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SMITH VAN DYKE	CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN
1 وصاهر سليمان فرعون ملك مصر واخذ بنت فرعون واتى بها الى مدينة داود الى ان اكمل بناء بيته وبيت الرب وسور اورشليم حواليها.	1 And so the kingdom was confirmed in the hand of Solomon, and he was joined with Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, by affinity. For he took his daughter, and he led her into the city of David, until he completed building his own house, and the house of the Lord, and the wall of Jerusalem all around.
2 الا ان الشعب كانوا يذبحون في المرتفعات لانه لم يبن بيت لاسم الرب الى تلك الايام.	2 But still the people immolated in the high places. For no temple had been built to the name of the Lord, even to that day.
3 واحب سليمان الرب سائرا في فرائض داود ابيه الا انه كان يذبح ويوقد في المرتفعات.	3 Now Solomon loved the Lord, walking in the precepts of David, his father, except that he immolated in the high places, and he burned incense.
4 وذهب الملك الى جبعون ليذبح هناك. لانها هي المرتفعة العظمى. واصعد سليمان الف محرقة على ذلك المذبح.	4 And so, he went away to Gibeon, so that he might immolate there; for that was the greatest high place. Solomon offered upon that altar, at Gibeon, one thousand victims as holocausts.
5 في جبعون تراءى الرب لسليمان في حلم ليلا. وقال الله اسأل ماذا اعطيك.	5 Then the Lord appeared to Solomon, through a dream in the night, saying, “Request whatever you wish, so that I may give it to you.”
6 فقال سليمان انك قد فعلت مع عبدك داود ابي رحمة عظيمة حسبما سار امامك بامانة وبر واستقامة قلب معك فحفظت له هذه الرحمة العظيمة واعطيته ابنا يجلس على كرسيه كهذا اليوم.	6 And Solomon said: “You have shown great mercy to your servant David, my father, because he walked in your sight in truth and justice, and with an upright heart before you. And you have kept your great mercy for him, and you have given him a son sitting upon his throne, just as it is this day.
7 والآن ايها الرب الهي انت ملّكت عبدك مكان داود ابي وانا فتى صغير لا اعلم الخروج والدخول.	7 And now, O Lord God, you have caused your servant to reign in place of David, my father. But I am a small child, and I am ignorant of my entrance and departure.
8 وعبدك في وسط شعبك الذي اخترته شعب كثير لا يحصى ولا يعد من الكثرة.	8 And your servant is in the midst of the people that you have chosen, an immense people, who are not able to be numbered or counted because of their multitude.
9 فاعط عبدك قلبا فهيما لاحكم على شعبك واميّز بين الخير والشر لانه من يقدر ان يحكم على شعبك العظيم هذا.	9 Therefore, give to your servant a teachable heart, so that he may be able to judge your people, and to discern between good and evil. For who will be able to judge this people, your people, who are so many?”
10 فحسن الكلام في عيني الرب لان سليمان سأل هذا الأمر.	10 And the word was pleasing before the Lord, that Solomon had requested this kind of thing.
11 فقال له الله من اجل انك قد سألت هذا الأمر ولم تسأل لنفسك اياما كثيرة ولا سألت لنفسك غنى ولا سألت انفس اعدائك بل سألت لنفسك تمييزا لتفهم الحكم	11 And the Lord said to Solomon: “Since you have requested this word, and you have not asked for many days or for wealth for yourself, nor for the lives of your enemies, but instead you have requested for yourself wisdom in order to discern judgment:
12 هوذا قد فعلت حسب كلامك. هوذا اعطيتك قلبا حكيما ومميزا حتى انه لم يكن مثلك قبلك ولا يقوم بعدك نظيرك.	12 behold, I have done for you according to your words, and I have given you a wise and understanding heart, so much so that there has been no one like you before you, nor anyone who will rise up after you.
13 وقد اعطيتك ايضا ما لم تسأله غنى وكرامة حتى انه لا يكون رجل مثلك في الملوك كل ايامك.	13 But also the things for which you did not ask, I have given to you, namely wealth and glory, so that no one has been like you among the kings in the all days before.
14 فان سلكت في طريقي وحفظت فرائضي ووصاياي كما سلك داود ابوك فاني اطيل ايامك.	14 And if you will walk in my ways, and keep my precepts and my commandments, just as your father walked, I will lengthen your days.”
15 فاستيقظ سليمان واذ هو حلم. وجاء الى اورشليم ووقف امام تابوت عهد الرب واصعد محرقات وقرّب ذبائح سلامة وعمل وليمة لكل عبيده	15 Then Solomon awakened, and he understood that it was a dream. And when he had arrived in Jerusalem, he stood before the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and he offered holocausts and made victims of peace offerings, and he held a great feast for all his servants.
16 حينئذ اتت امرأتان زانيتان الى الملك ووقفتا بين يديه.	16 Then two women harlots went to the king, and they stood before him.
17 فقالت المرأة الواحدة استمع يا سيدي. اني انا وهذه المرأة ساكنتان في بيت واحد وقد ولدت معها في البيت.	17 And one of them said: “I beg you, my lord, I and this woman were living in one house, and I gave birth, with her in the room.
18 وفي اليوم الثالث بعد ولادتي ولدت هذه المرأة ايضا وكنا معا ولم يكن معنا غريب في البيت غيرنا نحن كلتينا في البيت.	18 Then, on the third day after I gave birth, she also gave birth. And we were together, with no other person with us in the house, only the two of us.
19 فمات ابن هذه في الليل لانها اضطجعت عليه.	19 Then this woman’s son died in the night. For while sleeping, she smothered him.
20 فقامت في وسط الليل واخذت ابني من جانبي وامتك نائمة واضجعته في حضنها واضجعت ابنها الميت في حضني.	20 And rising up in the silent depths of the night, she took my son from my side, while I, your handmaid, was sleeping, and she set him in her bosom. Then she placed her dead son in my bosom.
21 فلما قمت صباحا لارضع ابني اذا هو ميت. ولما تأملت فيه في الصباح اذا هو ليس ابني الذي ولدته.	21 And when I had arisen in the morning, so that I might give milk to my son, he appeared to be dead. But gazing upon him more diligently in the light of day, I realized that he was not mine, whom I had born.”
22 وكانت المرأة الاخرى تقول كلا بل ابني الحي وابنك الميت. وهذه تقول لا بل ابنك الميت وابني الحي. وتكلمتا امام الملك.	22 And the other woman responded: “It is not such as you say. Instead, your son is dead, but mine is alive.” To the contrary, she said: “You are lying. For my son lives, and your son is dead.” And in this manner, they were contending before the king.
23 فقال الملك هذه تقول هذا ابني الحي وابنك الميت وتلك تقول لا بل ابنك الميت وابني الحي.	23 Then said the king: “This one says, ‘My son is alive, and your son is dead.’ And the other responds, ‘No, instead your son is dead, but mine lives.’ ”
24 فقال الملك ايتوني بسيف. فاتوا بسيف بين يدي الملك.	24 Therefore the king said, “Bring a sword to me.” And when they had brought a sword before the king,
25 فقال الملك اشطروا الولد الحي اثنين واعطوا نصفا للواحدة ونصفا للاخرى.	25 he said, “Divide the living infant in two parts, and give a half part to the one and a half part to the other.”
26 فتكلمت المرأة التي ابنها الحي الى الملك. لان احشاءها اضطرمت على ابنها. وقالت استمع يا سيدي. اعطوها الولد الحي ولا تميتوه. واما تلك فقالت لا يكون لي ولا لك. اشطروه.	26 But the woman, whose son was alive, said to the king, for her heart was moved concerning her son, “I beg you, my lord, give the living infant to her, and do not kill him.” To the contrary, the other said, “Let it be neither for me, nor for you, instead divide it.”
27 فاجاب الملك وقال اعطوها الولد الحي ولا تميتوه فانها امه.	27 The king responded and said: “Give the living infant to this woman, and do not kill it. For she is his mother.”
28 ولما سمع جميع اسرائيل بالحكم الذي حكم به الملك خافوا الملك لانهم رأوا حكمة الله فيه لاجراء الحكم	28 Then all of Israel heard about the judgment that the king had judged, and they feared the king, seeing that the wisdom of God was in him to accomplish judgment.