2 Chronicles 25
1 Amaziah was 25 years old when he became the king [of Judah], and he ruled from Jerusalem for 29 years. His mother was Jehoaddin; she was from Jerusalem.
C'est à vingt-cinq ans que Amatsia devint roi, et il régna vingt-neuf ans à Jérusalem. Or le nom de sa mère était Joadan de Jérusalem.
2 Amaziah did many things that pleased Yahweh, but he did not do them enthusiastically.
Et il fit ce qui est bien aux yeux de l'Éternel, seulement pas d'un cœur non partagé.
3 As soon as he was in complete control of his kingdom, he caused to be executed the officials who had murdered his father.
Et lorsque la royauté lui fut assurée, il fit périr ses serviteurs, meurtriers du roi son père.
4 But he did not command their sons to be executed; he obeyed what was in the laws that Moses had written. In those laws Yahweh had commanded, “People must not be executed because of [what] their children [have done], and children must not be executed for [what] their parents [have done]. People must be executed only for the sins that they themselves have committed.”
Mais il ne mit pas à mort leurs fils, se conformant à ce qui est écrit dans la Loi, dans le Livre de Moïse, d'après l'ordre de l'Éternel, portant: Les pères ne subiront pas la mort à cause de leurs fils, et les fils ne subiront pas la mort à cause de leurs pères, mais chacun subira la mort pour son péché.
5 Amaziah summoned the men of [the tribes of] Judah and Benjamin to come to Jerusalem, and there he put them in groups, each clan in a group by themselves. Then he appointed officers to command each group. Some officers commanded 100 men and some commanded 1,000 men. They counted the men who were at least 20 years old; altogether there were 300,000 men. They were all men who were prepared to be in the army, and able to [fight well, ] using spears and shields.
Et Amatsia assembla les hommes de Juda et les rangea par maisons patriarcales, par chefs de milliers et par chefs de centaines, pour la totalité de Juda et de Benjamin, et il les dénombra dès l'âge de vingt ans et au-dessus, et il en trouva trois cent mille d'élite, aptes à la guerre, maniant la lance et le bouclier.
6 Amaziah also hired 100,000 capable soldiers from Israel and paid almost four tons of silver for them.
Et il prit à sa solde d'Israël cent mille hommes forts dans la guerre, pour le prix de cent talents d'argent.
7 But a prophet came to him and said, “Your majesty, you must not allow those soldiers from Israel to march with your soldiers, because Yahweh does not help the people of the tribe of Ephraim or from [anywhere else in] Israel.
Cependant un homme de Dieu vint le trouver et lui dit: O roi, ne te fais pas accompagner par des troupes d'Israël, car l'Éternel n'est pas avec Israël, avec tous les enfants d'Éphraïm!
8 Even if your soldiers go and fight courageously in battles, God will cause your enemies to defeat you; do not forget that God has the power to help armies or to cause them to be defeated.”
va plutôt seul, agis et tiens ferme au combat! Dieu pourrait te faire tomber devant l'ennemi, car à Dieu est le pouvoir de soutenir ou de faire tomber.
9 Amaziah asked that prophet, “If I do that, what about the huge amount of silver that I paid to hire those soldiers from Israel?” The prophet replied, “Yahweh is able to pay you back more money than you paid [to hire those soldiers].”
Et Amatsia dit à l'homme de Dieu: Mais que faire à l'égard des cent talents que j'ai délivrés à la troupe d'Israël? Et l'homme de Dieu dit: Dieu peut te rendre plus que cela.
10 So Amaziah told those soldiers from Israel to return home. They left to go home, but they were very angry with the king of Judah [for not allowing them to stay and fight].
Alors Amatsia les sépara, c'est-à-dire la troupe arrivée chez lui d'Éphraïm, afin qu'ils retournassent en leurs lieux. Mais ils furent irrités d'une extrême colère contre Juda, et ils rentrèrent en leurs lieux enflammés de colère.
11 Then Amaziah became brave, and he led his army to the Salt Valley. There they killed 10,000 men from the Edom people-group.
Néanmoins Amatsia s'enhardit et prit son peuple sous sa conduite et gagna la Vallée du sel, et il tua aux enfants de Séïr dix mille hommes.
12 The army of Judah also captured 10,000 others, and took them to the top of a cliff and threw them all down over the cliff, with the result that their corpses were all smashed to pieces.
Et les enfants de Juda en firent prisonniers dix mille vivants, qu'ils menèrent à la pointe de la roche d'où ils les précipitèrent, de sorte que tous ils furent éventrés.
13 While that was happening, the soldiers from Israel whom Amaziah had sent home after not allowing them to fight along with his soldiers, raided cities and towns in Judea, from Samaria [city] to Beth-Horon [town]. They killed 3,000 people and took away a great amount of valuable things.
Cependant les gens de la troupe qu'Amatsia avait congédiés pour n'en être pas accompagné au combat, se jetèrent dans les villes de Juda, de Samarie à Bethoron, et y tuèrent trois mille hommes et emportèrent un grand butin.
14 When Amaziah returned [to Jerusalem] after his army had slaughtered the soldiers from Edom, he brought the idols that were worshiped by the people of Edom. He set them up to be his own gods. Then he bowed down to [worship] them and offered sacrifices to them.
Et Amatsia, de retour après la défaite des Édomites, fit venir les dieux des enfants de Séïr et se les érigea en dieux, et les adora et leur offrit de l'encens.
15 Because of that, Yahweh was very angry with Amaziah. He sent a prophet to him, who said, “Why do you worship these foreign gods that were not even able to save their own people when your army attacked them?”
Alors la colère de l'Éternel s'alluma contre Amatsia, et Il lui délégua un prophète, qui lui dit: Pourquoi vas-tu chercher les dieux de ce peuple, qui n'ont pu sauver leur peuple de ta main?
16 While he was still speaking, the king said to him, “We certainly did not appoint you to be one of my advisors. So stop [talking]! If you say anything more, [I will tell my soldiers to] kill you!” So the prophet said, “I know that God has determined to get rid of you, because you have [begun to] worship idols, and have not heeded my advice.” Then the prophet said nothing more.
Et comme il lui parlait, [Amatsia] lui dit: T'a-t-on constitué conseiller du roi? Cesse! pourquoi veux-tu être battu? Alors le prophète s'abstint et dit: Je reconnais que Dieu a résolu ta perte, parce que tu agis ainsi et n'écoutes pas mon conseil.
17 Some time later Amaziah, the king of Judah, consulted his advisors. Then he sent a message to Jehoash, the king of Israel. He wrote, “Come here and let’s talk together.”
Et Amatsia, roi de Juda, se consulta, et il députa vers Joas, fils de Joachaz, fils de Jéhu, roi d'Israël, pour lui dire: Viens! voyons-nous en présence!
18 But Jehoash replied to King Amaziah, “One time a thistle growing [in the mountains] in Lebanon sent a message to a cedar tree saying, ‘Let your daughter marry my son.’ But a wild animal in Lebanon came along and trampled the thistle under its feet.
Alors Joas, roi d'Israël, députa vers Amatsia, roi de Juda, pour lui dire: L'épine du Liban députa vers le cèdre du Liban pour lui dire: Donne ta fille à mon fils pour femme! Alors passèrent les bêtes sauvages du Liban, et elles écrasèrent l'épine.
19 [The meaning of what I am saying is that] you are saying to yourself that your army has defeated the army of Edom, so you have become very proud. But you should stay at your home. It would not be good for you to cause trouble, which would result in you and your kingdom of Judah being destroyed.”
Tu te dis: Voici, tu as battu les Édomites! et ton cœur te donne l'ambition de la gloire; or, reste chez toi! pourquoi veux-tu provoquer un revers pour tomber, toi, et Juda avec toi?
20 But Amaziah refused to heed Jehoash’s message. That happened because God wanted Jehoash’s army to defeat them, because they were worshiping the gods of Edom.
Mais Amatsia n'écouta point, car c'était une dispensation de Dieu à l'effet de le livrer pour avoir recherché les dieux d'Édom.
21 So Jehoash’s army attacked. Their two armies faced each other at Beth-Shemesh [city] in Judah.
Joas, roi d'Israël, s'avança donc et ils se virent en présence, lui et Amatsia, roi de Juda, à Bethsémès en Juda.
22 The army of Judah was badly defeated by the army of Israel, and all the soldiers of Judah fled to their homes.
Mais Juda fut battu devant Israël, et ils s'enfuirent chacun dans leurs tentes.
23 King Jehoash’s army also captured King Amaziah there. Then he brought Amaziah to Jerusalem, and his soldiers tore down the wall [that was around the city], from the Ephraim Gate to the Corner Gate. That was a section that was about 600 feet long.
Et Amatsia, roi de Juda, fils de Joas, fils d'Achazia, fut fait prisonnier à Bethsémès par Joas, roi d'Israël, qui le mena à Jérusalem, et démolit le mur de Jérusalem, depuis la porte d'Éphraïm jusqu'à la porte de l'angle sur un espace de quatre cents coudées,
24 His soldiers also carried away the gold and silver and other valuable furnishings from the temple which the descendants of Obed-Edom had previously been guarding. They also took away the valuable things in the palace, and they took to Samaria some prisoners whom they had captured.
et prit tout l'or et l'argent et tous les trésors qui se trouvaient dans la Maison de Dieu chez Obed-Édom, et les trésors du palais royal et les otages, puis revint à Samarie.
25 King Jehoash of Israel died, and King Amaziah of Judah lived for 15 years after that.
Et Amatsia, fils de Joas, roi de Juda, vécut encore quinze ans après la mort de Joas, fils de Joachaz, roi d'Israël.
26 An account of all the other things that Amaziah did while he was the king [of Judah] is written in the scroll called ‘The History of the Kings of Judah and Israel’.
Le reste des actes d'Amatsia, les premiers et les derniers, est d'ailleurs consigné dans le livre des rois de Juda et d'Israël.
27 From the time that Amaziah started to disobey Yahweh, some men in Jerusalem planned to kill him. He was able to escape to Lachish [city], but those who wanted to kill him sent another group of people to Lachish and killed him there.
Et à partir du temps où Amatsia s'éloigna de l'Éternel, il se forma contre lui une conjuration à Jérusalem, et il s'enfuit à Lachis, et ils envoyèrent à sa poursuite à Lachis, et là on le fit mourir.
28 They put his corpse on a horse and brought it back to Jerusalem and buried it where his ancestors [had been buried] in the part of Jerusalem called ‘The City of David’.
Et il fut rapporté à dos de chevaux et reçut la sépulture à côté de ses pères dans la ville de Juda.
