Kalunga ti ihololele Salomo
(2 Ondjal. 7:11-22)1 Salomo sho a mana etungo lyotempeli nombala naayihe yilwe a halele oku yi tunga, 2 Omuwa okwe mu ihololele ishewe, ngaashi e shi ningile muGibeon. 3 Omuwa okwa ti kuye: “Otandi yapula otempeli ndjika we yi tungu, yi ninge eha lyokulongela ndje mo sigo aluhe. Otandi yi tonatele e tandi yi gamene aluhe. 4 Ngele oto longele ndje muuyuuki nomuuyapuki, ngaashi ho David a ningile, nongele to vulika kiipango yandje e to gwanitha ayihe nde ku uthile, 5 otii ka gwanitha euvaneko nde li uvanekele ho David, sho nde mu lombwele kutya Israel ota ka lelwa aluhe koluvalo lwe. 6 Ihe ngoye nenge oluvalo lwoye ngele tamu etha okulandula ndje, ngele itamu vulika kiipango yandje, nokomautho gandje nde ge mu pa, e tamu longele ookalunga yalwe, 7 nena otandi ka kutha aantu yandje Aaisraeli mevi ndika nde ya pele. Otandi ka thiga po otempeli ndjika nda yapula, yi ninge eha moka tandi simanekelwa mo. Iigwana koombinga noombinga otayi ka sheka Israel noku mu dhina. 8 Otempeli otayi ka ninga ondumba yomakulukuma, noshaa ngoka ta ka pita po, ota ka haluka e ta kumwa. Yamwe otaa pula taa ti: ‘Omolwashike Omuwa a ningi ngeyi noshilongo shika notempeli ndjika?’ 9 Aantu otaa yamukula taa ti: ‘Osha ningwa, oshoka oyo oye etha Omuwa, Kalunga kawo, ngoka a tembudha oohekulu muEgipiti. Oyi inekele ookalunga yalwe e taye ya simaneke. Omolwashoka Omuwa e ya etele omupya nguka.’ ”
Salomo ta hangana naHiram
(2 Ondjal. 8:1-2)10 Osha pula Salomo omimvo omilongo mbali okutunga otempeli nuuwa we. 11 Omukwaniilwa gwaTiro Hiram okwe mu longekidhile omisedeli nomikiperesi niingoli ayihe ya pumbilwa iilonga mbika. Okutunga sho kwa pu, omukwaniilwa Salomo okwa pe Hiram iilando omilongo mbali moshitopolwa shaGalilea. 12 Hiram okwa yi e ke yi tale noine yi hokwa. 13 Onkee a ti kuSalomo: “Mukwetu, no pe ndje iilando, oyo mbino?” Omolwashika oshitopolwa osha lukwa Kabul. 14 Hiram okwa li a tumine Salomo oshingoli shookilograma dhi vule omayuvi gane.
Iilonga iikwawo yaSalomo
(2 Ondjal. 8:3-18)15 Omukwaniilwa Salomo okwa tula aantu miilonga yethiminiko mokutunga otempeli nombala, Millo nedhingililokuma lyaJerusalem. Okwe ya tungitha wo iilando Hazor, Megiddo naGeser. 16 (Omukwaniilwa gwaEgipiti okwa li a matukile Geser e te shi kwata po, a dhipaga aakalimo yasho e te shi tomeke omulilo. Nena okwe shi umbu mongalo yohango yomwana omufuko, sho a hokanwa kuSalomo, 17 Salomo nokwe shi tungulula.) Miilonga yethiminiko Salomo okwa tungulula wo Bethoron shopohi, 18 Baalat naTamar mombuga yaJuda, 19 iilando moka a pungula iipumbiwa ye, iilando yuukambe we nomatembakwiita ge noshaa shoka a halele okutunga muJerusalem, muLibanon nopalwe moshilongo she. 20-21 Miilonga ye yethiminiko Salomo okwa longitha oluvalo lwAakaanana mboka inaa dhipagwa po kAaisraeli, sho ya kutha ko evi lyawo. Oluvalo nduka olwa kwatelela mo Aayamori, Aaheti, Aaperesi, Aahevi nAayebusi, mboka omaluvalo gawo ga kala aapika sigo onena. 22 Salomo ina pika Aaisraeli; oya li aakwiita, aanambelewa, oondjayi dhiita, aakuluntu yomatembakwiita naakuluntu yaakayilinkambe.
23 Aanambelewa aatonateli yiilonga yi ili noyi ili yethiminiko yaSalomo oya li 550.
24 Salomo okwa tungu Millo, sho omunyekadhi gwe, omuna gwomukwaniilwa gwaEgipiti, a zi moshilando shaDavid a tembukile muuwa mboka Salomo e u mu tungile.
25 Lutatu momumvo Salomo okwa yamba omafikilondjambo nomakwatathanondjambo koshiyambelo shoka a tungile Omuwa. Okwa lungunithile wo Omuwa omatsininondjambo. Osho ngaaka a hulitha iilonga yetungo lyotempeli.
26 Omukwaniilwa Salomo okwa pangelitha oosikepa puEziongeber, popepi naElat, komunkulo gwEkololo lyaAkaba mevi lyaEdom. 27 Omukwaniilwa Hiram okwe mu tumine aapyokoki yomefuta ya zi moosikepa dhe, ya longe pamwe naantu yaSalomo. 28 Oya thayile yu uka kevi lyaOfir noye etele Salomo oshingoli omathele gane nomilongo mbali.
God Appears to Solomon Again
(2 Chronicles 7.11-22)1 After King Solomon had finished building the Temple and the palace and everything else he wanted to build, 2 the Lord appeared to him again, as he had in Gibeon. 3 The Lord said to him, “I have heard your prayer. I consecrate this Temple which you have built as the place where I shall be worshiped forever. I will watch over it and protect it for all time. 4 If you will serve me in honesty and integrity, as your father David did, and if you obey my laws and do everything I have commanded you, 5 I will keep the promise I made to your father David when I told him that Israel would always be ruled by his descendants. 6 But if you or your descendants stop following me, disobey the laws and commands I have given you, and worship other gods, 7 then I will remove my people Israel from the land that I have given them. I will also abandon this Temple which I have consecrated as the place where I am to be worshiped. People everywhere will ridicule Israel and treat her with contempt. 8 This Temple will become a pile of ruins, and everyone who passes by will be shocked and amazed. ‘Why did the Lord do this to this land and this Temple?’ they will ask. 9 People will answer, ‘It is because they abandoned the Lord their God, who brought their ancestors out of Egypt. They gave their allegiance to other gods and worshiped them. That is why the Lord has brought this disaster on them.’”
Solomon's Agreement with Hiram
(2 Chronicles 8.12 2)10 It took Solomon twenty years to build the Temple and his palace. 11 King Hiram of Tyre had provided him with all the cedar and pine and with all the gold he wanted for this work. After it was finished, King Solomon gave Hiram twenty towns in the region of Galilee. 12 Hiram went to see them, and he did not like them. 13 So he said to Solomon, “So these, my brother, are the towns you have given me!” For this reason the area is still called Cabul. 14 Hiram had sent Solomon almost five tons of gold.
Further Achievements of Solomon
(2 Chronicles 8.3-18)15 King Solomon used forced labor to build the Temple and the palace, to fill in land on the east side of the city, and to build the city wall. He also used it to rebuild the cities of Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer. ( 16 The king of Egypt had attacked Gezer and captured it, killing its inhabitants and setting fire to the city. Then he gave it as a wedding present to his daughter when she married Solomon, 17 and Solomon rebuilt it.) Using his forced labor, Solomon also rebuilt Lower Beth Horon, 18 Baalath, Tamar in the wilderness of Judah, 19 the cities where his supplies were kept, the cities for his horses and chariots, and everything else he wanted to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and elsewhere in his kingdom. 20-21 For his forced labor Solomon used the descendants of the people of Canaan whom the Israelites had not killed when they took possession of their land. These included Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, whose descendants continue to be slaves down to the present time. 22 Solomon did not make slaves of Israelites; they served as his soldiers, officers, commanders, chariot captains, and cavalry.
23 There were 550 officials in charge of the forced labor working on Solomon's various building projects.
24 Solomon filled in the land on the east side of the city, after his wife, the daughter of the king of Egypt, had moved from David's City to the palace Solomon built for her.
25 Three times a year Solomon offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings on the altar he had built to the Lord. He also burned incense to the Lord. And so he finished building the Temple.
26 King Solomon also built a fleet of ships at Eziongeber, which is near Elath on the shore of the Gulf of Aqaba, in the land of Edom. 27 King Hiram sent some experienced sailors from his fleet to serve with Solomon's men. 28 They sailed to the land of Ophir and brought back to Solomon about sixteen tons of gold.
