1 Sucedeu, pois, que, tendo acabado Salomão de edificar a Casa do Senhor, e a casa do rei, e tudo o que tinha desejado e designara fazer, 2 o Senhor tornou a aparecer-lhe, como lhe tinha aparecido em Gibeão, 3 e o Senhor lhe disse: Ouvi a tua oração e a tua súplica que fizeste perante mim; santifiquei a casa que edificaste, a fim de pôr ali o meu nome para sempre; os meus olhos e o meu coração estarão ali todos os dias. 4 Se andares perante mim como andou Davi, teu pai, com integridade de coração e com sinceridade, para fazeres segundo tudo o que te mandei e guardares os meus estatutos e os meus juízos, 5 então, confirmarei o trono de teu reino sobre Israel para sempre, como falei acerca de Davi, teu pai, dizendo: Não te faltará sucessor sobre o trono de Israel. 6 Porém, se vós e vossos filhos, de qualquer maneira, vos apartardes de mim e não guardardes os meus mandamentos e os meus estatutos, que vos prescrevi, mas fordes, e servirdes a outros deuses, e os adorardes, 7 então, eliminarei Israel da terra que lhe dei, e a esta casa, que santifiquei a meu nome, lançarei longe da minha presença; e Israel virá a ser provérbio e motejo entre todos os povos. 8 E desta casa, agora tão exaltada, todo aquele que por ela passar pasmará, e assobiará, e dirá: Por que procedeu o Senhor assim para com esta terra e esta casa? 9 Responder-se-lhe-á: Porque deixaram o Senhor, seu Deus, que tirou da terra do Egito os seus pais, e se apegaram a outros deuses, e os adoraram, e os serviram. Por isso, trouxe o Senhor sobre eles todo este mal.
10 Ao fim de vinte anos, terminara Salomão as duas casas, a Casa do Senhor e a casa do rei. 11 Ora, como Hirão, rei de Tiro, trouxera a Salomão madeira de cedro e de cipreste e ouro, segundo todo o seu desejo, este lhe deu vinte cidades na terra da Galileia. 12 Saiu Hirão de Tiro a ver as cidades que Salomão lhe dera, porém não lhe agradaram. 13 Pelo que disse: Que cidades são estas que me deste, irmão meu? E lhes chamaram Terra de Cabul, até hoje. 14 Hirão tinha enviado ao rei cento e vinte talentos de ouro.
15 A razão por que Salomão impôs o trabalho forçado é esta: edificar a Casa do Senhor, e a sua própria casa, e Milo, e o muro de Jerusalém, como também Hazor, e Megido, e Gezer; 16 porque Faraó, rei do Egito, subira, e tomara a Gezer, e a queimara, e matara os cananeus que moravam nela, e com ela dotara a sua filha, mulher de Salomão. 17 Assim, edificou Salomão Gezer, Bete-Horom, a baixa, 18 Baalate, Tadmor, no deserto daquela terra, 19 todas as cidades-armazéns que Salomão tinha, as cidades para os carros, as cidades para os cavaleiros e o que desejou enfim edificar em Jerusalém, no Líbano e em toda a terra do seu domínio. 20 Quanto a todo o povo que restou dos amorreus, heteus, ferezeus, heveus e jebuseus, e que não eram dos filhos de Israel, 21 a seus filhos, que restaram depois deles na terra, os quais os filhos de Israel não puderam destruir totalmente, a esses fez Salomão trabalhadores forçados, até hoje. 22 Porém dos filhos de Israel não fez Salomão escravo algum; eram homens de guerra, e seus oficiais, e seus príncipes, e seus capitães, e chefes dos seus carros e dos seus cavalarianos.
23 Os principais oficiais que estavam sobre a obra de Salomão eram quinhentos e cinquenta; tinham estes a seu cargo o povo que trabalhava na obra. 24 Subiu, porém, a filha de Faraó da Cidade de Davi à sua casa, que Salomão lhe edificara; então, edificou a Milo.
25 Oferecia Salomão, três vezes por ano, holocaustos e sacrifícios pacíficos sobre o altar que edificara ao Senhor e queimava incenso sobre o altar perante o Senhor. Assim, acabou ele a casa.
26 Fez o rei Salomão também naus em Eziom-Geber, que está junto a Elate, na praia do mar Vermelho, na terra de Edom. 27 Mandou Hirão, com aquelas naus, os seus servos, marinheiros, conhecedores do mar, com os servos de Salomão. 28 Chegaram a Ofir e tomaram de lá quatrocentos e vinte talentos de ouro, que trouxeram ao rei Salomão.
1 And it came to pass, when Solomon had finished the building of the house of the LORD, and the king' house, and all Solomon' desire which he was pleased to do,
2 That the LORD appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon.
3 And the LORD said to him, I have heard your prayer and your supplication, that you have made before me: I have hallowed this house, which you have built, to put my name there for ever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually.
4 And if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my judgments:
5 Then I will establish the throne of your kingdom on Israel for ever, as I promised to David your father, saying, There shall not fail you a man on the throne of Israel.
6 But if you shall at all turn from following me, you or your children, and will not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them:
7 Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people:
8 And at this house, which is high, every one that passes by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why has the LORD done thus to this land, and to this house?
9 And they shall answer, Because they forsook the LORD their God, who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have taken hold on other gods, and have worshipped them, and served them: therefore has the LORD brought on them all this evil.
10 And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, when Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the LORD, and the king' house,
11 (Now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees and fir trees, and with gold, according to all his desire,) that then king Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.
12 And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and they pleased him not.
13 And he said, What cities are these which you have given me, my brother? And he called them the land of Cabul to this day.
14 And Hiram sent to the king six score talents of gold.
15 And this is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised; for to build the house of the LORD, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.
16 For Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and taken Gezer, and burnt it with fire, and slain the Canaanites that dwelled in the city, and given it for a present to his daughter, Solomon' wife.
17 And Solomon built Gezer, and Bethhoron the nether,
18 And Baalath, and Tadmor in the wilderness, in the land,
19 And all the cities of store that Solomon had, and cities for his chariots, and cities for his horsemen, and that which Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.
20 And all the people that were left of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, which were not of the children of Israel,
21 Their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel also were not able utterly to destroy, on those did Solomon levy a tribute of slavery to this day.
22 But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no slaves: but they were men of war, and his servants, and his princes, and his captains, and rulers of his chariots, and his horsemen.
23 These were the chief of the officers that were over Solomon' work, five hundred and fifty, which bore rule over the people that worked in the work.
24 But Pharaoh' daughter came up out of the city of David to her house which Solomon had built for her: then did he build Millo.
25 And three times in a year did Solomon offer burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar which he built to the LORD, and he burnt incense on the altar that was before the LORD. So he finished the house.
26 And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Eziongeber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom.
27 And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.
28 And they came to Ophir, and fetched from there gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.