2 Chronicles 33
1 Twelve years old was Manasseh when he became king, and fifty and five years did he reign in Jerusalem.
Manassé avait douze ans lorsqu'il monta sur le trône, et il régna cinquante-cinq ans à Jérusalem.
2 And he did what is evil in the eyes of the Lord, after the abominable acts of the nations whom the Lord had driven out from before the children of Israel.
Il fit le mal devant le Seigneur, et commit toutes les abominations des peuples que le Seigneur avait exterminés devant Israël.
3 And he built again the high-places which Hezekiah his father had broken down, and he erected altars for the Be'alim, and made Asheroth, and bowed himself down to all the host of heaven, and served them.
Il se pervertit, et il releva les hauts lieux qu'avait détruits Ezéchias, son père; il dressa des colonnes à Baal, planta des bois sacrés, adora toute l'armée du ciel, et la servit.
4 And he built altars in the house of the Lord, whereof the Lord had said, In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever.
Et il bâtit des autels dans le temple dont le Seigneur avait dit: Mon nom sera toujours dans Jérusalem.
5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord.
Et il bâtit des autels à toute l'armée du ciel, dans les deux parvis du temple du Seigneur.
6 And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of Ben-hinnom: he also observed times, and employed enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with [those of] a familiar spirit, and with wizards: he did much that is evil in the eyes of the Lord, to provoke him to anger.
Et il fit passer ses enfants à travers la flamme dans le val de Benennom; et il consulta les devins, les augures et les sorciers; il accueillit des ventriloques et des enchanteurs; il fit de plus en plus le mal devant le Seigneur, pour exciter sa colère.
7 And he placed a carved image of the idol which he had made in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have made choice of out of all the tribes of Israel, will I place my name for ever.
Et il plaça des statues et des images en fonte dans le temple dont le Seigneur avait dit à David et à Salomon, son fils: En ce temple et à Jérusalem, que j'ai choisis parmi toutes les tribus d'Israël, j'établirai mon nom pour toujours.
8 Nor will I any more remove the foot of Israel from off the land which I have appointed for your fathers; but only if they will take heed to do all that I have commanded them, according to the whole law and the statutes and the ordinances by the hand of Moses.
Et je n'éloignerai plus le pied d'Israël de la terre que j'ai donnée à leurs pères, pourvu qu'ils soient attentifs à faire tout ce que je leur ai commandé, en se conformant à toute la loi, aux ordonnances et aux jugements donnés par la main de Moïse.
9 But Menasseh led Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem astray, to do worse than the nations whom the Lord had destroyed from before the children of Israel.
Ainsi, Manassé égara Juda et les habitants de Jérusalem, pour qu'ils fissent le mal, plus que toutes les nations que le Seigneur avait exterminées devant Israël.
10 And the Lord spoke to Menasseh, and to his people; but they listened not.
Et le Seigneur parla à Manassé et à son peuple; mais ils ne l'écoutèrent pas.
11 Wherefore the Lord brought over them the captains of the army belonging to the king of Assyria: and they took Menasseh prisoner with chains, and bound him with fetters, and led him off to Babylon.
Et le Seigneur conduisit contre eux les chefs de l'armée du roi d'Assyrie, et ils prirent Manassé, et ils le chargèrent de chaînes, et ils l'emmenèrent à Babylone.
12 And when he was in distress, he besought the Lord his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.
Et, dans son affliction, il chercha la face du Seigneur son Dieu, et il s'humilia beaucoup devant la face du Seigneur Dieu de ses pères.
13 And he prayed unto him, and he permitted himself to be entreated by him, and heard his supplication, and brought him back to Jerusalem, unto his kingdom. Then did Menasseh feel conscious that the Lord is indeed the [true] God.
Et il le pria; or, Dieu entendit ses cris; il l'exauça, et le ramena à Jérusalem dans son royaume, et Manassé reconnut que le Seigneur seul est Dieu.
14 And after this he built a wall without the city of David, on the west side of Gichon, in the valley, even to the entrance of the fish-gate, and about the hill-fort, and raised it up to a very great height; and he placed captains of the army in all the fortified cities of Judah.
Après cela, il bâtit le mur extérieur de la ville de David, du côté du midi, au sud du torrent, depuis l'entrée de la porte des Poissons, continuant tout autour jusqu'à Ophel; il l'éleva beaucoup, et il établit des chefs de l'armée dans toutes les places fortes de Juda.
15 And he removed the strange gods and the idol out of the house of the Lord, and all the altars that he had built on the mount of the house of the Lord, and in Jerusalem, and he cast them forth to without the city.
Et il enleva les dieux étrangers et les statues du temple du Seigneur, et les autels qu'il avait dressés sur la montagne du temple du Seigneur, tant dans Jérusalem que hors de la ville.
16 And he rebuilt the altar of the Lord, and sacrificed thereupon peace-offerings and thanksgiving-offerings, and he ordered Judah to serve the Lord the God of Israel.
Et il releva l'autel du Seigneur, et il y sacrifia des hosties pacifiques et des victimes de louanges; et il dit à Juda de servir le Seigneur Dieu d'Israël.
17 Nevertheless the people sacrificed on the high-places, but only unto the Lord their God.
Toutefois, le peuple sacrifia encore sur les hauts lieux; mais seulement au Seigneur.
18 And the rest of the acts of Menasseh, and his prayer unto his God, and the words of the seers that spoke to him in the name of the Lord the God of Israel, behold, they are in the history of the kings of Israel.
Le reste des actes de Manassé, sa prière à Dieu, et les paroles des voyants qui lui parlèrent au nom du Seigneur Dieu d'Israël,
19 His prayer also, and [how God] was entreated of him, and all his sins and his faithlessness, and the places whereon he built high-places, and set up the Asherim and the graven images, before he was humbled: behold, they are written in the history of Chozai.
La prière qu'il fit à Dieu et qui fut exaucée, ses péchés, ses égarements, et les endroits où il bâtit des hauts lieux, et où il plaça des bois sacrés et des statues, avant de se convertir, sont écrits aux Récits des voyants.
20 And Menasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house. And Amon his son became king in his stead.
Et Manassé s'endormit avec ses pères, et on l'ensevelit dans le jardin de son palais, et son fils Amon régna à sa place.
21 Two and twenty years old was Amon when he became king, and two years did he reign in Jerusalem.
Amon avait vingt-deux ans quand il monta sur le trône, et il régna deux ans à Jérusalem.
22 And he did what is evil in the eyes of the Lord, as Menasseh his father had done; and unto all the carved images which Menasseh his father had made did Amon sacrifice, and them he served;
Et il fit le mal devant le Seigneur, comme avait fait son père; il sacrifia à toutes les idoles qu'avait faites Manassé, et il les servit.
23 But he did not humble himself before the Lord, as Menasseh his father had humbled himself; for he, Amon, made his guiltiness great.
Et il ne s'humilia pas devant le Seigneur, comme s'était humilié son père; et il multiplia ses péchés.
24 And his servants conspired against him, and put him to death in his own house.
Et ses serviteurs se soulevèrent contre lui, et ils le tuèrent dans son palais.
25 But the people of the land slew all those that had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead.
Et le peuple de la terre massacra les révoltés, et il proclama roi, à la place d'Amon, Josias, son fils.
