1 Sucedeu, pois, que, acabando Salomão de edificar a Casa do Senhor, e a casa do rei, e todo o desejo de Salomão, que lhe veio à vontade fazer, 2 o Senhor tornou a aparecer a Salomão, como lhe tinha aparecido em Gibeão. 3 E o Senhor lhe disse: Ouvi a tua oração e a tua súplica que, suplicando, fizeste perante mim; santifiquei a casa que edificaste, a fim de pôr ali o meu nome para sempre; e os meus olhos e o meu coração estarão ali todos os dias. 4 E, se tu andares perante mim como andou Davi, teu pai, com inteireza 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 varão 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 tenho proposto, mas fordes, e servirdes a outros deuses, e vos curvardes perante eles, 7 então, destruirei Israel da terra que lhes dei; e a esta casa, que santifiquei a meu nome, lançarei longe da minha presença, e Israel será por ditado e motejo, entre todos os povos. 8 E desta casa, que é tão exaltada, todo aquele que por ela passar pasmará, e assobiará, e dirá: Por que fez o Senhor assim a esta terra e a esta casa? 9 E dirão: Porque deixaram ao Senhor, seu Deus, que tirou da terra do Egito seus pais, e se apegaram a deuses alheios, e se encurvaram perante eles, e os serviram; por isso, trouxe o Senhor sobre eles todo este mal.

10 E sucedeu, ao fim de vinte anos, que Salomão edificara as duas casas, a Casa do Senhor e a casa do rei 11 (para o que Hirão, rei de Tiro, trouxera a Salomão madeira de cedro e de faia e ouro, segundo todo o seu desejo). Então, deu o rei Salomão a Hirão vinte cidades na terra de Galileia. 12 E saiu Hirão de Tiro a ver as cidades que Salomão lhe dera, porém não foram boas aos seus olhos. 13 Pelo que disse: Que cidades são estas que me deste, irmão meu? E chamaram-nas: Terra de Cabul, até hoje. 14 E enviara Hirão ao rei cento e vinte talentos de ouro.

15 E esta é a causa do tributo que impôs o rei Salomão, para edificar a Casa do Senhor, e a sua casa, e Milo, e o muro de Jerusalém, como também a Hazor, e a Megido, e a Gezer. 16 Porque Faraó, rei do Egito, subiu, e tomou a Gezer, e a queimou, e matou os cananeus que moravam na cidade, e a deu em dote a sua filha, mulher de Salomão. 17 Assim edificou Salomão a Gezer, e Bete-Horom, a baixa, 18 e a Baalate, e a Tadmor, no deserto daquela terra, 19 e a todas as cidades das munições que Salomão tinha, e as cidades dos carros, e as cidades dos cavaleiros, e o que o desejo de Salomão quis edificar em Jerusalém, e 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, Salomão os reduziu a tributo servil, até hoje. 22 Porém dos filhos de Israel não fez Salomão escravo algum; porém eram homens de guerra, e seus criados, e seus príncipes, e seus capitães, e chefes dos seus carros e dos seus cavaleiros.

23 Estes eram os chefes dos oficiais que estavam sobre a obra de Salomão, quinhentos e cinquenta, que davam ordens ao 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 E oferecia Salomão três vezes cada ano holocaustos e sacrifícios pacíficos sobre o altar que edificaram ao Senhor e queimava incenso sobre o que estava perante o Senhor; e assim acabou a casa.

26 Também o rei Salomão fez naus em Eziom-Geber, que está junto a Elate, na praia do mar de Sufe, na terra de Edom. 27 E mandou Hirão com aquelas naus os seus servos, marinheiros, que sabiam do mar, com os servos de Salomão. 28 E vieram a Ofir, e tomaram de lá quatrocentos e vinte talentos de ouro, e o trouxeram ao rei Salomão.

1 And it came to pass, when Solomon had finished building the house of the Lord, and the king’s house, and all Solomon’s desire which he was pleased to execute:

2 That the Lord appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared unto him at Gib’on.

3 And the Lord said unto him, I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication, that thou hast offered before me; I have hallowed this house, which thou hast built, to put my name there for ever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there at all times.

4 And as for thee, if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, in integrity of heart, and in rectitude, to do in accordance with all that I have commanded thee, and wilt keep my statutes and my ordinances:

5 Then will I establish the throne of thy kingdom over Israel for ever; as I have spoken concerning David thy father, saying, There shall never fail thee a man upon the throne of Israel.

6 But if ye will at all turn away, ye or your children, from following me, and will not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, and go and serve other gods, and bow down to them:

7 Then will I cut off Israel from the face of the land which I have given them; and the house, which I have hallowed unto my name, will I cast away from my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a by–word among all the nations;

8 And at this house, which should be so exalted, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and men will say, Why hath the Lord done thus unto this land, and unto this house?

9 And they shall say, For the cause that they forsook the Lord their God, who had brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and took hold of other gods, and bowed down to them, and served them: therefore hath the Lord brought upon 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’s house,

11 (Now Hiram the king of Tyre had supplied Solomon with cedar–trees and fir–trees, and with gold, according to all his desire,) that king Solomon then gave to Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.

12 And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; but they were not right in his eyes.

13 And he said, What kind of cities are these which thou hast given me, my brother? And he called them, The land of Cabul, until this day.

14 And Hiram sent to the king one hundred and twenty talents of gold.

15 And this is the manner of the levy which king Solomon raised, to build the house of the Lord, and his own house, and the Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Chazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.

16 (Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and captured Gezer, and burnt it with fire, and slain the Canaanites that dwelt in the city, and given it as a marriage–present unto his daughter, Solomon’s wife.

17 And Solomon built Gezer, and lower Beth–choron,

18 And Ba’alath, and Thadmor in the wilderness, in the land,

19 And all the treasure–cities that Solomon had, and the cities for the chariots, and the cities for the horsemen, and the other desire of Solomon which he desired to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.)

20 All the people that were left of the Emorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of the children of Israel,

21 Their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel had not been able utterly to destroy, these did Solomon levy as tributary laborers until this day.

22 Yet of the children of Israel did Solomon make no one a bond–man; but they were the men of war, and his servants, and his princes, and his captains, and the officers of his chariots, and of his horsemen.

23 These also were the chiefs of the superintendents that were over Solomon’s work, five hundred and fifty, who ruled over the people that wrought on the work.

24 But Pharaoh’s daughter came up out of the city of David unto her house which he had built for her: then did he build the Millo.

25 And Solomon did offer three times in every year burnt–offerings and peace–offerings upon the altar which he had built unto the Lord, and he burnt incense upon the one that was before the Lord. So he finished the house.

26 And king Solomon made a ship in ‘Ezyon–geber, which is near Eloth, on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.

27 And Hiram sent in the ship his servants, seamen, 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.