1 O rei Salomão, além da filha do faraó, amou muitas mulheres estrangeiras: moabitas, amonitas, edomitas, sidônias e hitéias,
2 pertencentes às nações das quais o Senhor dissera aos israelitas: Não tereis relações com elas, nem elas tampouco convosco, porque certamente vos seduziriam os corações arrastando-os para os seus deuses.
3 A estas nações uniu-se Salomão por seus amores. Teve setecentas esposas de classe principesca e trezentas concubinas. E suas mulheres perverteram-lhe o coração.
4 Sendo já velho, elas seduziram o seu coração para seguir outros deuses. E o seu coração já não pertencia sem reservas ao Senhor, seu Deus, como o de Davi, seu pai.
5 Salomão prestou culto a Astarte, deusa dos sidônios, e a Melcom, o abominável ídolo dos amonitas.
6 Fez o mal aos olhos do Senhor, não lhe foi inteiramente fiel como o fora seu pai Davi.
7 Por esse tempo edificou Salomão no monte, que está a oriente de Jerusalém, um lugar alto a Camos, deus de Moab, e a Moloc, abominação dos amonitas.
8 E o mesmo fez para todas as suas mulheres estrangeiras, que queimavam incenso e sacrificavam aos seus deuses.
9 O Senhor irritou-se contra Salomão, por se ter seu coração desviado do Senhor, Deus de Israel, que lhe aparecera por duas vezes,
10 e lhe tinha proibido expressamente que se unisse a deuses estranhos. Mas não seguira as ordens do Senhor.
11 O Senhor disse-lhe então: Já que procedeste assim, e não guardaste a minha aliança, nem as leis que te prescrevi, vou tirar-te o reino e dá-lo ao teu servo.
12 Todavia, em atenção ao teu pai Davi, não o farei durante a tua vida. Tirá-lo-ei, sim, mas da mão de teu filho.
13 Não lhe tirarei o reino todo, mas deixarei ao teu filho uma tribo, por amor de meu servo Davi, e por amor de Jerusalém, a cidade que escolhi.
14 O Senhor suscitou um inimigo a Salomão: Hadad, o edomita, da linhagem real de Edom.
15 No tempo em que Davi estava em guerra contra Edom, quando Joab, general do exército, foi sepultar os mortos e matou todos os varões de Edom
16 {Joab, com efeito, demorou-se ali seis meses com todo o Israel, até exterminar todos os varões de Edom.}
17 Hadad fugiu com os edomitas, servos de seu pai, na direção do Egito.
18 Hadad era então muito criança. Partiram de Madiã e foram a Farã; dali, levando consigo homens de Farã, entraram no Egito e foram ter com o faraó, rei do Egito. Este deu-lhes casa, proveu ao seu sustento e doou-lhes terras.
19 Hadad ganhou a simpatia do faraó, que lhe deu por mulher sua cunhada, irmã da rainha Tafnes.
20 Desta irmã de Tafnes teve Hadad um filho, Genubat, que Tafnes criou na casa do faraó. E Genubat habitou no palácio com os filhos do faraó.
21 Quando Hadad ouviu dizer, no Egito, que Davi adormecera com seus pais, e que Joab, general do exército, estava morto, disse ao faraó: Deixa-me voltar para a minha terra.
22 O faraó respondeu-lhe: Falta-te algo em minha casa, para que queiras voltar para a tua terra? Nada me falta, respondeu; mas deixa-me partir assim mesmo. Hadad voltou, pois, para a sua terra. E eis o mal que fez: tornou-se rei de Edom e tratou Israel como inimigo.
23 Deus suscitou outro inimigo a Salomão: Razon, filho de Eliada, que fugira de seu senhor Hadadezer, rei de Soba.
24 Após os massacres de Davi, juntara homens em torno de si, tornando-se chefe de quadrilha. Atacaram Damasco, onde se estabeleceram, e constituíram-no rei em Damasco.
25 Foi inimigo de Israel durante toda a vida de Salomão.
26 Também Jeroboão, filho de Nabat, efrateu de Sareda {filho de uma viúva chamada Sarva}, que estava a serviço de Salomão, revoltou-se contra o rei.
27 Eis em que circunstâncias ele se revoltou contra o rei: Salomão construía Milo para fechar a brecha da cidade de Davi, seu pai.
28 Ora, Jeroboão era um jovem enérgico, e Salomão, vendo-o tão laborioso, confiou-lhe a superintendência de todos os trabalhadores da casa de José.
29 E aconteceu que um dia, saindo Jeroboão de Jerusalém, encontrou-se em caminho com o profeta Aías de Silo, vestido com um manto novo. Estavam os dois sós no campo.
30 Então Aías, tomando o manto novo que trazia, rasgou-o em doze pedaços.
31 Toma para ti dez pedaços, disse ele a Jeroboão, pois isto diz o Senhor, Deus de Israel: Vou arrancar o reino das mãos de Salomão, e dar-te-ei dez tribos.
32 Mas, em atenção ao meu servo Davi e à cidade de Jerusalém, que escolhi dentre todas as tribos de Israel, ficar-lhe-á ainda uma tribo.
33 Abandonaram-me, prostraram-se diante de Astarte, deusa dos sidônios, diante de Camos, deus de Moab e diante de Melcom, deus dos amonitas. Não andaram em meus caminhos, para fazer o que é bom diante de meus olhos e observar minhas leis e ordens, como o fez Davi, pai de Salomão.
34 Contudo, não lhe tirarei todo o reino, mas deixá-lo-ei governar todos os dias de sua vida, por amor de meu servo Davi, a quem escolhi, o qual guardou os meus mandamentos e os meus preceitos.
35 Tirarei, porém, o reino das mãos do filho de Salomão, para dar-te dez tribos.
36 Deixarei uma tribo ao seu filho, para que meu servo Davi tenha sempre uma lâmpada diante de mim em Jerusalém, cidade que escolhi para estabelecer nela o meu nome.
37 Tomo-te, pois, para reinares sobre tudo o que possas desejar. Serás rei de Israel.
38 E se obedeceres a todas as minhas ordens, se andares pelos meus caminhos, se fizeres o bem diante de mim, observando os meus preceitos e os meus mandamentos, como fez meu servo Davi, eu estarei contigo. Edificar-te-ei uma casa estável, como edifiquei para Davi, e te entregarei Israel.
39 Humilharei assim a descendência de Davi, mas não para sempre.
40 Salomão procurou matar Jeroboão, mas este fugiu para junto do rei Sesac, no Egito, onde permaneceu até a morte de Salomão.
41 O resto da história de Salomão, todos os seus atos, a sua sabedoria, tudo está escrito no livro dos Atos de Salomão.
42 Salomão reinou sobre todo o Israel durante quarenta anos, em Jerusalém.
43 Depois adormeceu com seus pais e foi enterrado na cidade de seu pai Davi. Roboão, seu filho, tornou-se rei em seu lugar.
1 Now a number of strange women were loved by Solomon, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites:
2 The nations of which the Lord had said to the children of Israel, You are not to take wives from them and they are not to take wives from you; or they will certainly make you go after their gods: to these Solomon was united in love.
3 He had seven hundred wives, daughters of kings, and three hundred other wives; and through his wives his heart was turned away.
4 For it came about that when Solomon was old, his heart was turned away to other gods by his wives; and his heart was no longer true to the Lord his God as the heart of his father David had been.
5 For Solomon went after Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Zidonians, and Milcom, the disgusting god of the Ammonites.
6 And Solomon did evil in the eyes of the Lord, not walking in the Lord's ways with all his heart as David his father did.
7 Then Solomon put up a high place for Chemosh, the disgusting god of Moab, in the mountain before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the disgusting god worshipped by the children of Ammon.
8 And so he did for all his strange wives, who made offerings with burning of perfumes to their gods.
9 And the Lord was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned away from the Lord, the God of Israel, who had twice come to him in a vision;
10 And had given him orders about this very thing, that he was not to go after other gods; but he did not keep the orders of the Lord.
11 So the Lord said to Solomon, Because you have done this, and have not kept my agreement and my laws, which I gave you, I will take the kingdom away from you by force and will give it to your servant.
12 I will not do it in your life-time, because of your father David, but I will take it from your son.
13 Still I will not take all the kingdom from him; but I will give one tribe to your son, because of my servant David, and because of Jerusalem, the town of my selection.
14 So the Lord sent Hadad the Edomite to make trouble for Solomon: he was of the king's seed in Edom.
15 And when David had sent destruction on Edom, and Joab, the captain of the army, had gone to put the dead into the earth, and had put to death every male in Edom;
16 (For Joab and all Israel were there six months till every male in Edom had been cut off;)
17 Hadad, being still a young boy, went in flight to Egypt, with certain Edomites, servants of his father;
18 And they went on from Midian and came to Paran; and, taking men from Paran with them, they came to Egypt, to Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who gave him a house and gave orders for his food and gave him land.
19 Now Hadad was very pleasing to Pharaoh, so that he gave him the sister of his wife, Tahpenes the queen, for his wife.
20 And the sister of Tahpenes had a son by him, Genubath, whom Tahpenes took care of in Pharaoh's house; and Genubath was living in Pharaoh's house among Pharaoh's sons.
21 Now when Hadad had news in Egypt that David had been put to rest with his fathers, and that Joab, the captain of the army, was dead, he said to Pharaoh, Send me back to my country.
22 But Pharaoh said to him, What have you been short of while you have been with me, that you are desiring to go back to your country? And he said, Nothing; but even so, send me back.
23 And God sent another trouble-maker, Rezon, the son of Eliada, who had gone in flight from his lord, Hadadezer, king of Zobah:
24 He got some men together and made himself captain of a band of outlaws; and went to Damascus and became king there.
25 He was a trouble to Israel all through the days of Solomon. And this is the damage Hadad did: he was cruel to Israel while he was ruler over Edom.
26 And there was Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, an Ephraimite from Zeredah, a servant of Solomon, whose mother was Zeruah, a widow; and his hand was lifted up against the king.
27 The way in which his hand came to be lifted up against the king was this: Solomon was building the Millo and making good the damaged parts of the town of his father David;
28 And Jeroboam was an able and responsible man; and Solomon saw that he was a good worker and made him overseer of all the work given to the sons of Joseph.
29 Now at that time, when Jeroboam was going out of Jerusalem, the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite came across him on the road; now Ahijah had put on a new robe; and the two of them were by themselves in the open country.
30 And Ahijah took his new robe in his hands, parting it violently into twelve.
31 And he said to Jeroboam, Take ten of the parts, for this is what the Lord has said: See, I will take the kingdom away from Solomon by force, and will give ten tribes to you;
32 (But one tribe will be his, because of my servant David, and because of Jerusalem, the town which, out of all the tribes of Israel, I have made mine,)
33 Because they are turned away from me to the worship of Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Zidonians, and Chemosh, the god of Moab, and Milcom, the god of the Ammonites; they have not been walking in my ways or doing what is right in my eyes or keeping my laws and my decisions as his father David did.
34 But I will not take the kingdom from him; I will let him be king all the days of his life, because of David my servant, in whom I took delight because he kept my orders and my laws.
35 But I will take the kingdom from his son, and give it to you.
36 And one tribe I will give to his son, so that David my servant may have a light for ever burning before me in Jerusalem, the town which I have made mine to put my name there.
37 And you I will take, and you will be king over Israel, ruling over whatever is the desire of your soul.
38 And if you give attention to the orders I give you, walking in my ways and doing what is right in my eyes and keeping my laws and my orders as David my servant did; then I will be with you, building up for you a safe house, as I did for David, and I will give Israel to you.
39 (So that I may send trouble for this on the seed of David, but not for ever.)
40 And Solomon was looking for a chance to put Jeroboam to death; but he went in flight to Egypt, to Shishak, king of Egypt, and was in Egypt till the death of Solomon.
41 Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, and all he did, and his wisdom, are they not recorded in the book of the acts of Solomon?
42 And the time Solomon was king in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years.
43 And Solomon went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth in the town of David his father: and Solomon went to rest with his fathers and Rehoboam his son became king in his place.