3. Krallar 6

¹İsrail oğullarının Mısır'dan çıkışının dörtyüz kırkıncı yılında, kral Süleyman'ın İsrail üzerindeki krallığının dördüncü yılının ikinci ayında, 1α kral, evin temelini atmak için büyük, değerli taşlar ve yontulmamış taşlar taşımalarını buyurdu. 1β Süleyman'ın adamları ve Hiram'ın adamları taşları yonttular ve onları yerleştirdiler. 1γ Dördüncü yılda, Nisan ayında, yani ikinci ayda, Rab'bin evinin temeli atıldı. 1δ On birinci yılda, Baal ayında (ki bu sekizinci aydır), ev tüm ayrıntılarına ve tüm düzenine göre tamamlandı.

²Kralın Rab için inşa ettiği evin uzunluğu kırk arşın, genişliği yirmi arşın ve yüksekliği yirmi beş arşındı.

³Tapınağın önündeki eyvanın uzunluğu, evin genişliğine uygun olarak yirmi arşındı; genişliği ise evin önünde on arşındı. Böylece evi inşa edip tamamladı.

⁴Ev için içeriye doğru daralan gizli pencereler yaptı.

⁵Evin duvarına bitişik olarak, tapınağın ve iç odanın çevresine dolanan bitişik odalar yaptı ve çevre boyunca yan odalar inşa etti.

⁶Alt katın genişliği beş arşın, orta katınki altı arşın ve üçüncü katınki yedi arşındı; çünkü evin duvarlarına girmesinler diye evin dış çevresine çıkıntılar yaptırdı.

⁷Ev inşa edilirken, ocaktan çıkarılmış hazır yontulmamış taşlarla yapıldı; öyle ki, inşaat sırasında evin içinde ne çekiç, ne balta, ne de herhangi bir demir alet sesi duyulmadı.

⁸Alt katın yan odasının girişi evin sağ tarafındaydı; döner merdivenle orta kata ve orta kattan üçüncü kata çıkılıyordu.

⁹Böylece evi inşa edip tamamladı ve evin tavanını sedir ağaçlarıyla kapladı.

¹⁰Evin her yanına beşer arşın yüksekliğinde kirişler yaptı ve bunları eve sedir ağaçlarıyla bağladı.

¹⁵Evin iç duvarlarını sedir tahtalarıyla kapladı; evin tabanından duvarlara ve tavan kirişlerine kadar iç kısmı tahtalarla kapladı ve evin iç tabanını çam tahtalarıyla döşedi.

¹⁶Evin arka kısmından yirmi arşınlık bir mesafeyi, tabandan kirişlere kadar sedir tahtalarıyla bölerek iç oda, yani En Kutsal Yer haline getirdi. 17α Tapınağın ön salonu ise kırk arşın uzunluğundaydı.

¹⁹Rab'bin antlaşma sandığını oraya koymak için evin tam ortasında, iç kısımda bir iç oda hazırladı. 20α Bu iç odanın uzunluğu yirmi arşın, genişliği yirmi arşın ve yüksekliği yirmi arşındı; burayı saf altınla kapladı. Bir sunak yaptı, 20β 21α 21β 21γ iç odanın önüne yerleştirdi ve onu altınla kapladı. 22α Evin tamamını, her yeri bitene kadar altınla kapladı. 22β

²³İç odaya on arşın yüksekliğinde, yontulmuş iki Kerubi yaptı.

²⁴Kerubilerden birinin bir kanadı beş arşın, diğer kanadı da beş arşındı; bir kanadın ucundan diğer kanadın ucuna on arşındı.

²⁵İkinci Kerubi de aynı şekildeydi; her ikisinin de ölçüsü ve biçimi birdi.

²⁶Bir Kerubinin yüksekliği on arşındı, ikinci Kerubi de aynı yükseklikteydi.

²⁷Kerubileri evin en iç odasına yerleştirdi. Kerubilerin kanatları açıktı; birinin kanadı bir duvara, diğerinin kanadı öbür duvara değiyordu; evin ortasında ise kanatları birbirine değmekteydi.

²⁸Kerubileri de altınla kapladı.

²⁹Evin bütün duvarlarının çevresini, iç ve dış odaları, Kerubi ve hurma ağacı oymalarıyla süsledi.

³⁰Evin hem iç hem dış odasının tabanını altınla kapladı.

³¹İç odanın girişi için ardıç ağacından kapı kanatları yaptı; kapı söveleri beş köşeliydi.

³²Çam ağacından iki kapı kanadı yaptı; üzerlerine Kerubiler, hurma ağaçları ve açmış çiçekler oydu ve bunları altınla kapladı; altını Kerubilerin ve hurma ağaçlarının üzerine yaydı.

³³Tapınağın girişi için de ardıç ağacından dört köşeli kapı söveleri yaptı.

³⁴İki kapı kanadı çam ağacındandı; birinci kapının dönebilen iki kanadı, ikinci kapının da dönebilen iki kanadı vardı.

³⁵Üzerlerine Kerubiler, hurma ağaçları ve açmış çiçekler oydu ve oymaların üzerini düzgünce altınla kapladı.

³⁶İç avluyu üç sıra yontulmuş taş ve bir sıra işlenmiş sedir kirişiyle çevirdi. 36α Tapınağın önündeki eyvanın avlusu için bir perde yaptı.

¹¹Rab Süleyman'a şöyle seslendi:

¹²"İnşa etmekte olduğun bu eve gelince; eğer kurallarıma göre yaşar, ilkelerimi uygular ve bütün buyruklarıma uyarak onlara göre yürürsen, baban Davut'a verdiğim sözü seninle gerçekleştireceğim.

¹³İsrail oğullarının arasında tapınağımı kuracağım ve halkım İsrail'i terk etmeyeceğim."

¹⁴Böylece Süleyman evi inşa edip tamamladı. 17β en içteki odayı.

¹⁸Evin içindeki sedir kaplamalar tomurcuk ve açmış çiçek oymalarıyla süslenmişti; her yer sedirdi, hiç taş görünmüyordu. 20β sedirden. 21α Süleyman evin içini saf altınla kapladı 21β ve altın zincirler çekti. 22β İç odanın bütün iç kısmını altın levhalarla kapladı.

¹ΚΑΙ ἐγενήθη ἐν τῷ τεσσαρακοστῷ καὶ τετρακοσιοστῷ ἔτει τῆς ἐξόδου υἱῶν ᾿Ισραὴλ ἐξ Αἰγύπτου, τῷ ἔτει τῷ τετάρτῳ ἐν μηνὶ τῷ δευτέρῳ βασιλεύοντος τοῦ βασιλέως Σαλωμὼν ἐπὶ τὸν ᾿Ισραήλ, (Κεφ. Ε´

³¹) 1α καὶ ἐνετείλατο ὁ βασιλεὺς ἵνα αἴρωσι λίθους μεγάλους τιμίους εἰς τὸν θεμέλιον τοῦ οἴκου, καὶ λίθους ἀπελεκήτους. (Κεφ. Ε´

³²) 1β καὶ ἐπελέκησαν οἱ υἱοὶ Σαλωμὼν καὶ οἱ υἱοὶ Χιρὰμ καὶ ἔβαλαν αὐτούς. 1γ ἐν τῷ ἔτει τῷ τετάρτῳ ἐθεμελίωσε τὸν οἶκον Κυρίου ἐν μηνὶ Νισώ, καὶ τῷ δευτέρῳ μηνὶ 1δ ἐν ἑνδεκάτῳ ἐνιαυτῷ, ἐν μηνὶ Βαὰλ (οὗτος ὁ μὴν ὁ ὄγδοος) συνετελέσθη ὁ οἶκος εἰς πάντα λόγον αὐτοῦ καὶ εἰς πᾶσαν διάταξιν αὐτοῦ.

²καὶ ὁ οἶκος, ὃν ᾠκοδόμησεν ὁ βασιλεὺς τῷ Κυρίῳ, τεσσαράκοντα ἐν πήχει μῆκος αὐτοῦ καὶ εἴκοσιν ἐν πήχει πλάτος αὐτοῦ καὶ πέντε καὶ εἴκοσιν ἐν πήχει τὸ ὕψος αὐτοῦ.

³καὶ τὸ αἰλὰμ κατὰ πρόσωπον τοῦ ναοῦ, εἴκοσιν ἐν πήχει μῆκος αὐτοῦ εἰς τὸ πλάτος τοῦ οἴκου καὶ δέκα ἐν πήχει τὸ πλάτος αὐτοῦ κατὰ πρόσωπον τοῦ οἴκου. καὶ ᾠκοδόμησε τὸν οἶκον καὶ συνετέλεσεν αὐτόν.

⁴καὶ ἐποίησε τῷ οἴκῳ θυρίδας παρακυπτομένας κρυπτάς.

⁵καὶ ἔδωκεν ἐπὶ τὸν τοῖχον τοῦ οἴκου μέλαθρα κυκλόθεν τῷ ναῷ καὶ τῷ δαβὶρ καὶ ἐποίησε πλευρὰς κυκλόθεν.

⁶ἡ πλευρὰ ἡ ὑποκάτω πέντε πήχεων ἐν πήχει τὸ πλάτος αὐτῆς, καὶ τὸ μέσον ἕξ, καὶ ἡ τρίτη ἑπτὰ ἐν πήχει τὸ πλάτος αὐτῆς· ὅτι διάστημα ἔδωκε τῷ οἴκῳ κυκλόθεν ἔξωθεν τοῦ οἴκου, ὅπως μὴ ἐπιλαμβάνωνται τῶν τοίχων τοῦ οἴκου.

⁷καὶ ὁ οἶκος ἐν τῷ οἰκοδομεῖσθαι αὐτὸν λίθοις ἀκροτόμοις ἀργοῖς ᾠκοδομήθη, καὶ σφῦρα καὶ πέλεκυς καὶ πᾶν σκεῦος σιδηροῦν οὐκ ἠκούσθη ἐν τῷ οἴκῳ ἐν τῷ οἰκοδομεῖσθαι αὐτόν.

⁸καὶ ὁ πυλὼν τῆς πλευρᾶς τῆς ὑποκάτωθεν ὑπὸ τὴν ὠμίαν τοῦ οἴκου τὴν δεξιάν, καὶ ἑλικτὴ ἀνάβασις εἰς τὸ μέσον καὶ ἐκ τῆς μέσης ἐπὶ τὰ τριώροφα,

⁹καὶ ᾠκοδόμησε τὸν οἶκον καὶ συνετέλεσεν αὐτόν· καὶ ἐκοιλοστάθμησε τὸν οἶκον κέδροις.

¹⁰καὶ ᾠκοδόμησε τοὺς ἐνδέσμους δι᾿ ὅλου τοῦ οἴκου πέντε ἐν πήχει τὸ ὕψος αὐτοῦ, καὶ συνέσχε τὸν σύνδεσμον ἐν ξύλοις κεδρίνοις.*

¹⁵καὶ ᾠκοδόμησε τοὺς τοίχους τοῦ οἴκου ἔσωθεν διὰ ξύλων κεδρίνων ἀπὸ τοῦ ἐδάφους τοῦ οἴκου καὶ ἕως τῶν τοίχων καὶ ἕως τῶν δοκῶν· ἐκοιλοστάθμησε συνεχόμενα ξύλοις ἔσωθεν καὶ περιέσχε τὸ ἔσω τοῦ οἴκου ἐν πλευραῖς πευκίναις.

¹⁶καὶ ᾠκοδόμησε τοὺς εἴκοσι πήχεις ἀπ᾿ ἄκρου τοῦ τοίχου τὸ πλευρὸν τὸ ἓν ἀπὸ τοῦ ἐδάφους ἕως τῶν δοκῶν, καὶ ἐποίησε ἐκ τοῦ δαβὶρ εἰς τὸ ἅγιον τῶν ἁγίων. 17α καὶ τεσσαράκοντα πήχεων ἦν ὁ ναὸς**

¹⁹κατὰ πρόσωπον τοῦ δαβὶρ ἐν μέσῳ τοῦ οἴκου ἔσωθεν δοῦναι ἐκεῖ τὴν κιβωτὸν διαθήκης Κυρίου. 20α εἴκοσι πήχεις μῆκος καὶ εἴκοσι πήχεις πλάτος καὶ εἴκοσι πήχεις τὸ ὕψος αὐτοῦ, καὶ παριέσχεν αὐτὸ χρυσίῳ συγκεκλεισμένῳ. καὶ ἐποίησε θυσιαστήριον ***20β 21α 21β 21γ κατὰ πρόσωπον τοῦ δαβίρ, καὶ περιέσχεν αὐτὸ χρυσίῳ. 22α καὶ ὅλον τὸν οἶκον περιέσχε χρυσίῳ ἕως συντελείας παντὸς τοῦ οἴκου **** 22β

²³καὶ ἐποίησεν ἐν τῷ δαβὶρ δύο Χερουβὶμ δέκα πήχεων μέγεθος ἐσταθμωμένον.

²⁴καὶ πέντε πήχεων πτερύγιον τοῦ Χερουβὶμ τοῦ ἑνὸς καὶ πέντε πήχεων πτερύγιον αὐτοῦ τὸ δεύτερον, ἐν πήχει δέκα ἀπὸ μέρους πτερυγίου αὐτοῦ εἰς μέρος πτερυγίου αὐτοῦ·

²⁵οὕτως τῷ Χερουβὶμ τῷ δευτέρῳ, ἐν μέτρῳ ἑνὶ συντέλεια μία ἀμφοτέροις.

²⁶καὶ τὸ ὕψος τοῦ Χεροὺβ τοῦ ἑνὸς δέκα ἐν πήχει, καὶ οὕτω τῷ Χεροὺβ τῷ δευτέρῳ.

²⁷καὶ ἀμφότερα τὰ Χερουβὶμ ἐν μέσῳ τοῦ οἴκου τοῦ ἐσωτάτου· καὶ διεπέτασε τὰς πτέρυγας αὐτῶν, καὶ ἥπτετο πτέρυξ μία τοῦ τοίχου, καὶ πτέρυξ Χεροὺβ τοῦ δευτέρου ἥπτετο τοῦ τοίχου τοῦ δευτέρου, καὶ αἱ πτέρυγες αὐτῶν ἐν μέσῳ τοῦ οἴκου ἥπτοντο πτέρυξ πτέρυγος.

²⁸καὶ περιέσχε τὰ Χερουβὶμ χρυσίῳ.

²⁹καὶ πάντας τοὺς τοίχους τοῦ οἴκου κύκλῳ ἐγκολαπτὰ ἔγραψε γραφίδι Χερουβίμ, καὶ φοίνικες τῷ ἐσωτέρῳ καὶ τῷ ἐξωτέρῳ.

³⁰καὶ τὸ ἔδαφος τοῦ οἴκου περιέσχε χρυσίῳ, τοῦ ἐσωτάτου καὶ τοῦ ἐξωτάτου.

³¹καὶ τῷ θυρώματι τοῦ δαβὶρ ἐποίησε θύρας ξύλων ἀρκευθίνων εἰς φλιὰς πενταπλᾶς

³²καὶ δύο θύρας ξύλων πευκίνων καὶ ἐγκολαπτὸν ἐπ᾿ αὐτῶν ἐγκεκολαμμένα Χερουβὶμ καὶ φοίνικας καὶ πέταλα διαπεπετασμένα· καὶ περιέσχε χρυσίῳ καὶ κατέβαινεν ἐπὶ τὰ Χερουβὶμ καὶ ἐπὶ τοὺς φοίνικας τὸ χρυσίον.

³³καὶ οὕτως ἐποίησε τῷ πυλῶνι τοῦ ναοῦ, φλιαὶ ξύλων ἀρκευθίνων, στοαὶ τετραπλῶς.

³⁴καὶ ἐν ἀμφοτέραις ταῖς θύραις ξύλα πεύκινα· δύο πτυχαὶ ἡ θύρα ἡ μία καὶ στροφεῖς αὐτῶν, καὶ δύο πτυχαὶ ἡ θύρα ἡ δευτέρα, στρεφόμενα·

³⁵ἐγκεκολαμμένα Χερουβὶμ καὶ φοίνικες καὶ διαπεπετασμένα πέταλα καὶ περιεχόμενα χρυσίῳ καταγομένῳ ἐπὶ τὴν ἐκτύπωσιν.

³⁶καὶ ᾠκοδόμησε τὴν αὐλὴν τὴν ἐσωτάτην τρεῖς στίχους ἀπελεκήτων, καὶ στίχος κατειργασμένης κέδρου κυκλόθεν. 36α καὶ ᾠκοδόμησε τὸ καταπέτασμα τῆς αὐλῆς τοῦ αἰλὰμ τοῦ οἴκου τοῦ κατὰ πρόσωπον τοῦ ναοῦ. *

¹¹Καὶ ἐγένετο λόγος Κυρίου πρὸς Σαλωμὼν λέγων·

¹²ὁ οἶκος οὗτος, ὃν σὺ οἰκοδομεῖς, ἐὰν ὁδεύῃς τοῖς προστάγμασί μου καὶ τὰ κρίματά μου ποιῇς καὶ φυλάσσῃς πάσας τὰς ἐντολάς μου ἀναστρέφεσθαι ἐν αὐταῖς, στήσω τὸν λόγον μου, ὃν ἐλάλησα πρὸς Δαυὶδ τὸν πατέρα σου

¹³καὶ κατασκηνώσω ἐν μέσῳ υἱῶν ᾿Ισραὴλ καὶ οὐκ ἐγκαταλείψω τὸν λαόν μου ᾿Ισραήλ.

¹⁴καὶ ᾠκοδόμησε Σαλωμὼν τὸν οἶκον καὶ συνετέλεσε αὐτόν. ** 17β ὁ ἐσώτατος

¹⁸καὶ διὰ κέδρου πρὸς τὸν οἶκον ἔσω πλοκὴν ἐπαναστήσεις καὶ πέταλον καὶ ἀνάγλυφα πάντα κέδρινα οὐκ ἐφαίνετο λίθος. *** 20β κέδρου 21α καὶ περιεπύλωσε Σαλωμὼν τὸν οἶκον ἔνδοθεν χρυσίῳ ἀποκλειστῷ 21β καὶ παρήγαγεν ἐν καθηλώμασι χρυσίου. **** 22β καὶ ὅλον τὸ ἔσω τοῦ δαβὶρ ἐπετάλωσε χρυσίῳ. * The difference in the variants is based on the difference in the two Greek MS: The Greek text, Codex A Alexandrinus, reads Νισώ; while the English text, based on the Codex B Vaticanus, reads Ζιοῦ. Both Greek Texts (LXXa and LXXb) add “the second month” (In the Hebrew, “the second month” is Ziv or Iyyar not Nisan) [Elpenor]

¹And it came to pass in the four hundred and fortieth year after the departure of the children of Israel out of Egypt, in the fourth year and second month of the reign of king Solomon over Israel, 1α that the king commanded that they should take great [and] costly stones for the foundation of the house, and hewn stones. 1β And the men of Solomon, and the men of Chiram hewed [the stones], and laid them [for a foundation]. 1γ In the fourth year he laid the foundation of the house of the Lord, in the month Ziu, [Niso (Rahlfs)]* even in the second month. 1δ In the eleventh year, in the month Baal, this [is] the eighth month, the house was completed according to all its plan, and according to all its arrangement.

²And the house which the king built to the Lord [was] forty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and its height five and twenty cubits.

³And the porch in front of the temple-- twenty cubits [was] its length according to the breadth of the house in front of the house: and he built the house, and finished it.

⁴And he made to the house secret windows inclining inward.

⁵And against the wall of the house he set chambers round about the temple and the ark.

⁶The under side [was] five cubits broad, and the middle [part] six, and the third [was] seven cubits broad; for he formed an interval to the house round about without the house, that they might not touch the walls of the house.

⁷And the house was built in the construction of it with rough hewn stones: and there was not heard in the house in the building of it hammer or axe, or any iron tool.

⁸And the porch of the under side [was] below the right wing of the house, and [there was] a winding ascent into the middle [chamber], and from the middle to the third story.

⁹So he built the house and finished it; and he made the ceiling of the house with cedars.

¹⁰And he made the partitions through all the house, each five cubits high, and enclosed each partition with cedar boards.* [See Appendix ]

¹⁵And he framed the walls of the house within with cedar boards, from the floor of the house and on to the inner walls and to the beams: he lined the parts enclosed with boards within, and compassed the inward parts of the house with planks of fir.

¹⁶And he built the twenty cubits from the top of the wall, one side from the floor to the beams, and he made it from the oracle to the most holy place. 17α And the temple was forty cubits [in extent], **

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¹⁹in front of the oracle in the midst of the house within, [in order] to put there the ark of the covenant of the Lord. 20α The length [was] twenty cubits, and the breadth [was] twenty cubits, and the height of it was twenty cubits. And he covered it with perfect gold, and he made an altar *** 20β 21α 21β 21γ in front of the oracle, and covered it with gold. 22α And he covered the whole house with gold, till he had finished [gilding] the whole house; ****22β [See Appendix ]

²³And he made in the oracle two cherubs of ten cubits measured size.

²⁴And the wing of one cherub was five cubits, and his other wing was five cubits; ten cubits from the tip of one wing to the tip of the other wing.

²⁵Thus it was with the other cherub, both were alike finished with one measure.

²⁶And the height of the one cherub [was] ten cubits, and so [was it] with the second cherub.

²⁷And both the cherubs [were] in the midst of the innermost part of the house; and they spread out their wings, and one wing touched the wall, and the wing of the other cherub touched the other wall; and their wings in the midst of the house touched each other.

²⁸And he covered the cherubs with gold.

²⁹He graved all the walls of the house round about with the graving of cherubs, and [he sculptured] palm trees within and without [the house].

³⁰And he covered the floor of the house within and without with gold.

³¹And for the door-way of the oracle he made doors of juniper wood, [there were] porches in a four-fold way.

³²So [he made] two doors of olive-wood; and he carved upon them carvings of cherubim and palm-trees and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold; and he spread the gold upon the cherubim, and upon the palm-trees.

³³So also made he for the entrance of the temple door-posts of olive-wood, out of a fourth part [of the wall];

³⁴In both the doors [were] planks of fir; the one door had two leaves and their hinges, and the other door had two leaves and turned [on hinges],

³⁵being carved with cherubs, and [there were] palm-trees and open flower-leaves, and it [was] overlaid with gold gilt upon the engraving.

³⁶And he built the inner court, three rows of hewn stones, and a row of wrought cedar round about, 36a and he made the curtain of the court of the porch of the house that was in front of the temple. *

¹¹And the word of the LORD came to Solomon, saying,

¹²As for this house which thou art in building, if thou wilt walk in my ordinances, and execute my judgments, and keep all my commandments to walk in them; I will establish my word with thee, which I spoke to David thy father

¹³And I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel.

¹⁴So Solomon built the house, and finished it. ** 17β the innermost

¹⁸And the cedar of the house within was carved with knops and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen. *** 20β of cedar 21a So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold: 21β and he drew chains of gold **** 22β And all inside the oracle he overlaid with gold.