1 राजा 7
1 और सुलैमान ने अपने महल को बनाया, और उसके पूरा करने में तेरह वर्ष लगे।
2 और उसने लबानोनी वन नाम महल बनाया जिसकी लम्बाई सौ हाथ, चौड़ाई पचास हाथ और ऊंचाई तीस हाथ की थी; वह तो देवदारु के खम्भों की चार पांति पर बना और खम्भों पर देवदारु की कडिय़ां धरी गईं।
3 और खम्भों के ऊपर देवदारु की छत वाली पैंतालीस कोठरियां अर्थात एक एक महल में पन्द्रह कोठरियां बनीं।
4 तीनों महलों में कडिय़ां धरी गई, और तीनों में खिड़कियां आम्हने साम्हने बनीं।
5 और सब द्वार और बाजुओं की कडिय़ां भी चौकोर थी, और तीनों महलों में खिड़कियां आम्हने साम्हने बनीं।
6 और उसने एक खम्भेवाला ओसारा भी बनाया जिसकी लम्बाई पचास हाथ और चौड़ाई तीस हाथ की थी, और इन खम्भों के साम्हने एक खम्भे वाला ओसारा और उसके साम्हने डेवढ़ी बनाई।
7 फिर उसने न्याय के सिंहासन के लिये भी एक ओसारा बनाया, जो न्याय का ओसारा कहलाया; और उस में ऐक फ़र्श से दूसरे फ़र्श तक देवदारु की तख्ताबन्दी थी।
8 और उसी के रहने का भवन जो उस ओसारे के भीतर के एक और आंगन में बना, वह भी उसी ढब से बना। फिर उसी ओसारे के ढब से सुलैमान ने फ़िरौन की बेटी के लिये जिस को उसने ब्याह लिया था, एक और भवन बनाया।
9 ये सब घर बाहर भीतर नेव से मुंढेर तक ऐसे अनमोल और गढ़े हुए पत्थरों के बने जो नापकर, और आरों से चीरकर तैयार किये गए थे और बाहर के आंगन से ले बड़े आंगन तक लगाए गए।
10 उसकी नेव तो बड़े मोल के बड़े बड़े अर्थात दस दस और आठ आठ हाथ के पत्थरों की डाली गई थी।
11 और ऊपर भी बड़े मोल के पत्थर थे, जो नाप से गढ़े हुए थे, और देवदारु की लकड़ी भी थी।
12 और बड़े आंगन के चारों ओर के घेरे में गढ़े हुए पत्थरों के तीन रद्दे, और देवदारु की कडिय़ों का एक परत था, जैसे कि यहोवा के भवन के भीतर वाले आंगन और भवन के ओसारे में लगे थे।
13 फिर राजा सुलैमान ने सोर से हीराम को बुलवा भेजा।
14 वह नप्ताली के गोत्र की किसी विधवा का बेटा था, और उसका पिता एक सोरवासी ठठेरा था, और वह पीतल की सब प्रकार की कारीगरी में पूरी बुद्धि, निपुणता और समझ रखता था। सो वह राजा सुलैमान के पास आकर उसका सब काम करने लगा।
15 उसने पीतल ढालकर अठारह अठारह हाथ ऊंचे दो खम्भे बनाए, और एक एक का घेरा बारह हाथ के सूत का था।
16 और उसने खम्भों के सिरों पर लगाने को पीतल ढालकर दो कंगनी बनाईं; एक एक कंगनी की ऊंचाई, पांच पांच हाथ की थी।
17 और खम्भों के सिरों पर की कंगनियों के लिये चारखाने की सात सात जालियां, और सांकलों की सात सात झालरें बनीं।
18 और उसने खम्भों को भी इस प्रकार बनाया; कि खम्भों के सिरों पर की एक एक कंगनी के ढांपने को चारों ओर जालियों की एक एक पांति पर अनारों की दो पांतियां हों।
19 और जो कंगनियां ओसारों में खम्भो के सिरों पर बनीं, उन में चार चार हाथ ऊंचे सोसन के फूल बने हुए थे।
20 और एक एक खम्भे के सिरे पर, उस गोलाई के पास जो जाली से लगी थी, एक और कंगनी बनी, और एक एक कंगनी पर जो अनार चारों ओर पांति पांति करके बने थे वह दो सौ थे।
21 उन खम्भों को उसने मन्दिर के ओसारे के पास खड़ा किया, और दाहिनी ओर के खम्भे को खड़ा करके उसका नाम याकीन रखा; फिर बाईं ओर के खम्भे को खड़ा करके उसका नाम बोआज़ रखा।
22 और खम्भों के सिरों पर सोसन के फूल का काम बना था खम्भों का काम इसी रीति हुआ।
23 फिर उसने एक ढाला हुआ एक बड़ा हौज़ बनाया, जो एक छोर से दूसरी छोर तक दस हाथ चौड़ा था, उसका आकार गोल था, और उसकी ऊंचाई पांच हाथ की थी, और उसके चारों ओर का घेरा तीस हाथ के सूत के बराबर था।
24 और उसके चारों ओर मोहड़े के नीचे एक एक हाथ में दस दस इन्द्रायन बने, जो हौज को घेरे थीं; जब वह ढाला गया; तब ये इन्द्रायन भी दो पांति करके ढाले गए।
25 और वह बारह बने हुए बैलों पर रखा गया जिन में से तीन उत्तर, तीन पश्चिम, तीन दक्खिन, और तीन पूर्व की ओर मुंह किए हुए थे; और उन ही के ऊपर हौज था, और उन सभों का पिछला अंग भीतर की ओर था।
26 और उसका दल चौबा भर का था, और उसका मोहड़ा कटोरे के मोहड़े की नाईं सोसन के फूलों के काम से बना था, और उस में दो हज़ार बत की समाई थी।
27 फिर उसने पीतल के दस पाये बनाए, एक एक पाये की लम्बाई चार हाथ, चौड़ाई भी चार हाथ और ऊंचाई तीन हाथ की थी।
28 उन पायों की बनावट इस प्रकार थी; उनके पटरियां थीं, और पटरियों के बीचोंबीच जोड़ भी थे।
29 और जोड़ों के बीचों बीच की पटरियों पर सिंह, बैल, और करूब बने थे और जोड़ों के ऊपर भी एक एक और पाया बना और सिंहों और बैलों के नीचे लटकते हुए हार बने थे।
30 और एक एक पाये के लिये पीतल के चार पहिये और पीतल की धुरियां बनी; और एक एक के चारों कोनों से लगे हुए कंधे भी ढाल कर बनाए गए जो हौदी के नीचे तक पहुंचते थे, और एक एक कंधे के पास हार बने हुए थे।
31 और हौदी का मोहड़ा जो पाये की कंगनी के भीतर और ऊपर भी था वह एक हाथ ऊंचा था, और पाये का मोहड़ा जिसकी चौड़ाई डेढ़ हाथ की थी, वह पाये की बनावट के समान गोल बना; और पाये के उसी मोहड़े पर भी कुछ खुदा हुआ काम था और उनकी पटरियां गोल नहीं, चौकोर थीं।
32 और चारों पहिये, पटरियो के नीचे थे, और एक एक पाये के पहियों में धुरियां भी थीं; और एक एक पहिये की ऊंचाई डेढ़ हाथ की थी।
33 पहियों की बनावट, रथ के पहिये की सी थी, और उनकी धुरियां, पुट्ठियां, आरे, और नाभें सब ढाली हुई थीं।
34 और एक एक पाये के चारों कोनों पर चार कंधे थे, और कंधे और पाये दोनों एक ही टुकड़े के बने थे।
35 और एक एक पाये के सिरे पर आध हाथ ऊंची चारों ओर गोलाई थी, और पाये के सिरे पर की टेकें और पटरियां पाये से जुड़े हुए एक ही टुकड़े के बने थे।
36 और टेकों के पाटों और पटरियों पर जितनी जगह जिस पर थी, उस में उसने करूब, और सिंह, और खजूर के वृक्ष खोद कर भर दिये, और चारों ओर हार भी बनाए।
37 इसी प्रकार से उसने दसों पायों को बनाया; सभों का एक ही सांचा और एक ही नाप, और एक ही आकार था।
38 और उसने पीतल की दस हौदी बनाईं। एक एक हौदी में चालीस चालीस बत की समाई थी; और एक एक, चार चार हाथ चौड़ी थी, और दसों पायों में से एक एक पर, एक एक हौदी थी।
39 और उसने पांच हौदी भवन की दक्खिन की ओर, और पांच उसकी उत्तर की ओर रख दीं; और हौज़ को भवन की दाहिनी ओर अर्थात पूर्व की ओर, और दक्खिन के साम्हने धर दिया।
40 और हीराम ने हौदियों, फावडिय़ों, और कटोरों को भी बनाया। सो हीराम ने राजा सुलैमान के लिये यहोवा के भवन में जितना काम करना था, वह सब निपटा दिया,
41 अर्थात दो खम्भे, और उन कंगनियों की गोलाइयां जो दोनों खम्भों के सिरे पर थीं, और दोनों खम्भों के सिरों पर की गोलाइयों के ढांपने को दो दो जालियां, और दोनों जालियों के लिय चार चार सौ अनार,
42 अर्थात खम्भों के सिरों पर जो गोलाइयां थीं, उनके ढांपने के लिये अर्थात एक एक जाली के लिये अनारों की दो दो पांति;
43 दस पाये और इन पर की दस हौदी,
44 एक हौज़ और उसके नीचे के बारह बैल, और हंडे, फावडिय़ां,
45 और कटोरे बने। ये सब पात्र जिन्हें हीराम ने यहोवा के भवन के निमित्त राजा सुलैमान के लिये बनाया, वह झलकाये हुए पीतल के बने।
46 राजा ने उन को यरदन की तराई में अर्थात सुक्कोत और सारतान के मध्य की चिकनी मिट्टी वाली भूमि में ढाला।
47 और सुलैमान ने सब पात्रों को बहुत अधिक होने के कारण बिना तौले छोड़ दिया, पीतल के तौल का वज़न मालूम न हो सका।
48 यहोवा के भवन के जितने पात्र थे सुलैमान ने सब बनाए, अर्थात सोने की वेदी, और सोने की वह मेज़ जिस पर भेंट की रोटी रखी जाती थी,
49 और चोखे सोने की दीवटें जो भीतरी कोठरी के आगे पांच तो दक्खिन की ओर, और पांच उत्तर की ओर रखी गई; और सोने के फूल,
50 दीपक और चिमटे, और चोखे सोने के तसले, कैंचियां, कटोरे, धूपदान, और करछे और भीतर वाला भवन जो परमपवित्र स्थान कहलाता है, और भवन जो मन्दिर कहलाता है, दोनों के किवाड़ों के लिये सोने के कब्जे बने।
51 निदान जो जो काम राजा सुलैमान ने यहोवा के भवन के लिये किया, वह सब पूरा किया गया। तब सुलैमान ने अपने पिता दाऊद के पवित्र किए हुए सोने चांदी और पात्रों को भीतर पहुंचा कर यहोवा के भवन के भणडारों में रख दिया।
1 But Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.
2 He built also the house of the forest of Lebanon; the length thereof was an hundred cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars.
3 And it was covered with cedar above upon the beams, that lay on forty five pillars, fifteen in a row.
4 And there were windows in three rows, and light was against light in three ranks.
5 And all the doors and posts were square, with the windows: and light was against light in three ranks.
6 And he made a porch of pillars; the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth thereof thirty cubits: and the porch was before them: and the other pillars and the thick beam were before them.
7 Then he made a porch for the throne where he might judge, even the porch of judgment: and it was covered with cedar from one side of the floor to the other.
8 And his house where he dwelt had another court within the porch, which was of the like work. Solomon made also an house for Pharaoh’s daughter, whom he had taken to wife, like unto this porch.
9 All these were of costly stones, according to the measures of hewed stones, sawed with saws, within and without, even from the foundation unto the coping, and so on the outside toward the great court.
10 And the foundation was of costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits.
11 And above were costly stones, after the measures of hewed stones, and cedars.
12 And the great court round about was with three rows of hewed stones, and a row of cedar beams, both for the inner court of the house of the Lord, and for the porch of the house.
13 And king Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre.
14 He was a widow’s son of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in brass: and he was filled with wisdom, and understanding, and cunning to work all works in brass. And he came to king Solomon, and wrought all his work.
15 For he cast two pillars of brass, of eighteen cubits high apiece: and a line of twelve cubits did compass either of them about.
16 And he made two chapiters of molten brass, to set upon the tops of the pillars: the height of the one chapiter was five cubits, and the height of the other chapiter was five cubits:
17 And nets of checker work, and wreaths of chain work, for the chapiters which were upon the top of the pillars; seven for the one chapiter, and seven for the other chapiter.
18 And he made the pillars, and two rows round about upon the one network, to cover the chapiters that were upon the top, with pomegranates: and so did he for the other chapiter.
19 And the chapiters that were upon the top of the pillars were of lily work in the porch, four cubits.
20 And the chapiters upon the two pillars had pomegranates also above, over against the belly which was by the network: and the pomegranates were two hundred in rows round about upon the other chapiter.
21 And he set up the pillars in the porch of the temple: and he set up the right pillar, and called the name thereof Jachin: and he set up the left pillar, and called the name thereof Boaz.
22 And upon the top of the pillars was lily work: so was the work of the pillars finished.
23 And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.
24 And under the brim of it round about there were knops compassing it, ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about: the knops were cast in two rows, when it was cast.
25 It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east: and the sea was set above upon them, and all their hinder parts were inward.
26 And it was an hand breadth thick, and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies: it contained two thousand baths.
27 And he made ten bases of brass; four cubits was the length of one base, and four cubits the breadth thereof, and three cubits the height of it.
28 And the work of the bases was on this manner: they had borders, and the borders were between the ledges:
29 And on the borders that were between the ledges were lions, oxen, and cherubims: and upon the ledges there was a base above: and beneath the lions and oxen were certain additions made of thin work.
30 And every base had four brasen wheels, and plates of brass: and the four corners thereof had undersetters: under the laver were undersetters molten, at the side of every addition.
31 And the mouth of it within the chapiter and above was a cubit: but the mouth thereof was round after the work of the base, a cubit and an half: and also upon the mouth of it were gravings with their borders, foursquare, not round.
32 And under the borders were four wheels; and the axletrees of the wheels were joined to the base: and the height of a wheel was a cubit and half a cubit.
33 And the work of the wheels was like the work of a chariot wheel: their axletrees, and their naves, and their felloes, and their spokes, were all molten.
34 And there were four undersetters to the four corners of one base: and the undersetters were of the very base itself.
35 And in the top of the base was there a round compass of half a cubit high: and on the top of the base the ledges thereof and the borders thereof were of the same.
36 For on the plates of the ledges thereof, and on the borders thereof, he graved cherubims, lions, and palm trees, according to the proportion of every one, and additions round about.
37 After this manner he made the ten bases: all of them had one casting, one measure, and one size.
38 Then made he ten lavers of brass: one laver contained forty baths: and every laver was four cubits: and upon every one of the ten bases one laver.
39 And he put five bases on the right side of the house, and five on the left side of the house: and he set the sea on the right side of the house eastward over against the south.
40 And Hiram made the lavers, and the shovels, and the basons. So Hiram made an end of doing all the work that he made king Solomon for the house of the Lord:
41 The two pillars, and the two bowls of the chapiters that were on the top of the two pillars; and the two networks, to cover the two bowls of the chapiters which were upon the top of the pillars;
42 And four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, even two rows of pomegranates for one network, to cover the two bowls of the chapiters that were upon the pillars;
43 And the ten bases, and ten lavers on the bases;
44 And one sea, and twelve oxen under the sea;
45 And the pots, and the shovels, and the basons: and all these vessels, which Hiram made to king Solomon for the house of the Lord, were of bright brass.
46 In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarthan.
47 And Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because they were exceeding many: neither was the weight of the brass found out.
48 And Solomon made all the vessels that pertained unto the house of the Lord: the altar of gold, and the table of gold, whereupon the shewbread was,
49 And the candlesticks of pure gold, five on the right side, and five on the left, before the oracle, with the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs of gold,
50 And the bowls, and the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and the censers of pure gold; and the hinges of gold, both for the doors of the inner house, the most holy place, and for the doors of the house, to wit, of the temple.
51 So was ended all the work that king Solomon made for the house of the Lord. And Solomon brought in the things which David his father had dedicated; even the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, did he put among the treasures of the house of the Lord.
1 Now the days of David drew nigh that he should die; and he charged Solomon his son, saying,
2 I go the way of all the earth: be thou strong therefore, and shew thyself a man;
3 And keep the charge of the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and his testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses, that thou mayest prosper in all that thou doest, and whithersoever thou turnest thyself:
4 That the Lord may continue his word which he spake concerning me, saying, If thy children take heed to their way, to walk before me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail thee (said he) a man on the throne of Israel.
5 Moreover thou knowest also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, and what he did to the two captains of the hosts of Israel, unto Abner the son of Ner, and unto Amasa the son of Jether, whom he slew, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war upon his girdle that was about his loins, and in his shoes that were on his feet.
6 Do therefore according to thy wisdom, and let not his hoar head go down to the grave in peace.
7 But shew kindness unto the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be of those that eat at thy table: for so they came to me when I fled because of Absalom thy brother.
8 And, behold, thou hast with thee Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite of Bahurim, which cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I went to Mahanaim: but he came down to meet me at Jordan, and I sware to him by the Lord, saying, I will not put thee to death with the sword.
9 Now therefore hold him not guiltless: for thou art a wise man, and knowest what thou oughtest to do unto him; but his hoar head bring thou down to the grave with blood.
10 So David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.
11 And the days that David reigned over Israel were forty years: seven years reigned he in Hebron, and thirty and three years reigned he in Jerusalem.
12 Then sat Solomon upon the throne of David his father; and his kingdom was established greatly.
13 And Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bath-sheba the mother of Solomon. And she said, Comest thou peaceably? And he said, Peaceably.
14 He said moreover, I have somewhat to say unto thee. And she said, Say on.
15 And he said, Thou knowest that the kingdom was mine, and that all Israel set their faces on me, that I should reign: howbeit the kingdom is turned about, and is become my brother’s: for it was his from the Lord.
16 And now I ask one petition of thee, deny me not. And she said unto him, Say on.
17 And he said, Speak, I pray thee, unto Solomon the king, (for he will not say thee nay,) that he give me Abishag the Shunammite to wife.
18 And Bath-sheba said, Well; I will speak for thee unto the king.
19 Bath-sheba therefore went unto king Solomon, to speak unto him for Adonijah. And the king rose up to meet her, and bowed himself unto her, and sat down on his throne, and caused a seat to be set for the king’s mother; and she sat on his right hand.
20 Then she said, I desire one small petition of thee; I pray thee, say me not nay. And the king said unto her, Ask on, my mother: for I will not say thee nay.
21 And she said, Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah thy brother to wife.
22 And king Solomon answered and said unto his mother, And why dost thou ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? ask for him the kingdom also; for he is mine elder brother; even for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah.
23 Then king Solomon sware by the Lord, saying, God do so to me, and more also, if Adonijah have not spoken this word against his own life.
24 Now therefore, as the Lord liveth, which hath established me, and set me on the throne of David my father, and who hath made me an house, as he promised, Adonijah shall be put to death this day.
25 And king Solomon sent by the hand of Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he fell upon him that he died.
26 And unto Abiathar the priest said the king, Get thee to Anathoth, unto thine own fields; for thou art worthy of death: but I will not at this time put thee to death, because thou barest the ark of the Lord God before David my father, and because thou hast been afflicted in all wherein my father was afflicted.
27 So Solomon thrust out Abiathar from being priest unto the Lord; that he might fulfil the word of the Lord, which he spake concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh.
28 Then tidings came to Joab: for Joab had turned after Adonijah, though he turned not after Absalom. And Joab fled unto the tabernacle of the Lord, and caught hold on the horns of the altar.
29 And it was told king Solomon that Joab was fled unto the tabernacle of the Lord; and, behold, he is by the altar. Then Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, Go, fall upon him.
30 And Benaiah came to the tabernacle of the Lord, and said unto him, Thus saith the king, Come forth. And he said, Nay; but I will die here. And Benaiah brought the king word again, saying, Thus said Joab, and thus he answered me.
31 And the king said unto him, Do as he hath said, and fall upon him, and bury him; that thou mayest take away the innocent blood, which Joab shed, from me, and from the house of my father.
32 And the Lord shall return his blood upon his own head, who fell upon two men more righteous and better than he, and slew them with the sword, my father David not knowing thereof, to wit, Abner the son of Ner, captain of the host of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the host of Judah.
33 Their blood shall therefore return upon the head of Joab, and upon the head of his seed for ever: but upon David, and upon his seed, and upon his house, and upon his throne, shall there be peace for ever from the Lord.
34 So Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up, and fell upon him, and slew him: and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness.
35 And the king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his room over the host: and Zadok the priest did the king put in the room of Abiathar.
36 And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said unto him, Build thee an house in Jerusalem, and dwell there, and go not forth thence any whither.
37 For it shall be, that on the day thou goest out, and passest over the brook Kidron, thou shalt know for certain that thou shalt surely die: thy blood shall be upon thine own head.
38 And Shimei said unto the king, The saying is good: as my lord the king hath said, so will thy servant do. And Shimei dwelt in Jerusalem many days.
39 And it came to pass at the end of three years, that two of the servants of Shimei ran away unto Achish son of Maachah king of Gath. And they told Shimei, saying, Behold, thy servants be in Gath.
40 And Shimei arose, and saddled his ass, and went to Gath to Achish to seek his servants: and Shimei went, and brought his servants from Gath.
41 And it was told Solomon that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath, and was come again.
42 And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said unto him, Did I not make thee to swear by the Lord, and protested unto thee, saying, Know for a certain, on the day thou goest out, and walkest abroad any whither, that thou shalt surely die? and thou saidst unto me, The word that I have heard is good.
43 Why then hast thou not kept the oath of the Lord, and the commandment that I have charged thee with?
44 The king said moreover to Shimei, Thou knowest all the wickedness which thine heart is privy to, that thou didst to David my father: therefore the Lord shall return thy wickedness upon thine own head;
45 And king Solomon shall be blessed, and the throne of David shall be established before the Lord for ever.
46 So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; which went out, and fell upon him, that he died. And the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.