1 Quando Salomão acabou de construir o templo do Senhor, o palácio real e tudo o que desejou fazer,2 o Senhor apareceu-lhe pela segunda vez, como tinha aparecido em Gabaon.3 O Senhor disse-lhe: Ouvi a tua oração e a súplica que me dirigiste; consagrei esta casa que me construíste, a fim de nela fixar o meu nome para sempre; meus olhos e meu coração aí estarão perpetuamente.4 E tu, se andares diante de mim como o fez Davi, na sinceridade e retidão de teu coração, pondo em prática tudo o que te ordenei, observando os meus preceitos e minhas leis,5 eu firmarei para sempre o trono de teu reino sobre Israel, como o declarei a Davi, teu pai, nestes termos: Não te faltará jamais um descendente sobre o trono de Israel.6 Mas se vos desviardes de mim, vós e vossos filhos, e não observardes os preceitos e ordens que vos prescrevi, se vos retirardes e prestardes culto a deuses estranhos, prostrando-vos diante deles,7 eu exterminarei Israel da terra que lhe dei, lançarei de minha presença o templo que consagrei ao meu nome, e Israel será objeto de sarcasmo e zombaria para todos os povos.8 Embora seja tão alto esse templo, todo o que passar diante dele ficará pasmado, e assobiará, dizendo: Por que tratou o Senhor assim esta terra e este templo?9 E responder-lhe-ão: Porque abandonaram o Senhor, seu Deus, que tirou os seus pais do Egito, e seguiram a outros deuses, prostrando-se diante deles e adorando-os; por isso o Senhor mandou sobre eles todos esses males.10 Quando, passados vinte anos, Salomão acabou de construir os dois edifícios, o templo do Senhor e o palácio real,11 tendo-lhe Hirão, rei de Tiro, fornecido madeira de cedro e de cipreste, e também ouro, o quanto ele quis, Salomão deu a Hirão vinte cidades da Galiléia.12 Hirão veio de Tiro para ver as cidades que Salomão lhe tinha dado, mas elas não lhe agradaram,13 e disse: Que cidades são estas que me deste, irmão meu? E chamou-as terra de Cabul, nome que conservam até o dia de hoje.14 {Hirão tinha também mandado ao rei cento e vinte talentos de ouro.}15 Eis o que se refere aos trabalhos organizados pelo rei Salomão para a construção do templo do Senhor e de seu próprio palácio, de Milo, do muro de Jerusalém, de Hezer, de Magedo e de Gazer.16 O faraó, rei do Egito, subiu, tomou Gazer e queimou-a, depois de ter matado os cananeus que a habitavam; deu-a em seguida em dote à sua filha: mulher de Salomão.17 Salomão construiu, pois, Gazer, Betoron-a-Baixa,18 Baalat e Tadmor, na terra do deserto;19 e, enfim, todas as cidades entrepostos de Salomão, cidades para os carros, para a cavalaria, e tudo o que lhe aprouve edificar em Jerusalém, no Líbano e em toda a terra de seu domínio.20 Tudo o que subsistia dos amorreus, dos hiteus, dos ferezeus, dos heveus e dos jebuseus, que não faziam parte dos israelitas,21 todos os seus descendentes que tinham ficado na terra e que os israelitas não tinham exterminado, Salomão os empregou como escravos de trabalhos pesados, o que são ainda hoje.22 Quanto aos filhos de Israel, determinou que nenhum servisse como escravo, mas que fossem seus guerreiros, servos, chefes, oficiais, comandantes de seus carros e de sua cavalaria.23 Havia quinhentos e cinqüenta contramestres nos trabalhos de Salomão, os quais dirigiam a multidão dos operários.24 Subiu a filha do faraó da cidade de Davi, e veio para a casa que lhe tinha construído Salomão; foi então que ele edificou Milo.25 Três vezes por ano, Salomão oferecia holocaustos e sacrifícios pacíficos sobre o altar que tinha levantado ao Senhor, e queimava perfumes sobre o altar que estava diante do Senhor. E assim acabou ele a construção do templo.26 Equipou também o rei Salomão uma frota em Asiongaber, perto de Ailat, na praia do mar Vermelho, na terra de Edom.27 Hirão mandou seus próprios servos nessa frota, marinheiros experimentados em náutica, para ajudar os homens de Salomão.28 Foram a Ofir, de onde trouxeram quatrocentos e vinte talentos de ouro, e os apresentaram 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.