1 Kings 9
1 जब सुलैमान यहोवा के भवन और राजभवन को बना चुका, और जो कुछ उसने करना चाहा था, उसे कर चुका,
2 तब यहोवा ने जैसे गिबोन में उसको दर्शन दिया था, वैसे ही दूसरी बार भी उसे दर्शन दिया।
3 और यहोवा ने उस से कहा, जो प्रार्थना गिड़गिड़ाहट के साथ तू ने मुझ से की है, उसको मैं ने सुना है, यह जो भवन तू ने बनाया है, उस में मैं ने अपना नाम सदा के लिये रख कर उसे पवित्र किया है; और मेरी आंखें और मेरा मन नित्य वहीं लगे रहेंगे।
4 और यादे तू अपने पिता दाऊद की नाईं मन की खराई और सिधाई से अपने को मेरे साम्हने जान कर चलता रहे, और मेरी सब आज्ञाओं के अनुसार किया करे, और मेरी विधियों और नियमों को मानता रहे, तो मैं तेरा राज्य इस्राएल के ऊपर सदा के लिये स्थिर करूंगा;
5 जैसे कि मैं ने तेरे पिता दाऊद को वचन दिया था, कि तेरे कुल में इस्राएल की गद्दी पर विराजने वाले सदा बने रहेंगे।
6 परन्तु यदि तुम लोग वा तुम्हारे वंश के लोग मेरे पीछे चलना छोड़ दें; और मेरी उन आज्ञाओं और विधियों को जो मैं ने तुम को दी हैं, न मानें, और जा कर पराये देवताओं की उपासना करे और उन्हें दण्डवत करने लगें,
7 तो मैं इस्राएल को इस देश में से जो मैं ने उन को दिया है, काट डालूंगा और इस भवन को जो मैं ने अपने नाम के लिये पवित्र किया है, अपनी दृष्टि से उतार दूंगा; और सब देशों के लोगों में इस्राएल की उपमा दी जायेगी और उसका दृष्टान्त चलेगा।
8 और यह भवन जो ऊंचे पर रहेगा, तो जो कोई इसके पास हो कर चलेगा, वह चकित होगा, और ताली बजाएगा और वे पूछेंगे, कि यहोवा ने इस देश और इस भवन के साथ क्यों ऐसा किया है;
9 तब लोग कहेंगे, कि उन्होंने अपने परमेश्वर यहोवा को जो उनके पुरखाओं को मिस्र देश से निकाल लाया था। तजकर पराये देवताओं को पकड़ लिया, और उन को दण्डवत की और उनकी उपासना की इस कारण यहोवा ने यह सब विपत्ति उन पर डाल दी।
10 सुलैमान को तो यहोवा के भवन और राजभवन दोनों के बनाने में बीस वर्ष लग गए।
11 तब सुलैमान ने सोर के राजा हीराम को जिसने उसके मनमाने देवदारू और सनोवर की लकड़ी और सोना दिया था, गलील देश के बीस नगर दिए।
12 जब हीराम ने सोर से जा कर उन नगरों को देखा, जो सुलैमान ने उसको दिए थे, तब वे उसको अच्छे न लगे।
13 तब उसने कहा, हे मेरे भाई, ये नगर क्या तू ने मुझे दिए हैं? और उसने उनका नाम कबूल देश रखा।
14 और यही नाम आज के दिन तक पड़ा है। फिर हीराम ने राजा के पास साठ किक्कार सोना भेज दिया।
15 राजा सुलैमान ने लोगों को जो बेगारी में रखा, इसका प्रयोजन यह था, कि यहोवा का और अपना भवन बनाए, और मिल्लो और यरूशलेम की शहरपनाह और हासोर, मगिद्दो और गेजेर नगरों को दृढ़ करे।
16 गेजेर पर तो मिस्र के राजा फ़िरौन ने चढ़ाई करके उसे ले लिया और आग लगा कर फूंक दिया, और उस नगर में रहने वाले कनानियों को मार डालकर, उसे अपनी बेटी सुलैमान की रानी का निज भाग करके दिया था,
17 सो सुलैमान ने गेजेर और नीचे वाले बथोरेन,
18 बालात और तामार को जो जंगल में हैं, दृढ़ किया, ये तो देश में हैं।
19 फिर सुलैमान के जितने भणडार के नगर थे, और उसके रथों और सवारों के नगर, उन को वरन जो कुछ सुलैमान ने यरूशलेम, लबानोन और अपने राज्य के सब देशों में बनाना चाहा, उन सब को उसने दृढ़ किया।
20 एमोरी, हित्ती, परिज्जी, हिब्बी और यबूसी जो रह गए थे, जो इस्राएलियों में के न थे,
21 उनके वंश जो उनके बाद देश में रह गए, और उन को इस्राएली सत्यानाश न कर सके, उन को तो सुलैमान ने दास कर के बेगारी में रखा, और आज तक उन की वही दशा है।
22 परन्तु इस्राएलियों में से सुलैमान ने किसी को दास न बनाया; वे तो योद्धा और उसके कर्मचारी, उसके हाकिम, उसके सरदार, और उसके रथों, और सवारोंके प्रधान हुए।
23 जो मुख्य हाकिम सुलैमान के कामों के ऊपर ठहर के काम करने वालों पर प्रभुता करते थे, ये पांच सौ पचास थे।
24 जब फ़िरौन की बेटी दाऊदपुर में से अपने उस भवन को आ गई, जो उसने उसके लिये बनाया था तब उसने मिल्लो को बनाया।
25 और सुलैमान उस वेदी पर जो उसने यहोवा के लिये बनाईं थी, प्रति वर्ष में तीन बार होमबलि और मेलबलि चढ़ाया करता था और साथ ही उस वेदी पर जो यहोवा के सम्मुख थी, धूप जलाया करता था, इस प्रकार उसने उस भवन को तैयार कर दिया।
26 फिर राजा सुलैमान ने एस्योनगेबेर में जो एदोम देश मे लाल समुद्र के तीर एलोत के पास है, जहाज बनाए।
27 और जहाजोंमें हीराम ने अपने अधिकार के मल्लाहों को, जो समुद्र से जानकारी रखते थे, सुलैमान के सेवकोंके संग भेज दिया।
28 उन्होंने ओपोर को जा कर वहां से चार सौ बीस किक्कार सोना, राजा सुलैमान को लाकर दिया।
1 And it came to pass, when Solomon had finished the building of the house of the Lord, and the king’s house, and all Solomon’s desire which he was pleased to do,
2 That the Lord appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared unto him at Gibeon.
3 And the Lord said unto him, I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication, that thou hast made before me: I have hallowed this house, which thou hast built, to put my name there for ever; and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.
4 And if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded thee, and wilt keep my statutes and my judgments:
5 Then I will establish the throne of thy kingdom upon Israel for ever, as I promised to David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man upon the throne of Israel.
6 But if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your children, and will not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them:
7 Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people:
8 And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the Lord done thus unto this land, and to this house?
9 And they shall answer, Because they forsook the Lord their God, who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have taken hold upon other gods, and have worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath the Lord brought upon them all this evil.
10 And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, when Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the Lord, and the king’s house,
11 (Now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees and fir trees, and with gold, according to all his desire,) that then king Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.
12 And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and they pleased him not.
13 And he said, What cities are these which thou hast given me, my brother? And he called them the land of Cabul unto this day.
14 And Hiram sent to the king sixscore talents of gold.
15 And this is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised; for to build the house of the Lord, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.
16 For Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and taken Gezer, and burnt it with fire, and slain the Canaanites that dwelt in the city, and given it for a present unto his daughter, Solomon’s wife.
17 And Solomon built Gezer, and Beth-horon the nether,
18 And Baalath, and Tadmor in the wilderness, in the land,
19 And all the cities of store that Solomon had, and cities for his chariots, and cities for his horsemen, and that which Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.
20 And all the people that were left of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, which were not of the children of Israel,
21 Their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel also were not able utterly to destroy, upon those did Solomon levy a tribute of bondservice unto this day.
22 But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no bondmen: but they were men of war, and his servants, and his princes, and his captains, and rulers of his chariots, and his horsemen.
23 These were the chief of the officers that were over Solomon’s work, five hundred and fifty, which bare rule over the people that wrought in the work.
24 But 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.
25 And three times in a year did Solomon offer burnt offerings and peace offerings upon the altar which he built unto the Lord, and he burnt incense upon the altar that was before the Lord. So he finished the house.
26 And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion-geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom.
27 And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.
28 And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.
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.