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1 Et la reine de Saba ouït le nom de Salomon et le nom du Seigneur, et elle vint pour éprouver le roi en lui proposant des énigmes.
The queen [who ruled the] Sheba [area] heard that Yahweh had caused Solomon to become famous, so she traveled to Jerusalem to ask him questions that were difficult [to answer].
2 Elle entra dans Jérusalem avec une suite nombreuse, et des chameaux chargés de parfums et d'une immense quantité d'or et de pierres précieuses; elle fut introduite auprès de Salomon, et elle lui dit toutes les choses qu'il y avait en son cœur.
She came with a large group of wealthy/influential people, and she brought camels that were loaded with spices, and valuable gems, and a lot of gold. When she met Solomon, she asked him questions about all the topics/things in which she was interested.
3 Salomon l'éclaira sur toutes ses questions; il n'y eut pas une de ses questions à laquelle le roi négligeât de répondre.
Solomon answered all her questions. He explained everything that she asked about, even things that were very difficult.
4 Et la reine de Saba vit toute la sagesse de Salomon, le palais qu'il avait bâti,
The queen realized that Solomon was very wise. She saw his palace;
5 Les mets de sa table, les logements de ses serviteurs, la tenue de ses officiers, ses vêtements, ses échansons, et les holocaustes qu'il offrait dans le temple du Seigneur, et elle en fut hors d'elle-même.
she saw the food that was served on his table [every day]; she saw where his officials lived (OR, how his officials were seated at the table), their uniforms, the servants who served the food and wine, and the sacrifices that he took to the temple to be offered. She was extremely amazed.
6 Et elle dit au roi Salomon: C'était la vérité qu'on m'avait dite en mon pays,
She said to King Solomon, “Everything that I heard in my own country about you and about how wise you are is true!
7 Au sujet de ton éloquence et de ta sagesse; j'avais refusé de croire ce qu'on m'en avait rapporté, jusqu'à ce que je fusse venue moi-même et que j'eusse vu de mes yeux; et je reconnais qu'on ne m'avait point appris la moitié de ce qui réellement existe. Tu as beaucoup ajouté aux merveilles dont j'avais ouï parler chez moi.
But I did not believe it was true until I came here and saw it myself. But really, what they told me is only half [of what they could have told me about you]. You are extremely wise and rich, more than what people told me.
8 Heureuses tes femmes, heureux tes serviteurs qui sont toujours auprès de toi, et qui recueillent toute ta sagesse.
Your wives are very fortunate! Your officials who are constantly standing in front of you and listening to the wise things that you say are also fortunate!
9 Béni soit le Seigneur ton Dieu qui s'est complu en toi, pour te donner le trône d'Israël, parce que le Seigneur Dieu aime ce peuple, et qu'il l'affermira pour toujours. Le Seigneur t'a fait leur roi pour que les jugements soient selon la justice et selon l'équité.
Praise Yahweh, your God, who has shown that he is pleased with you by causing you to become the king of Israel! God has always loved the Israeli people, and therefore he has appointed you to be their king, in order that you will rule them fairly and righteously.”
10 Elle donna à Salomon cent vingt talents d'or, et une immense quantité d'épices et de pierres précieuses. Il n'était jamais arrivé à Jérusalem autant d'épices que la reine de Saba en donna au roi Salomon.
Then the queen gave to the king [the things that she had brought. She gave him] almost five tons of gold and a large amount of spices and valuable gems. Never again did King Solomon receive more spices than the queen gave him at that time.
11 Et le vaisseau d'Hiram qui avait transporté l'or d'Ophir, apporta une énorme quantité de bois rares et de pierres précieuses.
In the ships that belonged to King Hiram, in which they had previously brought gold from Ophir, they also brought a large amount of juniper wood and gems/valuable stones.
12 Et le roi fit avec les bois des balustrades pour le temple et le palais; puis, des lyres et des harpes pour les chanteurs. Il n'était jamais arrivé de tels bois rares en la terre promise, et l'on n'en avait vu nulle part avant ce jour-là.
King Solomon told his workers to use that wood to make railings/supports in the temple of Yahweh and in the king’s palace and also to make harps and lyres for the (musicians/men who played musical instruments). That wood was the largest amount of (OR, the finest) wood that had ever been seen [in Israel]. And no one since then has ever seen so much wood of that kind.
13 Et le roi Salomon donna à la reine de Saba tout ce qu'elle voulut, tout ce qu'elle lui demanda, outre ce qu'il lui donna spontanément. Et elle s'en alla, et elle retourna en sa contrée avec tous ses serviteurs.
King Solomon gave to the queen from Sheba everything that she wanted. He gave her those gifts in addition to the gifts that he always gave [to other rulers who visited him]. Then she and the people who came with her returned to her own land.
14 Et le poids de l'or, qui arriva au roi Salomon en une année, fut de six cent soixante-six talents,
Each year there was brought to Solomon a total of 25 tons of gold.
15 Sans compter les tributs de ceux qui lui étaient soumis, marchands, rois de la rive gauche de l'Euphrate, ou princes de la terre promise.
That was in addition to [the taxes] paid to him by the merchants and traders, and the annual taxes paid by the kings of Arabia and by the governors of [the regions in] Israel.
16 Et Salomon fit faire trois cents javelines d'or battu, chacune de trois cents sicles d'or,
King Solomon’s workers [took this] gold and hammered it into thin sheets and covered 200 large shields with those thin sheets of gold; they put (almost 15 pounds/more than 6 kg.) of gold on each shield.
17 Et trois cents armures d'or battu, de trois mines d'or chacune; et il les consacra dans le palais de bois du Liban.
His workers made 300 smaller shields. They covered each of them with (almost 4 pounds/1.5 kg.) of gold. Then the king put those shields in the Hall of the Forest of Lebanon.
18 Il fit faire aussi un grand trône d'ivoire, qu'il revêtit de lames d'or très fin.
His workers also made for him a large throne. [Part of it was] covered with (ivory [decorations made from)] tusks of elephants and [part of it was covered] with very fine gold.
19 On montait sur le trône par six degrés; il y avait des faces de taureaux derrière le trône, deux bras des deux côtés du siège et deux lions auprès des bras.
There were six steps in front of the throne. There was a statue of a lion on both sides of each step. So altogether there were twelve statues of lions. The back of the throne was rounded at the top. At each side of the throne there was an armrest, and alongside each armrest there was a small statue of a lion. No throne like that had ever existed in any other kingdom.
20 Il y avait douze lions sur les degrés, six à droite, six à gauche; on ne voyait rien de semblable dans aucun royaume.
21 Et tous les vases dont se servait Salomon étaient d'or, ses baignoires étaient d'or; tous les meubles du palais de bois du Liban étaient d'or et de pièces rapportées. On n'y voyait point d'argent; car ce métal était compté pour rien du temps de Salomon;
All of Solomon’s cups were made of gold, and all the various dishes in the Hall of the Forest of Lebanon were made of gold. They did not make things from silver, because during the years that Solomon [ruled], silver was not considered to be valuable.
22 Et cela parce que Salomon avait un vaisseau de Tharsis à la mer, avec la flotte d'Hiram; tous les trois ans un vaisseau venait de Tharsis chargé d'or, d'argent et de pierres rares et travaillées.
The king had a (fleet/large number) of ships that sailed with the ships that King Hiram owned. Every three years the ships returned [from the places to which they had sailed], bringing gold, silver, ivory, monkeys, and baboons (OR, peacocks).
23 Et Salomon fut grand en science et en richesses par-dessus tous les rois de la terre.
King Solomon became richer and wiser than any other king.
24 Tous les rois de la terre demandèrent à le voir, et à entendre la sagesse que Dieu avait mise en son cœur.
People from all over the world wanted to come and listen to the wise things that Solomon said, things that God had put into his mind.
25 Et, chaque année, ils lui apportaient tous des présents des vases d'or, des vêtements, de la myrrhe, des épices, des chevaux et des mules.
All the people who came to him brought presents: They brought things made from silver or gold, or robes, or weapons (OR, myrrh), or spices, or horses, or mules. The people continued to do this every year.
26 Salomon avait, pour ses chars, quatre mille cavales, et dix mille chevaux pour ses cavaliers; il les avait mis dans les villes des chars ou auprès de lui à Jérusalem, et il était chef de tous les rois depuis l'Euphrate jusqu'au territoire des Philistins et aux frontières de l'Égypte.
Solomon acquired 1,400 chariots and 12,000 men who rode [on the horses] (OR, [in the chariots]). Solomon put some of them in Jerusalem and some of them in other cities where he kept his chariots.
27 Et le roi rendit à Jérusalem l'or et l'argent aussi communs que les pierres; il y amena autant de cèdres qu'il y a de mûriers dans les champs.
During the years that Solomon was king, silver became as common in Jerusalem as stones; and [lumber from] cedar trees in the foothills of Judah was as plentiful as [lumber from] fig trees.
28 Salomon tirait des chevaux de l'Égypte; il y avait à Thécoé un marché royal, et on les allait prendre à Thécoé à prix d'argent.
Solomon’s agents bought horses and supervised the men who brought them into Israel from the areas of Musri and Cilicia [that were famous for breeding horses].
29 L'attelage d'un char, venant d'Égypte, coûtait cent sicles d'argent et cinquante sicles par cheval. Il en était de même pour tous les rois des Hettéens et de la Syrie; ces achats venaient par mer.
In Musri they bought chariots and horses; they paid 600 pieces of silver for each chariot and 150 pieces of silver for each horse. They brought them to Israel. Then they sold many of them to the kings of the Heth people-group and the kings of Syria.
