3. Krallar 9

¹Ve Süleyman, Rab'bin tapınağını, kralın sarayını ve Süleyman'ın yapmak istediği tüm idari ve ticari girişimleri tamamladığı zaman şöyle oldu:

²Rab, Gabaon'da göründüğü gibi Süleyman'a ikinci kez göründü.

³Ve Rab ona şöyle dedi: "Huzurumda ettiğin duanın sesini ve yakarışını işittim; senin için tüm duana göre yerine getirdim. Adımı sonsuza dek oraya yerleştirmek amacıyla inşa ettiğin bu tapınağı kutsal kıldım; gözlerim ve yüreğim her zaman orada olacak."

⁴"Ve eğer sen, baban Davut'un yürüdüğü gibi, yüreğin adanmışlığı ve dürüstlükle huzurumda yürürsen, ona buyurduğum her şeye göre yapar, kurallarıma ve buyruklarıma uyarsan,"

⁵"baban Davut'a, 'Senden İsrail'de önderlik eden bir adam eksik olmayacaktır' diyerek söz verdiğim gibi, senin krallığının tahtını İsrail üzerinde sonsuza dek pekiştireceğim."

⁶"Ama eğer siz veya çocuklarınız benden tamamen yüz çevirir, Musa'nın önünüze koyduğu buyruklarıma ve kurallarıma uymaz, gidip başka ilahlara kulluk eder ve onlara tapınursanız,"

⁷"İsrail'i kendilerine verdiğim bu topraktan söküp atacağım; adıma kutsal kıldığım bu tapınağı da huzurumdan uzaklaştıracağım. İsrail bütün halklar arasında bir ıssızlık, bir yıkım ve dillerde dolaşan bir alay konusu olacak."

⁸"Ve bu tapınak ne kadar yüce olursa olsun, her gelip geçen onun karşısında dehşete düşecek, ıslık çalacak ve şöyle diyecekler: 'Rab bu ülkeye ve bu tapınağa neden bunu yaptı?'"

⁹"Ve şöyle cevap verecekler: 'Çünkü onlar, atalarını Mısır'dan, kölelik evinden çıkaran Tanrıları Rab'bi bıraktılar; yabancı ilahlara sarıldılar, onlara tapındılar ve onlara kulluk ettiler. Bu yüzden Rab bu kötülüğü onların üzerine getirdi.'"

⁰9α O zaman Süleyman, Firavun'un kızını Davut Kenti'nden o günlerde kendisi için inşa ettiği sarayına çıkardı.

¹⁰Süleyman'ın iki evi, yani Rab'bin tapınağını ve kralın sarayını inşa ettiği yirmi yıl geçti.

¹¹Sur Kralı Hiram; Süleyman'a sedir ağacı, çam ağacı, altın ve dilediği her şeyle destek olmuştu. Bunun üzerine Kral Süleyman, Hiram'a Celile bölgesinde yirmi kent verdi.

¹²Hiram, Süleyman'ın kendisine verdiği kentleri görmek için Sur'dan Celile'ye gitti, ama onlar onun hoşuna gitmedi.

¹³Ve şöyle dedi: "Kardeşim, bana verdiğin bu kentler ne böyle?" Ve onlara bugüne dek Horion adı verildi.

¹⁴Hiram Süleyman'a yüz yirmi talant altın göndermişti.

¹⁵Kral Süleyman'ın; Rab'bin tapınağını, kralın sarayını, Melo'yu ve kaleyi inşa etmek, Davut Kenti'nin surlarını pekiştirmek, Asur'u, Maydan'ı, Yeruşalim surlarını, Eser'i, Magdo'yu ve Gezer'i tahkim etmek için topladığı zorunlu iş gücü düzenlemesi şöyledir:

¹⁶Mısır Kralı Firavun sefere çıkıp Gezer'i ele geçirmiş, ateşe vermiş, kentte yaşayan Kenanlıları öldürmüş ve burayı Süleyman'ın karısı olan kızına çeyiz hediyesi olarak vermişti.

¹⁷Süleyman da Gezer'i ve Aşağı Beyt-Horon'u inşa etti,

¹⁸Ve Baalat'ı, ülkenin çöl bölgesindeki Termat'ı,

¹⁹Süleyman'a ait bütün ambar kentlerini, savaş arabaları kentlerini, atlıların kentlerini ve Süleyman'ın Yeruşalim'de, Lübnan'da ve egemenliği altındaki bütün topraklarda, kimsenin ona egemen olamaması amacıyla inşa etmek istediği her şeyi inşa etti.

²⁰İsrailoğullarından olmayan Amorlulardan, Hititlerden, Perizlilerden, Kenanlılardan, Hivlilerden, Yevuslulardan ve Girgaşlılardan geriye kalan bütün halkı,

²¹İsrailoğulları'nın tamamen yok edemediği, ülkede kendilerinden sonra kalan çocuklarını Süleyman bugüne dek zorunlu işçi olarak çalıştırdı.

²²Ancak Süleyman İsrailoğulları'ndan kimseyi kölelik işinde çalıştırmadı; çünkü onlar savaşçılar, onun görevlileri, komutanları, üçüncü derece subayları, savaş arabalarının ve atlılarının komutanlarıydılar.

²³Süleyman'ın işlerini yöneten ve işte çalışan halka önderlik eden beş yüz elli baş görevli vardı.

²⁴Ancak Firavun'un kızı, Davut Kenti'nden kendisi için inşa edilen sarayına taşındı; Süleyman bundan sonra Melo'yu inşa etti.

²⁵Süleyman yılda üç kez, Rab için inşa ettiği sunakta yakmalık sunular ve esenlik sunuları sunar, Rab'bin huzurunda buhur yakardı. Böylece tapınağın inşasını tamamlayıp bitirdi.

²⁶Kral Süleyman, Edom ülkesinde, Elat'ın yakınında, denizin ucundaki kıyıda bulunan Gasyon-Geber'de bir gemi filosu da inşa etti.

²⁷Hiram bu gemilerde, Süleyman'ın adamlarıyla birlikte görev yapmak üzere denizde kürek çekmeyi iyi bilen kendi denizci kullarını gönderdi.

²⁸Bunlar Sofira'ya gidip oradan yüz yirmi talant altın aldılar ve Kral Süleyman'ına getirdiler.

¹ΚΑΙ ἐγενήθη ὡς συνετέλεσε Σαλωμὼν οἰκοδομεῖν τὸν οἶκον Κυρίου καὶ τὸν οἶκον τοῦ βασιλέως καὶ πᾶσαν τὴν πραγματείαν Σαλωμών, ὅσα ἠθέλησε ποιῆσαι,

²καὶ ὤφθη Κύριος τῷ Σαλωμὼν δεύτερον, καθὼς ὤφθη ἐν Γαβαών,

³καὶ εἶπε πρὸς αὐτὸν Κύριος· ἤκουσα τῆς φωνῆς τῆς προσευχῆς σου καὶ τῆς δεήσεώς σου, ἧς ἐδεήθης ἐνώπιόν μου· πεποίηκά σοι κατὰ πᾶσαν τὴν προσευχήν σου, ἡγίακα τὸν οἶκον τοῦτον, ὃν ᾠκοδόμησας τοῦ θέσθαι τὸ ὄνομά μου ἐκεῖ εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα, καὶ ἔσονται οἱ ὀφθαλμοί μου ἐκεῖ καὶ ἡ καρδία μου πάσας τὰς ἡμέρας.

⁴καὶ σὺ ἐὰν πορευθῇς ἐνώπιον ἐμοῦ, καθὼς ἐπορεύθη Δαυὶδ ὁ πατήρ σου, ἐν ὁσιότητι καρδίας καὶ ἐν εὐθύτητι καὶ τοῦ ποιεῖν κατὰ πάντα, ἃ ἐνετειλάμην αὐτῷ, καὶ τὰ προστάγματά μου καὶ τὰς ἐντολάς μου φυλάξῃς,

⁵καὶ ἀναστήσω τὸν θρόνον τῆς βασιλείας σου ἐν ᾿Ισραὴλ εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα, καθὼς ἐλάλησα Δαυὶδ πατρί σου λέγων· οὐκ ἐξαρθήσεταί σοι ἀνὴρ ἡγούμενος ἐν ᾿Ισραήλ.

⁶ἐὰν δὲ ἀποστραφέντες ἀποστραφῆτε ὑμεῖς καὶ τὰ τέκνα ὑμῶν ἀπ᾿ ἐμοῦ, καὶ μὴ φυλάξητε τὰς ἐντολάς μου καὶ τὰ προστάγματά μου, ἃ ἔδωκε Μωυσῆς ἐνώπιον ὑμῶν, καὶ πορευθῆτε καὶ δουλεύσητε θεοῖς ἑτέροις καὶ προσκυνήσητε αὐτοῖς,

⁷καὶ ἐξαρῶ τὸν ᾿Ισραὴλ ἀπὸ τῆς γῆς ἣν ἔδωκα αὐτοῖς, καὶ τὸν οἶκον τοῦτον, ὃν ἡγίασα τῷ ὀνόματί μου, ἀπορρίψω ἐκ προσώπου μου, καὶ ἔσται ᾿Ισραὴλ εἰς ἀφανισμὸν καὶ εἰς λάλημα εἰς πάντας τοὺς λαούς.

⁸καὶ ὁ οἶκος οὗτος ἔσται ὁ ὑψηλός, πᾶς ὁ διαπορευόμενος δι᾿ αὐτοῦ ἐκστήσεται καὶ συριεῖ καὶ ἐροῦσιν· ἕνεκεν τίνος ἐποίησε Κύριος οὕτως τῇ γῇ ταύτῃ καὶ τῷ οἴκῳ τούτῳ;

⁹καὶ ἐροῦσιν· ἀνθ᾿ ὧν ἐγκατέλιπον Κύριον Θεὸν αὐτῶν, ὃς ἐξήγαγε τοὺς πατέρας αὐτῶν ἐξ Αἰγύπτου, ἐξ οἴκου δουλείας, καὶ ἀντελάβοντο θεῶν ἀλλοτρίων καὶ προσεκύνησαν αὐτοῖς καὶ ἐδούλευσαν αὐτοῖς, διὰ τοῦτο ἐπήγαγε Κύριος ἐπ᾿ αὐτοὺς τὴν κακίαν ταύτην. 9α Τότε ἀνήγαγε Σαλωμὼν τὴν θυγατέρα Φαραὼ ἐκ πόλεως Δαυὶδ εἰς οἶκον αὐτοῦ, ὃν ᾠκοδόμησεν ἑαυτῷ ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις ἐκείναις.

¹⁰Εἴκοσιν ἔτη ἐν οἷς ᾠκοδόμησε Σαλωμὼν τοὺς δύο οἴκους, τὸν οἶκον Κυρίου καὶ τὸν οἶκον τοῦ βασιλέως,

¹¹Χιρὰμ ὁ βασιλεὺς Τύρου ἀντελάβετο τοῦ Σαλωμὼν ἐν ξύλοις κεδρίνοις καὶ ἐν ξύλοις πευκίνοις καὶ ἐν χρυσίῳ καὶ ἐν παντὶ θελήματι αὐτοῦ. τότε ἔδωκεν ὁ βασιλεὺς τῷ Χιρὰμ εἴκοσι πόλεις ἐν τῇ γῇ τῇ Γαλιλαίᾳ.

¹²καὶ ἐξῆλθε Χιρὰμ ἐκ Τύρου καὶ ἐπορεύθη εἰς τὴν Γαλιλαίαν τοῦ ἰδεῖν τὰς πόλεις, ἃς ἔδωκεν αὐτῷ Σαλωμών, καὶ οὐκ ἤρεσαν αὐτῷ·

¹³καὶ εἶπε· τί αἱ πόλεις αὗται, ἃς ἔδωκάς μοι, ἀδελφέ; καὶ ἐκάλεσεν αὐτὰς ῞Οριον ἕως τῆς ἡμέρας ταύτης.

¹⁴καὶ ἤνεγκε Χιρὰμ τῷ Σαλωμὼν ἑκατὸν καὶ εἴκοσι τάλαντα χρυσίου. [15 αὕτη ἡ πραγματεία τῆς προνομῆς ἧς ἀνήνεγκεν ὁ βασιλεὺς Σαλωμων οἰκοδομῆσαι τὸν οἶκον Κυρίου καὶ τὸν οἶκον τοῦ βασιλέως σὺν τὴν μελω καὶ τὴν ἄκραν τοῦ περιφράξαι τὸν φραγμὸν τῆς πόλεως Δαυὶδ καὶ τὴν Ασσουρ καὶ τὴν Μαιδαν καὶ τοῦ τείχους Ἱερουσαλὴμ καὶ τὴν Εσερ καὶ τὴν Μαγδω καὶ τὴν Γεζερ.

¹⁶Φαραὼ βασιλέως Αἰγύπτου ἀνέβη καὶ κατελαβετο τὴν Γεζερ καὶ ἐνέπρησεν αὐτὴν ἐν πυρὶ καὶ σὺν τὸν Χαναναῖον τὸν καθήμενον ἐν τῇ πόλει ἀπέκτεινεν καὶ ἔδωκεν αὐτὴν ἀποστολὰς τῇ θυγατρὶ αὐτοῦ γυναικὶ Σαλωμων.

¹⁷καὶ ᾠκοδόμησεν τὴν Γαζερ καὶ τὴν βαιθωρων τὴν κατωτάτην.

¹⁸καὶ τὴν Βαλαθ καὶ τὴν Θερμὰθ ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ ἐν τῇ γῇ

¹⁹πάσας τὰς πόλεις τῶν σκηνωμάτων αἱ ἦσαν τῷ Σαλωμων καὶ τὰς πόλεις τῶν ἁρμάτων καὶ πάσας τὰς πόλεις τῶν ἱππέων καὶ τὴν πραγματείαν Σαλωμων ἣν ἐπραγματεύσατο οἰκοδομῆσαι ἐν Ιερουσαλημ καὶ ἐν Λιβάνω καὶ ἐν πάσῃ τῇ γῇ τοῦ μὴ κατάρξαι αὐτοῦ.

²⁰πάντα τὸν λαὸν τὸν ὑπολελειμμένον ἀπὸ τοῦ Ἀμορραίου καὶ τοῦ Χετταίου καὶ τοῦ Φερεζαίου καὶ τοῦ Χαναναίου καὶ τοῦ Ευαίου καὶ τοῦ Ιεβουσαίου καὶ τοῦ Γεργεσαίου τῶν μὴ ἐκ τῶν υἱῶν Ισραηλ ὄντων,

²¹τὰ τέκνα αὐτῶν τὰ ὑπολελειμμένα μετ᾽ αὐτοὺς ἐν τῇ γῇ οὓς οὐκ ἐδύναντο οἱ υἱοὶ Ισραηλ ἐξολεθρεῦσαι αὐτούς καὶ ἀνήγαγεν αὐτοὺς Σαλωμων εἰς φόρον ἕως τῆς ἡμέρας ταύτης.

²²καὶ ἐκ τῶν υἱῶν Ισραηλ οὐκ ἔδωκε Σαλωμων εἰς πρᾶγμα ὅτι αὐτοὶ ἦσαν ἄνδρες οἱ πολεμισταὶ καὶ παῖδες αὐτοῦ καὶ ἄρχοντες αὐτοῦ καὶ τρισσοὶ αὐτοῦ καὶ ἄρχοντες αὐτοῦ τῶν ἁρμάτων καὶ ἱππεῖς αὐτοῦ.

²³οὕτοι οἱ ἄρχοντες οἱ ἐστηλωμένοι ἐπὶ τὰ ἔργα τοῦ Σαλωμων πεντήκοντα καὶ πεντηκόσιοι οἱ ἐπικρατοῦντες ἐν τῷ λαῷ οἱ ποιοῦντες ἐν τῷ ἔργῳ.

²⁴πλὴν θυγάτηρ Φαραω ἀνεβῆ ἐκ πόλεως Δαυιδ πρὸς οἶκον αὐτῆς ὃν ᾠκοδόμησεν αὐτὴ τότε ᾠκοδόμησεν σὺν τὴν Μελω.

²⁵καὶ ἀνεβίβασεν Σαλωμων τρεῖς καθόδους ἐν τῷ ἐνιαυτῷ ὁλοκαύτωμα καὶ εἰρηνικὰς ἐπὶ τοῦ θυσιαστηρίου οὗ ᾠκοδόμησεν τῷ Κυρίῳ καὶ ἐθυμία αὐτὸς εἰς πρόσωπον Κυρίου καὶ ἀπήρτισεν συνετέλεσεν τὸν οἶκον.]

²⁶καὶ ναῦν ὑπὲρ οὗ ἐποίησεν ὁ βασιλεὺς Σαλωμὼν ἐν Γασιὼν Γαβὲρ τὴν οὖσαν ἐχομένην Αἰλὰθ ἐπὶ τοῦ χείλους τῆς ἐσχάτης θαλάσσης ἐν γῇ ᾿Εδώμ.

²⁷καὶ ἀπέστειλε Χιρὰμ ἐν τῇ νειὶ τῶν παίδων αὐτοῦ ἄνδρας ναυτικοὺς ἐλαύνειν εἰδότας θάλασσαν μετὰ τῶν παίδων Σαλωμών.

²⁸καὶ ἦλθον εἰς Σωφηρὰ καὶ ἔλαβον ἐκεῖθεν χρυσίου ἑκατὸν εἴκοσι τάλαντα καὶ ἤνεγκαν τῷ βασιλεῖ Σαλωμών.

¹And it came to pass when Solomon had finished building the house of the Lord, and the king’s house, and all the work of Solomon, whatever he wished to perform,

²that the Lord appeared to Solomon a second time, as he appeared in Gabaon.

³And the Lord said to him, I have heard the voice of thy prayer, and thy supplication which thou madest before me: I have done for thee according to all thy prayer: I have hallowed this house which thou hast built to put my name there for ever, and mine eyes and my heart shall be there always.

⁴And if thou wilt walk before me as David thy father walked, in holiness of heart and uprightness, and so as to do according to all that I commanded him, and shalt keep my ordinances and my commandments:

⁵then will I establish the throne of thy kingdom in Israel for ever, as I spoke to David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man to rule in Israel.

⁶But if ye or your children do in any wise revolt from me, and do not keep my commandments and my ordinances, which Moses set before you, and ye go and serve other gods, and worship them:

⁷then will I cut off Israel from the land which I have given them, and this house which I have consecrated to my name I will cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a desolation and a by-word to all nations.

⁸And this house, which is high, shall be [so that] every one that passes by it shall be amazed, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Wherefore has the Lord done thus to this land, and to this house?

⁹And [men] shall say, Because they forsook the Lord their God, who brought out their fathers from Egypt, out of the house of bondage, and they attached themselves to strange gods, and worshipped them, and served them: therefore the Lord has brought this evil upon them. 9α Then Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of David into his own house which he built for himself in those days.

¹⁰[During] twenty years in which Solomon was building the two houses, the house of the Lord, and the house of the king,

¹¹Chiram king of Tyre helped Solomon with cedar wood, and fir wood, and with gold, and all that he wished for: then the king gave Chiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.

¹²So Chiram departed from Tyre, and went into Galilee to see the cities which Solomon gave to him; and they pleased him not. And he said,

¹³What [are] these cities which thou hast given me, brother? And he called them Boundary until this day.

¹⁴And Chiram brought to Solomon a hundred and twenty talents of gold. [15 This was the arrangement of the provision which king Solomon fetched to build the house of the Lord, and the house of the king with Melo, and the citadel; to fortify the city of David, and Assur, and Maidan, and the wall of Jerusalem and Eser and Magdo and Gezer

¹⁶Pharao king of Egypt had gone up, and seized Gezer, and burned it with fire, and slain the Canaanites that resided in the city, and gave it as a parting gift unto his daughter, the wife of Solomon.

¹⁷and Solomon built Gazer and Baethoron the lower

¹⁸and Balath and Thermath in the wilderness, in the land

¹⁹and all the store-cities that Solomon had, and the cities for his chariots, and all the cities for his horsemen, and that which Solomon desired to build for his pleasure in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion so that none of the people should rule over him.

²⁰All the people that was left of the Amorite and the Chettite, and the Pherezite, and the Chananite, and the Evite, and the Jebusite, and the Gergesite, who were not of the children of Israel,

²¹their descendants who had been left with him in the land, whom the children of Israel could not utterly destroy; and Solomon made them tributaries until this day.

²²But of the children of Israel Solomon made nothing; for they were the warriors, and his servants and rulers, and captains of the third order, and the captains of his chariots, and his horsemen.

²³These were the chief officers that were over Solomon’s work, five hundred and fifty, who bare rule over the people that wrought in the work.

²⁴But Pharaoh’s daughter came up out of the city of David unto her house which Solomon had built for her: then did he build Millo.

²⁵And three times in a year did Solomon offer up burnt-offerings and peace-offerings upon the altar which he built unto the Lord, burning incense therewith, [upon the altar] that was before the Lord. So he finished building the house.]

²⁶even that for which king Solomon built a ship in Gasion Gaber near Aelath on the shore of the extremity of the sea in the land of Edom.

²⁷And Chiram sent in the ship together with the servants of Solomon servants of his own, mariners to row, men acquainted with the sea.

²⁸And they came to Sophira, and took thence a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and brought them to king Solomon.