1 Depois de vinte anos, durante os quais Salomão construiu o templo do Senhor e o seu próprio palácio,
2 ele reconstruiu as cidades que Hirão lhe tinha dado, e nelas estabeleceu israelitas.
3 Depois atacou Hamate-Zobá e a conquistou.
4 Também reconstruiu Tadmor, no deserto, e todas as cidades-armazéns que havia construído em Hamate.
5 Reconstruiu Bete-Horom Alta e Bete-Horom Baixa, cidades fortificadas com muros, portas e trancas,
6 e também Baalate e todas as cidades-armazéns que possuía, e todas as cidades onde ficavam os seus carros e os seus cavalos. Construiu tudo o que desejou em Jerusalém, no Líbano e em todo o território que governou.
7 Todos os não israelitas, descendentes dos hititas, dos amorreus, dos ferezeus, dos heveus e dos jebuseus,
8 que não tinham sido mortos pelos israelitas, Salomão recrutou para o trabalho forçado, como continuam até hoje.
9 Mas Salomão não obrigou nenhum israelita a trabalhos forçados; eles eram seus homens de guerra, chefes de seus capitães, comandantes dos seus carros e condutores de carros.
10 Também eram israelitas os principais funcionários do rei Salomão, duzentos e cinqüenta funcionários que supervisionavam os trabalhadores.
11 Salomão levou a filha do faraó da cidade de Davi para o palácio que ele havia construído para ela, pois dissera: "Minha mulher não deve morar no palácio de Davi, rei de Israel, pois os lugares onde entrou a arca do Senhor são sagrados".
12 Sobre o altar do Senhor, que havia construído diante do pórtico, Salomão passou a sacrificar holocaustos ao Senhor,
13 conforme as determinações de Moisés acerca das ofertas diárias e dos sábados, das luas novas e das três festas anuais: a festa dos pães sem fermento, a festa das semanas e a festa das cabanas.
14 De acordo com a ordem de seu pai Davi, designou os grupos dos sacerdotes para as suas tarefas, e os levitas para conduzirem o louvor e ajudarem os sacerdotes, conforme as determinações diárias. Também designou, por divisões, os porteiros das várias portas, conforme o que Davi, homem de Deus, tinha ordenado.
15 Todas as ordens dadas pelo rei aos sacerdotes e aos levitas, inclusive as ordens relativas aos tesouros, foram seguidas à risca.
16 Todo o trabalho de Salomão foi executado, desde o dia em que foram lançados os alicerces do templo do Senhor até seu término. Assim foi concluído o templo do Senhor.
17 Depois Salomão foi a Eziom-Geber e a Elate, no litoral de Edom.
18 E Hirão enviou-lhe navios comandados por seus próprios marinheiros, homens que conheciam o mar. Eles navegavam com os marinheiros de Salomão até Ofir, e de lá trouxeram quinze toneladas e setecentos e cinqüenta quilos de ouro para o rei Salomão.
1 And it came to pass, at the end of twenty years, wherein Solomon had built the house of Yahweh, and his own house,
2 that, the cities which Huram had given to Solomon, Solomon built them,and caused, the sons of Israel, to dwell there.
3 And Solomon went to Hamath-zobah,and prevailed against it;
4 and he built Tadmor, in the wilderness,and all the store cities, which he built in Hamath;
5 and he built Beth-horon, the upper, and Beth-horon, the nether,fortified cities, with walls, and doors and bars;
6 and Baalath, and all the store cities which pertained to Solomon, and all the chariot cities, and the cities of the horsemen,and every delight which he delighted to build in Jerusalem, and in the Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.
7 As for all the people that were left, of the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, who were not, of Israel;
8 of their sons who were left after them in the land, whom the sons of Israel had not utterly destroyed, Solomon enrolled them as tributaryunto this day.
9 But, of the sons of Israel, were there none whom he delivered up as bondmen unto his work,for, they, were men of war, and his captains and his heroes, and captains over his chariots, and his horsemen.
10 These, moreover, were the chiefs of his officers whom King Solomon had, two hundred and fifty,who wielded dominion over the people.
11 And, the daughter of Pharaoh, Solomon brought up, out of the city of David, unto the house which he had built for her,for he said, A wife of mine must not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, for holy are those places whereinto the ark of Yahweh hath come.
12 Then, Solomon offered up ascending-sacrifices, unto Yahweh,upon the altar of Yahweh, which he had built before the porch:
13 even according to the duty of each a day upon day, offering up according to the commandment of Moses, for the sabbaths, and for the new moons, and for the appointed feasts, three times in the year,in the festival of unleavened cakes and in the festival of weeks, and in the festival of booths;
14 and he caused to stand, according to the regulation of David his father, the courses of the priests over their service and of the Levites over their charges, to offer praise and to minister before the priests, for the duty of each day upon its own day, and the gate-keepers in their courses, at every several gate,for, such, was the commandment of David the man of God;
15 neither departed they from the commandment of the king, concerning the priests and the Levites as to any duty, or as to the treasuries.
16 So all the work was prepared, from the day of founding the house of Yahweh, even as far as the finishing thereof,complete was the house of Yahweh.
17 Then, went Solomon to Ezion-geber, and unto Eloth on the seashore in the land of Edom.
18 And Huram sent himby the hand of his servantsships, and servants skilled in the sea, and they came, with the servants of Solomon, towards Ophir, and took from thence, four hundred and fifty talents of gold,and brought unto King Solomon.