2 Kings 17
1 Elah’s son Hoshea began to rule Israel after King Ahaz had ruled Judah for twelve years. Hoshea ruled in Samaria for nine years.
La douzième année d'Achaz, roi de Juda, Osée, fils d'Éla, régna à Samarie sur Israël pendant neuf ans.
2 He did many things that Yahweh considered to be evil, but he did not do as many evil things as the previous kings of Israel had done.
Il fit ce qui est mal aux yeux de Yahvé, mais pas comme les rois d'Israël qui l'ont précédé.
3 [The army of] King Shalmaneser of Assyria attacked and defeated [the army of] King Hoshea. As a result, the Israelis were forced to pay a lot of tribute/taxes to Assyria each year.
Shalmaneser, roi d'Assyrie, monta contre lui; Hoshea devint son serviteur et lui apporta un tribut.
4 But several years later, Hoshea secretly planned to rebel against the rulers of Assyria. He sent messengers to So/Osorkon, the king of Egypt, [asking if his army could help the Israelis fight against the army of Assyria]. Hoshea also stopped paying the tribute/taxes that he had been paying to Assyria every year. But the king of Assyria found out about those things, so he told his officers to put Hoshea in prison.
Le roi d'Assyrie découvrit une conspiration chez Hosée, car il avait envoyé des messagers à So, roi d'Égypte, et n'avait pas offert de tribut au roi d'Assyrie, comme il l'avait fait d'année en année. C'est pourquoi le roi d'Assyrie se saisit de lui et le fit mettre en prison.
5 Then he [brought the army of] Assyria to Israel, and they attacked everywhere in that land. His army surrounded Samaria [city] for three years.
Puis le roi d'Assyrie parcourut tout le pays, monta à Samarie et l'assiégea pendant trois ans.
6 Finally, after King Hoshea had been ruling Israel for nine years, the army of Assyria [MTY] [forcefully entered] the city [and] captured [the people]. They took the Israeli people to Assyria and forced some of them to live in Halah [town]. They forced others to live near the Habor River in Gozan district. They forced others to live in the towns where the Mede people-group lived.
La neuvième année d'Osée, le roi d'Assyrie prit Samarie et emmena Israël en Assyrie. Il les plaça à Halah, sur le Habor, le fleuve de Gozan, et dans les villes des Mèdes.
7 Those things happened because the Israeli people had sinned against Yahweh their God. He had rescued their [ancestors] from the power [MTY] of the king of Egypt and brought them [safely] out of Egypt, but later they began to worship other gods.
C'est parce que les enfants d'Israël avaient péché contre l'Éternel, leur Dieu, qui les avait fait monter du pays d'Égypte, de dessous la main de Pharaon, roi d'Égypte, et qu'ils avaient craint d'autres dieux,
8 They imitated the things that the heathen/pagan people-groups did. Those were the groups that Yahweh had expelled as the Israelis occupied their land. The Israeli people also did the evil things that the kings of Israel (introduced/showed to them).
et suivi les lois des nations que l'Éternel avait chassées devant les enfants d'Israël, et des rois d'Israël, qu'ils avaient établis.
9 The Israeli people also secretly did many things that were not pleasing to Yahweh their God. They built shrines [to worship idols] in all their cities, including small towns and big cities with walls around them.
Les enfants d'Israël firent en secret des choses injustes à l'égard de Yahvé, leur Dieu; ils se bâtirent des hauts lieux dans toutes leurs villes, depuis la tour de guet jusqu'à la ville fortifiée;
10 They set up stone pillars [to honor gods], and poles [to worship the goddess] Asherah at the top of every high hill and under every [big] tree.
ils se dressèrent des colonnes et des mâts d'Astarté sur toute colline élevée et sous tout arbre vert;
11 The Israelis burned incense in every place where they worshiped those gods, just like the people-groups who lived there previously had done—the groups that Yahweh had expelled from the land. The Israelis did many wicked things that caused Yahweh to become angry.
Ils brûlèrent de l'encens sur tous les hauts lieux, comme le faisaient les nations que Yahvé avait chassées avant eux, et ils firent des choses méchantes pour irriter Yahvé.
12 Yahweh warned them many times that they should not worship idols, but they did it anyway.
Ils servirent des idoles dont Yahvé leur avait dit: « Tu ne feras pas cela ». »
13 Yahweh frequently sent his prophets and (seers/those who saw visions from Yahweh) to warn the people of Israel and the people of Judah. The message that Yahweh gave them was, “Turn away from all your evil behavior. Obey my commands and my laws, the laws that I told your ancestors [to obey] and which I told the prophets who served me to tell to you [again].”
Mais l'Éternel a rendu témoignage à Israël et à Juda, par tous les prophètes et tous les voyants, en disant: « Revenez de vos mauvaises voies, et observez mes commandements et mes statuts, selon toute la loi que j'ai prescrite à vos pères et que je vous ai envoyée par mes serviteurs les prophètes. »
14 But the Israeli people would not pay attention. They were stubborn [IDM] just like their ancestors were. Just like their ancestors did, they refused to believe in Yahweh their God.
Mais ils n'ont pas voulu écouter, et ils ont endurci leur cou, comme le cou de leurs pères qui n'ont pas cru en Yahvé, leur Dieu.
15 They rejected Yahweh’s laws and the agreement that he had made with their ancestors. They ignored Yahweh’s warnings. They worshiped worthless idols and as a result they themselves became worthless. Although Yahweh had commanded them not to imitate the evil behavior of the people-groups that lived near them, they disobeyed that command.
Ils rejetèrent ses lois et l'alliance qu'il avait conclue avec leurs pères, et les témoignages qu'il leur avait adressés; ils suivirent la vanité, ils devinrent vains, et ils suivirent les nations qui les entouraient, au sujet desquelles l'Éternel leur avait ordonné de ne pas faire comme elles.
16 The Israeli people disobeyed all of Yahweh’s commands. They made two metal calves [to worship]. They set up two poles [to worship the goddess] Asherah, and they worshiped [the god] Baal, and the sun, the moon, and the stars.
Ils abandonnèrent tous les commandements de l'Éternel, leur Dieu, et se firent des images en fonte, deux veaux, ils se firent une idole, ils se prosternèrent devant toute l'armée du ciel et servirent Baal.
17 They also burned their own sons and daughters to be sacrifices [to those gods]. They went to fortune-tellers and they practiced sorcery. They continually chose [MET] to do [all kinds of] evil things that caused Yahweh to become angry.
Ils firent passer leurs fils et leurs filles par le feu, utilisèrent la divination et les enchantements, et se vendirent pour faire ce qui est mal aux yeux de l'Éternel, pour l'irriter.
18 So, because Yahweh was very angry with the Israeli people, he allowed [their enemies] to take them away [from their country]. Only the people of the tribe of Judah were left [in the land].
C'est pourquoi l'Éternel fut très irrité contre Israël, et il l'éloigna de sa vue. Il ne resta plus que la tribu de Juda seule.
19 But even the people of Judah did not obey the commands of Yahweh their God. They imitated the evil customs that the Israelis had introduced.
Juda aussi n'a pas gardé les commandements de l'Éternel, son Dieu, et il a suivi les lois d'Israël qu'il avait établies.
20 So Yahweh rejected all the people of Israel and of Judah. He punished them by allowing the armies of other nations to defeat them [and take them away]. He got rid of all of them.
L'Éternel rejeta toute la descendance d'Israël, il l'affligea et la livra entre les mains de pillards, jusqu'à ce qu'il l'eût chassée de sa vue.
21 Earlier, when Yahweh allowed the people of Israel to separate/break away from the area [MTY] that King David [had estabished], they chose Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, to be their king. Then Jeroboam enticed the people of Israel to stop worshiping Yahweh [and to worship idols instead]. He led them to commit great sins.
Car il arracha Israël de la maison de David, et ils firent roi Jéroboam, fils de Nebath; et Jéroboam éloigna Israël de la suite de l'Éternel, et lui fit commettre un grand péché.
22 And the Israeli people continued to do the evil things that Jeroboam introduced. They did not turn away from those sins,
Les enfants d'Israël marchèrent dans tous les péchés que Jéroboam avait commis; ils ne s'en détournèrent pas
23 until finally Yahweh got rid of them. That was just what his prophets had warned would happen. The Israeli people were taken away to the land of Assyria, and they still remain there.
jusqu'à ce que Yahvé eût éloigné Israël de sa face, comme il l'avait annoncé par tous ses serviteurs les prophètes. C'est ainsi qu'Israël fut transporté hors de son pays, en Assyrie, jusqu'à ce jour.
24 The king of Assyria [ordered his soldiers to] take [groups of] people from Babylon, Cuthah, Avva, Hamath, and Sepharvaim [cities] to [the] Samaria [region], and to resettle them in the towns there, to take the place of the Israelis [who lived there previously]. Those people took control over [the whole] Samaria [region] and lived in the towns there.
Le roi d'Assyrie fit venir des gens de Babylone, de Cuthah, d'Avva, de Hamath et de Sépharvaïm, et les plaça dans les villes de Samarie à la place des enfants d'Israël; ils possédèrent Samarie et habitèrent dans ses villes.
25 But those people [who came from other countries] did not worship Yahweh when they first arrived in Samaria. So Yahweh sent lions to kill some of them.
Au début de leur séjour dans cette ville, ils ne craignaient pas Yahvé. L'Éternel envoya contre eux des lions qui tuèrent quelques-uns d'entre eux.
26 Then those people sent a message to the king of Assyria. They wrote, “We people who have resettled in the towns in Samaria do not know how to worship the God [that the Israelis worshiped] in this land. So he has sent lions among us to kill us, because we have not worshiped him correctly.”
Ils parlèrent alors au roi d'Assyrie, en disant: « Les nations que tu as emmenées et placées dans les villes de Samarie ne connaissent pas la loi du dieu du pays. C'est pourquoi il a envoyé des lions parmi elles; et voici qu'ils les tuent, parce qu'elles ne connaissent pas la loi du dieu du pays. »
27 [When] the king of Assyria [read this letter, he] commanded [his officers], “You brought many priests here from Samaria. Send one of them back there. Tell him to teach the people who are now living there how to worship correctly the God whom the Israelis worshiped in that land.”
Alors le roi d'Assyrie donna cet ordre: « Porte là l'un des prêtres que tu as fait venir de là-bas; qu'il aille y demeurer, et qu'il leur enseigne la loi du dieu du pays. »
28 So [the officers did that]. They sent one of the Israeli priests back to Samaria. That priest went to live in Bethel [city], and he taught the people there how to worship Yahweh.
L'un des prêtres qu'ils avaient emmenés de Samarie vint habiter à Béthel et leur enseigna comment ils devaient craindre Yahvé.
29 But the people [who returned from Babylon and started to live in Samaria and] continued to make their own idols. They placed them in the shrines that the Israelis had built there. The people of each people-group made idols in the cities in which they were living.
Mais chaque nation se fit ses propres dieux et les plaça dans les maisons des hauts lieux que les Samaritains avaient construits, chaque nation dans les villes qu'elle habitait.
30 The people from Babylon made idols to represent their god Succoth-Benoth. The people from Cuthah made idols to represent their god Nergal. The people from Hamath made idols to represent their god Ashima.
Les hommes de Babylone firent Succoth Benoth, les hommes de Cuth firent Nergal, les hommes de Hamath firent Ashima,
31 The people of Avva made idols to represent their gods Nibhaz and Tartak. The people from Sepharvaim sacrificed their own children. They completely burned them [in pits where hot fires were kept burning, ] as offerings to their gods Adrammelech and Anammelech.
les Avvites firent Nibhaz et Tartak, et les Sépharvites brûlèrent leurs enfants au feu en l'honneur d'Adrammelech et d'Anammelech, les dieux de Sépharvaïm.
32 But those people also worshiped Yahweh, and they appointed from among their own groups many people to be priests at the shrines on the tops of the hills, in order that those priests could offer sacrifices for them there.
Ils craignaient Yahvé, et ils se firent des prêtres des hauts lieux, qui sacrifiaient pour eux dans les maisons des hauts lieux.
33 So they revered Yahweh, but they also worshiped their own gods, just as the people living in the countries from which they had been taken to Samaria did.
Ils craignaient l'Éternel, et ils servaient leurs propres dieux, selon les coutumes des nations parmi lesquelles ils avaient été transportés.
34 They still keep their old customs. They really do not worship Yahweh, and they do not obey all the laws and commands that Yahweh gave to the descendants of Jacob, to whom he gave the new name Israel.
Aujourd'hui encore, ils font ce qu'ils faisaient auparavant. Ils ne craignent pas Yahvé, et ils ne suivent ni les lois, ni les ordonnances, ni la loi, ni le commandement que Yahvé a prescrits aux enfants de Jacob, qu'il a appelés Israël,
35 Yahweh had previously made an agreement with their ancestors, commanding them not to worship other gods or bow down to honor them or do other things to please them or offer sacrifices to them.
avec lesquels Yahvé avait fait alliance et leur avait donné cet ordre: « Vous ne craindrez point d'autres dieux, vous ne vous prosternerez point devant eux, vous ne les servirez point, et vous ne leur offrirez point de sacrifices;
36 He had said to them, “You must have an awesome respect for me, Yahweh, the one who brought you out of Egypt with my very great power [DOU]. I am the one whom you must bow down to honor, and I am the one to whom you must offer sacrifices.
mais vous craindrez Yahvé, qui vous a fait monter du pays d'Égypte avec une grande puissance et un bras étendu; vous vous prosternerez devant lui et vous lui offrirez des sacrifices.
37 You must always obey the laws and commands that I [told Moses to] write for you. You must not worship other gods.
Les statuts et les ordonnances, la loi et le commandement qu'il a écrits pour vous, vous les mettrez en pratique à jamais. Vous ne craindrez pas d'autres dieux.
38 And you must not forget the agreement that I made with your ancestors. You must not revere other gods.
Vous n'oublierez pas l'alliance que j'ai conclue avec vous. Tu ne craindras pas d'autres dieux.
39 Instead, you must revere me, Yahweh, your God. If you do that, I will rescue you from the power [MTY] of all your enemies.”
Mais tu craindras Yahvé ton Dieu, et il te délivrera de la main de tous tes ennemis. »
40 But the people [from those foreign nations] would not heed what Yahweh said. Instead, they continued to adhere to their old customs.
Mais ils n'écoutèrent pas, et ils firent ce qu'ils faisaient auparavant.
41 So, they worshiped Yahweh, but they also worshiped their idols. And their descendants still do the same thing.
Ces nations craignaient donc Yahvé et servaient aussi leurs images gravées. Leurs enfants firent de même, et les enfants de leurs enfants aussi. Ils font comme leurs pères jusqu'à ce jour.
