随后回到拉玛，因为他的家在那里。也在那里审判以色列人，且为耶和华筑了一座坛。
And his return was to Ramah; for there was his house; and there he judged Israel; and there he built an altar unto the LORD.
那时，王对先知拿单说，看哪，我住在香柏木的宫中，神的约柜反在幔子里。
That the king said unto Nathan the prophet, See now, I dwell in an house of cedar, but the ark of God dwelleth within curtains.
你无论往哪里去，我常与你同在，剪除你的一切仇敌。我必使你得大名，好像世上大大有名的人一样。
And I was with thee whithersoever thou wentest, and have cut off all thine enemies out of thy sight, and have made thee a great name, like unto the name of the great men that are in the earth.
但我的慈爱仍不离开他，像离开在你面前所废弃的扫罗一样。
But my mercy shall not depart away from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before thee.
主耶和华阿，这在你眼中还看为小，又应许你仆人的家至于久远。主耶和华阿，这岂是人所常遇的事吗。
And this was yet a small thing in thy sight, O Lord GOD; but thou hast spoken also of thy servant's house for a great while to come. And is this the manner of man, O Lord GOD?
耶和华神阿，你所应许仆人和仆人家的话，求你坚定，直到永远。照你所说的而行。
And now, O LORD God, the word that thou hast spoken concerning thy servant, and concerning his house, establish it for ever, and do as thou hast said.
又建造黎巴嫩林宫，长一百肘，宽五十肘，高三十肘，有香柏木柱三（原文作四）行，柱上有香柏木柁梁。
He built also the house of the forest of Lebanon; the length thereof was an hundred cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars.
有窗户三层，窗与窗相对。
And there were windows in three rows, and light was against light in three ranks.
并建造有柱子的廊子，长五十肘，宽三十肘。在这廊前又有廊子，廊外有柱子和台阶。
And he made a porch of pillars; the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth thereof thirty cubits: and the porch was before them: and the other pillars and the thick beam were before them.
大院周围有凿成的石头三层，香柏木一层，都照耶和华殿的内院和殿廊的样式。<
And the great court round about was with three rows of hewed stones, and a row of cedar beams, both for the inner court of the house of the LORD, and for the porch of the house.