¹ 大卫又聚集以色列中所有挑选的人三万。

² 大卫起身，率领跟随他的众人前往，要从巴拉犹大将神的约柜运来；这约柜就是坐在二基路伯上万军之耶和华留名的约柜。

³ 他们将神的约柜从冈上亚比拿达的家里抬出来，放在新车上；亚比拿达的两个儿子乌撒和亚希约赶这新车。

⁴ 他们将神的约柜从冈上亚比拿达家里抬出来的时候，亚希约在柜前行走。

⁵ 大卫和以色列的全家在耶和华面前，用松木制造的各样乐器和琴、瑟、鼓、钹、锣，作乐跳舞。

⁶ 到了拿艮的禾场，因为牛失前蹄（或译：惊跳），乌撒就伸手扶住神的约柜。

⁷ 神耶和华向乌撒发怒，因这错误击杀他，他就死在神的约柜旁。

⁸ 大卫因耶和华击杀（原文是闯杀）乌撒，心里愁烦，就称那地方为毗列斯乌撒，直到今日。

⁹ 那日，大卫惧怕耶和华，说：耶和华的约柜怎可运到我这里来？

¹⁰ 於是大卫不肯将耶和华的约柜运进大卫的城，却运到迦特人俄别以东的家中。

¹¹ 耶和华的约柜在迦特人俄别以东家中三个月；耶和华赐福给俄别以东和他的全家。

¹² 有人告诉大卫王说：耶和华因为约柜赐福给俄别以东的家和一切属他的。大卫就去，欢欢喜喜地将神的约柜从俄别以东家中抬到大卫的城里。

¹³ 抬耶和华约柜的人走了六步，大卫就献牛与肥羊为祭。

¹⁴ 大卫穿着细麻布的以弗得，在耶和华面前极力跳舞。

¹⁵ 这样，大卫和以色列的全家欢呼吹角，将耶和华的约柜抬上来。

¹⁶ 耶和华的约柜进了大卫城的时候，扫罗的女儿米甲从窗户里观看，见大卫王在耶和华面前踊跃跳舞，心里就轻视他。

¹⁷ 众人将耶和华的约柜请进去，安放在所预备的地方，就是在大卫所搭的帐幕里。大卫在耶和华面前献燔祭和平安祭。

¹⁸ 大卫献完了燔祭和平安祭，就奉万军之耶和华的名给民祝福，

¹⁹ 并且分给以色列众人，无论男女，每人一个饼，一块肉，一个葡萄饼；众人就各回各家去了。

²⁰ 大卫回家要给眷属祝福；扫罗的女儿米甲出来迎接他，说：以色列王今日在臣仆的婢女眼前露体，如同一个轻贱人无耻露体一样，有好大的荣耀啊！

²¹ 大卫对米甲说：这是在耶和华面前；耶和华已拣选我，废了你父和你父的全家，立我作耶和华民以色列的君，所以我必在耶和华面前跳舞。

²² 我也必更加卑微，自己看为轻贱。你所说的那些婢女，他们倒要尊敬我。

²³ 扫罗的女儿米甲，直到死日，没有生养儿女。

¹ It happened in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Ziv, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of Yahweh.

² The house which king Solomon built for Yahweh, its length was sixty cubits, and its breadth twenty [cubits], and its height thirty cubits.

³ The porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits was its length, according to the breadth of the house; [and] ten cubits was its breadth before the house.

⁴ For the house he made windows of fixed lattice work.

⁵ Against the wall of the house he built stories all around, against the walls of the house all around, both of the temple and of the oracle; and he made side rooms all around.

⁶ The nethermost story was five cubits broad, and the middle was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad; for on the outside he made offsets [in the wall] of the house all around, that [the beams] should not have hold in the walls of the house.

⁷ The house, when it was in building, was built of stone prepared at the quarry; and there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.

⁸ The door for the middle side rooms was in the right side of the house: and they went up by winding stairs into the middle [story], and out of the middle into the third.

⁹ So he built the house, and finished it; and he covered the house with beams and planks of cedar.

¹⁰ He built the stories against all the house, each five cubits high: and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.

¹¹ The word of Yahweh came to Solomon, saying,

¹² "Concerning this house which you are building, if you will walk in my statutes, and execute my ordinances, and keep all my commandments to walk in them; then will I establish my word with you, which I spoke to David your father.

¹³ I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel."

¹⁴ So Solomon built the house, and finished it.

¹⁵ He built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar: from the floor of the house to the walls of the ceiling, he covered them on the inside with wood; and he covered the floor of the house with boards of fir.

¹⁶ He built twenty cubits on the hinder part of the house with boards of cedar from the floor to the walls [of the ceiling]: he built [them] for it within, for an oracle, even for the most holy place.

¹⁷ The house, that is, the temple before [the oracle], was forty cubits [long].

¹⁸ There was cedar on the house within, carved with buds and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.

¹⁹ He prepared an oracle in the midst of the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of Yahweh.

²⁰ Within the oracle was [a space of] twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in its height; and he overlaid it with pure gold: and he covered the altar with cedar.

²¹ So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold: and he drew chains of gold across before the oracle; and he overlaid it with gold.

²² The whole house he overlaid with gold, until all the house was finished: also the whole altar that belonged to the oracle he overlaid with gold.

²³ In the oracle he made two cherubim of olive wood, each ten cubits high.

²⁴ Five cubits was the one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the other wing of the cherub: from the uttermost part of the one wing to the uttermost part of the other were ten cubits.

²⁵ The other cherub was ten cubits: both the cherubim were of one measure and one form.

²⁶ The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was it of the other cherub.

²⁷ He set the cherubim within the inner house; and the wings of the cherubim were stretched forth, so that the wing of the one touched the one wall, and the wing of the other cherub touched the other wall; and their wings touched one another in the midst of the house.

²⁸ He overlaid the cherubim with gold.

²⁹ He carved all the walls of the house around with carved figures of cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, inside and outside.

³⁰ The floor of the house he overlaid with gold, inside and outside.

³¹ For the entrance of the oracle he made doors of olive wood: the lintel [and] door posts were a fifth part [of the wall].

³² So [he made] two doors of olive wood; and he carved on them carvings of cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold; and he spread the gold on the cherubim, and on the palm trees.

³³ So also made he for the entrance of the temple door posts of olive wood, out of a fourth part [of the wall];

³⁴ and two doors of fir wood: the two leaves of the one door were folding, and the two leaves of the other door were folding.

³⁵ He carved [thereon] cherubim and palm trees and open flowers; and he overlaid them with gold fitted on the engraved work.

³⁶ He built the inner court with three courses of cut stone, and a course of cedar beams.

³⁷ In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of Yahweh laid, in the month Ziv.

³⁸ In the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, was the house finished throughout all its parts, and according to all its fashion. So was he seven years in building it.