1Tom qab uas Vajntxwv Xalumoos ua tau lub Tuamtsev, ua tau lub loog thiab ua txhua yam uas nws npaj siab ua tiav tas lawm, 2tus TSWV rov los rau Xalumoos pom dua ib zaug ib yam li nws tau los rau Xalumoos pom nyob hauv lub nroog Nkinpe-oos thiab. 3Tus TSWV hais rau Xalumoos hais tias, “Kuv hnov koj tej lus thov lawm. Kuv muab lub Tuamtsev uas koj ua tau lawm, ua qhov chaw tseemceeb rau sawvdaws tuaj pehawm kuv mus ibtxhis. 4Yog koj pehawm kuv ntawm lub siab ncaj ncees thiab ua siab dawb siab zoo ib yam li koj txiv Daviv ua, thiab yog koj mloog kuv tej lus thiab ua txhua yam raws li kuv twb samhwm rau koj lawm, 5kuv yuav ua raws li tej lus uas kuv tau cog tseg rau koj txiv Daviv thaum uas kuv hais rau nws hais tias, nws cov xeebntxwv yuav tau ua cov tswjhwm cov Yixalayees mus ibtxhis li. 6Tiamsis yog koj lossis koj cov xeebntxwv tso kuv tseg, tsis ua raws li kuv tej kevcai thiab tej lus samhwm uas kuv muab rau koj no thiab mus pe luag tej vajtswv, 7kuv yuav muab kuv haivneeg Yixalayees ntiab tawm hauv lub tebchaws uas kuv muab rau lawv lawm. Kuv yuav muab lub Tuamtsev uas kuv lees yuav ua qhov chaw tseemceeb rau sawvdaws tuaj pehawm kuv ntawd tso povtseg. Tej neeg nyob txhua qhov yuav luag cov Yixalayees plig thiab saib lub Tuamtsev tsis muaj nqis. 8Lub Tuamtsev no yuav raug puastsuaj ua ib pawg, thiab ua rau txhua tus uas dua kev pom yuav poob siab thiab xav tsis thoob. Lawv yuav nug hais tias, ‘Vim li cas tus TSWV thiaj ua li ntawd rau lub tebchaws thiab lub Tuamtsev no?’ 9Luag tej yuav teb hais tias, ‘Twb yog vim lawv muab tus TSWV uas yog lawv tus Vajtswv, tus uas coj lawv cov yawgkoob tawm nram tebchaws Iziv los tso povtseg lawm. Lawv muab siab npuab luag tej vajtswv thiab mus pe tej vajtswv ntawd. Twb yog vim li no tus TSWV thiaj tso tej kev puastsuaj no los raug lawv.’ ”
Xalumoos Coglus Nrog Hilas
(2 Xwmtxheej Vajntxwv 8.1-2)
10Xalumoos siv sijhawm nees nkaum xyoo ua lub Tuamtsev thiab nws lub loog. 11Vajntxwv Hilas uas kav lub nroog Tiles tau muab ntoo thuv, ntoo ciab thiab kub tuaj pub rau Xalumoos raws li nws xav tau los ua nws tej haujlwm. Tom qab uas tej haujlwm tiav tas lawm, Vajntxwv Xalumoos thiaj li muab tau nees nkaum lub nroog uas nyob hauv lub xeev Kalilais rau Hilas. 12Tiamsis thaum Hilas tuaj hauv lub nroog Tiles tuaj xyuas, nws tsis nyiam cov nroog ntawd. 13Yog li ntawd, nws thiaj hais rau Xalumoos hais tias, “Tus kwv, tej nroog uas koj muab rau kuv zoo li no xwb!” Twb yog vim li no, thiaj muab thaj chaw ntawd tis npe hu ua Kanpus los txog niaj hnub no. 14Cov kub uas Hilas xa tuaj pub rau Xalumoos ntawd yuav luag muaj tsib tas.
Tej Khoom Siv uas Xalumoos Ua Ntxiv
(2 Xwmtxheej Vajntxwv 8.3-18)
15Vajntxwv Xalumoos tsa ib co tubzog los ua lub Tuamtsev thiab nws lub loog, ua lub tsev Milus thiab ua lub nroog Yeluxalees tus ntsayeej. Dua li ntawd, nws tseem siv cov tubzog ntawd mus kho lub nroog Haxaules, Menkidaus thiab Nkexes. ( 16Falaus uas yog cov Iziv tus vajntxwv tau tuaj tua thiab txeeb tau lub nroog Nkexes, nws thiaj muab cov neeg uas ibtxwm nyob hauv tua tuag tas thiab muab lub nroog hlawv kub hnyiab tas huv tibsi lawm. Ces nws txawm muab lub nroog ntawd pub rau nws tus ntxhais uas yuav Xalumoos, 17thiab Xalumoos rov muab lub nroog ntawd kho dua tshiab.) Xalumoos tseem siv nws pab tubzog ntawd rov mus ua lub nroog Npethes Hauloos Theem Qis, 18lub nroog Npa-alas thiab lub nroog Tamaj uas nyob tom nras mojsab qhua hauv lub xeev Yudas, 19tej nroog uas nws tso nws tej cuabyeej, tej nroog uas nws kaw nws tej nees thiab cia tej tsheb nees, txhua yam uas nws ua hauv lub nroog Yeluxalees, pem roob Lenpanoos thiab lwm qhov chaw uas nyob hauv nws lub tebchaws. 20-21Xalumoos cov tubzog ua haujlwm mas yog cov Kana-as tej xeebntxwv uas cov Yixalayees tsis muab tua thaum lawv ntes tau coj los rau hauv cov Yixalayees lub tebchaws. Cov no xam tagnrho cov Amaules, cov Hitis, cov Pelixes, cov Hivis thiab cov Yenpus, lawv tej xeebntxwv tseem ua qhev los txog niaj hnub no. 22Xalumoos tsis muab cov Yixalayees ua qhev; lawv tsuas ua nws cov tubrog, cov nomtswv, cov thawj tubrog, cov tubrog tsav tsheb nees thiab cov tubrog caij nees xwb. 23Xalumoos tsa tsib puas tsib caug leej ua cov thawjcoj saib cov neeg uas ua nws tej vajtse. 24Xalumoos coj nws tus pojniam uas yog cov Iziv tus vajntxwv tus ntxhais hauv Daviv lub Nroog los nyob rau hauv lub tsev uas Xalumoos ua rau nws tus pojniam ntawd nyob lawm. Tom qab ntawd Xalumoos mam ua lub tsev Milus ntxiv. 25Xalumoos muab khoom hlawv fij thiab muab tej khoom fij ua kev sib raug zoo rau tus TSWV saum lub thaj uas nws ua rau tus TSWV ib xyoo twg peb zaug. Nws tseem muab tej hmoov tshuaj tsw qab coj mus hlawv fij rau tus TSWV thiab. Ces qhov uas nws ua lub Tuamtsev tiav li ntawd. 26Vajntxwv Xalumoos tseem ua tau ib co nkoj rau hauv Exi-oonkenpes uas nyob ntawm ntug Hiavtxwv Liab ze rau ntawm Elathas hauv tebchaws Edoos. 27Vajntxwv Hilas tau xa nws ib co neeg uas txawj tsav nkoj tuaj ua haujlwm nrog Xalumoos cov neeg tsav cov nkoj ntawd. 28Lawv thiaj tsav cov nkoj ntawd mus rau tim tebchaws Aufiles thiab thauj tau yuav luag kaum rau tas kub los rau Xalumoos.
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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 forever. 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 forever, 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 you⚓ or your descendants turn away from me and do not observe the commands and decrees I have given you⚓ 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. 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, worshiping 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,⚓ a name they have to this day. 14Now Hiram had sent to the king 120 talents⚓ of gold. 15Here is the account of the forced labor King Solomon conscripted to build the Lord’s temple, his own palace, the terraces,⚓ 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 Tadmor⚓ in the desert, within his land, 19as well as all his store cities and the towns for his chariots and for his horses⚓ —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 exterminate⚓ —to serve as slave labor, 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.⚓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 talents⚓ of gold, which they delivered to King Solomon.