3. UDavide walungisa insimbi eningi yezipikili zezivalo zamasango nezokuhlanganisa, kanye nethusi eliningi elingenakulinganiswa,
4. nemisedari* engenakubalwa, ngokuba amaSidoni nabaseTire baletha imisedari eminingi kuDavide.
5. UDavide wathi: “USolomoni indodana yami usengumfana, usathambile, nendlu eyakwakhelwa uJehova nga iba nkulu, ibatshazwe, ibe negama nodumo emazweni onke; ngizakuyilungisela.” Wayeseyilungisela kakhulu uDavide engakafi.
6. Wayesebiza uSolomoni indodana yakhe, wamyala ukumakhela uJehova uNkulunkulu ka-Israyeli indlu.
7. UDavide wathi kuSolomoni indodana yakhe: “Mina-ke, kwakusenhliziyweni yami ukwakhela igama likaJehova uNkulunkulu wami indlu.
8. Kepha izwi likaJehova lafika kimi, lathi: ‘Uchithile igazi eliningi, uphake izimpi ezinkulu; awuyikwakhela igama lami indlu, ngokuba uchithe igazi eliningi emhlabathini emehlweni ami;
9. bheka, uyakuzalelwa indodana eyakuba ngumuntu wokuthula; ngiyakumnika ukuphumula ezitheni zakhe nxazonke, ngokuba igama lakhe liyakuba nguSolomoni;* ukuthula nokuzola ngiyakumnika khona u-Israyeli emihleni yakhe;
10. uyakwakhela igama lami indlu; uyakuba yindodana yami, mina ngibe nguyise; ngiyakuqinisa isihlalo sobukhosi sombuso wakhe kwa-Israyeli kuze kube phakade.’
11. “Kalokhu, ndodana yami, uJehova makabe nawe, ube nempumelelo, wakhe indlu kaJehova uNkulunkulu wakho njengokukhuluma kwakhe kuwe.
12. Kuphela, uJehova makakuphe ukuhlakanipha nokuqonda, akuyale ngo-Israyeli ukuba ugcine umthetho kaJehova uNkulunkulu wakho.
13. Khona uyakuphumelela, uma ugcina ukwenza izimiso nezahlulelo uJehova ayala ngazo uMose ngo-Israyeli; qina, ume isibindi; ungesabi, ungabi naluvalo.
14. “Bheka, ekuhluphekeni kwami ngilungisele indlu kaJehova amatalenta* ayizinkulungwane eziyikhulu egolide, namatalenta ayizinkulungwane eziyinkulungwane esiliva, nethusi nensimbi okungenakulinganiswa, ngokuba kuningi; ngilungisile nemithi namatshe; uyakwenezela kukho.
15. Kukhona kuwe izisebenzi eziningi, ababazi, nezisebenzi zamatshe nezemithi, nabo bonke abayizingcweti emisebenzini yonke:
16. eyegolide, neyesiliva, neyethusi, neyensimbi, kungenakubalwa; suka usebenze; uJehova makabe nawe.”
17. UDavide wayala zonke izikhulu zakwa-Israyeli ukusiza uSolomoni, wathi: