歷代志下 8

1 所羅門建造耶和華殿和王宮，二十年才完畢了。

It happened at the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the house of the LORD, and his own house,

2 以後所羅門重新修築希蘭送給他的那些城邑，使以色列人住在那裏。

that the cities which Hiram had given to Solomon, Solomon built them, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there.

3 所羅門往哈馬瑣巴去，攻取了那地方。

Solomon went to Hamath Zobah, and prevailed against it.

4 所羅門建造曠野裏的達莫，又建造哈馬所有的積貨城，

He built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the storage cities, which he built in Hamath.

5 又建造上伯‧和崙、下伯‧和崙作為保障，都有牆，有門，有閂；

Also he built Upper Beth Horon, and Lower Beth Horon, fortified cities, with walls, gates, and bars;

6 又建造巴拉和所有的積貨城，並屯車輛馬兵的城，與耶路撒冷、黎巴嫩，以及自己治理的全國中所願意建造的。

and Baalath, and all the storage cities that Solomon had, and all the cities for his chariots, and the cities for his horsemen, and all that Solomon desired to build for his pleasure in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.

7 至於國中所剩下不屬以色列人的赫人、亞摩利人、比利洗人、希未人、耶布斯人，

As for all the people who were left of the Hethites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of Israel;

8 就是以色列人未曾滅絕的，所羅門挑取他們的後裔作服苦的奴僕，直到今日。

of their descendants who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel did not destroy, of them Solomon conscripted for slave labor to this day.

9 惟有以色列人，所羅門不使他們當奴僕做工，乃是作他的戰士、軍長的統領、車兵長、馬兵長。

But of the children of Israel, Solomon made no slaves for his work; but they were men of war, and his commanders, and his captains, and rulers of his chariots and of his horsemen.

10 所羅門王有二百五十督工的，監管工人。

These were the chief officers of king Solomon: five hundred fifty, who ruled over the people.

11 所羅門將法老的女兒帶出大衛城，上到為她建造的宮裏；因所羅門說：「耶和華約櫃所到之處都為聖地，所以我的妻不可住在以色列王大衛的宮裏。」

Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the City of David to the house that he had built for her; for he said, "My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, because the places where the ark of the LORD has come are holy."

12 所羅門在耶和華的壇上，就是在廊子前他所築的壇上，與耶和華獻燔祭；

Then Solomon offered burnt offerings to the LORD on the altar of the LORD, which he had built before the porch,

13 又遵着摩西的吩咐在安息日、月朔，並一年三節，就是除酵節、七七節、住棚節，獻每日所當獻的祭。

even as the duty of every day required, offering according to the commandment of Moses, on the Sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the set feasts, three times in the year, in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tents.

14 所羅門照着他父大衛所定的例，派定祭司的班次，使他們各供己事，又使利未人各盡其職，讚美耶和華，在祭司面前做每日所當做的；又派守門的按着班次看守各門，因為神人大衛是這樣吩咐的。

He appointed, according to the ordinance of David his father, the divisions of the priests to their service, and the Levites to their offices, to praise, and to minister before the priests, as the duty of every day required; the doorkeepers also by their divisions at every gate: for so had David the man of God commanded.

15 王所吩咐眾祭司和利未人的，無論是管府庫或辦別的事，他們都不違背。

They did not depart from the commandment of the king to the priests and Levites concerning any matter, or concerning the treasures.

16 所羅門建造耶和華的殿，從立根基直到成功的日子，工料俱備。這樣，耶和華的殿全然完畢。

Now all the work of Solomon was carried out from the day of the foundation of the house of the LORD, until it was finished. So the house of the LORD was completed.

17 那時，所羅門往以東地靠海的以旬‧迦別和以祿去。

Then went Solomon to Ezion Geber, and to Eilat, on the seashore in the land of Edom.

18 希蘭差遣他的臣僕，將船隻和熟悉泛海的僕人送到所羅門那裏。他們同着所羅門的僕人到了俄斐，得了四百五十他連得金子，運到所羅門王那裏。

And Hiram sent him ships and servants who had knowledge of the sea by the hands of his servants; and they came with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and fetched from there four hundred fifty talents of gold, and brought them to king Solomon.