1 When Solomon had finished the building of Yahweh’s house, the king’s house, and all Solomon’s desire which he was pleased to do, 2 Yahweh appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon. 3 Yahweh said to him, "I have heard your prayer and your supplication that you have made before me. I have made this house holy, which you have built, to put my name there forever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually. 4 As for you, 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 ordinances, 5 then I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever, as I promised to David your father, saying, ‘There shall not fail from you a man on the throne of Israel.’ 6 But if you turn away from following me, you or your children, and not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods and worship them, 7 then I will cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and I will cast this house, which I have made holy for my name, out of my sight; and Israel will be a proverb and a byword among all peoples. 8 Though this house is so high, yet everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss; and they will say, ‘Why has Yahweh done this to this land and to this house?’ 9 and they will answer, ‘Because they abandoned Yahweh their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and embraced other gods, and worshiped them, and served them. Therefore Yahweh has brought all this evil on them.’"
10 At the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the two houses, Yahweh’s house and the king’s house 11 (now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees and cypress trees, and with gold, according to all his desire), King Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee. 12 Hiram came out of Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and they didn’t please him. 13 He said, "What cities are these which you have given me, my brother?" He called them the land of Cabul to this day. 14 Hiram sent to the king one hundred twenty talents of gold.
15 This is the reason of the forced labor which king Solomon conscripted: to build Yahweh’s house, his own house, Millo, Jerusalem’s wall, Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer. 16 Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, taken Gezer, burned it with fire, killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and given it for a wedding gift to his daughter, Solomon’s wife. 17 Solomon built in the land Gezer, Beth Horon the lower, 18 Baalath, Tamar in the wilderness, 19 all the storage cities that Solomon had, the cities for his chariots, the cities for his horsemen, and that which Solomon desired to build for his pleasure in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion. 20 As for all the people who were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of the children of Israel— 21 their children who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel were not able utterly to destroy—of them Solomon raised a levy of bondservants to this day. 22 But of the children of Israel Solomon made no bondservants; but they were the men of war, his servants, his princes, his captains, and rulers of his chariots and of his horsemen. 23 These were the five hundred fifty chief officers who were over Solomon’s work, who ruled over the people who labored in the work.
24 But Pharaoh’s daughter came up out of David’s city to her house which Solomon had built for her. Then he built Millo.
25 Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar which he built to Yahweh three times per year, burning incense with them on the altar that was before Yahweh. So he finished the house.
26 King Solomon made a fleet of ships in Ezion Geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom. 27 Hiram sent in the fleet his servants, sailors who had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon. 28 They came to Ophir, and fetched from there gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.
1 Net toe Salomo gereed was met die bou van die huis van die HERE en die huis van die koning en elke begeerte wat Salomo wou uitvoer,
2 verskyn die HERE vir die tweede maal aan Salomo soos Hy aan hom verskyn het in G¡beon;
3 en die HERE sê vir hom: Ek het jou gebed en jou smeking gehoor wat jy voor my aangesig uitgespreek het; Ek het hierdie huis wat jy gebou het, geheilig deur my Naam daar te vestig tot in ewigheid; en my oë en my hart sal daar altyd wees.
4 En wat jou betref, as jy wandel voor my aangesig soos jou vader Dawid gewandel het, met 'n volkome hart en in opregtheid deur te doen net soos Ek jou beveel het, en my insettinge en verordeninge onderhou,
5 dan sal Ek die troon van jou koningskap oor Israel vir ewig bevestig, soos Ek jou vader Dawid beloof het deur te sê: Daar sal vir jou nooit 'n man ontbreek op die troon van Israel nie.
6 As julle en julle kinders ooit van My afvallig word en my gebooie, my insettinge wat Ek julle voorgehou het, nie onderhou nie, maar ander gode gaan dien en voor hulle neerbuig,
7 dan sal Ek Israel uit die land uitroei wat Ek hulle gegee het, en die huis wat Ek vir my Naam geheilig het, sal Ek van my aangesig wegwerp, sodat Israel 'n spreekwoord en 'n spotlied sal word onder al die volke.
8 En hierdie huis wat so hoog is -- elkeen wat daarlangs verbygaan, sal hom verbaas en spot, en hulle sal vra: Waarom het die HERE so gedoen met hierdie land en met hierdie huis?
9 Dan sal hulle sê: Omdat hulle die HERE hul God verlaat het wat hulle vaders uit Egipteland uitgelei het, en ander gode aangehang en daarvoor neergebuig en hulle gedien het -- daarom het die HERE al hierdie onheil oor hulle gebring.
10 En aan die einde van twintig jaar waarin Salomo die twee huise, die huis van die HERE en die huis van die koning, gebou het --
11 Hiram, die koning van Tirus, het Salomo gehelp met sederhout en sipreshout en goud soveel as hy wou hê -- gee koning Salomo aan Hiram twintig stede in die land Galil,a.
12 En Hiram het uit Tirus uitgetrek om die stede te bekyk wat Salomo hom gegee het, maar hulle was nie reg in sy oë nie.
13 Daarop sê hy: Wat vir stede is dit wat jy my gegee het, my broer? En hulle noem dit die land Kabul, tot vandag toe.
14 En Hiram het aan die koning honderd en twintig talente goud gestuur.
15 En dit was die saak van die dwangarbeiders wat koning Salomo laat opkom het om die huis van die HERE en sy huis en Millo en die muur van Jerusalem en Hasor en Meg¡ddo en Geser te bou.
17 So het Salomo dan Geser opgebou en Bet-Horon-Onder
18 en B älat en Tamar in die woestyn, in die land,
19 en al die voorraadstede wat Salomo gehad het, en die stede vir die strydwaens en die stede vir die perderuiters en wat Salomo graag wou gebou het in Jerusalem en in die L¡banon en in die hele land van sy heerskappy.
20 Al die mense wat oorgebly het van die Amoriete, Hetiete, Feresiete, Hewiete en Jebusiete, wat nie uit die kinders van Israel was nie --
21 hulle kinders wat n hulle in die land oorgebly het, wat die kinders van Israel nie met die banvloek kon tref nie, die het Salomo laat opkom vir dwangarbeid, tot vandag toe.
22 Maar van die kinders van Israel het Salomo niemand 'n slaaf gemaak nie, maar hulle was krygsmanne en sy dienaars en sy owerstes en sy adjudante en owerstes oor sy strydwaens en sy perderuiters.
23 Dit was die hoofopsigters van Salomo oor die werk: vyf honderd en vyftig wat oor die mense wat die werk verrig, bevel gevoer het.
24 Skaars het die dogter van Farao opgetrek uit die stad van Dawid na haar huis wat hy vir haar gebou het, of hy het Millo gebou.
25 En Salomo het drie maal in die jaar brandoffers en dankoffers gebring op die altaar wat hy vir die HERE gebou het, hy het naamlik rook laat opgaan by die altaar wat daar was voor die aangesig van die HERE, sodat hy die huis voltooi het.
26 Koning Salomo het ook skepe gebou in Âseon-Geber wat by Elot aan die kus van die Skelfsee in die land Edom lê.
27 Toe stuur Hiram sy dienaars op die skepe, seevaarders wat die see ken, saam met die dienaars van Salomo;
28 en hulle het in Ofir aangekom en daarvandaan goud gaan haal, vier honderd en twintig talente, en dit na koning Salomo gebring.