2 Crônicas 7

1 Now when Solomon had finished praying, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and Yahweh’s glory filled the house. 2 The priests could not enter into Yahweh’s house, because Yahweh’s glory filled Yahweh’s house. 3 All the children of Israel looked on, when the fire came down, and Yahweh’s glory was on the house. They bowed themselves with their faces to the ground on the pavement, worshiped, and gave thanks to Yahweh, saying,

"For he is good,

for his loving kindness endures forever!"

4 Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before Yahweh. 5 King Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty-two thousand head of cattle and a hundred twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the people dedicated God’s house. 6 The priests stood, according to their positions; the Levites also with instruments of music of Yahweh, which David the king had made to give thanks to Yahweh, when David praised by their ministry, saying "For his loving kindness endures forever." The priests sounded trumpets before them; and all Israel stood.

7 Moreover Solomon made the middle of the court that was before Yahweh’s house holy; for there he offered the burnt offerings and the fat of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar which Solomon had made was not able to receive the burnt offering, the meal offering, and the fat.

8 So Solomon held the feast at that time for seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great assembly, from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of Egypt.

9 On the eighth day, they held a solemn assembly; for they kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days. 10 On the twenty-third day of the seventh month, he sent the people away to their tents, joyful and glad of heart for the goodness that Yahweh had shown to David, to Solomon, and to Israel his people.

11 Thus Solomon finished Yahweh’s house and the king’s house; and he successfully completed all that came into Solomon’s heart to make in Yahweh’s house and in his own house.

12 Then Yahweh appeared to Solomon by night, and said to him, "I have heard your prayer, and have chosen this place for myself for a house of sacrifice.

13 "If I shut up the sky so that there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people, 14 if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves, pray, seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. 15 Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to prayer that is made in this place. 16 For now I have chosen and made this house holy, that my name may be there forever; and my eyes and my heart will be there perpetually.

17 "As for you, if you will walk before me as David your father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my ordinances, 18 then I will establish the throne of your kingdom, according as I covenanted with David your father, saying, ‘There shall not fail you a man to be ruler in Israel.’

19 But if you turn away and forsake my statutes and my commandments which I have set before you, and go and serve other gods and worship them, 20 then I will pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for my name, I will cast out of my sight, and I will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples. 21 This house, which is so high, everyone who passes by it will be astonished and say, ‘Why has Yahweh done this to this land and to this house?’ 22 They shall answer, ‘Because they abandoned Yahweh, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and took other gods, worshiped them, and served them. Therefore he has brought all this evil on them.’"

Te Kawanga o te Temepara

1 Nā, i te mutunga o te īnoi a Horomona, ka heke iho te ahi i te rangi, ā, pau ake te tahunga tinana, me ngā patunga tapu; ā, kī tonu te whare i te korōria o Ihowā. 2 Ā, kīhai i āhei i ngā tohunga te tomo ki te whare o Ihowā; kī tonu hoki te whare o Ihowā i te korōria o Ihowā. 3 Ā, ka mātakitaki ngā tama katoa a Īharaira i te hekenga iho o te ahi, i te korōria hoki o Ihowā i runga i te whare; nā, ka piko ō rātou kanohi ki te whenua ki ngā papa, ā, koropiko ana rātou, whakamoemiti ana ki a Ihowā, me te kī anō,

"Nō te mea he pai ia;

he mau tonu tāna mahi tohu."

4 Nā, kei te patu te kīngi rātou ko te iwi katoa i ngā patunga tapu ki te aroaro o Ihowā. 5 Nā, patua ana e Kīngi Horomona he patunga tapu, e rua tekau mā rua mano kau, kotahi rau e rua tekau mano hipi. Nā, kua tāia te kawa o te whare o te Atua e te kīngi, e te iwi katoa. 6 Tū ana tērā ngā tohunga i te aronga o ā rātou mahi, ko ngā Rīwaiti hoki me ngā mea rangi waiata a Ihowā, i hangā nei e Kīngi Rāwiri hei whakawhetai ki a Ihowā – he mau tonu nei tāna mahi tohu – i ngā wā i meinga ai rātou e Rāwiri hei whakamoemiti māna. Nā, whakatangi ana ngā tohunga i ngā tētere ki tō rātou aroaro; ā, tū ana a Īharaira katoa.

7 I whakatapua anō e Horomona a waenganui o te marae i mua i te whare o Ihowā; i tukua hoki e ia ki reira he tahunga tinana, me te ngako o ngā whakahere mō te pai. He iti hoki nō te āta parāhi i hangā e Horomona hei meatanga mō ngā tahunga tinana, mō ngā whakahere totokore, mō ngā ngako.

8 Heoi, mahia ana te hākari e Horomona i taua wā, e whitu ngā rā, e rātou ko Īharaira katoa, he nui atu te huihui, nō te haerenga atu ki Hāmata tae noa ki te awa o Īhipa. 9 Nā, i te waru o ngā rā he huihui nui nā rātou. E whitu hoki ngā rā i tāia ai e rātou te kawa o te āta, ā, e whitu ngā rā o te hākari. 10 I te rua tekau mā toru o ngā rā o te whitu o ngā marama ka ungā e ia te iwi ki ō rātou tēneti, koa tonu rātou, pai tonu ngā ngākau i te pai i meinga e Ihowā ki a Rāwiri, ki a Horomona, ki tāna iwi anō, ki a Īharaira.

11 Nā, kua oti i a Horomona te whare o Ihowā, me te whare o te kīngi. Nā, ko ngā mea katoa i puta ki te ngākau o Horomona kia mahia ki te whare o Ihowā, ki tōna whare ake hoki, oti pai ana i a ia.

Ka Puta anō a Ihowā ki a Horomona

12 Nā, ka puta a Ihowā ki a Horomona i te pō, ā, ka mea ki a ia:

"Kua rongo ahau i tāu īnoi, kua whiriwhiria anō e ahau tēnei wāhi mōku, hei whare patunga tapu.

13 "Ki te tūtakina e ahau te rangi, ā, kāhore he ua, ki te whakahaua rānei e ahau ngā māwhitiwhiti kia kai i te whenua, ki te ungā rānei e ahau tētahi mate urutā ki tāku iwi; 14 heoi ki te whakaiti tāku iwi i a rātou, kua karangatia nei hoki tōku ingoa ki a rātou, ki te īnoi, ā, ka rapu i tōku mata, ka tahuri mai i ō rātou ara hē; ka whakarongo mai ahau i te rangi, ka muru i tō rātou hara, ka whakaora i te mate o tō rātou whenua. 15 Ko tēnei ka titiro ōku kanohi, ka tahuri anō ōku taringa ki ngā mea e īnoia ana ki tēnei wāhi. 16 Kua whiriwhiria nei hoki e ahau, kua whakatapua ināianei tēnei whare, hei waihotanga iho mō tōku ingoa ā ake ake; ko reira anō ōku kanohi, me tōku ngākau, i ngā rā katoa.

17 "Nā, ko koe, ki te rite tāu haere i tōku aroaro ki te haere a tōu pāpā, a Rāwiri, ki te mahia ngā mea katoa i whakahaua e ahau ki a koe, ki te puritia e koe āku tikanga me āku whakaritenga; 18 kātahi ahau ka whakapūmau i te torōna o tōu kīngitanga, ka pērā me tāku kawenata ki tōu pāpā, ki a Rāwiri, i ahau i mea rā, ‘E kore e whakakorea he tangata māu hei kāwana mō Īharaira.’

19 "Tēnā ki te tahuri kē atu koutou, ā, ka whakarere i āku tikanga, i āku whakahau ka hoatu nei e ahau ki tō koutou aroaro, ā, ka haere, ka mahi ki ngā atua kē, ka koropiko ki a rātou; 20 kātahi ō rātou pakiaka ka unuhia ake e ahau i tōku oneone i hoatu nei e ahau ki a rātou; kātahi tēnei whare i whakatapua nei e ahau mō tōku ingoa, ka ākiritia atu e ahau i tōku aroaro, ā, ka meinga hei whakatauki, hei taunutanga i roto i ngā iwi katoa. 21 Nā, ko tēnei whare e tiketike nei, ka ai hei mīharotanga mā ngā tāngata katoa e haere ana i tōna taha; ā, ka mea rātou, ‘Nā te aha tēnei mea i meatia ai e Ihowā ki tēnei whenua, ki tēnei whare?’ 22 Nā, ka whakautua e rātou, ‘Mō rātou i whakarere i a Ihowā, i te Atua o ō rātou mātua i whakaputa mai nei i a rātou i te whenua o Īhipa, mō rātou i tango ki ngā atua kē, ā, koropiko ana ki a rātou, mahi ana ki a rātou; nā reira, i kawea ai e ia tēnei hē katoa ki a rātou.’ "