2 Chronicles 31
1 After the festival ended, the Israelis who were there went to all the towns in Judah and smashed the stones/pillars [for worshiping idols], and cut down the poles [for worshiping the goddess] Asherah. They destroyed the shrines on the hilltops and the altars [of Baal] throughout the areas where the tribes of Judah and Benjamin lived, and also in the areas of the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh. After destroying all of them, they returned to their own towns.
Et lorsque tout cela fut terminé, tous ceux d’Israël qui se trouvèrent [là], s’en allèrent par les villes de Juda, et brisèrent les statues, et abattirent les ashères, et démolirent les hauts lieux et les autels dans tout Juda et Benjamin, et en Éphraïm et Manassé, jusqu’à ce qu’ils aient tout détruit; et tous les fils d’Israël retournèrent dans leurs villes, chacun dans sa possession.
2 Hezekiah divided the priests and [other] descendants of Levi into groups. He appointed some of the groups to offer sacrifices that would be completely burned [on the altar] and offerings to maintain fellowship [with Yahweh]. He appointed some groups to do other work at the temple: some to lead the people in their worship, some to thank Yahweh, and some to sing songs to praise to Yahweh at the gates of the temple.
Et Ézéchias établit les classes des sacrificateurs et des lévites, selon leurs classes, chacun selon son service, tant sacrificateurs que lévites, pour les holocaustes et pour les sacrifices de prospérités, pour faire le service et pour rendre grâces et pour louer aux portes des parvis de l’Éternel.
3 The king contributed some of his own funds to buy animals that would be sacrificed in the morning and in the evening of each day, and on the Sabbath days, to celebrate the new moons, and during the other feasts, according to what was written in the laws [that Yahweh gave to Moses].
Et [il établit] que la portion du roi [serait prise] sur ses biens, pour les holocaustes: pour les holocaustes du matin et du soir, et pour les holocaustes des sabbats et des nouvelles lunes et des fêtes solennelles, comme il est écrit dans la loi de l’Éternel.
4 Hezekiah told the people living in Jerusalem to give to the priests and the other descendants of Levi the portions [of meat] that should be given to them, in order that they could devote all their time to obeying the laws of Yahweh.
Et il dit au peuple, aux habitants de Jérusalem, de donner la portion des sacrificateurs et des lévites, afin qu’ils s’attachent à la loi de l’Éternel.
5 As soon as he told that to the people, they generously gave the first part of their harvest of grain, and the first part of the new wine [that they produced], and [olive] oil and honey, and of the crops that grew in their fields. They brought [to the temple] a tenth of all their crops.
Et quand la parole [du roi] se répandit, les fils d’Israël apportèrent en grande quantité les prémices du blé, du moût, et de l’huile, et du miel, et de tous les produits des champs; et ils apportèrent la dîme de tout, en abondance.
6 The men of Israel and Judah who were living in various towns in Judah also brought a tenth of their cattle and sheep and goats, and a tenth of other things that they had dedicated to Yahweh their God, and they piled all those things in heaps.
Et les fils d’Israël et de Juda, qui habitaient dans les villes de Juda, eux aussi apportèrent la dîme du gros bétail et du menu bétail, et la dîme des choses saintes, qui étaient consacrées à l’Éternel, leur Dieu, et ils les mirent par monceaux.
7 They started to do that in May and finished doing it in September.
Au troisième mois, ils commencèrent de faire les monceaux, et au septième mois ils achevèrent.
8 When Hezekiah and his officials saw the heaps, they praised Yahweh and [requested God to] bless the people.
Et Ézéchias et les chefs vinrent et virent les monceaux, et ils bénirent l’Éternel et son peuple Israël.
9 But Hezekiah asked the priests and other descendants of Levi, “Why are these heaps of things here?”
Et Ézéchias s’informa auprès des sacrificateurs et des lévites au sujet des monceaux.
10 Then Azariah the [Supreme] Priest, a descendant of Zadok, replied, “Since the time that the people started to bring their offerings to the temple, we have had even more food than we need. This has happened because Yahweh has greatly blessed our fellow Israelis, with the result that all this is left over [after we priests and other descendants of Levi took all that we need]!”
Et Azaria, le principal sacrificateur, qui était de la maison de Tsadok, lui parla, et dit: Depuis qu’on a commencé d’apporter l’offrande dans la maison de l’Éternel, on a mangé et on a été rassasié, et il en est resté en abondance; car l’Éternel a béni son peuple; et ce qui reste, c’est cette grande quantité.
11 Then Hezekiah ordered that they should prepare storerooms in the temple. So they did that.
Et Ézéchias dit qu’on prépare des chambres dans la maison de l’Éternel; et on les prépara;
12 Then they brought into the storerooms all the tithes and offerings and the things dedicated to Yahweh [which the people had brought]. One of the descendants of Levi whose name was Conaniah was in charge of those things, and his [younger] brother Shimei was his assistant.
et on apporta fidèlement l’offrande, et la dîme, et les choses saintes; et Conania, le lévite, en eut la surintendance, et Shimhi, son frère, en second;
13 Those two men supervised Jehiel, Azaziah, Nahath, Asahel, Jerimoth, Jozabad, Eliel, Ismakiah, Mahath and Benaiah while they did the work. They were appointed by King Hezekiah; Azariah was in charge of [everything that was done in] the temple.
et Jekhiel, et Azazia, et Nakhath, et Asçaël, et Jerimoth, et Jozabad, et Éliel, et Jismakia, et Makhath, et Benaïa, étaient intendants sous l’autorité de Conania et de Shimhi, son frère, par l’ordre du roi Ézéchias, et d’Azaria, prince de la maison de Dieu.
14 Kore the son of Imnah, another descendant of Levi, who guarded the east gate of the temple, was in charge of the offerings to God that were made voluntarily. He distributed to the priests and [other] descendants of Levi the offerings and other things that were dedicated to Yahweh.
Et Koré, fils de Jimna, le lévite, qui était portier vers le levant, [était préposé] sur les offrandes volontaires [faites] à Dieu, pour distribuer l’offrande de l’Éternel et les choses très saintes;
15 Eden, Miniamin, Jeshua, Shemaiah, Amariah and Shecaniah faithfully assisted him in the towns where the priests lived. They distributed those things to the groups of their fellow priests; they distributed them to everyone, from the youngest to the oldest.
et il avait sous ses ordres Éden, et Minjamin, et Jéshua, et Shemahia, Amaria et Shecania, dans les villes des sacrificateurs, pour faire les distributions avec fidélité à leurs frères, selon leurs classes, au grand comme au petit,
16 They also distributed things to the males who were at least 30 years old, those whose names were written on the scrolls where lists of family names were written. They were males who [were allowed to] enter the temple to perform their tasks/work each day, the tasks that each group had been assigned to do.
outre ceux qui étaient enregistrés comme mâles dans les généalogies, depuis l’âge de trois ans et au-dessus, à chacun de ceux qui entraient dans la maison de l’Éternel, chaque jour pour l’affaire du jour, pour servir dans leurs charges, selon leurs classes;
17 The names of the priests were on the scrolls where their clans’ names were written. They also distributed things to groups of [other] descendants of Levi, those who were at least 20 years old.
et aux sacrificateurs enregistrés selon leurs maisons de pères, et aux lévites, depuis l’âge de 20 ans et au-dessus, dans leurs charges, selon leurs classes;
18 They included all their little children and wives and other sons and daughters whose names were on the scrolls where their clans’ names were written, because they also faithfully had dedicated themselves to Yahweh.
et à tous leurs petits enfants, leurs femmes, et leurs fils, et leurs filles, – toute la congrégation enregistrée; car, dans leur fidélité, ils se sanctifiaient pour être saints.
19 [Hezekiah] also appointed other men to distribute portions of those offerings to the priests and other descendants of Levi who were living in the pasturelands around the towns in Judah. But they gave things only to those who were descendants of Aaron [the first Supreme Priest], whose names were on the scrolls containing the names of their clans.
Et pour les fils d’Aaron, les sacrificateurs, qui étaient dans la campagne, [répandus] dans les banlieues de leurs villes, il y avait dans chaque ville des hommes désignés par leur nom pour distribuer les portions à tous les mâles parmi les sacrificateurs, et à tous ceux qui étaient enregistrés parmi les lévites.
20 That is what Hezekiah did throughout Judah. He always faithfully did things that Yahweh his God considered to be right and good.
Et Ézéchias fit ainsi dans tout Juda. Et il fit ce qui est bon, et droit, et vrai, devant l’Éternel, son Dieu.
21 In everything that he did for the worship in the temple, and as he obeyed God’s laws and commands, he tried to find out what his God wanted, and he worked energetically. So he was successful.
Et dans toute œuvre qu’il entreprit, dans le service de la maison de Dieu et dans la loi et dans les commandements, pour rechercher son Dieu, il agit de tout son cœur, et prospéra.
