1 حينئذ جمع سليمان شيوخ اسرائيل وكل رؤوس الاسباط رؤساء الآباء من بني اسرائيل الى الملك سليمان في اورشليم لاصعاد تابوت عهد الرب من مدينة داود. هي صهيون.2 فاجتمع الى الملك سليمان جميع رجال اسرائيل في العيد في شهر ايثانيم. هو الشهر السابع.3 وجاء جميع شيوخ اسرائيل وحمل الكهنة التابوت4 واصعدوا تابوت الرب وخيمة الاجتماع مع جميع آنية القدس التي في الخيمة فاصعدها الكهنة واللاويون.5 والملك سليمان وكل جماعة اسرائيل المجتمعين اليه معه امام التابوت كانوا يذبحون من الغنم والبقر ما لا يحصى ولا يعد من الكثرة.6 وادخل الكهنة تابوت عهد الرب الى مكانه في محراب البيت في قدس الاقداس الى تحت جناحي الكروبين.7 لان الكروبين بسطا اجنحتهما على موضع التابوت وظلل الكروبان التابوت وعصّيه من فوق.8 وجذبوا العصي فتراءت رؤوس العصي من القدس امام المحراب ولم تر خارجا وهي هناك الى هذا اليوم.9 لم يكن في التابوت الا لوحا الحجر اللذان وضعهما موسى هناك في حوريب حين عاهد الرب بني اسرائيل عند خروجهم من ارض مصر.10 وكان لما خرج الكهنة من القدس ان السحاب ملأ بيت الرب.11 ولم يستطع الكهنة ان يقفوا للخدمة بسبب السحاب لان مجد الرب ملأ بيت الرب12 حينئذ تكلم سليمان. قال الرب انه يسكن في الضباب.13 اني قد بنيت لك بيت سكنى مكانا لسكناك الى الابد.14 وحوّل الملك وجهه وبارك كل جمهور اسرائيل. وكل جمهور اسرائيل واقف.15 وقال مبارك الرب اله اسرائيل الذي تكلم بفمه الى داود ابي واكمل بيده قائلا16 منذ يوم اخرجت شعبي اسرائيل من مصر لم اختر مدينة من جميع اسباط اسرائيل لبناء بيت ليكون اسمي هناك بل انما اخترت داود ليكون على شعبي اسرائيل.17 وكان في قلب داود ابي ان يبني بيتا لاسم الرب اله اسرائيل.18 فقال الرب لداود ابي من اجل انه كان في قلبك ان تبني بيتا لاسمي قد احسنت بكونه في قلبك.19 الا انك انت لا تبني البيت بل ابنك الخارج من صلبك هو يبني البيت لاسمي.20 واقام الرب كلامه الذي تكلم به وقد قمت انا مكان داود ابي وجلست على كرسي اسرائيل كما تكلم الرب وبنيت البيت لاسم الرب اله اسرائيل21 وجعلت هناك مكانا للتابوت الذي فيه عهد الرب الذي قطعه مع آبائنا عند اخراجه اياهم من ارض مصر22 ووقف سليمان امام مذبح الرب تجاه كل جماعة اسرائيل وبسط يديه الى السماء23 وقال. ايها الرب اله اسرائيل ليس اله مثلك في السماء من فوق ولا على الارض من اسفل حافظ العهد والرحمة لعبيدك السائرين امامك بكل قلوبهم.24 الذي قد حفظت لعبدك داود ابي ما كلمته به فتكلمت بفمك واكملت بيدك كهذا اليوم.25 والآن ايها الرب اله اسرائيل احفظ لعبدك داود ابي ما كلمته به قائلا لا يعدم لك امامي رجل يجلس على كرسي اسرائيل ان كان بنوك انما يحفظون طرقهم حتى يسيروا امامي كما سرت انت امامي.26 والآن يا اله اسرائيل فليتحقق كلامك الذي كلمت به عبدك داود ابي.27 لانه هل يسكن الله حقا على الارض. هوذا السموات وسماء السموات لا تسعك فكم بالاقل هذا البيت الذي بنيت.28 فالتفت الى صلاة عبدك والى تضرعه ايها الرب الهي واسمع الصراخ والصلاة التي يصلّيها عبدك امامك اليوم.29 لتكون عيناك مفتوحتين على هذا البيت ليلا ونهارا على الموضع الذي قلت ان اسمي يكون فيه لتسمع الصلاة التي يصليها عبدك في هذا الموضع.30 واسمع تضرع عبدك وشعبك اسرائيل الذين يصلّون في هذا الموضع واسمع انت في موضع سكناك في السماء واذا سمعت فاغفر.31 اذا اخطأ احد الى صاحبه ووضع عليه حلفا ليحلفه وجاء الحلف امام مذبحك في هذا البيت.32 فاسمع انت في السماء واعمل واقض بين عبيدك اذ تحكم على المذنب فتجعل طريقه على راسه وتبرر البار اذ تعطيه حسب بره.33 اذا انكسر شعبك اسرائيل امام العدو لانهم اخطأوا اليك ثم رجعوا اليك واعترفوا باسمك وصلوا وتضرعوا اليك نحو هذا البيت34 فاسمع انت من السماء واغفر خطية شعبك اسرائيل وارجعهم الى الارض التي اعطيتها لآبائهم35 اذا اغلقت السماء ولم يكن مطر لانهم اخطأوا اليك ثم صلّوا في هذا الموضع واعترفوا باسمك ورجعوا عن خطيتهم لانك ضايقتهم36 فاسمع انت من السماء واغفر خطية عبيدك وشعبك اسرائيل فتعلمهم الطريق الصالح الذي يسلكون فيه واعط مطرا على ارضك التي اعطيتها لشعبك ميراثا.37 اذا صار في الارض جوع اذا صار وبأ اذا صار لفح او يرقان او جراد جردم او اذا حاصره عدوه في ارض مدنه في كل ضربة وكل مرض38 فكل صلاة وكل تضرع تكون من اي انسان كان من كل شعبك اسرائيل الذين يعرفون كل واحد ضربة قلبه فيبسط يديه نحو هذا البيت39 فاسمع انت من السماء مكان سكناك واغفر واعمل واعط كل انسان حسب كل طرقه كما تعرف قلبه لانك انت وحدك قد عرفت قلوب كل بني البشر.40 لكي يخافوك كل الايام التي يحيون فيها على وجه الارض التي اعطيت لآبائنا.41 وكذلك الاجنبي الذي ليس من شعبك اسرائيل هو وجاء من ارض بعيدة من اجل اسمك.42 لانهم يسمعون باسمك العظيم وبيدك القوية وذراعك الممدودة. فمتى جاء وصلى في هذا البيت43 فاسمع انت من السماء مكان سكناك وافعل حسب كل ما يدعو به اليك الاجنبي لكي يعلم كل شعوب الارض اسمك فيخافوك كشعبك اسرائيل ولكي يعلموا انه قد دعي اسمك على هذا البيت الذي بنيت44 اذا خرج شعبك لمحاربة عدوه في الطريق الذي ترسلهم فيه وصلّوا الى الرب نحو المدينة التي اخترتها والبيت الذي بنيته لاسمك45 فاسمع من السماء صلاتهم وتضرعهم واقضي قضائهم.46 اذا اخطاؤا اليك. لانه ليس انسان لا يخطئ. وغضبت عليهم ودفعتهم امام العدو وسباهم سابوهم الى ارض العدو بعيدة او قريبة.47 فاذا ردّوا الى قلوبهم في الارض التي يسبون اليها ورجعوا وتضرعوا اليك في ارض سبيهم قائلين قد اخطأنا وعوجنا واذنبنا48 ورجعوا اليك من كل قلوبهم ومن كل انفسهم في ارض اعدائهم الذين سبوهم وصلوا اليك نحو ارضهم التي اعطيت لآبائهم نحو المدينة التي اخترت والبيت الذي بنيت لاسمك49 فاسمع في السماء مكان سكناك صلاتهم وتضرعهم واقض قضاءهم50 واغفر لشعبك ما اخطأوا به اليك وجميع ذنوبهم التي اذنبوا بها اليك واعطهم رحمة امام الذين سبوهم فيرحموهم.51 لانهم شعبك وميراثك الذين اخرجت من مصر من وسط كور الحديد.52 لتكون عيناك مفتوحتين نحو تضرع عبدك وتضرع شعبك اسرائيل فتصغي اليهم في كل ما يدعونك.53 لانك انت افرزتهم لك ميراثا من جميع شعوب الارض كما تكلمت عن يد موسى عبدك عند اخراجك آباءنا من مصر يا سيدي الرب54 وكان لما انتهى سليمان من الصلاة الى الرب بكل هذه الصلاة والتضرع انه نهض من امام مذبح الرب من الجثو على ركبتيه ويداه مبسوطتان نحو السماء.55 ووقف وبارك كل جماعة اسرائيل بصوت عال قائلا56 مبارك الرب الذي اعطى راحة لشعبه اسرائيل حسب كل ما تكلم به ولم تسقط كلمة واحدة من كل كلامه الصالح الذي تكلم به عن يد موسى عبده.57 ليكن الرب الهنا معنا كما كان مع آبائنا فلا يتركنا ولا يرفضنا.58 ليميل بقلوبنا اليه لكي نسير في جميع طرقه ونحفظ وصاياه وفرائضه واحكامه التي اوصى بها آباءنا.59 وليكن كلامي هذا الذي تضرعت به امام الرب قريبا من الرب الهنا نهارا وليلا ليقضي قضاء عبده وقضاء شعبه اسرائيل امر كل يوم في يومه.60 ليعلم كل شعوب الارض ان الرب هو الله وليس آخر.61 فليكن قلبكم كاملا لدى الرب الهنا اذ تسيرون في فرائضه وتحفظون وصاياه كهذا اليوم62 ثم ان الملك وجميع اسرائيل معه ذبحوا ذبائح امام الرب63 وذبح سليمان ذبائح السلامة التي ذبحها للرب من البقر اثنين وعشرين الفا ومن الغنم مئة الف وعشرين الفا فدشن الملك وجميع بني اسرائيل بيت الرب.64 في ذلك اليوم قدّس الملك وسط الدار التي امام بيت الرب لانه قرّب هناك المحرقات والتقدمات وشحم ذبائح السلامة لان مذبح النحاس الذي امام الرب كان صغيرا عن ان يسع المحرقات والتقدمات وشحم ذبائح السلامة.65 وعيّد سليمان العيد في ذلك الوقت وجميع اسرائيل معه جمهور كبير من مدخل حماة الى وادي مصر امام الرب الهنا سبعة ايام وسبعة ايام اربعة عشر يوما.66 وفي اليوم الثامن صرف الشعب فباركوا الملك وذهبوا الى خيمهم فرحين وطيبي القلوب لاجل كل الخير الذي عمل الرب لداود عبده ولاسرائيل شعبه

1 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, to king Solomon in Jerusalem, that they might bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion.2 And all the men of Israel assembled themselves to king Solomon at the feast in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month.3 And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark.4 And they brought up the ark of the LORD, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and all the holy vessels that were in the tabernacle, even those did the priests and the Levites bring up.5 And king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel, that were assembled to him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen, that could not be told nor numbered for multitude.6 And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the LORD to his place, into the oracle of the house, to the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubim.7 For the cherubim spread forth their two wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and the staves thereof above.8 And they drew out the staves, that the ends of the staves were seen out in the holy place before the oracle, and they were not seen without: and there they are to this day.9 There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone, which Moses put there at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.10 And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled the house of the LORD,11 So that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud: for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of the LORD.12 Then spoke Solomon, The LORD said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.13 I have surely built you an house to dwell in, a settled place for you to abide in for ever.14 And the king turned his face about, and blessed all the congregation of Israel: (and all the congregation of Israel stood;)15 And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, which spoke with his mouth to David my father, and has with his hand fulfilled it, saying,16 Since the day that I brought forth my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build an house, that my name might be therein; but I chose David to be over my people Israel.17 And it was in the heart of David my father to build an house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.18 And the LORD said to David my father, Whereas it was in your heart to build an house to my name, you did well that it was in your heart.19 Nevertheless you shall not build the house; but your son that shall come forth out of your loins, he shall build the house to my name.20 And the LORD has performed his word that he spoke, and I am risen up in the room of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and have built an house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.21 And I have set there a place for the ark, wherein is the covenant of the LORD, which he made with our fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.22 And Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven:23 And he said, LORD God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven above, or on earth beneath, who keep covenant and mercy with your servants that walk before you with all their heart:24 Who have kept with your servant David my father that you promised him: you spoke also with your mouth, and have fulfilled it with your hand, as it is this day.25 Therefore now, LORD God of Israel, keep with your servant David my father that you promised him, saying, There shall not fail you a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel; so that your children take heed to their way, that they walk before me as you have walked before me.26 And now, O God of Israel, let your word, I pray you, be verified, which you spoke to your servant David my father.27 But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain you; how much less this house that I have built?28 Yet have you respect to the prayer of your servant, and to his supplication, O LORD my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer, which your servant prays before you to day:29 That your eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the place of which you have said, My name shall be there: that you may listen to the prayer which your servant shall make toward this place.30 And listen you to the supplication of your servant, and of your people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place: and hear you in heaven your dwelling place: and when you hear, forgive.31 If any man trespass against his neighbor, and an oath be laid on him to cause him to swear, and the oath come before your altar in this house:32 Then hear you in heaven, and do, and judge your servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way on his head; and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.33 When your people Israel be smitten down before the enemy, because they have sinned against you, and shall turn again to you, and confess your name, and pray, and make supplication to you in this house:34 Then hear you in heaven, and forgive the sin of your people Israel, and bring them again to the land which you gave to their fathers.35 When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against you; if they pray toward this place, and confess your name, and turn from their sin, when you afflict them:36 Then hear you in heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants, and of your people Israel, that you teach them the good way wherein they should walk, and give rain on your land, which you have given to your people for an inheritance.37 If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, or if there be caterpillar; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatever plague, whatever sickness there be;38 What prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, or by all your people Israel, which shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house:39 Then hear you in heaven your dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and give to every man according to his ways, whose heart you know; (for you, even you only, know the hearts of all the children of men;)40 That they may fear you all the days that they live in the land which you gave to our fathers.41 Moreover concerning a stranger, that is not of your people Israel, but comes out of a far country for your name' sake;42 (For they shall hear of your great name, and of your strong hand, and of your stretched out arm;) when he shall come and pray toward this house;43 Hear you in heaven your dwelling place, and do according to all that the stranger calls to you for: that all people of the earth may know your name, to fear you, as do your people Israel; and that they may know that this house, which I have built, is called by your name.44 If your people go out to battle against their enemy, wherever you shall send them, and shall pray to the LORD toward the city which you have chosen, and toward the house that I have built for your name:45 Then hear you in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.46 If they sin against you, (for there is no man that sins not,) and you be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captives to the land of the enemy, far or near;47 Yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land where they were carried captives, and repent, and make supplication to you in the land of them that carried them captives, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness;48 And so return to you with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land of their enemies, which led them away captive, and pray to you toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, the city which you have chosen, and the house which I have built for your name:49 Then hear you their prayer and their supplication in heaven your dwelling place, and maintain their cause,50 And forgive your people that have sinned against you, and all their transgressions wherein they have transgressed against you, and give them compassion before them who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them:51 For they be your people, and your inheritance, which you brought forth out of Egypt, from the middle of the furnace of iron:52 That your eyes may be open to the supplication of your servant, and to the supplication of your people Israel, to listen to them in all that they call for to you.53 For you did separate them from among all the people of the earth, to be your inheritance, as you spoke by the hand of Moses your servant, when you brought our fathers out of Egypt, O LORD God.54 And it was so, that when Solomon had made an end of praying all this prayer and supplication to the LORD, he arose from before the altar of the LORD, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread up to heaven.55 And he stood, and blessed all the congregation of Israel with a loud voice, saying,56 Blessed be the LORD, that has given rest to his people Israel, according to all that he promised: there has not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by the hand of Moses his servant.57 The LORD our God be with us, as he was with our fathers: let him not leave us, nor forsake us:58 That he may incline our hearts to him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his judgments, which he commanded our fathers.59 And let these my words, with which I have made supplication before the LORD, be near to the LORD our God day and night, that he maintain the cause of his servant, and the cause of his people Israel at all times, as the matter shall require:60 That all the people of the earth may know that the LORD is God, and that there is none else.61 Let your heart therefore be perfect with the LORD our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day.62 And the king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before the LORD.63 And Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered to the LORD, two and twenty thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the house of the LORD.64 The same day did the king hallow the middle of the court that was before the house of the LORD: for there he offered burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings: because the brazen altar that was before the LORD was too little to receive the burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings.65 And at that time Solomon held a feast, and all Israel with him, a great congregation, from the entering in of Hamath to the river of Egypt, before the LORD our God, seven days and seven days, even fourteen days.66 On the eighth day he sent the people away: and they blessed the king, and went to their tents joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that the LORD had done for David his servant, and for Israel his people.