2 Rois 25
1 La neuvième année de son règne, le dixième jour du mois, Nebucadnetsar, roi de Babylone, vint, lui et toute son armée, contre Jérusalem, et il campa devant elle; il construisit des forts tout autour.
On January 15 of the ninth year that Zedekiah had been ruling, King Nebuchadnezzar arrived with his whole army, and they surrounded Jerusalem. They built ramps [made of dirt against the walls of the city], so that they could climb up the ramps and attack the city.
2 La ville fut ainsi assiégée jusqu'à la onzième année du roi Sédécias.
They did that for two years.
3 Le neuvième jour du quatrième mois, la famine sévit dans la ville, de sorte qu'il n'y eut pas de pain pour le peuple du pays.
After Zedekiah had been ruling for eleven years, the (famine/shortage of food) had become very bad. All their food was gone.
4 Alors une brèche fut ouverte dans la ville, et tous les hommes de guerre s'enfuirent de nuit par le chemin de la porte entre les deux murs, qui était près du jardin du roi (les Chaldéens étaient maintenant contre la ville tout autour); et le roi s'en alla par le chemin de la plaine.
On July 18 of that year, the Babylonian soldiers broke through part of the city wall, [and that enabled them to enter the city]. All the soldiers of Judah [wanted to escape]. But the Babylonian soldiers surrounded the city, so the [king and] the soldiers of Judah waited until it was nighttime. Then they fled through the gate that was between the two walls near the king’s park. They ran across the fields and started to go down to the Jordan [River] Valley.
5 Mais l'armée chaldéenne poursuivit le roi et l'atteignit dans les plaines de Jéricho, et toute son armée fut dispersée devant lui.
But the Babylonian soldiers chased/ran after them. They caught the king when he was by himself in the valley near the Jordan River. He was by himself because all his soldiers had abandoned him.
6 Puis ils capturèrent le roi et le firent monter vers le roi de Babylone, à Ribla, et ils le jugèrent.
The Babylonian soldiers took King Zedekiah to Riblah [city] in Babylon. There the king of Babylon decided what they would do to punish him.
7 Ils tuèrent sous ses yeux les fils de Sédécias, puis ils crevèrent les yeux de Sédécias, le lièrent de chaînes et le transportèrent à Babylone.
There the king of Babylon forced Zedekiah to watch as the Babylonian soldiers killed all of Zedekiah’s sons. Then they gouged out Zedekiah’s eyes. They put bronze chains on [his hands and feet] and then they took him to Babylon.
8 Au cinquième mois, le septième jour du mois, qui était la dix-neuvième année du roi Nebucadnetsar, roi de Babylone, Nebuzaradan, chef des gardes, serviteur du roi de Babylone, vint à Jérusalem.
On August 14 of that year, after Nebuchadnezzar had been ruling for 19 years, Nebuzaradan arrived in Jerusalem. He was one of king Nebuchadnezzar’s officials and captain of the men that guarded the king.
9 Il brûla la maison de Yahvé, la maison du roi et toutes les maisons de Jérusalem. Il brûla au feu toutes les grandes maisons.
He [commanded his soldiers to] burn down the temple of Yahweh, the king’s palace, and all the houses in Jerusalem. So they burned down all the important buildings in the city.
10 Toute l'armée des Chaldéens, qui était avec le chef des gardes, abattit les murs d'enceinte de Jérusalem.
Then Nebuzaradan supervised all the soldiers of the Babylonian army as they tore down the walls of Jerusalem.
11 Nebuzaradan, chef des gardes, emmena en captivité le reste du peuple qui était resté dans la ville et ceux qui s'étaient rendus au roi de Babylone - tout le reste de la multitude.
Then he and his soldiers took to Babylon the people who were still living in the city, the other people [who lived in that area], and the soldiers who had previously surrendered to the Babylonian army.
12 Mais le chef des gardes laissa quelques-uns des plus pauvres du pays pour travailler les vignes et les champs.
But Nebuzaradan allowed some of the very poor people to stay in Judah to take care of the vineyards and [to plant crops in] the fields.
13 Les Chaldéens brisèrent les colonnes d'airain qui étaient dans la maison de l'Éternel, les socles et la mer d'airain qui étaient dans la maison de l'Éternel, et ils emportèrent les morceaux d'airain à Babylone.
The Babylonian soldiers broke into pieces the bronze pillars, the bronze carts with wheels, and the huge bronze basin, all of which were in the temple courtyard, and they took all the bronze to Babylon.
14 Ils emportèrent les marmites, les pelles, les éteignoirs, les cuillères et tous les ustensiles d'airain avec lesquels on faisait le service.
They also took the pots, the shovels, the instruments for (snuffing out/extinguishing) [the wicks of] the lamps, the dishes, and all the other bronze items that the Israeli priests had used for offering sacrifices at the temple.
15 Le chef des gardes emporta les poêles à feu, les bassins, ce qui était d'or, pour l'or, et ce qui était d'argent, pour l'argent.
The soldiers also took away the (firepans/trays for carrying burning coals), the basins, and [all the other] items made of pure gold or pure silver.
16 Les deux colonnes, la mer unique et les bases, que Salomon avait faites pour la maison de Yahvé, le bronze de tous ces ustensiles ne fut pas pesé.
The bronze from the two pillars, the carts with wheels, and the huge basin were very heavy; they could not be weighed. (Those things had been made/A man named Hiram had made these things) for the temple when Solomon [was the king of Israel].
17 La hauteur de l'une des colonnes était de dix-huit coudées, et il y avait sur elle un chapiteau d'airain. La hauteur du chapiteau était de trois coudées, avec un réseau et des grenades sur le chapiteau tout autour, le tout en bronze; et le second pilier avec son réseau était semblable à ceux-ci.
Each of the pillars was (27 feet/8 meters) tall. The bronze capital/top of each pillar was (7-1/2 feet/2.3 meters) high. They were each decorated all around with something that looked like a net made of bronze chains connecting bronze pomegranates.
18 Le chef des gardes prit Seraja, le souverain sacrificateur, Sophonie, le second sacrificateur, et les trois gardiens du seuil;
Nebuzaradan took with him to Babylon Seraiah the Supreme Priest, Zephaniah his assistant, and the three men who guarded the entrance [to the temple].
19 et il prit dans la ville un officier préposé aux hommes de guerre, cinq hommes de ceux qui avaient vu le visage du roi et qui se trouvaient dans la ville, le scribe, le chef de l'armée qui rassemblait le peuple du pays, et soixante hommes du peuple du pays qui se trouvaient dans la ville.
And they found people who were still hiding in Jerusalem. From those people he took one officer from the Judean army, five of the king’s advisors, the chief secretary of the army commander who was in charge of recruiting men to join the army, and 60 other important Judean men.
20 Nebuzaradan, chef des gardes, les prit et les amena au roi de Babylone, à Ribla.
Nebuzaradan took them all to the king of Babylon at Riblah [city].
21 Le roi de Babylone les attaqua et les fit mourir à Ribla, dans le pays de Hamath. Et Juda fut emmené captif hors de son pays.
There at Riblah, in Hamath province, the king of Babylon commanded that they all be executed. That is what happened when the people of Judah were (taken forcefully/exiled) from their land [to Babylon].
22 Quant au peuple qui était resté dans le pays de Juda et que Nebucadnetsar, roi de Babylone, avait laissé, il établit comme gouverneur Guedalia, fils d'Ahikam, fils de Shaphan.
Then King Nebuchadnezzar appointed Gedaliah, who was the son of Ahikam and grandson of Shaphan, to be the governor of the people who were still living in Judah.
23 Lorsque tous les chefs des troupes, eux et leurs hommes, apprirent que le roi de Babylone avait établi Guedalia comme gouverneur, ils se rendirent auprès de Guedalia à Mitspa, Ismaël, fils de Nethania, Johanan, fils de Karéa, Seraia, fils de Tanhumeth, le Netophathien, et Jaazania, fils du Maacathien, eux et leurs hommes.
When all the army captains of Judah and their soldiers who had not surrendered to Nebuchadnezzar found out that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah to be the governor, they met with him at Mizpah [town]. These army captains were Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, Johanan the son of Kareah, Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth from Netophah [town], and Jaazaniah from the Maacah region.
24 Guedaliah leur jura, ainsi qu'à leurs hommes, et leur dit: « N'ayez pas peur à cause des serviteurs des Chaldéens. Demeurez dans le pays et servez le roi de Babylone, et tout ira bien pour vous. »
Gedaliah solemnly promised them [that the officials from Babylon were not planning to harm them]. He said, “You may live in this land [without being afraid] and serve the king of Babylon, and [if you do], everything will go well for you.”
25 Mais au septième mois, Ismaël, fils de Nethania, fils d'Elishama, de la race royale, vint, avec dix hommes, et frappa Guedalia, qui mourut, avec les Juifs et les Chaldéens qui étaient avec lui à Mitspa.
But in October of that year, Ishmael, whose grandfather Elishama was one of the relatives of the descendants of King David, went to Mizpah along with ten other men and assassinated/killed Gedaliah and all the men who were with him. There were also men from Judah and men from Babylon whom they assassinated.
26 Tout le peuple, petits et grands, et les chefs des troupes se levèrent et allèrent en Égypte, car ils avaient peur des Chaldéens.
Then many [HYP] of the people from Judah, important people and unimportant ones, and the army captains, were very afraid of [what] the Babylonians [would do to them], so they fled to Egypt.
27 La trente-septième année de la captivité de Jojakin, roi de Juda, le vingt-septième jour du douzième mois, Evilmérodac, roi de Babylone, l'année où il avait commencé à régner, fit sortir de prison Jojakin, roi de Juda,
Thirty-seven years after King Jehoiachin of Judah was taken to Babylon, [Nebuchadnezzar’s son] Evil-Merodach became the king of Babylon. He was kind to Jehoiachin, and on April 2 of that year, he released/freed Jehoiachin from prison.
28 lui parla avec bienveillance, plaça son trône au-dessus du trône des rois qui étaient avec lui à Babylone,
He always spoke kindly to Jehoiachin and honored him more than the other kings who had been taken/exiled to Babylon.
29 et changea ses vêtements de prison. Jehoïachin mangea du pain devant lui continuellement tous les jours de sa vie;
He gave Jehoiachin new clothes to replace the clothes that he had been wearing in prison, and he allowed Jehoiachin to eat at the king’s table every day for the rest of his life.
30 et pour sa pension, le roi lui donna continuellement une pension, chaque jour une portion, tous les jours de sa vie.
The king of Babylon also gave him money every day, so that he could buy the things that he needed. The king continued to do that until Jehoiachin died.
