2 Kings 24
1 In his days, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came up and Jehoiakim was his servant for three years; then he took up arms against him.
Sous son règne, Nabuchodonozor, roi de Babylone, fit une invasion, et Joïakim devint son vassal pendant trois ans; ensuite il se révolta contre lui.
2 And the Lord sent against him bands of the Chaldaeans and of the Edomites and of the Moabites and of the children of Ammon; sending them against Judah for its destruction, as he had said by his servants the prophets.
Alors l’Eternel lâcha contre lui les bandes des Chaldéens, des Syriens, des Moabites et des Ammonites: tous ceux-ci, il les mit en mouvement contre Juda pour amener sa ruine, selon la parole divine qu’il avait fait annoncer par l’organe de ses serviteurs les prophètes.
3 Only by the word of the Lord did this fate come on Judah, to take them away from before his face; because of the sins of Manasseh and all the evil he did;
Oui, c’était une sentence prononcée par l’Eternel contre Juda, de l’écarter de devant sa face, à cause de tous les péchés commis par Manassé,
4 And because of the death of those who had done no wrong, for he made Jerusalem full of the blood of the upright; and the Lord had no forgiveness for it.
et aussi à cause du sang innocent qu’il avait répandu et dont il avait inondé Jérusalem: l’Eternel ne voulut plus pardonner.
5 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and all he did, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah?
Les autres faits et gestes de Joïakim sont consignés dans le livre des annales des rois de Juda.
6 So Jehoiakim went to rest with his fathers; and Jehoiachin his son became king in his place.
Joiakim s’endormit avec ses ancêtres, et son fils Joïachin régna à sa place.
7 And the king of Egypt did not come out of his land again, for the king of Babylon had taken all his country, from the stream of Egypt to the river Euphrates.
Dès lors, le roi d’Egypte ne continua plus à sortir de son pays, le roi de Babylone ayant conquis toutes les possessions du roi d’Egypte, depuis le torrent d’Egypte jusqu’au fleuve de l’Euphrate.
8 Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, he was ruling in Jerusalem for three months, and his mother's name was Nehushta, the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.
Agé de dix-huit ans à son avènement, Joïachin régna trois mois à Jérusalem; le nom de sa mère était Nehouchta, fille d’Elnathan, de Jérusalem.
9 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as his father had done.
Il fit ce qui est mal aux yeux de l’Eternel, tout comme avait agi son père.
10 At that time the armies of Nebuchadnezzar came up to Jerusalem and the town was shut in on every side.
En ce temps, les serviteurs de Nabuchodonozor marchèrent contre Jérusalem, et cette ville subit un siège.
11 And Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came there, while his servants were shutting in the town;
Nabuchodonozor, roi de Babylone, arriva lui-même pour attaquer la ville, pendant que ses serviteurs l’assiégeaient.
12 Then Jehoiachin, king of Judah, went out to the king of Babylon, with his mother and his servants and his chiefs and his unsexed servants; and in the eighth year of his rule the king of Babylon took him.
Alors Joïachin, roi de Juda, sortit pour se rendre au roi de Babylone avec sa mère, ses serviteurs, ses grands et ses officiers; le roi de Babylone le fit prisonnier la huitième année de son règne.
13 And he took away all the stored wealth of the Lord's house, and the goods from the king's store-house, cutting up all the gold vessels which Solomon, king of Israel, had made in the house of the Lord, as the Lord had said.
Il emporta de Jérusalem tous les trésors de la maison de Dieu, ainsi que les trésors du palais royal, et il mit en pièces tous les vases d’or faits par Salomon pour le sanctuaire divin. C’Est ce que l’Eternel avait prédit.
14 And he took away all the people of Jerusalem and all the chiefs and all the men of war, ten thousand prisoners; and all the expert workmen and the metal-workers; only the poorest sort of the people of the land were not taken away.
Il emmena en exil tout Jérusalem, tous les grands et tous les vaillants hommes de guerre, au nombre de dix mille exilés, ainsi que tous les forgerons et serruriers; il ne resta sur place que la classe inférieure de la population du pays.
15 He took Jehoiachin a prisoner to Babylon, with his mother and his wives and his unsexed servants and the great men of the land; he took them all as prisoners from Jerusalem to Babylon.
Il envoya aussi Joïachin captif à Babylone; de même la mère du roi, les femmes du roi, ses eunuques et les personnages d’élite du pays, il les emmena en exil de Jérusalem à Babylone.
16 And all the men of war, seven thousand of them, and a thousand expert workmen and metal-workers, all of them strong and able to take up arms, the king of Babylon took away as prisoners into Babylon.
En outre, tous les hommes de guerre, au nombre de sept mille, les forgerons et serruriers, au nombre de mille, tous gens vaillants, habitués à la guerre, le roi de Babylone les conduisit en captivité à Babylone.
17 And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah, his father's brother, king in place of Jehoiachin, changing his name to Zedekiah.
Le roi de Babylone établit comme roi, à la place de Joïachin, son oncle Mathania, dont il changea le nom en celui de Sédécias.
18 Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he was king in Jerusalem for eleven years; his mother's name was Hamutal, daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
Sédécias avait vingt et un ans à son avènement, et il régna onze ans à Jérusalem; le nom de sa mère était Hamoutal, fille de Jérémie, de Libna.
19 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as Jehoiakim had done.
Il fit ce qui est mal aux yeux de l’Eternel, tout comme avait agi Joïakim.
20 And because of the wrath of the Lord, this came about in Jerusalem and Judah, till he had sent them all away from before him: and Zedekiah took up arms against the king of Babylon.
C’Est ainsi que la colère de Dieu se manifesta contre Jérusalem et Juda, jusqu’à ce qu’il les eût rejetés de devant sa face. Or, Sédécias entra en révolte contre le roi de Babylone.
