Judges 2
1 Yahweh [appeared in the form of] an angel [and] went up from Gilgal to [a place that was later called] Bokim. He said [to the Israeli people], “I brought your [ancestors] up here from Egypt. I led them into this land that I solemnly promised to give to your ancestors. I said to them, ‘The agreement that I made with you, as for me, I will never (break it/say that it is ended).
Un envoyé du Seigneur s’en vint de Ghilgal à Bokhîm et dit de sa part: "Je vous avais fait monter d’Egypte et entrer dans le pays que j’avais promis par serment à vos pères, et j’avais dit: "Je ne romprai jamais mon alliance avec vous;
2 But as for you, you must never make a peace agreement with the people who live in this land. You must tear down the altars [where they make sacrifices to idols].’ But you have not obeyed me.
mais à votre tour ne transigez point avec les habitants de ce pays, détruisez leurs autels!" Et vous n’avez pas écouté ma voix. Qu’avez-vous fait là!
3 So now, I am telling you that I will not expel [your enemies] as you advance. They will be like thorns in your sides. And [they] will try to trap you [by making you worship] their idols.”
Aussi ai-je résolu de ne pas les chasser de devant vous; et ils s’attacheront à vos flancs, et leurs divinités seront pour vous un écueil."
4 After he told that to all the Israelis, the people cried loudly.
Quand l’envoyé du Seigneur eut ainsi parlé à tous les enfants d’Israël, le peuple éclata en pleurs;
5 They called that place Bokim, [which means ‘weeping’]. There they offered sacrifices to Yahweh.
on nomma cet endroit Bokhîm, et l’on y sacrifia à l’Eternel.
6 After Joshua sent the Israeli people away, each group went to possess the land that had been allotted to them.
Or, lorsque Josué eut congédié le peuple et que les enfants d’Israël, prenant possession du pays, s’installèrent chacun dans son héritage,
7 They served Yahweh as long as Joshua was alive, and as long as the elders, those who had seen all the great things that Yahweh had done for Israel, were alive.
le peuple servit l’Eternel pendant toute la vie de Josué, et tout le temps que vécurent, après lui, les vieillards témoins de toutes les grandes œuvres que Dieu avait accomplies pour Israël.
8 Then Yahweh’s servant Joshua died. He was 110 years old when he died.
Josué, fils de Noun, serviteur de l’Eternel, mourut à l’âge de cent dix ans.
9 They buried his body in the area he had received [from Moses], at Timnath-Serah, in the area where the descendants of Ephraim lived, north of Gaash Mountain.
On l’ensevelit dans le territoire de sa possession, à Timnat-Hérès, dans la montagne d’Ephraïm, au nord du mont Gaach.
10 After all the people died who lived at the same time as Joshua [EUP], a group of people grew up who did not know Yahweh, and did not know what great things he had done for the Israeli people.
Quand toute cette génération, à son tour, fut réunie à ses pères, une autre génération lui succéda, qui ne connaissait point l’Eternel, ni ce qu’il avait fait pour Israël.
11 They did things that Yahweh said were very evil. They worshiped [idols that represented the god] Baal and the goddess Astarte. They worshiped [DOU] the various gods that the people-groups around them worshiped. They stopped worshiping Yahweh, the God their ancestors worshiped, the one who had brought their ancestors out of Egypt. That caused Yahweh to be very angry.
Les enfants d’Israël firent ce qui déplaît à l’Eternel, ils adorèrent les Bealim.
Abandonnant l’Eternel, Dieu de leurs pères, qui les avait tirés du pays d’Egypte, ils s’attachèrent à d’autres dieux, choisis parmi ceux des peuples d’alentour, se prosternèrent devant eux et irritèrent l’Eternel.
Ils abandonnèrent ainsi l’Eternel, pour servir Baal et les Astarot.
14 So he allowed people from other groups to raid them and steal their crops and animals. They were no longer able to resist their enemies, and Yahweh allowed all their enemies around them to defeat them.
Alors la colère de l’Eternel s’alluma contre Israël, il les abandonna aux déprédations de peuples pillards, les livra aux ennemis qui les entouraient, et ils ne furent plus capables de leur tenir tête.
15 Whenever the Israelis went to fight [their enemies], Yahweh [MTY] was opposing them, and allowed their enemies to defeat them, just as he had promised he would do. So the Israelis were greatly distressed.
Dans toutes leurs expéditions, la main de l’Eternel intervenait à leur désavantage, comme il l’avait annoncé, comme il le leur avait juré; ils furent ainsi réduits à la plus grande détresse.
16 Then Yahweh gave leaders to them. These leaders rescued the Israelis from the people who were raiding them.
Alors Dieu suscita des juges, qui les délivrèrent de la main de leurs déprédateurs.
17 But the Israelis still would not pay attention to their leaders. Instead, they went to the idols, [acting like] prostitutes [who gave themselves to men who were not their husbands] [MET], and they worshiped those idols. They were not like their ancestors. Their ancestors obeyed what Yahweh commanded, but their descendants quickly stopped behaving as their ancestors had behaved.
Mais ils n’obéirent pas non plus à leurs juges: loin de là, ils se prostituèrent à des dieux étrangers et se prosternèrent devant eux; promptement infidèles à la voie qu’avaient suivie leurs pères, ils n’écoutèrent pas, comme eux, les commandements du Seigneur.
18 Whenever Yahweh gave a leader to them, he helped that leader and enabled him to rescue the people from their enemies. He helped them like that as long as that leader was alive. Yahweh pitied them as they groaned because they were being oppressed and caused to suffer.
Quand l’Eternel leur suscitait des juges, il assistait ceux-ci et délivrait les Israélites du pouvoir de leurs ennemis tant que vivait le juge; car l’Eternel se laissait fléchir par leurs gémissements que provoquaient leurs oppresseurs et leurs tyrans.
19 But after that leader died, the people went back to behaving in ways even more evil than their ancestors had behaved. They worshiped other gods and bowed down to them and did all [LIT] the things that they thought those gods wanted them to do.
Puis, le juge mort, ils recommençaient à agir plus mal encore que leur ancêtres en s’attachant à des dieux étrangers, en les servant et en se prosternant devant eux, en ne renonçant enfin ni à leurs méfaits, ni à leur conduite déréglée.
20 So Yahweh was very angry with the Israeli people. He said, “These people have disobeyed the agreement I made with their ancestors. They have not done what I told them to do.
Aussi l’Eternel s’irrita contre Israël et dit: "Puisque cette nation a transgressé le pacte que j’avais imposé à ses pères, puisqu’ils n’ont pas écouté ma voix,
21 So I will no longer expel the people-groups that Joshua left in this land when he died.
à mon tour, je ne veux plus déposséder, en leur faveur, aucun des peuples que Josué a laissé subsister lorsqu’il est mort.
22 I will use them to test the Israeli people to see whether they will do what I want them to do, as their ancestors did.”
Ils me serviront à éprouver les Israélites, à juger s’ils s’appliquent ou non à suivre les voies de l’Eternel comme l’on fait leurs ancêtres."
23 Yahweh had allowed those people-groups to stay in that land. He did not expel them by allowing Joshua [and his men] to defeat them.
L’Eternel s’abstint donc de hâter la dépossession de ces peuples, de même qu’il ne les avait point livrés au pouvoir de Josué.
