Feast of Tabernacles. The rendering “booths” (cf. NAB, NASB, NRSV) is probably better than the traditional “tabernacles” in light of the meaning of the term סֻכָּה (sukkah, “hut; booth”), but “booths” are frequently associated with trade shows and craft fairs in contemporary American English. The nature of the celebration during this feast as a commemoration of the wanderings of the Israelites after they left Egypt suggests that a translation like “shelters” is more appropriate.
  14. 2 Chronicles 8:14 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Solomon) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
  15. 2 Chronicles 8:14 tn Heb “and the Levites, according to their posts, to praise and to serve opposite the priests according to the matter of a day in its day.”
  16. 2 Chronicles 8:14 tn Heb “and the gatekeepers by their divisions for a gate and a gate.”
  17. 2 Chronicles 8:14 tn Heb “for so [was] the command of David the man of God.”
  18. 2 Chronicles 8:15 tn Heb “and they did not turn aside from the command of the king concerning the priests and the Levites with regard to any matter and with regard to the treasuries.”
  19. 2 Chronicles 8:18 tn Heb “and Huram sent to him by the hand of his servants, ships, and servants [who] know the sea, and they came with the servants of Solomon to Ophir.”
  20. 2 Chronicles 8:18 tn The Hebrew word כִּכַּר (kikkar, “circle”) refers generally to something that is round. When used of metals it can refer to a disk-shaped weight made of the metal or, by extension, to a standard unit of weight. According to the older (Babylonian) standard the “talent” weighed 130 lbs. (58.9 kg), but later this was lowered to 108.3 lbs. (49.1 kg). More recent research suggests the “light” standard talent was 67.3 lbs. (30.6 kg). Using this as the standard for calculation, the weight of the gold was 30,285 lbs. (13,770 kg).
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