1 Kings 3
1 फिर राजा सुलैमान मिस्र के राजा फ़िरौन की बेटी को ब्याह कर उसका दामाद बन गया, और उसको दाऊदपुर में लाकर जब तक अपना भवन और यहोवा का भवन और यरूशलेम के चारों ओर की शहरपनाह न बनवा चुका, तब तक उसको वहीं रखा।
2 क्योंकि प्रजा के लोग तो ऊंचे स्थानों पर बलि चढ़ाते थे और उन दिनों तक यहोवा के नाम का कोई भवन नहीं बना था।
3 सुलैमान यहोवा से प्रेम रखता था और अपने पिता दाऊद की विधियों पर चलता तो रहा, परन्तु वह ऊंचे स्थानों पर भी बलि चढ़ाया और धूप जलाया करता था।
4 और राजा गिबोन को बलि चढ़ाने गया, क्योंकि मुख्य ऊंचा स्थान वही था, तब वहां की वेदी पर सुलैमान ने एक हज़ार होमबलि चढ़ाए।
5 गिबोन में यहोवा ने रात को स्वप्न के द्वारा सुलैमान को दर्शन देकर कहा, जो कुछ तू चाहे कि मैं तुझे दूं, वह मांग।
6 सुलैमान ने कहा, तू अपने दास मेरे पिता दाऊद पर बड़ी करुणा करता रहा, क्योंकि वह अपने को तेरे सम्मुख जानकर तेरे साथ सच्चाई और धर्म और मन की सीधाई से चलता रहा; और तू ने यहां तक उस पर करुणा की थी कि उसे उसकी गद्दी पर बिराजने वाला एक पुत्र दिया है, जैसा कि आज वर्तमान है।
7 और अब हे मेरे परमेश्वर यहोवा! तूने अपने दास को मेरे पिता दाऊद के स्थान पर राजा किया है, परन्तु मैं छोटा लड़का सा हूँ जो भीतर बाहर आना जाना नहीं जानता।
8 फिर तेरा दास तेरी चुनी हुई प्रजा के बहुत से लोगों के मध्य में है, जिनकी गिनती बहुतायत के मारे नहीं हो सकती।
9 तू अपने दास को अपनी प्रजा का न्याय करने के लिये समझने की ऐसी शक्ति दे, कि मैं भले बुरे को परख सकूं; क्योंकि कौन ऐसा है कि तेरी इतनी बड़ी प्रजा का न्याय कर सके?
10 इस बात से प्रभु प्रसन्न हुआ, कि सुलैमान ने ऐसा वरदान मांगा है।
11 तब परमेश्वर ने उस से कहा, इसलिये कि तू ने यह वरदान मांगा है, और न तो दीर्घायु और न धन और न अपने शत्रुओं का नाश मांगा है, परन्तु समझने के विवेक का वरदान मांगा है इसलिये सुन,
12 मैं तेरे वचन के अनुसार करता हूँ, तुझे बुद्धि और विवेक से भरा मन देता हूँ, यहां तक कि तेरे समान न तो तुझ से पहिले कोई कभी हुआ, और न बाद में कोई कभी होगा।
13 फिर जो तू ने नहीं मांगा, अर्थात धन और महिमा, वह भी मैं तुझे यहां तक देता हूँ, कि तेरे जीवन भर कोई राजा तेरे तुल्य न होगा।
14 फिर यदि तू अपने पिता दाऊद की नाईं मेरे मार्गों में चलता हुआ, मेरी विधियों और आज्ञाओं को मानता रहेगा तो मैं तेरी आयु को बढ़ाऊंगा।
15 तब सुलैमान जाग उठा; और देखा कि यह स्वप्न था; फिर वह यरूशलेम को गया, और यहोवा की वाचा के सन्दूक के साम्हने खड़ा हो कर, होमबलि और मेलबलि चढ़ाए, और अपने सब कर्मचारियों के लिये जेवनार की।
16 उस समय दो वेश्याएं राजा के पास आकर उसके सम्मुख खड़ी हुईं।
17 उन में से एक स्त्री कहने लगी, हे मेरे प्रभु! मैं और यह स्त्री दोनों एक ही घर में रहती हैं; और इसके संग घर में रहते हुए मेरे एक बच्चा हुआ।
18 फिर मेरे ज़च्चा के तीन दिन के बाद ऐसा हुआ कि यह स्त्री भी जच्चा हो गई; हम तो संग ही संग थीं, हम दोनों को छोड़कर घर में और कोई भी न था।
19 और रात में इस स्त्री का बालक इसके नीचे दबकर मर गया।
20 तब इस ने आधी रात को उठ कर, जब तेरी दासी सो ही रही थी, तब मेरा लड़का मेरे पास से ले कर अपनी छाती में रखा, और अपना मरा हुआ बालक मेरी छाती में लिटा दिया।
21 भोर को जब मैं अपना बालक दूध पिलाने को उठी, तब उसे मरा हुआ पाया; परन्तु भोर को मैं ने ध्यान से यह देखा, कि वह मेरा पुत्र नहीं है।
22 तब दूसरी स्त्री ने कहा, नहीं जीवित पुत्र मेरा है, और मरा पुत्र तेरा है। परन्तु वह कहती रही, नहीं मरा हुआ तेरा पुत्र है और जीवित मेरा पुत्र है, योंवे राजा के साम्हने बातें करती रही।
23 राजा ने कहा, एक तो कहती है जो जीवित है, वही मेरा पुत्र है, और मरा हुआ तेरा पुत्र है; और दूसरी कहती है, नहीं, जो मरा है वही तेरा पुत्र है, और जो जीवित है, वह मेरा पुत्र है।
24 फिर राजा ने कहा, मेरे पास तलवार ले आओ; सो एक तलवार राजा के साम्हने लाई गई।
25 तब राजा बोला, जीविते बालक को दो टुकड़े करके आधा इस को और आधा उसको दो।
26 तब जीवित बालक की माता का मन अपने बेटे के स्नेह से भर आया, और उसने राजा से कहा, हे मेरे प्रभु! जीवित बालक उसी को दे; परन्तु उसको किसी भांति न मार। दूसरी स्त्री ने कहा, वह न तो मेरा हो और न तेरा, वह दो टुकड़े किया जाए।
27 तब राजा ने कहा, पहिली को जीवित बालक दो; किसी भांति उसको न पारो; क्योंकि उसकी माता वही है।
28 जो न्याय राजा ने चुकाया था, उसका समाचार समस्त इस्राएल को मिला, और उन्होंने राजा का भय माना, क्योंकि उन्होंने यह देखा, कि उसके मन में न्याय करने के लिये परमेश्वर की बुद्धि है।
1 And Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh’s daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he had made an end of building his own house, and the house of the Lord, and the wall of Jerusalem round about.
2 Only the people sacrificed in high places, because there was no house built unto the name of the Lord, until those days.
3 And Solomon loved the Lord, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in high places.
4 And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that was the great high place: a thousand burnt offerings did Solomon offer upon that altar.
5 In Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night: and God said, Ask what I shall give thee.
6 And Solomon said, Thou hast shewed unto thy servant David my father great mercy, according as he walked before thee in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with thee; and thou hast kept for him this great kindness, that thou hast given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.
7 And now, O Lord my God, thou hast made thy servant king instead of David my father: and I am but a little child: I know not how to go out or come in.
8 And thy servant is in the midst of thy people which thou hast chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude.
9 Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people?
10 And the speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing.
11 And God said unto him, Because thou hast asked this thing, and hast not asked for thyself long life; neither hast asked riches for thyself, nor hast asked the life of thine enemies; but hast asked for thyself understanding to discern judgment;
12 Behold, I have done according to thy words: lo, I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart; so that there was none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee.
13 And I have also given thee that which thou hast not asked, both riches, and honour: so that there shall not be any among the kings like unto thee all thy days.
14 And if thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as thy father David did walk, then I will lengthen thy days.
15 And Solomon awoke; and, behold, it was a dream. And he came to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and offered up burnt offerings, and offered peace offerings, and made a feast to all his servants.
16 Then came there two women, that were harlots, unto the king, and stood before him.
17 And the one woman said, O my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house.
18 And it came to pass the third day after that I was delivered, that this woman was delivered also: and we were together; there was no stranger with us in the house, save we two in the house.
19 And this woman’s child died in the night; because she overlaid it.
20 And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while thine handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.
21 And when I rose in the morning to give my child suck, behold, it was dead: but when I had considered it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, which I did bear.
22 And the other woman said, Nay; but the living is my son, and the dead is thy son. And this said, No; but the dead is thy son, and the living is my son. Thus they spake before the king.
23 Then said the king, The one saith, This is my son that liveth, and thy son is the dead: and the other saith, Nay; but thy son is the dead, and my son is the living.
24 And the king said, Bring me a sword. And they brought a sword before the king.
25 And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.
26 Then spake the woman whose the living child was unto the king, for her bowels yearned upon her son, and she said, O my lord, give her the living child, and in no wise slay it. But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor thine, but divide it.
27 Then the king answered and said, Give her the living child, and in no wise slay it: she is the mother thereof.
28 And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king: for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do judgment.
1 Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and brake the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.
2 And Hezekiah appointed the courses of the priests and the Levites after their courses, every man according to his service, the priests and Levites for burnt offerings and for peace offerings, to minister, and to give thanks, and to praise in the gates of the tents of the Lord.
3 He appointed also the king’s portion of his substance for the burnt offerings, to wit, for the morning and evening burnt offerings, and the burnt offerings for the sabbaths, and for the new moons, and for the set feasts, as it is written in the law of the Lord.
4 Moreover he commanded the people that dwelt in Jerusalem to give the portion of the priests and the Levites, that they might be encouraged in the law of the Lord.
5 And as soon as the commandment came abroad, the children of Israel brought in abundance the firstfruits of corn, wine, and oil, and honey, and of all the increase of the field; and the tithe of all things brought they in abundantly.
6 And concerning the children of Israel and Judah, that dwelt in the cities of Judah, they also brought in the tithe of oxen and sheep, and the tithe of holy things which were consecrated unto the Lord their God, and laid them by heaps.
7 In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the heaps, and finished them in the seventh month.
8 And when Hezekiah and the princes came and saw the heaps, they blessed the Lord, and his people Israel.
9 Then Hezekiah questioned with the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps.
10 And Azariah the chief priest of the house of Zadok answered him, and said, Since the people began to bring the offerings into the house of the Lord, we have had enough to eat, and have left plenty: for the Lord hath blessed his people; and that which is left is this great store.
11 Then Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house of the Lord; and they prepared them,
12 And brought in the offerings and the tithes and the dedicated things faithfully: over which Cononiah the Levite was ruler, and Shimei his brother was the next.
13 And Jehiel, and Azaziah, and Nahath, and Asahel, and Jerimoth, and Jozabad, and Eliel, and Ismachiah, and Mahath, and Benaiah, were overseers under the hand of Cononiah and Shimei his brother, at the commandment of Hezekiah the king, and Azariah the ruler of the house of God.
14 And Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, the porter toward the east, was over the freewill offerings of God, to distribute the oblations of the Lord, and the most holy things.
15 And next him were Eden, and Miniamin, and Jeshua, and Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah, in the cities of the priests, in their set office, to give to their brethren by courses, as well to the great as to the small:
16 Beside their genealogy of males, from three years old and upward, even unto every one that entereth into the house of the Lord, his daily portion for their service in their charges according to their courses;
17 Both to the genealogy of the priests by the house of their fathers, and the Levites from twenty years old and upward, in their charges by their courses;
18 And to the genealogy of all their little ones, their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, through all the congregation: for in their set office they sanctified themselves in holiness:
19 Also of the sons of Aaron the priests, which were in the fields of the suburbs of their cities, in every several city, the men that were expressed by name, to give portions to all the males among the priests, and to all that were reckoned by genealogies among the Levites.
20 And thus did Hezekiah throughout all Judah, and wrought that which was good and right and truth before the Lord his God.
21 And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered.