2 Cronache 1
1 OR Salomone, figliuolo di Davide, si fortificò nel suo reame; e il Signore Iddio suo [fu] con lui, e l'ingrandì sommamente.
David’s son [King] Solomon was able to gain complete control over his kingdom, because Yahweh his God helped him and enabled him to become very powerful.
2 E Salomone parlò a tutto Israele, ai capi delle migliaia, e delle centinaia, ed ai giudici, ed a tutti i principali di tutto Israele, capi di famiglie paterne.
[When] David [was king, he had arranged for a new] Sacred Tent [to be] made in Jerusalem. Then David [and the Israeli leaders] had brought God’s Sacred Chest from Kiriath-Jearim [city] to the new Sacred Tent in Jerusalem that he had prepared for it. But [when Solomon became the king, ] the first Sacred Tent was still at Gibeon [city]. That was the tent that Moses, the man who served God [well], had [arranged to be] made in the desert. And the bronze altar that Bezalel, the son of Uri and grandson of Hur, had made was also still in Gibeon, in front of the first Sacred Tent. [One day] Solomon summoned the army commanders of 1,000 soldiers and the commanders of 100 soldiers and the judges and all the other leaders in Israel. He told them to go with him to Gibeon. So they all went to a hill in Gibeon [where the Sacred Tent was], and Solomon and all the others with him worshiped Yahweh there.
3 Ed egli, con tutta questa raunanza, andò all'alto luogo ch' [era] in Gabaon; perciocchè quivi era il Tabernacolo della convenenza di Dio, il qual Mosè, servitor del Signore, avea fatto nel deserto.
4 Ma Davide avea trasportata l'Arca di Dio, da Chiriat-iearim, nel [luogo] ch'egli le avea apparecchiato; perciocchè egli le avea teso un Tabernacolo in Gerusalemme.
5 L'altar di rame, che Besaleel, figliuolo di Uri, figliuolo di Hur, avea fatto, [era] eziandio quivi [in Gabaon], davanti al Tabernacolo del Signore. E Salomone, e la raunanza, lo ricercò.
6 E Salomone offerse quivi, davanti al Signore, sopra l'altar di rame, ch'[era] nel Tabernacolo della convenenza, mille olocausti.
Then Solomon went up to the bronze altar in front of the Sacred Tent, and he offered 1,000 animals to be [killed and] completely burned [on the altar].
7 In quella notte Iddio apparve a Salomone, e gli disse: Chiedi ciò [che tu vuoi] che io ti dia.
That night God appeared to Solomon [in a dream] and said to him, “Request whatever you want me to give to you.”
8 E Salomone disse a Dio: Tu hai usata gran benignità inverso Davide, mio padre, avendomi costituito re in luogo suo.
Solomon replied, “You were very kind to David my father, and now you have appointed me to be the king to succeed him.
9 Ora, o Signore Iddio, sia verificata la tua parola, che tu hai detta a Davide, mio padre; perciocchè tu mi hai costituito re sopra un popolo, che è in gran numero come la polvere della terra.
So Yahweh my God, you have caused me to become the king to rule people who are as many as the particles of dirt on the earth. So do what you promised my father David.
10 Dammi ora sapienza, e scienza, per andare e venir davanti a questo popolo; perciocchè, chi potrebbe giudicare questo tuo gran popolo?
Please enable me to be wise and to know [what I should do], in order that I may rule these people [well], because there is no one who can rule all this great nation of yours [without your help].”
11 E Iddio disse a Salomone: Perciocchè tu hai avuto questo in cuore, e non hai chieste ricchezze, nè facoltà, nè gloria, nè la vita de' tuoi nemici; nè anche hai chiesta lunga vita; anzi hai chiesta sapienza, e scienza, per poter giudicare il mio popolo, sopra il quale io ti ho costituito re,
God replied, “[I am pleased with what] you desire; you have not requested a huge amount of money or to be honored or that your enemies be killed. And you have not requested that you live for a long time. Instead, you have requested that [I enable] you [to] be wise and [to] know [what you should do] in order that you may govern [well] my people whom I have appointed you to rule.
12 sapienza e scienza ti è data; ed anche ti donerò ricchezze, e facoltà, e gloria, la cui pari i re che [sono stati] davanti a te non hanno avuta, e non avranno [quelli che saranno] dopo te.
Therefore I will enable you to be wise and to know [what you should do to rule my people well]. But I will also enable you to have a huge amount of money and to be honored, more than anyone who was previously a king ever was honored, more than anyone who later becomes king will be honored.”
13 Poi Salomone se ne venne in Gerusalemme, dall'alto luogo ch' [era] in Gabaon, d'innanzi al Tabernacolo della convenenza; e regnò sopra Israele.
Then Solomon [and the people who were with him all] left from being in front of he Sacred Tent [on the hill in Gibeon], and they returned to Jerusalem. From there he ruled the Israeli people.
14 E SALOMONE adunò carri e cavalieri; ed ebbe mille quattrocento carri, e dodicimila cavalieri, i quali egli stanziò per le città dove teneva i carri, ed appresso del re in Gerusalemme.
Solomon acquired 1,400 chariots and 12,000 men who rode [on horses]. He put some of the chariots and horses in Jerusalem, and put some of them in various other cities.
15 E il re fece che l'argento e l'oro erano in Gerusalemme in copia come le pietre; ed i cedri come i sicomori, che [son] per la campagna.
During the years that Solomon was king, silver and gold were as common in Jerusalem as stones, and [lumber from] cedar trees were as plentiful as [lumber from] ordinary sycamore trees in the foothills.
16 Ora, quant'è alla tratta dei cavalli, e del filo, che Salomone avea di Egitto, i fattori del re prendevano il filo a [certo] prezzo;
Solomon’s horses were imported/brought from Egypt and from [the] Kue [region in Turkey].
17 e comperavano, e traevano fuor di Egitto due coppie di cavalli, per seicento [sicli] d'argento; e ciascun cavallo, per cencinquanta. E così per le mani di que' [fattori] se ne traeva fuori, per tutti i re degli Hittei, e per i re della Siria.
In Egypt his men paid 15 pounds of silver for each chariot and 3-3/4 pounds of silver for each horse. They also exported/sold many of them to the kings of the Heth and Aram people-groups.
