所羅門的功績
1所羅門用二十年的時間興建了耶和華的殿和他自己的王宮。 2他重修希蘭送給他的城邑，讓以色列人居住。
3所羅門去攻打哈馬瑣巴，並攻取了此城。 4他興建曠野裡的達莫以及哈馬境內所有的儲貨城， 5把上伯·和崙與下伯·和崙建成有牆、有門、有閂的堅城， 6還建造巴拉、所有的儲貨城、屯車城、養馬城和他想在耶路撒冷、黎巴嫩及其統治的全境興建的城邑。 7當時國中有赫人、亞摩利人、比利洗人、希未人和耶布斯人的後裔， 8以色列人沒有滅絕他們。所羅門讓他們服勞役，至今如此。 9所羅門王沒有讓以色列人服勞役，而是讓他們做戰士、將領、戰車長和騎兵長。 10他還任命二百五十名監工負責監管工人。
11所羅門帶法老的女兒離開大衛城，來到為她建造的宮中，因為所羅門說：「我的妻子不可住在以色列王大衛的宮裡，因為約櫃所到之處都是聖潔的。」
12所羅門在門廊前他所築的耶和華的壇上向耶和華獻燔祭， 13並照摩西的規定，在安息日、朔日和每年特定的三個節期，即除酵節、七七節和住棚節獻上當獻的祭。
14所羅門照著他父親大衛的吩咐，指派祭司分班供職，讓利未人負責頌讚、輔助祭司盡每天的職責，還指派殿門守衛分班守門。這些都是上帝的僕人大衛規定的。 15他們沒有違背大衛王就庫房等工作對祭司和利未人的吩咐。
16從耶和華的殿奠基直到完工，所羅門所有的計劃都已順利完成。這樣，耶和華的殿落成了。
17之後，所羅門前往以東地區靠海的以旬·迦別和以祿。 18希蘭派懂得航海的僕人乘船隻與所羅門的僕人一同到俄斐，從那裡為所羅門王運回十五噸黃金。
Solomon’s other activities
1At the end of twenty years, during which Solomon built the temple of the Lord and his own palace, 2Solomon rebuilt the villages that Hiram8:2 Hebrew Huram, a variant of Hiram; also in verse 18 had given him, and settled Israelites in them. 3Solomon then went to Hamath Zobah and captured it. 4He also built up Tadmor in the desert and all the store cities he had built in Hamath. 5He rebuilt Upper Beth Horon and Lower Beth Horon as fortified cities, with walls and with gates and bars, 6as well as Baalath and all his store cities, and all the cities for his chariots and for his horses8:6 Or charioteers – whatever he desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon and throughout all the territory that he ruled.
7There were still people left from the Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites (these people were not Israelites). 8Solomon conscripted the descendants of all these people remaining in the land – whom the Israelites had not destroyed – to serve as slave labour, as it is to this day. 9But Solomon did not make slaves of the Israelites for his work; they were his fighting men, commanders of his captains, and commanders of his chariots and charioteers. 10They were also King Solomon’s chief officials – two hundred and fifty officials supervising the men.
11Solomon brought Pharaoh’s daughter up from the City of David to the palace he had built for her, for he said, ‘My wife must not live in the palace of David king of Israel, because the places the ark of the Lord has entered are holy.’
12On the altar of the Lord that he had built in front of the portico, Solomon sacrificed burnt offerings to the Lord, 13according to the daily requirement for offerings commanded by Moses for the Sabbaths, the New Moons and the three annual festivals – the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks and the Festival of Tabernacles. 14In keeping with the ordinance of his father David, he appointed the divisions of the priests for their duties and the Levites to lead the praise and to assist the priests according to each day’s requirement. He also appointed the gatekeepers by divisions for the various gates, because this was what David the man of God had ordered. 15They did not deviate from the king’s commands to the priests or to the Levites in any matter, including that of the treasuries.
16All Solomon’s work was carried out, from the day the foundation of the temple of the Lord was laid until its completion. So the temple of the Lord was finished.
17Then Solomon went to Ezion Geber and Elath on the coast of Edom. 18And Hiram sent him ships commanded by his own men, sailors who knew the sea. These, with Solomon’s men, sailed to Ophir and brought back four hundred and fifty talents8:18 That is, about 15 metric tons of gold, which they delivered to King Solomon.
