2 Kings 23
1 Then the king summoned all the elders of Jerusalem and [of the other places in] Judah.
Le roi envoya rassembler auprès de lui tous les anciens de Juda et de Jérusalem.
2 They went together to the temple, along with the priests and the prophets, and many other [HYP] people, from the most important people to the least important people. And while they listened, the king read to them all of the laws that Moses had written. He read from the scroll that had been found in the temple.
Et le roi monta à la maison de Yahweh, avec tous les hommes de Juda et tous les habitants de Jérusalem, les prêtres, les prophètes et tout le peuple, depuis le plus petit jusqu'au plus grand, et il lut devant eux toutes les paroles du livre de l'alliance, qu'on avait trouvé dans la maison de Yahweh.
3 Then the king stood next to the pillar [where the kings stood when they made important announcements], and while Yahweh was listening, he repeated his promise to sincerely obey [DOU] all of Yahweh’s commands and regulations [DOU]. He also promised to (fulfill the conditions of/do what was written in) the agreement he made with Yahweh. And all the people also promised to obey the agreement.
Le roi se tenant sur l'estrade, conclut l'alliance devant Yahweh, s'engageant à suivre Yahweh et à observer ses préceptes, ses ordonnances et ses lois, de tout son cœur et de toute son âme, en accomplissant les paroles de cette alliance, qui sont écrites dans ce livre. Et tout le peuple acquiesça à cette alliance.
4 Then the king commanded Hilkiah the Supreme Priest and all the other priests who assisted him and the men who guarded the entrance to the temple to bring out from the temple all the items that people had been using to worship Baal, the goddess Asherah, and the stars. [After they carried them out, ] they burned all those things outside the city near the Kidron Valley. Then they took all the ashes to Bethel, [because that city was already considered to be desecrated/unholy].
Le roi ordonna à Helcias, le grand prêtre, aux prêtres du second ordre et à ceux qui gardaient la porte, de rejeter du temple de Yahweh tous les ustensiles qui avaient été faits pour Baal, pour Astarté et pour toute l'armée du ciel; et il les brûla hors de Jérusalem dans les champs du Cédron, et en fit porter la poussière à Béthel.
5 There were many pagan priests that the previous kings of Judah had appointed to burn incense on the altars on the tops of hills in Judah. They had been offering sacrifices to Baal, to the sun, the moon, the planets, and the stars. The king stopped them from doing those things.
Il chassa les prêtres des idoles, établis par les rois de Juda, pour brûler des parfums sur les hauts lieux, dans les villes de Juda et aux environs de Jérusalem, et ceux qui offraient des parfums à Baal, au soleil, à la lune, aux douze signes et à toute l'armée du ciel.
6 He [commanded that] the statue of the goddess Asherah [be] taken out of the temple. Then they took it outside Jerusalem, down to the Kidron Brook, and burned it. Then they pounded the ashes to powder and scattered that over the graves in the public cemetery.
Il rejeta de la maison de Yahweh l'aschérah qu'il transporta hors de Jérusalem, vers la vallée du Cédron; il la brûla dans la vallée du Cédron et, l'ayant réduite en poussière, il jeta cette poussière sur les sépulcres des enfants du peuple.
7 He also destroyed the rooms in the temple where the temple male prostitutes lived. That was where women wove robes that were used to worship the goddess Asherah.
Il abattit les maisons des prostitués qui étaient dans la maison de Yahweh, et où les femmes tissaient des tentes pour Astarté.
8 Josiah also brought [to Jerusalem] all the priests who were offering sacrifices in the other cities in Judah. He also desecrated the places on the tops of hills where the priests had burned incense [to honor idols], from Geba [in the north] to Beersheba [in the south]. Those priests were not allowed to offer sacrifices in the temple, but they [were allowed to] eat the unleavened bread that the priests [who worked in the temple] ate. He also [commanded that] the altars that were dedicated to the goat demons near the gate built by Joshua, the mayor of Jerusalem, [be] destroyed. Those altars were at the left of the main gate into the city.
Il fit venir tous les prêtres des villes de Juda: il souilla les hauts lieux où les prêtres avaient brûlé des parfums, depuis Gabaa jusqu'à Bersabée, et il renversa les hauts lieux des portes, celui qui était à l'entrée de la porte de Josué, chef de la ville, et celui qui était à gauche de la porte de la ville.
Toutefois les prêtres des hauts lieux ne montaient pas à l'autel de Yahweh à Jérusalem, mais ils mangeaient des pains sans levain au milieu de leurs frères.
10 Josiah also desecrated the place named Topheth, in the Hinnom Valley, in order that no one could offer his son or daughter there to be completely burned for a sacrifice to [the god] Molech.
Le roi souilla Topheth, dans la vallée des fils d'Ennom, afin que personne ne fit passer par le feu son fils ou sa fille en l'honneur de Moloch.
11 He also removed the horses that the [previous] kings of Judah had dedicated to worshiping the sun, and he burned the chariots that were used in that worship. Those horses and chariots were kept in the courtyard outside the temple, near the entrance to the temple, and near the room where [one of Josiah’s] officials, whose name was Nathan-Melech, lived.
Il fit disparaître les chevaux que les rois de Juda avaient dédiés au soleil à l'entrée de la maison de Yahweh, près de la chambre de l'eunuque Nathan-Mélech, laquelle était dans les dépendances, et il brûla au feu les chars du soleil.
12 Josiah also commanded his servants to tear down the altars that the previous kings of Judah had built on the roof of the palace, above the room where King Ahaz had stayed. They also tore down the altars that had been built by King Manasseh in the two courtyards outside the temple. He commanded that they be smashed to pieces and thrown down into the Kidron Valley.
Le roi détruisit les autels qui étaient sur le toit de la chambre haute d'Achaz et que les rois de Juda avaient faits, et les autels qu'avait faits Manassé dans les deux parvis de la maison de Yahweh, et de là il courut en jeter la poussière dans la vallée du Cédron.
13 He also commanded that the altars that King Solomon had built east of Jerusalem, south of Olive Tree Hill, be desecrated. Solomon had built them for the worship of the disgusting idols—the [statue of the goddess] Astarte [worshiped by the people in] Sidon [city], Chemosh the god of the Moab people-group, and Molech the god of the Ammon people-group.
Le roi souilla les hauts lieux qui étaient en face de Jérusalem, sur la droite de la Montagne de Perdition, et que Salomon, roi d'Israël, avait bâtis à Astarté, l'abomination des Sidoniens, à Chamos, l'abomination des fils d'Ammon;
14 They also broke into pieces the stone pillars that the Israeli people worshiped, and cut down the [pillars that honored the goddess] Asherah, and they scattered the ground there with human bones [to desecrate it].
il brisa les stèles et coupa les aschérahs, et il remplit d'ossements humains la place qu'elles occupaient.
15 Furthermore, he commanded them to tear down the place of worship at Bethel which had been built by King Jeroboam, the king who persuaded the people of Israel to sin. They tore down the altar. Then they broke its stones into pieces and pounded them to become powder. They also burned the statue [of the goddess] Asherah.
De même l'autel qui était à Béthel, et le haut lieu qu'avait fait Jéroboam, fils de Nabat, qui avait fait pécher Israël, il détruisit cet autel et le haut lieu; il brûla le haut lieu et le réduisit en poussière, et il brûla l'aschérah.
16 Then Josiah looked around and saw some tombs there on the hill. He commanded his men to take the bones out of those tombs and burn them on the altar. By doing that, he desecrated the altar. That was what a prophet had predicted many years before when Jeroboam was standing close to that altar at a festival. Then Josiah looked up and saw the tomb of the prophet who had predicted that.
Josias, s'étant tourné et ayant vu les sépulcres qui étaient là dans la montagne, envoya prendre les ossements des sépulcres, et il les brûla sur l'autel et le souilla, selon la parole de Yahweh prononcée par l'homme de Dieu qui avait annoncé ces choses.
17 Josiah asked, “Whose tomb is that?” The people of Bethel replied, “It is the tomb of the prophet who came from Judah and predicted that these things that you have just now done to this altar would happen.”
Il dit alors: « Quel est ce monument que je vois? » Les gens de la ville lui dirent: « C'est le sépulcre de l'homme de Dieu, qui est venu de Juda et qui a annoncé ces choses que tu as faites contre l'autel de Béthel. »
18 Josiah replied, “Allow his tomb to remain as it is. Do not remove the prophet’s bones from the tomb.” So the people did not remove those bones, or the bones of the other prophet, the one who had come from Samaria.
Et il dit: « Laisses-le; que personne ne remue ses os! » C'est ainsi qu'on laissa ses os intacts avec les os du prophète qui était venu de Samarie.
19 In every city in Israel, at Josiah’s command, they tore down the shrines that had been built by the previous kings of Israel, which had caused Yahweh to become very angry. He did to all those shrines/altars the same thing that he had done to the altars at Bethel.
Josias fit encore disparaître toutes les maisons des hauts lieux, qui étaient dans les villes de Samarie et qu'avaient faites les rois d'Israël, en irritant Yahweh; il fit à leur égard entièrement comme il avait fait à Béthel.
20 He ordered that all the priests who offered sacrifices on the altars on the tops of hills must be killed on those altars. Then he burned human bones on every one of those altars [to desecrate them]. Then he returned to Jerusalem.
Il immola sur les autels tous les prêtres des hauts lieux qui étaient là, et il y brûla des ossements humains; puis il revint à Jérusalem.
21 Then the king commanded all the people to celebrate the Passover Festival to honor Yahweh their God, which was written in the law of Moses that they should do [every year].
Le roi donna cet ordre à tout le peuple: « Célébrez la Pâque en l'honneur de Yahweh, votre Dieu, comme il est écrit dans le livre de l'alliance. »
22 During all the years that leaders ruled Israel and during all the years that kings had ruled Israel and Judah, they had not celebrated that festival.
Aucune Pâque pareille à celle-ci n'avait été célébrée depuis le temps des juges qui jugèrent Israël, et pendant tous les jours des rois d'Israël et des rois de Juda.
23 But now, after Josiah had been ruling for almost 18 years, to [honor] Yahweh they celebrated the Passover Festival in Jerusalem.
Ce fut la dix-huitième année du roi Josias qu'on célébra cette Pâque en l'honneur de Yahweh à Jérusalem.
24 Furthermore, Josiah got rid of all the people in Jerusalem and other places in Judah who practiced sorcery and those who requested the spirits of dead people [to tell them what they should do]. He also removed from Jerusalem and from the other places in Judah all the household idols and all the other idols and abominable things. He did those things in order to obey what had been written in the scroll that Hilkiah had found in the temple.
Josias fit encore disparaître les nécromanciens et les sorciers, ainsi que les théraphim, les idoles et toutes les abominations qui se voyaient dans le pays de Juda et à Jérusalem, afin d'accomplir les paroles de la Loi, écrites dans le livre que le prêtre Helcias avait trouvé dans la maison de Yahweh.
25 Josiah was totally devoted to Yahweh. There had never been [in Judah or Israel] a king like him. He obeyed all the laws of Moses. And there has never since then been a king like Josiah.
Il n'y eut pas, avant Josias, de roi qui, comme lui, se tourna vers Yahweh de tout son cœur, de toute son âme et de toute sa force, selon toute la loi de Moïse; et après lui, il n'en a point paru de semblable.
26 But Yahweh had become extremely angry with the people of Judah because of all the things that [King] Manasseh had done to infuriate him, and he continued to be very angry.
Toutefois Yahweh ne revint pas de l'ardeur de sa grande colère, parce sa colère était enflammée contre Juda, à cause des provocations par lesquelles Manassé l'avait irrité.
27 He said, “I will do to Judah what I have done to Israel. I will banish the people of Judah, with the result that they will never enter my presence again. And I will reject Jerusalem, the city that I chose [to belong to me], and I will abandon the temple, the place where I said that I [MTY] should be worshiped.”
Et Yahweh dit: « J'ôterai aussi Juda de devant ma face, comme j'ai ôté Israël; et je rejetterai cette ville de Jérusalem que j'avais choisie, et cette maison de laquelle j'avais dit: Là sera mon nom. »
28 [If you want to know more about] [RHQ] all the other things that Josiah did, they are written in the scroll called ‘The History of the Kings of Judah’.
Le reste des actes de Josias, et tout ce qu'il a fait, cela n'est-t-il pas écrit dans le livre des Chroniques des rois de Juda?
29 While Josiah was the king of Judah, King Neco of Egypt led his army north to the Euphrates River to help the king of Assyria. King Josiah tried to stop the army of Egypt at Megiddo [city], but Josiah was killed in a battle there.
De son temps, Pharaon-Néchao, roi d'Egypte, monta contre le roi d'Assyrie, vers le fleuve de l'Euphrate. Le roi Josias marcha à sa rencontre, et Pharaon le tua à Mageddo, dès qu'il le vit.
30 His officials placed his corpse in a chariot and took it back to Jerusalem, where it was buried in his own tomb, a tomb where the other previous kings had not been buried. Then the people of Judah poured [olive] oil on [the head of] Josiah’s son Joahaz, to appoint him to be the new king.
Ses serviteurs le transportèrent mort de Mageddo sur un char et, l'ayant amené à Jérusalem, ils l'enterrèrent dans son sépulcre. Et le peuple du pays prit Joachaz fils de Josias; ils l'oignirent et le firent roi à la place de son père.
31 Joahaz was 23 years old when he became the king [of Judah], but he ruled from Jerusalem for [only] three months. His mother was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah from Libnah [city].
Joachaz avait vingt-trois ans lorsqu'il devint roi, et il régna trois mois à Jérusalem. Sa mère s'appelait Amital, fille de Jérémie, de Lobna.
32 Joahaz did many things that Yahweh said were evil, just like many of his ancestors had done.
Il fit ce qui est mal aux yeux de Yahweh, selon tout ce qu'avaient fait ses pères.
33 King Neco’s [army came from Egypt and captured him and] tied him up with chains and took him as a prisoner to Riblah [town] in Hamath [district], to prevent him from continuing to rule in Jerusalem. Neco forced the people of Judah to pay to him (7,500 pounds/3,400 kg.) of silver and (75 pounds/34 kg.) of gold.
Pharaon-Néchao l'enchaîna à Rébla, dans le pays d'Emath, pour qu'il ne régnât plus à Jérusalem, et il mit sur le pays une imposition de cent talents d'argent et d'un talent d'or.
34 King Neco appointed another son of Josiah, Eliakim, to be the new king, and he changed Eliakim’s name to Jehoiakim. Then he took Joahaz to Egypt, and later Joahaz died there in Egypt.
Pharaon-Néchao établit roi Éliacim, fils de Josias, à la place de Josias son père, et il changea son nom en celui de Joakim. Joachaz, dont il s'était emparé, alla en Egypte et y mourut.
35 King Jehoiakim collected a tax from the people [of Judah]. He collected more from the rich people and less from the poor people. He collected silver and gold from them, in order to pay to the king of Egypt what he commanded them to give.
Joakim donna à Pharaon l'argent et l'or, mais il taxa le pays pour fournir la somme exigée par Pharaon: chacun selon ce qui lui était fixé, leva sur le peuple du pays l'argent et l'or, pour le donner à Pharaon-Néchao.
36 Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became the king [of Judah], and he ruled from Jerusalem for eleven years. His mother was Zebidah, the daughter of Pedaiah from Rumah [town].
Joakim avait vingt-cinq ans lorsqu'il devint roi, et il régna onze ans à Jérusalem. Sa mère s'appelait Zébida, fille de Phadaïas, de Ruma.
37 He did many things that Yahweh says are evil, like his ancestors had done.
Il fit ce qui est mal aux yeux de Yahweh, selon tout ce qu'avaient fait ses pères.
