اول پادشاهان 10

۱ 1 و چون ملکه سبا آوازه سلیمان رادرباره اسم خداوند شنید، آمد تا او رابه مسائل امتحان کند.

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].

۲ 2 پس با موکب بسیار عظیم و با شترانی که به عطریات و طلای بسیار وسنگهای گرانبها بار شده بود به اورشلیم واردشده، به حضور سلیمان آمد و با وی از هر‌چه دردلش بود، گفتگو کرد.

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.

۳ 3 و سلیمان تمامی مسائلش را برایش بیان نمود و چیزی از پادشاه مخفی نماند که برایش بیان نکرد.

Solomon answered all her questions. He explained everything that she asked about, even things that were very difficult.

۴ 4 و چون ملکه سبا تمامی حکمت سلیمان را دید و خانه‌ای را که بنا کرده بود،

The queen realized that Solomon was very wise. She saw his palace;

۵ 5 و طعام سفره او و مجلس بندگانش را و نظام و لباس خادمانش را و ساقیانش وزینه‌ای را که به آن به خانه خداوند برمی آمد، روح در او دیگر نماند.

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.

۶ 6 و به پادشاه گفت: «آوازه‌ای که درباره کارها وحکمت تو در ولایت خود شنیدم، راست بود.

She said to King Solomon, “Everything that I heard in my own country about you and about how wise you are is true!

۷ 7 اما تا نیامدم و به چشمان خود ندیدم، اخبار راباور نکردم، و اینک نصفش به من اعلام نشده بود؛ حکمت و سعادتمندی تو از خبری که شنیده بودم، زیاده است.

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.

۸ 8 خوشابه‌حال مردان تو وخوشابه‌حال این بندگانت که به حضور تو همیشه می‌ایستند و حکمت تو را می‌شنوند.

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!

۹ 9 متبارک بادیهوه، خدای تو، که بر تو رغبت داشته، تو را برکرسی اسرائیل نشانید.

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.”

۱۰ 10 از این سبب که خداوند، اسرائیل را تا به ابد دوست می‌دارد، تو رابر پادشاهی نصب نموده است تا داوری و عدالت را بجا آوری.»

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.

۱۱ 11 و به پادشاه صد و بیست وزنه طلا وعطریات از حد زیاده و سنگهای گرانبها داد، ومثل این عطریات که ملکه سبا به سلیمان پادشاه داد، هرگز به آن فراوانی دیگر نیامد.

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.

۱۲ 12 وکشتیهای حیرام نیز که طلا از اوفیر آوردند، چوب صندل از حد زیاده، و سنگهای گرانبها ازاوفیر آوردند.

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.

۱۳ 13 و پادشاه از این چوب صندل، ستونها به جهت خانه خداوند و خانه پادشاه و عودها وبربطها برای مغنیان ساخت، و مثل این چوب صندل تا امروز نیامده و دیده نشده است.

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.

۱۴ 14 و سلیمان پادشاه به ملکه سبا، تمامی اراده او را که خواسته بود داد، سوای آنچه سلیمان ازکرم ملوکانه خویش به وی بخشید. پس او بابندگانش به ولایت خود توجه نموده، رفت.

Each year there was brought to Solomon a total of 25 tons of gold.

۱۵ 15 و وزن طلایی که در یک سال نزد سلیمان رسید ششصد و شصت و شش وزنه طلا بود.

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.

۱۶ 16 سوای آنچه از تاجران و تجارت بازرگانان وجمیع پادشاهان عرب و حاکمان مملکت می‌رسید.

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.

۱۷ 17 و سلیمان پادشاه دویست سپرطلای چکشی ساخت که برای هر سپر ششصدمثقال طلا به‌کار برده شد، و سیصد سپر کوچک طلای چکشی ساخت که برای هر سپر سه منای طلا به‌کار برده شد، و پادشاه آنها را در خانه جنگل لبنان گذاشت.

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.

۱۸ 18 و پادشاه تخت بزرگی ازعاج ساخت و آن را به زر خالص پوشانید.

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.

۱۹ 19 وتخت را شش پله بود و سر تخت از عقبش مدوربود، و به این طرف و آن طرف کرسی‌اش دسته هابود و دو شیر به پهلوی دستها ایستاده بودند.

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.

۲۰ 20 وآنجا دوازده شیر از این طرف و آن طرف بر آن شش پله ایستاده بودند که در هیچ مملکت مثل این ساخته نشده بود.

۲۱ 21 و تمامی ظروف نوشیدنی سلیمان پادشاه از طلا و تمامی ظروف خانه جنگل لبنان از زر خالص بود و هیچ‌یکی ازآنها از نقره نبود زیرا که آن در ایام سلیمان هیچ به حساب نمی آمد.

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.

۲۲ 22 زیرا پادشاه کشتیهای ترشیشی با کشتیهای حیرام به روی دریا داشت. وکشتیهای ترشیشی هر سال یک مرتبه می‌آمدند وطلا و نقره و عاج و میمونها و طاووسهامی آوردند.

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).

۲۳ 23 پس سلیمان پادشاه در دولت و حکمت ازجمیع پادشاهان جهان بزرگتر شد.

King Solomon became richer and wiser than any other king.

۲۴ 24 و تمامی اهل جهان، حضور سلیمان را می‌طلبیدند تاحکمتی را که خداوند در دلش نهاده بود، بشنوند.

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.

۲۵ 25 و هر یکی از ایشان هدیه خود را از آلات نقره و آلات طلا و رخوت و اسلحه و عطریات واسبان و قاطرها، سال به سال می‌آوردند.

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.

۲۶ 26 و سلیمان ارابه‌ها و سواران جمع کرده، هزار و چهارصد ارابه و دوازده هزار سوار داشت و آنها را در شهرهای ارابه‌ها و نزد پادشاه دراورشلیم گذاشت.

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.

۲۷ 27 و پادشاه نقره را در اورشلیم مثل سنگها و چوب سرو آزاد را مثل چوب افراغ که در صحراست، فراوان ساخت.

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.

۲۸ 28 و اسبهای سلیمان از مصر آورده می‌شد، و تاجران پادشاه دسته های آنها را می‌خریدند هر دسته را به قیمت معین.

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].

۲۹ 29 و یک ارابه را به قیمت ششصد مثقال نقره از مصر بیرون آوردند، و می‌رسانیدند و یک اسب را به قیمت صد و پنجاه، و همچنین برای جمیع پادشاهان حتیان و پادشاهان ارام به توسطآنها بیرون می‌آوردند.

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.