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ソロモンに現れた主
1ソロモン王が神殿と宮殿、それに前々から建てたいと望んでいた建物をすべて完成させた時、 2-3かつてギブオンで現れた主が、再びソロモンに現れて語りました。「わたしはあなたの祈りを聞いた。あなたの建てたこの神殿をいつまでもわたしのものとしよう。いつも喜んでここを見守っていよう。 4父ダビデのように、あなたもわたしの前で誠実で、いつもわたしの命じることを守るなら、 5父ダビデに、『あなたの子孫が、いつもイスラエルの王座につくようにする』と約束したとおり、あなたの子孫を永遠にイスラエルの王座につかせよう。 6しかし、もしあなたか、あなたの子孫がわたしに背き、わたしのおきてを捨ててほかの神々を拝むなら、 7イスラエルの民を、彼らに与えた地から追い払う。また、わたしにささげられた神殿を投げ捨てる。イスラエルは、すべての国々の物笑いとなり、見せしめとなるだろう。 8この神殿も廃墟と化し、そばを通る者はみな驚いてささやき、『なぜ主は、この地と神殿とをこのようにされたのだろう』と聞くだろう。 9その時人々は、『イスラエルの民は、エジプトから連れ出していただいた神を捨て、ほかの神々を拝むようになった。だから神はこのような災いを下されたのだ』と言うだろう。」
その他のソロモンの事業
10二十年がかりで、神殿と宮殿を建て終えたソロモン王は、 11-12ツロの王ヒラムに、ガリラヤにある二十の町を与えました。ヒラムが建築用のレバノン杉と糸杉の材木や金を提供してくれたお返しでした。ところが、ヒラムは町々を視察して、それが気に入らなかったので、 13「いったい何ですか。これでは、まるっきり荒れ地ではないか」と言いました。それで今も、その町々は「カブルの地」（「荒れ果てた地」の意）と呼ばれています。 14ヒラムはソロモンに、実に百二十タラント（四トン）の金を贈っていたからです。
15ソロモン王は労働者を集めて、神殿と宮殿のほかにも、ミロの要塞、エルサレムの城壁、ハツォルとメギドとゲゼルの町々を造りました。 16ゲゼルは、以前エジプトの王が攻め取って焼き払い、そこに住むカナン人を殺した町ですが、のちに、ソロモンの妻となった自分の娘に結婚の贈り物として与えていました。 17-18そこでソロモンは、下ベテ・ホロン、バアラテ、荒野の町タデモルとともに、このゲゼルを再建したのです。 19王はまた、穀物倉庫の町を建て、戦車隊や騎兵隊の駐留する町、それに別荘の町をエルサレム近郊やレバノン山麓、その他の地に造りました。
20-21ソロモン王は、エモリ人、ヘテ人、ペリジ人、ヒビ人、エブス人など、征服した国々の生き残った者を奴隷として用いました。イスラエル人がこれらの国を征服した時、完全に滅ぼすことができずに生き残った者たちです。 22しかし、イスラエル人を奴隷にはしませんでした。イスラエル人は、兵士、役人、将校、戦車隊と騎兵隊の長にしました。 23また、奴隷を監督するイスラエル人が五百五十人いました。
24ソロモン王は、ファラオの娘をエルサレムの旧市内に当たるダビデの町から、宮殿の中に建てた建物に移した時、ミロの要塞を造りました。
25神殿が完成してから、王は年に三度、祭壇に、焼き尽くすいけにえと和解のいけにえをささげ、そこで香をたきました。
26またソロモン王は、エドムの地の、紅海に面したエラテに近いエツヨン・ゲベルに造船所を造り、そこで船団を組みました。 27-28ヒラム王はこの船団の乗組員を補強するため、熟練した水夫を差し向けました。彼らはオフィルとの間を往復し、四百二十タラント（約十四トン）もの金を、ソロモン王のもとへ運んだのです。
The Lord appears to Solomon
1When Solomon had finished building the temple of the Lord and the royal palace, and had achieved all he had desired to do, 2the Lord appeared to him a second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon. 3The Lord said to him:
‘I have heard the prayer and plea you have made before me; I have consecrated this temple, which you have built, by putting my Name there for ever. My eyes and my heart will always be there.
4‘As for you, if you walk before me faithfully with integrity of heart and uprightness, as David your father did, and do all I command and observe my decrees and laws, 5I will establish your royal throne over Israel for ever, as I promised David your father when I said, “You shall never fail to have a successor on the throne of Israel.”
6‘But if you9:6 The Hebrew is plural. or your descendants turn away from me and do not observe the commands and decrees I have given you9:6 The Hebrew is plural. and go off to serve other gods and worship them, 7then I will cut off Israel from the land I have given them and will reject this temple I have consecrated for my Name. Israel will then become a byword and an object of ridicule among all peoples. 8This temple will become a heap of rubble. All9:8 See some Septuagint manuscripts, Old Latin, Syriac, Arabic and Targum; Hebrew And though this temple is now imposing, all who pass by will be appalled and will scoff and say, “Why has the Lord done such a thing to this land and to this temple?” 9People will answer, “Because they have forsaken the Lord their God, who brought their ancestors out of Egypt, and have embraced other gods, worshipping and serving them – that is why the Lord brought all this disaster on them.” ’
Solomon’s other activities
10At the end of twenty years, during which Solomon built these two buildings – the temple of the Lord and the royal palace – 11King Solomon gave twenty towns in Galilee to Hiram king of Tyre, because Hiram had supplied him with all the cedar and juniper and gold he wanted. 12But when Hiram went from Tyre to see the towns that Solomon had given him, he was not pleased with them. 13‘What kind of towns are these you have given me, my brother?’ he asked. And he called them the Land of Kabul,9:13 Kabul sounds like the Hebrew for good-for-nothing. a name they have to this day. 14Now Hiram had sent to the king 120 talents9:14 That is, about 4 metric tons of gold.
15Here is the account of the forced labour King Solomon conscripted to build the Lord’s temple, his own palace, the terraces,9:15 Or the Millo; also in verse 24 the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, Megiddo and Gezer. 16(Pharaoh king of Egypt had attacked and captured Gezer. He had set it on fire. He killed its Canaanite inhabitants and then gave it as a wedding gift to his daughter, Solomon’s wife. 17And Solomon rebuilt Gezer.) He built up Lower Beth Horon, 18Baalath, and Tadmor9:18 The Hebrew may also be read Tamar. in the desert, within his land, 19as well as all his store cities and the towns for his chariots and for his horses9:19 Or charioteers – whatever he desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon and throughout all the territory he ruled.
20There were still people left from the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites (these peoples were not Israelites). 21Solomon conscripted the descendants of all these peoples remaining in the land – whom the Israelites could not exterminate9:21 The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or people to the Lord, often by totally destroying them. – to serve as slave labour, as it is to this day. 22But Solomon did not make slaves of any of the Israelites; they were his fighting men, his government officials, his officers, his captains, and the commanders of his chariots and charioteers. 23They were also the chief officials in charge of Solomon’s projects – 550 officials supervising those who did the work.
24After Pharaoh’s daughter had come up from the City of David to the palace Solomon had built for her, he constructed the terraces.
25Three times a year Solomon sacrificed burnt offerings and fellowship offerings on the altar he had built for the Lord, burning incense before the Lord along with them, and so fulfilled the temple obligations.
26King Solomon also built ships at Ezion Geber, which is near Elath in Edom, on the shore of the Red Sea.9:26 Or the Sea of Reeds 27And Hiram sent his men – sailors who knew the sea – to serve in the fleet with Solomon’s men. 28They sailed to Ophir and brought back 420 talents9:28 That is, about 14 metric tons of gold, which they delivered to King Solomon.
