【王上3:5】 在基遍,夜间梦中,耶和华向所罗门显现,对他说,你愿我赐你什么。你可以求。
At Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon during the night in a dream, and God said, 'Ask for whatever you want me to give you.'
【王上3:6】 所罗门说,你仆人我父亲大卫用诚实,公义,正直的心行在你面前,你就向他大施恩典,又为他存留大恩,赐他一个儿子坐在他的位上,正如今日一样。
Solomon answered, 'You have shown great kindness to your servant, my father David, because he was faithful to you and righteous and upright in heart. You have continued this great kindness to him and have given him a son to sit on his throne this very day.
【王上3:7】 耶和华我的神阿,如今你使仆人接续我父亲大卫作王。但我是幼童,不知道应当怎样出入。
'Now, O Lord my God, you have made your servant king in place of my father David. But I am only a little child and do not know how to carry out my duties.
【王上3:8】 仆人住在你所拣选的民中,这民多得不可胜数。
Your servant is here among the people you have chosen, a great people, too numerous to count or number.
【王上3:9】 所以求你赐我智慧,可以判断你的民,能辨别是非。不然,谁能判断这众多的民呢?
So give your servant a discerning heart to govern your people and to distinguish between right and wrong. For who is able to govern this great people of yours?'
【王上3:10】 所罗门因为求这事,就蒙主喜悦。
The Lord was pleased that Solomon had asked for this.
【王上3:11】 神对他说,你既然求这事,不为自己求寿,求富,也不求灭绝你仇敌的性命,单求智慧可以听讼,
So God said to him, 'Since you have asked for this and not for long life or wealth for yourself, nor have asked for the death of your enemies but for discernment in administering justice,
【王上3:12】 我就应允你所求的,赐你聪明智慧,甚至在你以前没有象你的,在你以后也没有象你的。
I will do what you have asked. I will give you a wise and discerning heart, so that there will never have been anyone like you, nor will there ever be.
【王上3:13】 你所没有求的,我也赐给你,就是富足,尊荣,使你在世的日子,列王中没有一个能比你的。
Moreover, I will give you what you have not asked for-both riches and honor-so that in your lifetime you will have no equal among kings.
【王上3:14】 你若效法你父亲大卫,遵行我的道,谨守我的律例,诫命,我必使你长寿。
And if you walk in my ways and obey my statutes and commands as David your father did, I will give you a long life.'
【王上3:15】 所罗门醒了,不料是个梦。他就回到耶路撒冷,站在耶和华的约柜前,献燔祭和平安祭,又为他众臣仆设摆筵席。
Then Solomon awoke-and he realized it had been a dream. He returned to Jerusalem, stood before the ark of the Lord's covenant and sacrificed burnt offerings and fellowship offerings. Then he gave a feast for all his court.