1 Net toe Salomo gereed was met die bou van die huis van die HERE en die huis van die koning en elke begeerte wat Salomo wou uitvoer,
2 verskyn die HERE vir die tweede maal aan Salomo soos Hy aan hom verskyn het in G¡beon;
3 en die HERE sê vir hom: Ek het jou gebed en jou smeking gehoor wat jy voor my aangesig uitgespreek het; Ek het hierdie huis wat jy gebou het, geheilig deur my Naam daar te vestig tot in ewigheid; en my oë en my hart sal daar altyd wees.
4 En wat jou betref, as jy wandel voor my aangesig soos jou vader Dawid gewandel het, met 'n volkome hart en in opregtheid deur te doen net soos Ek jou beveel het, en my insettinge en verordeninge onderhou,
5 dan sal Ek die troon van jou koningskap oor Israel vir ewig bevestig, soos Ek jou vader Dawid beloof het deur te sê: Daar sal vir jou nooit 'n man ontbreek op die troon van Israel nie.
6 As julle en julle kinders ooit van My afvallig word en my gebooie, my insettinge wat Ek julle voorgehou het, nie onderhou nie, maar ander gode gaan dien en voor hulle neerbuig,
7 dan sal Ek Israel uit die land uitroei wat Ek hulle gegee het, en die huis wat Ek vir my Naam geheilig het, sal Ek van my aangesig wegwerp, sodat Israel 'n spreekwoord en 'n spotlied sal word onder al die volke.
8 En hierdie huis wat so hoog is -- elkeen wat daarlangs verbygaan, sal hom verbaas en spot, en hulle sal vra: Waarom het die HERE so gedoen met hierdie land en met hierdie huis?
9 Dan sal hulle sê: Omdat hulle die HERE hul God verlaat het wat hulle vaders uit Egipteland uitgelei het, en ander gode aangehang en daarvoor neergebuig en hulle gedien het -- daarom het die HERE al hierdie onheil oor hulle gebring.
10 En aan die einde van twintig jaar waarin Salomo die twee huise, die huis van die HERE en die huis van die koning, gebou het --
11 Hiram, die koning van Tirus, het Salomo gehelp met sederhout en sipreshout en goud soveel as hy wou hê -- gee koning Salomo aan Hiram twintig stede in die land Galil,a.
12 En Hiram het uit Tirus uitgetrek om die stede te bekyk wat Salomo hom gegee het, maar hulle was nie reg in sy oë nie.
13 Daarop sê hy: Wat vir stede is dit wat jy my gegee het, my broer? En hulle noem dit die land Kabul, tot vandag toe.
14 En Hiram het aan die koning honderd en twintig talente goud gestuur.
15 En dit was die saak van die dwangarbeiders wat koning Salomo laat opkom het om die huis van die HERE en sy huis en Millo en die muur van Jerusalem en Hasor en Meg¡ddo en Geser te bou.
17 So het Salomo dan Geser opgebou en Bet-Horon-Onder
18 en B älat en Tamar in die woestyn, in die land,
19 en al die voorraadstede wat Salomo gehad het, en die stede vir die strydwaens en die stede vir die perderuiters en wat Salomo graag wou gebou het in Jerusalem en in die L¡banon en in die hele land van sy heerskappy.
20 Al die mense wat oorgebly het van die Amoriete, Hetiete, Feresiete, Hewiete en Jebusiete, wat nie uit die kinders van Israel was nie --
21 hulle kinders wat n hulle in die land oorgebly het, wat die kinders van Israel nie met die banvloek kon tref nie, die het Salomo laat opkom vir dwangarbeid, tot vandag toe.
22 Maar van die kinders van Israel het Salomo niemand 'n slaaf gemaak nie, maar hulle was krygsmanne en sy dienaars en sy owerstes en sy adjudante en owerstes oor sy strydwaens en sy perderuiters.
23 Dit was die hoofopsigters van Salomo oor die werk: vyf honderd en vyftig wat oor die mense wat die werk verrig, bevel gevoer het.
24 Skaars het die dogter van Farao opgetrek uit die stad van Dawid na haar huis wat hy vir haar gebou het, of hy het Millo gebou.
25 En Salomo het drie maal in die jaar brandoffers en dankoffers gebring op die altaar wat hy vir die HERE gebou het, hy het naamlik rook laat opgaan by die altaar wat daar was voor die aangesig van die HERE, sodat hy die huis voltooi het.
26 Koning Salomo het ook skepe gebou in Âseon-Geber wat by Elot aan die kus van die Skelfsee in die land Edom lê.
27 Toe stuur Hiram sy dienaars op die skepe, seevaarders wat die see ken, saam met die dienaars van Salomo;
28 en hulle het in Ofir aangekom en daarvandaan goud gaan haal, vier honderd en twintig talente, en dit na koning Salomo gebring.
1 Now when Solomon came to the end of building the house of the Lord and the king's house, and all Solomon's desires, which he had in mind were effected;
2 The Lord came to him again in a vision, as he had done at Gibeon;
3 And the Lord said to him, Your prayers and your requests for grace have come to my ears: I have made holy this house which you have made, and I have put my name there for ever; my eyes and my heart will be there at all times.
4 As for you, if you will go on your way before me, as David your father did, uprightly and with a true heart, doing what I have given you orders to do, keeping my laws and my decisions;
5 Then I will make the seat of your rule over Israel certain for ever, as I gave my word to David your father, saying, You will never be without a man to be king in Israel.
6 But if you are turned from my ways, you or your children, and do not keep my orders and my laws which I have put before you, but go and make yourselves servants to other gods and give them worship:
7 Then I will have Israel cut off from the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for myself, I will put away from before my eyes; and Israel will be a public example, and a word of shame among all peoples.
8 And this house will become a mass of broken walls, and everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder at it and make whistling sounds; and they will say, Why has the Lord done so to this land and to this house?
9 And their answer will be, Because they were turned away from the Lord their God, who took their fathers out of the land of Egypt; they took for themselves other gods and gave them worship and became their servants: that is why the Lord has sent all this evil on them.
10 Now at the end of twenty years, in which time Solomon had put up the two houses, the house of the Lord and the king's house,
11 (Hiram, king of Tyre, had given Solomon cedar-trees and cypress-trees and gold, as much as he had need of,) King Solomon gave Hiram twenty towns in the land of Galilee.
12 But when Hiram came from Tyre to see the towns which Solomon had given him, he was not pleased with them.
13 And he said, What sort of towns are these which you have given me, my brother? So they were named the land of Cabul, to this day.
14 And Hiram sent the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold.
15 Now, this was the way of Solomon's system of forced work for the building of the Lord's house and of the king's house, and the Millo and the wall of Jerusalem and Megiddo and Gezer. ...
16 Pharaoh, king of Egypt, came and took Gezer, burning it down and putting to death the Canaanites living in the town, and he gave it for a bride-offering to his daughter, Solomon's wife. ...
17 ... and Solomon was the builder of Gezer and Beth-horon the lower,
18 And Baalath and Tamar in the waste land, in that land;
19 And all the store-towns and the towns which Solomon had for his war-carriages and for his horsemen, and everything which it was his pleasure to put up in Jerusalem and in Lebanon and in all the land under his rule.
20 As for the rest of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not children of Israel;
21 Their children who were still in the land, and whom the children of Israel had not been able to put to complete destruction, them did Solomon put to forced work, to this day.
22 But Solomon did not put the children of Israel to forced work; they were the men of war, his servants, his captains, and his chiefs, captains of his war-carriages and of his horsemen.
23 These were the chiefs of the overseers of Solomon's work, five hundred and fifty, in authority over the people who did the work.
24 At that time Solomon made Pharaoh's daughter come up from the town of David to the house which he had made for her: then he made the Millo.
25 Three times in the year it was Solomon's way to give burned offerings and peace-offerings on the altar he had made to the Lord, causing his fire-offering to go up on the altar before the Lord.
26 And King Solomon made a sea-force of ships in Ezion-geber, by Eloth, on the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.
27 Hiram sent his servants, who were experienced seamen, in the sea-force with Solomon's men.
28 And they came to Ophir, where they got four hundred and twenty talents of gold, and took it back to King Solomon.