1 Reis 3

1 Solomon made a marriage alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt. He took Pharaoh’s daughter and brought her into David’s city until he had finished building his own house, Yahweh’s house, and the wall around Jerusalem. 2 However, the people sacrificed in the high places, because there was not yet a house built for Yahweh’s name. 3 Solomon loved Yahweh, walking in the statutes of David his father, except that he sacrificed and burned incense in the high places. 4 The king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for that was the great high place. Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on that altar. 5 In Gibeon, Yahweh appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said, "Ask for what I should give you."

6 Solomon said, "You have shown to your servant David my father great loving kindness, because he walked before you in truth, in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with you. You have kept for him this great loving kindness, that you have given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is today. 7 Now, Yahweh my God, you have made your servant king instead of David my father. I am just a little child. I don’t know how to go out or come in. 8 Your servant is among your people which you have chosen, a great people, that can’t be numbered or counted for multitude. 9 Give your servant therefore an understanding heart to judge your people, that I may discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this great people of yours?"

10 This request pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing. 11 God said to him, "Because you have asked this thing, and have not asked for yourself long life, nor have you asked for riches for yourself, nor have you asked for the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to discern justice, 12 behold, I have done according to your word. Behold, I have given you a wise and understanding heart, so that there has been no one like you before you, and after you none will arise like you. 13 I have also given you that which you have not asked, both riches and honor, so that there will not be any among the kings like you for all your days. 14 If you will walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your days."

15 Solomon awoke; and behold, it was a dream. Then he came to Jerusalem and stood before the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, and offered up burnt offerings, offered peace offerings, and made a feast for all his servants.

16 Then two women who were prostitutes came to the king, and stood before him. 17 The one woman said, "Oh, my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house. I delivered a child with her in the house. 18 The third day after I delivered, this woman delivered also. We were together. There was no stranger with us in the house, just us two in the house. 19 This woman’s child died in the night, because she lay on it. 20 She arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me while your servant slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom. 21 When I rose in the morning to nurse my child, behold, he was dead; but when I had looked at him in the morning, behold, it was not my son whom I bore."

22 The other woman said, "No! But the living one is my son, and the dead one is your son."

The first one said, "No! But the dead one is your son, and the living one is my son." They argued like this before the king.

23 Then the king said, "One says, ‘This is my son who lives, and your son is the dead one;’ and the other says, ‘No! But your son is the dead one, and my son is the living one.’"

24 The king said, "Get me a sword." So they brought a sword before the king.

25 The king said, "Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other."

26 Then the woman whose the living child was spoke to the king, for her heart yearned over her son, and she said, "Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and in no way kill him!"

But the other said, "He shall be neither mine nor yours. Divide him."

27 Then the king answered, "Give the first woman the living child, and definitely do not kill him. She is his mother."

28 All Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king, for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him to do justice.

Ka Īnoi a Horomona mō te Mātauranga

1 Nā, ka meinga a Horomona hei hunaonga ki a Parao kīngi o Īhipa; i tangohia hoki e ia te tamāhine a Parao māna, ā, kawea ana ki te pā o Rāwiri, kia oti rā anō te whare mōna te hanga, me te whare mō Ihowā, me te taiepa o Hiruhārama ā tawhio noa.

2 Ko te iwi ia patu whakahere ai i runga i ngā wāhi tiketike; kīanō hoki i hangā noatia te whare mō te ingoa o Ihowā ā tae noa ki aua rā. 3 Nā, i aroha a Horomona ki a Ihowā, i haere i ngā tikanga a tōna pāpā, a Rāwiri; otiia i patu whakahere, i tahu whakakakara ki ngā wāhi tiketike.

4 Nā, ka haere te kīngi ki Kipeono ki te patu whakahere ki reira; ko te tino wāhi tiketike hoki tērā. Kotahi mano ngā tahunga tinana i tāpaea e Horomona ki runga ki taua āta.

5 I puta a Ihowā ki a Horomona ki Kipeono, he mea moemoeā i te pō; ā, ka mea te Atua, "Īnoi mai ko te aha kia hoatu e ahau ki a koe."

6 Nā, ka mea a Horomona, "Nui atu te aroha i whakaputaina e koe ki tāu pononga, ki a Rāwiri, ki tōku pāpā, i a ia e haere ana i tōu aroaro i runga i te pono, i te tapu, i te ngākau tika ki a koe; i rongoātia anō e koe tēnei aroha nui mōna, i a koe i hōmai nei i tētahi tama ki a ia hei noho ki tōna torōna, hei pēnei me tēnei ināianei.

7 "Nā, kua meinga nei tāu pononga e koe, e Ihowā, e tōku Atua, hei kīngi i muri i a Rāwiri, i tōku pāpā; nā, he tamariki rawa ahau; kāhore e mōhio ki te haere atu, ki te haere mai. 8 Nā, kei waenganui tēnei tāu pononga i tāu iwi i whiriwhiria e koe, he iwi nui, e kore e taea te tatau, te tuhituhi rānei, i te tini. 9 Heoi, hōmai ki tāu pononga he ngākau e mahara ana ki te whakahaere tikanga ki tāu iwi, ki te wehe i te pai, i te kino; ko wai hoki e āhei te whakahaere tikanga mō tēnei iwi nui āu?"

10 Ā, pai tonu taua kupu ki te whakaaro o te Ariki; nō Horomona i tono ki tēnei mea. 11 Nā, ka mea te Atua ki a ia, "Nā, kua tono nei koe ki tēnei mea māu, ā, kīhai i tono kia maha ngā rā mōu; kīhai anō i tono ki te taonga mōu, kīhai hoki i tono kia whakamatea ōu hoariri; heoi tonoa ana e koe he mōhio ki te whakarongo ki ngā whakawā; 12 nanā, kua meatia e ahau tāu i kōrero nā. Nanā, kua hoatu e ahau he ngākau mahara, he ngākau mōhio ki a koe; kāhore he rite mōu i mua atu i a koe; e kore anō e ara ake he rite mōu i muri i a koe. 13 Ā, kua hoatu anō e ahau ki a koe ngā mea kīhai nā i tonoa mai e koe, te taonga, te korōria; ā, kāhore he tangata i roto i ngā kīngi hei rite mōu i ōu rā katoa. 14 Ā, ki te haere koe i āku ara, ki te rongo ki āku tikanga, ki āku whakahau, ki te pērā me te haere a tōu pāpā, a Rāwiri, nā, ka whakaroaina e ahau ōu rā."

15 Nā, ka oho ake a Horomona, nā, he moemoeā; ā, haere ana ia ki Hiruhārama, ka tū ki mua i te āka o te kawenata a Ihowā, tāpaea ana e ia he tahunga tinana, ā, meatia ana e ia he whakahere mō te pai, i tuku hoki i te hākari mā āna tāngata katoa.

He Whakawātia e Horomona he Take Uaua

16 Nā, ka haere mai ētahi wāhine tokorua ki reira, ki te kīngi, he wāhine kairau, ā, tū ana i tōna aroaro. 17 Nā, ka mea tētahi o ngā wāhine rā, "E tōku ariki, kotahi anō te whare i noho ai māua ko te wahine nei; ā, whānau ana ahau, ā, i roto anō ia i te whare. 18 Ā, i te toru o ngā rā o tōku whānautanga, ka whānau anō hoki tēnei wahine; i reira tahi anō māua; kāhore he tangata kē i a māua i roto i te whare; ko māua tokorua anake i roto i te whare.

19 "Nā, i te pō ka mate te tamaiti a te wahine nei; i tāmia hoki e ia. 20 Nā, ka whakatika ia i waenganui pō, ka tangohia tāku tamaiti i tōku taha, i tāu pononga e moe ana, ā, hikitia ana ki tōna uma, ko tāna tamaiti mate i whakatakotoria e ia ki tōku uma. 21 Ā, i tōku marangatanga ake i te ata ki te whakangote i tāku tamaiti, nā, kua mate; ā, ka āta tirohia e ahau i te ata, nā, ehara i tāku tamaiti i whānau nei i ahau."

22 Nā, ka mea tētahi o ngā wāhine, "Kāhore; engari nāku te tamaiti ora, nāu te tamaiti mate."

Ā, ka mea tēnei, "Kāhore; engari nāu te tamaiti mate, nāku hoki te tamaiti ora." Nā, kōrero pērā ana rāua i te aroaro o te kīngi.

23 Anō rā ko te kīngi, "E mea ana tēnei, ‘Nāku tēnei tamaiti ora, nāu te tamaiti mate’; e mea ana anō tēnei, ‘Kāhore; engari nāu te tamaiti mate, nāku hoki te tamaiti ora.’ "

24 Nā, ka mea te kīngi, "Tīkina atu he hoari māku." Ā, ka kawea mai e rātou he hoari ki te aroaro o te kīngi. 25 Nā, ka mea atu te kīngi: "Tapahia te tamaiti ora kia rua, ka hoatu i tētahi hāwhe ki tētahi o ngā wāhine, i tētahi hāwhe ki tētahi."

26 Nā, ko te kīanga atu a te wahine nāna nei te tamaiti ora ki te kīngi, he ōkaka hoki nō tōna puku aroha ki tāna tamaiti, ko tāna meatanga atu, "Auē, e tōku ariki, hoatu te pōtiki ora ki a ia; kaua rawa hoki e whakamatea!"

Ko tētahi ia i mea, "Kauaka māku, kauaka hoki māna; tapahia!"

27 Kātahi ka whakahoki te kīngi, ka mea, "Hoatu te pōtiki ora ki a ia, kaua rawa e whakamatea; ko tōna whaea ia."

28 Ā, ka rongo a Īharaira katoa ki te whakawā i whakarite ai te kīngi; heoi wehi ana rātou i te kīngi; i kite hoki rātou kei roto i a ia tō te Atua mōhio ki te whakawā.