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9 When the queen of Sheba heard of Solomon’s fame, she came to Jerusalem to test him with hard questions. Arriving with a very great caravan—with camels carrying spices, large quantities of gold, and precious stones—she came to Solomon and talked with him about all she had on her mind. 2 Solomon answered all her questions; nothing was too hard for him to explain to her. 3 When the queen of Sheba saw the wisdom of Solomon, as well as the palace he had built, 4 the food on his table, the seating of his officials, the attending servants in their robes, the cupbearers in their robes and the burnt offerings he made at[a] the temple of the Lord, she was overwhelmed. 5 She said to the king, “The report I heard in my own country about your achievements and your wisdom is true. 6 But I did not believe what they said until I came and saw with my own eyes. Indeed, not even half the greatness of your wisdom was told me; you have far exceeded the report I heard. 7 How happy your people must be! How happy your officials, who continually stand before you and hear your wisdom! 8 Praise be to the Lord your God, who has delighted in you and placed you on his throne as king to rule for the Lord your God. Because of the love of your God for Israel and his desire to uphold them forever, he has made you king over them, to maintain justice and righteousness.” 9 Then she gave the king 120 talents[b] of gold, large quantities of spices, and precious stones. There had never been such spices as those the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon. 10 (The servants of Hiram and the servants of Solomon brought gold from Ophir; they also brought algumwood[c] and precious stones. 11 The king used the algumwood to make steps for the temple of the Lord and for the royal palace, and to make harps and lyres for the musicians. Nothing like them had ever been seen in Judah.) 12 King Solomon gave the queen of Sheba all she desired and asked for; he gave her more than she had brought to him. Then she left and returned with her retinue to her own country. 13 The weight of the gold that Solomon received yearly was 666 talents,[d] 14 not including the revenues brought in by merchants and traders. Also all the kings of Arabia and the governors of the territories brought gold and silver to Solomon. 15 King Solomon made two hundred large shields of hammered gold; six hundred shekels[e] of hammered gold went into each shield. 16 He also made three hundred small shields of hammered gold, with three hundred shekels[f] of gold in each shield. The king put them in the Palace of the Forest of Lebanon. 17 Then the king made a great throne covered with ivory and overlaid with pure gold. 18 The throne had six steps, and a footstool of gold was attached to it. On both sides of the seat were armrests, with a lion standing beside each of them. 19 Twelve lions stood on the six steps, one at either end of each step. Nothing like it had ever been made for any other kingdom. 20 All King Solomon’s goblets were gold, and all the household articles in the Palace of the Forest of Lebanon were pure gold. Nothing was made of silver, because silver was considered of little value in Solomon’s day. 21 The king had a fleet of trading ships[g] manned by Hiram’s[h] servants. Once every three years it returned, carrying gold, silver and ivory, and apes and baboons. 22 King Solomon was greater in riches and wisdom than all the other kings of the earth. 23 All the kings of the earth sought audience with Solomon to hear the wisdom God had put in his heart. 24 Year after year, everyone who came brought a gift—articles of silver and gold, and robes, weapons and spices, and horses and mules. 25 Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horses,[i] which he kept in the chariot cities and also with him in Jerusalem. 26 He ruled over all the kings from the Euphrates River to the land of the Philistines, as far as the border of Egypt. 27 The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as plentiful as sycamore-fig trees in the foothills. 28 Solomon’s horses were imported from Egypt and from all other countries. 29 As for the other events of Solomon’s reign, from beginning to end, are they not written in the records of Nathan the prophet, in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite and in the visions of Iddo the seer concerning Jeroboam son of Nebat? 30 Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years. 31 Then he rested with his ancestors and was buried in the city of David his father. And Rehoboam his son succeeded him as king. 10 Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had gone there to make him king. 2 When Jeroboam son of Nebat heard this (he was in Egypt, where he had fled from King Solomon), he returned from Egypt. 3 So they sent for Jeroboam, and he and all Israel went to Rehoboam and said to him: 4 “Your father put a heavy yoke on us, but now lighten the harsh labor and the heavy yoke he put on us, and we will serve you.” 5 Rehoboam answered, “Come back to me in three days.” So the people went away. 6 Then King Rehoboam consulted the elders who had served his father Solomon during his lifetime. “How would you advise me to answer these people?” he asked. 7 They replied, “If you will be kind to these people and please them and give them a favorable answer, they will always be your servants.” 8 But Rehoboam rejected the advice the elders gave him and consulted the young men who had grown up with him and were serving him. 9 He asked them, “What is your advice? How should we answer these people who say to me, ‘Lighten the yoke your father put on us’?” 10 The young men who had grown up with him replied, “The people have said to you, ‘Your father put a heavy yoke on us, but make our yoke lighter.’ Now tell them, ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist. 11 My father laid on you a heavy yoke; I will make it even heavier. My father scourged you with whips; I will scourge you with scorpions.’” 12 Three days later Jeroboam and all the people returned to Rehoboam, as the king had said, “Come back to me in three days.” 13 The king answered them harshly. Rejecting the advice of the elders, 14 he followed the advice of the young men and said, “My father made your yoke heavy; I will make it even heavier. My father scourged you with whips; I will scourge you with scorpions.” 15 So the king did not listen to the people, for this turn of events was from God, to fulfill the word the Lord had spoken to Jeroboam son of Nebat through Ahijah the Shilonite. 16 When all Israel saw that the king refused to listen to them, they answered the king: “What share do we have in David, what part in Jesse’s son? To your tents, Israel! Look after your own house, David!” So all the Israelites went home. 17 But as for the Israelites who were living in the towns of Judah, Rehoboam still ruled over them. 18 King Rehoboam sent out Adoniram,[j] who was in charge of forced labor, but the Israelites stoned him to death. King Rehoboam, however, managed to get into his chariot and escape to Jerusalem. 19 So Israel has been in rebellion against the house of David to this day. 11 When Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he mustered Judah and Benjamin—a hundred and eighty thousand able young men—to go to war against Israel and to regain the kingdom for Rehoboam. 2 But this word of the Lord came to Shemaiah the man of God: 3 “Say to Rehoboam son of Solomon king of Judah and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin, 4 ‘This is what the Lord says: Do not go up to fight against your fellow Israelites. Go home, every one of you, for this is my doing.’” So they obeyed the words of the Lord and turned back from marching against Jeroboam. 5 Rehoboam lived in Jerusalem and built up towns for defense in Judah: 6 Bethlehem, Etam, Tekoa, 7 Beth Zur, Soko, Adullam, 8 Gath, Mareshah, Ziph, 9 Adoraim, Lachish, Azekah, 10 Zorah, Aijalon and Hebron. These were fortified cities in Judah and Benjamin. 11 He strengthened their defenses and put commanders in them, with supplies of food, olive oil and wine. 12 He put shields and spears in all the cities, and made them very strong. So Judah and Benjamin were his. 13 The priests and Levites from all their districts throughout Israel sided with him. 14 The Levites even abandoned their pasturelands and property and came to Judah and Jerusalem, because Jeroboam and his sons had rejected them as priests of the Lord 15 when he appointed his own priests for the high places and for the goat and calf idols he had made. 16 Those from every tribe of Israel who set their hearts on seeking the Lord, the God of Israel, followed the Levites to Jerusalem to offer sacrifices to the Lord, the God of their ancestors. 17 They strengthened the kingdom of Judah and supported Rehoboam son of Solomon three years, following the ways of David and Solomon during this time. 18 Rehoboam married Mahalath, who was the daughter of David’s son Jerimoth and of Abihail, the daughter of Jesse’s son Eliab. 19 She bore him sons: Jeush, Shemariah and Zaham. 20 Then he married Maakah daughter of Absalom, who bore him Abijah, Attai, Ziza and Shelomith. 21 Rehoboam loved Maakah daughter of Absalom more than any of his other wives and concubines. In all, he had eighteen wives and sixty concubines, twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters. 22 Rehoboam appointed Abijah son of Maakah as crown prince among his brothers, in order to make him king. 23 He acted wisely, dispersing some of his sons throughout the districts of Judah and Benjamin, and to all the fortified cities. He gave them abundant provisions and took many wives for them. 12 After Rehoboam’s position as king was established and he had become strong, he and all Israel[k] with him abandoned the law of the Lord. 2 Because they had been unfaithful to the Lord, Shishak king of Egypt attacked Jerusalem in the fifth year of King Rehoboam. 3 With twelve hundred chariots and sixty thousand horsemen and the innumerable troops of Libyans, Sukkites and Cushites[l] that came with him from Egypt, 4 he captured the fortified cities of Judah and came as far as Jerusalem. 5 Then the prophet Shemaiah came to Rehoboam and to the leaders of Judah who had assembled in Jerusalem for fear of Shishak, and he said to them, “This is what the Lord says, ‘You have abandoned me; therefore, I now abandon you to Shishak.’” 6 The leaders of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, “The Lord is just.” 7 When the Lord saw that they humbled themselves, this word of the Lord came to Shemaiah: “Since they have humbled themselves, I will not destroy them but will soon give them deliverance. My wrath will not be poured out on Jerusalem through Shishak. 8 They will, however, become subject to him, so that they may learn the difference between serving me and serving the kings of other lands.” 9 When Shishak king of Egypt attacked Jerusalem, he carried off the treasures of the temple of the Lord and the treasures of the royal palace. He took everything, including the gold shields Solomon had made. 10 So King Rehoboam made bronze shields to replace them and assigned these to the commanders of the guard on duty at the entrance to the royal palace. 11 Whenever the king went to the Lord’s temple, the guards went with him, bearing the shields, and afterward they returned them to the guardroom. 12 Because Rehoboam humbled himself, the Lord’s anger turned from him, and he was not totally destroyed. Indeed, there was some good in Judah. 13 King Rehoboam established himself firmly in Jerusalem and continued as king. He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the Lord had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel in which to put his Name. His mother’s name was Naamah; she was an Ammonite. 14 He did evil because he had not set his heart on seeking the Lord. 15 As for the events of Rehoboam’s reign, from beginning to end, are they not written in the records of Shemaiah the prophet and of Iddo the seer that deal with genealogies? There was continual warfare between Rehoboam and Jeroboam. 16 Rehoboam rested with his ancestors and was buried in the City of David. And Abijah his son succeeded him as king. Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright ©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.
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2 इतिहास 9 Nepali Bible: Easy-to-Read Version (ERV-NE) शबाकी रानीले सुलेमानलाई भेट्छिन् 9 शबाकी रानीले सुलेमानको किर्तिको विषयमा सुनिन्। तिनी सुलेमानलाई कठिन प्रश्नहरू द्वार परीक्षा गर्न यरूशलेम आइन्। शबाकी रानीका साथ एक विशाल समूह थियो। तिनीसित ऊँटहरू थिए जसले मसला, प्रचुरमात्रामा सुन अनि बहुमूल्य रत्नहरू बोकेका थिए। तिनी सुलेमान कहाँ आइन् र तिनीसित कुरा-कानी गरिन्। तिनीसित सुलेमानलाई सोध्ने अनेक प्रश्नहरू थिए। 2 सुलेमानले तिनका सबै प्रश्नहरूका उत्तर दिए। सुलेमानका निम्ति व्याख्या गर्न वा उत्तर दिन कठिन पर्ने कुनै कुरा थिएन। 3 शबाकी रानीले सुलेमानको ज्ञान अनि तिनले निर्माण गरेका भवन देखिन्। 4 तिनले सुलेमानको मेचमा भोजन र तिनका अनेकौं महत्हपूर्ण अधिकारीहरू देखिन्। तिनले तिनका सेवकहरूले काम गरेको बस्त्र पहिरेको तरिका देखिन्। तिनले सुलेमानका दाखरस तयार गर्ने सेवकहरू अनि तिनीहरूले पहिरेका बस्त्रहरू देखिन्। तिनले परमप्रभुको मन्दिरमा सुलेमानले होमबलि अर्पण गरेका देखिन्। जव शबाकी रानीले यी सबै कुराहरू देखिन् तब तिनी आश्चर्य भइन्। 5 तब तिनले राजा सुलेमानलाई भनिन्, “मैले मेरो देशमा तपाईंको महान कार्यहरू अनि बुद्धिको विषयमा सुनेका कथाहरू सत्य रहेछन्। 6 म यहाँ आएर आफ्नै आँखाले नदेखुन्जेल मैले ती कथाहरूमा विश्वास गरेकी थिइन। अहो, मलाई तपाईंको महान बुद्धिको आधा मात्र पनि भनिएको छैन रहेछ। तपाईं मैले सुनेका कथाहरू भन्दा महान हुनुहुन्छ। 7 तपाईंका पत्नीहरू अनि अधिकारीहरू अति भाग्यमानी रहेछन्। तपाईंका ज्ञानका कुराहरू तिनीहरूले तपाईंको सेवा गर्दै सुन्न सक्ने छन्। 8 परमप्रभु तिमीहरूका परमेश्वरको प्रशंसा होस्। उहाँ तपाईंसित प्रसन्न हुनुहुन्छ अनि परमप्रभु तपाईंका परमेश्वरका निम्ति शासन गर्न तपाईंलाई उहाँको सिंहासनमाथि राख्नु भएको छ। परमेश्वरले इस्राएललाई प्रेम गर्नु हुन्छ। इस्राएललाई सदा-सर्वदा सहयोग प्रदान गर्नु हुन्छ। यसकारण उहाँले तपाईंलाई इस्राएलमाथि न्याय र धार्मीकता पालन गर्ने राजा बनाउनु भयो।” 9 तब, शबाकी रानीले सुलेमानलाई एक सय बीस तोडा सुन, प्रचुर मात्रामा मसला, अनि बहुमूल्य रत्नहरू दिइन्। शबाकी रानीले जस्तै उत्तम मसलाहरू कसैले सुलेमानलाई दिएका थिएनन्। 10 हूरामका सेवकहरू अनि सुलेमानका सेवकहरूले ओपीरबाट सुन ल्याए। तिनीहरूले चन्दनका काठ अनि बहुमूल्य पत्थरहरू पनि ल्याए। 11 राजा सुलेमानले चन्दनका काठ परमप्रभुको मन्दिरको निम्ति सिंडी र राज भवन निर्माण गर्नमा प्रयोग गरे। सुलेमानले चन्दनका काठ गायकहरूका निम्ति बीणा र सारङ्गीहरू बनाउनमा पनि प्रयोग गरे। यहूदा देशमा चन्दनका काठद्वारा बनाइएका ती बस्तुहरू जस्ता सुन्दर बस्तुहरू कसैले कहिले देखेका थिएनन्। 12 राजा सुलेमानले शबाकी रानीलाई तिनले चाहेका अनि याचना गरेका सबै चीजहरू दिए। तिनले शबाकी रानीले आफूलाई दिएको भन्दा अधिक दिए। त्यस पछि शबाकी रानी र तिनका सेवकहरू विदा भए आफ्नै देशमा फर्की गए। सुलेमानको अपार सम्पत्ति 13 सुलेमानले एक बर्षमा जति सुन प्राप्त गरे त्यसको तौल 666 तोडा थियो। 14 घुमन्ते पैकारीहरू अनि व्यापारीहरूले सुलेमान कहाँ अझ अधिक सुन ल्याए। अरबका सबै राजाहरू अनि देशका शासकहरूले पनि सुलेमान कहाँ सुन अनि चाँदी ल्याए। 15 राजा सुलेमानले पिटेका सुनको 200 वटा ठूल-ठूला ढालहरू बनाए। प्रत्येक ढाल बनाउनका निम्ति प्रायः 600 शेकेल पिटेको सुन प्रयोग गरियो। 16 सुलेमानले पिटेको सुनको 300 वटा सा-साना ढालहरू पनि बनाए। प्रत्येक ढाल बनाउनका निम्ति प्रायः 300 शेकेल सुन प्रयोग गरियो। सुलेमानले सुनका ढालहरू लबानोनको बन-महलमा राखे। 17 राजा सुलेमानले विशाल सिंहासन निर्माण गर्न हात्तीको दाँत प्रयोग गरे। तिनले सिंहासनलाई शुद्ध सुनद्वारा मोहोरे। 18 सिंहासनमा छःवटा सिंढीहरू थिए। अनि त्यसको एक पाउ-दान थियो जो सुनले बनिएको थियो। सिंहासनको आसनका दुवै तिर पाखुरा अडयाउने बाहुहरू थिए। प्रत्येक बाहुको छेउमा सिंहका मूर्ति उभिएका थिए। 19 छःवटा सिंडीमा बाह्रवटा सिंहका मूर्तिहरू उभिएका थिए। प्रत्येक सिंडीको प्रत्येक छेउमा एउटा सिंह थियो। यस प्रकारले बनाएको सिंहासन जस्तो अन्य कुनै राज्यमा थिएन। 20 राजा सुलेमानका पिउने सबै प्यालाहरू सुनद्वारा बनिएका थिए। लबानोनको बन-महलका सबै घरेलु चीज-बीजहरू शुद्ध सुनले बनिएका थिए। सुलेमानको समयमा यति विघ्न सम्पत्ति थियो कि चाँदीलाई त्यति मूल्यवान ठानिंदैन थियो। 21 किनभने राजा सुलेमानका जहाजहरू थिए जो हूरामका मानिसहरूले तर्शीश तिर चलाएर लान्थे। अनि प्रत्येक तीन-तीन बर्षमा सुन, चाँदी हस्ती-हाड अनि ढेंडु र बाँदरहरू लादिएर तर्शीशबाट फर्किन्थे। 22 राजा सुलेमान धन सम्पत्ति र बुद्धिमा संसारका अन्यक कुनै पनि राजा भन्दा महान भए। 23 संसारका सबै अन्य राजाहरू सुलेमान कहाँ तिनका बुद्धिमत्ता पूर्ण निर्णयहरू सुन्नका निम्ति भेट गर्न आउँथे। तिनीहरू सुलेमानलाई परमेश्वरले दिनु भएको ज्ञानका कुरा सुन्न आउँथे। 24 हरेक साल ती राजाहरूले सुलेमानका निम्ति भेटी ल्याउँथे। तिनीहरूले चाँदी अनि सुनले बनेका चीज बीजहरू, बस्त्रहरू, हतियारहरू, मसालाहरू, घोडाहरू अनि खच्चरहरू ल्याउँथे। 25 सुलेमान सित 4,000 घोडा अनि रथहरू राख्ने तबेला थिए। तिनका 12,000 सारथिहरू थिए। सुलेमानले तिनीहरूलाई यरूशलेममा आफूसित रथका निम्ति विशेष शहरहरूमा राखे। 26 सुलेमान यूफ्रेटिस नदी देखि पलिश्ती मानिसहरूको देश, अनि मिश्रदेशको सीमानासम्म फैलिएका क्षेत्रका राजाहरूका राजा थिए। 27 राजा सुलेमानसित यति विघ्न चाँदी थियो कि त्यो यरूशलेमका ढुङ्गाहरू जस्तै थियो। अनि तिनी सित यति धेरै देवदारका काठहरू थिए कि त्यो पार्वत्य देशहरूका अन्जीरका रूखहरू जस्तै साधरण थिए। 28 मानिसहरूले मिश्रदेशबाट अनि अन्य सबै देशहरूबाट सुलेमान कहाँ घोडाहरू ल्याउँथे। सुलेमानको मृत्यु 29 सुलेमानद्वारा अन्य कुराहरू शुरू देखि अन्तसम्म गरिएका, अगमवक्ता नातानका लेखहरूमा, शीलोका अहियाहका अगमवाणी अनि दर्शी इद्दोका दर्शनमा लेखिएका छन्। इद्दोका दर्शनहरू नबातका छोरा यारोबामको बारेमा थिए। 30 सुलेमान चालीस बर्षसम्म यरूशलेममा सम्पूर्ण इस्राएलका राजा थिए। 31 त्यसपछि सुलेमानले आफ्ना पुर्खाहरूसित विश्राम लिए। मानिसहरूले तिनलाई तिनका पिता दाऊदको शहरमा गाडिदिए। सुलेमानका छोरा रहबाम सुलेमानको स्थानमा नयाँ राजा भए।