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, toutes ces choses accomplies, tous les Israélites présents partirent pour les villes de Juda, et ils brisèrent les colonnes, coupèrent les Aschères et détruisirent les tertres et les autels dans tout Juda et Benjamin et dans Éphraïm et Manassé, jusqu'à ruine complète; puis tous les enfants d'Israël retournèrent chacun dans sa propriété, dans leurs villes.
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 Prêtres et des Lévites, selon leur classification, chacun selon son office, les Prêtres et les Lévites pour les holocaustes et les sacrifices pacifiques, pour le ministère et l'action de grâces et la louange, aux portes du camp 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 le roi affecta une portion de son bien aux holocaustes, aux holocaustes du matin et du soir et aux holocaustes des sabbats et des nouvelles lunes et des fêtes prescrites 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 le roi dit au peuple, aux habitants de Jérusalem, de payer la part des Prêtres et des Lévites pour les mettre à même de s'appliquer 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 à la promulgation de cet édit les enfants d'Israël apportèrent en abondance les prémices du blé, du moût et de l'huile et du miel et de toutes les productions du sol, et ils apportèrent en masse les dîmes de toutes choses.
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 enfants d'Israël et de Juda domiciliés dans les villes de Juda, apportèrent eux aussi la dîme du gros et du menu bétail et la dîme des consécrations qui avaient été consacrées à l'Éternel, leur Dieu, et en firent des tas et des tas.
7 They started to do that in May and finished doing it in September.
Au troisième mois ils commencèrent à former des tas, et ils eurent achevé au septième mois.
8 When Hezekiah and his officials saw the heaps, they praised Yahweh and [requested God to] bless the people.
Et vinrent Ézéchias et les princes, qui à la vue des tas bénirent l'Éternel et son peuple d'Israël.
9 But Hezekiah asked the priests and other descendants of Levi, “Why are these heaps of things here?”
Et Ézéchias consulta les Prêtres et les Lévites touchant les tas.
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]!”
Alors le Grand-Prêtre, Azaria, de la maison de Tsadoc, lui parla et dit: Depuis qu'on a commencé à apporter les dons dans le Temple de l'Éternel, nous avons mangé, et nous avons été rassasiés, et le reliquat est considérable; car l'Éternel a béni son peuple, et le reliquat, c'est le grand tas que voilà.
11 Then Hezekiah ordered that they should prepare storerooms in the temple. So they did that.
Et Ézéchias dit de disposer des cellules dans la Maison de l'Éternel. Et ils les disposèrent,
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 y apportèrent fidèlement les prémices et les dîmes et les consécrations. Et ils eurent pour surintendant Chanania, le Lévite, avec Siméï son frère, comme 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 Jehiel et Azazia et Nahath et Asahel et Jerimoth et Jozabad et Eliel et Jismachia et Mahath et Benaïa étaient intendants sous les ordres de Chanania et de Siméï, son frère, d'après l'ordonnance du roi Ezéchias, et d'Azaria, surintendant 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 Coré, fils de Jimna, Lévite, portier de l'orient, avait l'intendance des dons volontaires faits à Dieu, pour délivre la part réservée de l'Éternel, et les très saintes consécrations.
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 sous ses ordres étaient Eden et Miniamin et Jésua et Semaïa, Amaria et Sechonia dans les villes sacerdotales, laissés sur leur foi pour faire les délivrances 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.
non compris les mâles enregistrés dès l'âge de trois ans et au-dessus, tous ceux qui entraient journellement dans le Temple de l'Éternel pour les fonctions de leur office, dans 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.
non compris les Prêtres enregistrés par maisons patriarcales, et les Lévites de vingt ans et plus en fonctions dans 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 tous les leurs enregistrés, enfants, femmes et fils et filles, de toute la corporation, car ils se consacraient fidèlement à leur saint service.
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 Prêtres, fils d'Aaron, il y avait dans la banlieue de leurs villes, ville par ville, des hommes préposés, désignés par leurs noms, pour délivrer leur part à tous les mâles des Prêtres et à tous les Lévites enregistrés.
20 That is what Hezekiah did throughout Judah. He always faithfully did things that Yahweh his God considered to be right and good.
Et ainsi fit Ezéchias dans tout Juda et il agit bien et avec droiture et fidélité 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 l'œuvre qu'il entreprit pour le service de la Maison de Dieu, et pour la Loi et pour le commandement, cherchant son Dieu, il agit de tout son cœur et réussit.
