2 Chroniques 21
1 Josaphat se coucha avec ses pères, et il fut enterré avec ses pères dans la ville de David; Joram, son fils, régna à sa place.
Then Jehoshaphat died, and was buried where his ancestors were buried in [the part of Jerusalem called] ‘The City of David’. Then his son Jehoram became the king [of Judah].
2 Joram avait des frères, fils de Josaphat: Azarias, Jahiel, Zacharias, Azarias, Michaël et Saphatias; ils étaient tous fils de Josaphat, roi de Juda.
His [younger] brothers were Azariah, Jehiel, Zechariah, Azariah, Michael, and Shephatiah.
3 Leur père leur avait donné des présents considérables en or et en argent, et en objets de prix, avec des villes fortes en Juda; mais il laissa le royaume à Joram, parce qu’il était le premier-né.
Before Jehoshaphat died, he gave them gifts of silver and gold and other valuable things. He also appointed them to rule various cities in Judah that had walls around them. But he appointed Jehoram to be the king of Judah, because Jehoram was his oldest son.
4 Joram s’établit sur le royaume de son père et, lorsqu’il se fut affermi, il fit mourir par l’épée tous ses frères, et aussi quelques-uns des chefs d’Israël.
After Jehoram was completely in control of his father’s kingdom, he had all of his [younger] brothers executed, along with some of the leaders of the nation.
5 Joram avait trente-deux ans lorsqu’il devint roi, et il régna huit ans à Jérusalem.
Jehoram was 32 years old when he became the king, and he ruled in Jerusalem for eight years.
6 Il marcha dans la voie des rois d’Israël, comme avait fait la maison d’Achab, car il avait pour femme une fille d’Achab, et il fit ce qui est mal aux yeux de Yahweh.
But he did many of the [evil] things that the kings of Israel had done. He did many things that Yahweh considers to be evil, things that the family of Ahab had done, because he married one of Ahab’s daughters.
7 Mais Yahweh ne voulut pas détruire la maison de David, à cause de l’alliance qu’il avait contractée avec David, et parce qu’il lui avait dit qu’il lui donnerait toujours une lampe, à lui et à ses fils.
However, because of the agreement that Yahweh had made with King David, Yahweh did not want to get rid of the descendants of David. He had promised that David’s descendants would always be the ones who ruled Judah.
8 De son temps, Edom se révolta contre la domination de Juda et se donna un roi.
While Jehoram was ruling, the people of [the] Edom [region] rebelled against [the king of] Judah and appointed their own king.
9 Joram se mit en marche avec ses chefs et tous ses chars; s’étant levé de nuit, il battit les Edomites qui l’entouraient et les chefs des chars.
So Jehoram and his officers and his men in chariots went to Edom. There, the army of Edom surrounded them. Jehoram escaped during the night.
10 Edom s’affranchit de la domination de Juda, jusqu’à ce jour. Lobna s’affranchit aussi dans le même temps de sa domination, parce qu’il avait abandonné Yahweh, le Dieu de ses pères.
But the king of Judah was never able to regain control of Edom, and Edom is still not controlled by Judah. [The people in] Libnah [city between Judah and Philistia] also rebelled against Judah. Those things happened because Jehoram turned away from [obeying] Yahweh, the God whom his ancestors [belonged to].
11 Joram fit même des hauts lieux dans les montagnes de Juda; il poussa à la prostitution les habitants de Jérusalem, et il séduisit Juda.
On the hilltops in Judah he had also built shrines [to worship idols], and had caused the people of Judah to stray away from Yahweh by worshiping foreign gods.
12 Il lui vint un écrit de la part du prophète Elie, disant: « Ainsi dit Yahweh, le Dieu de David, ton père: Parce que tu n’as pas marché dans les voies de Josaphat, ton père, et dans les voies d’Asa, roi de Juda,
One day, Jehoram received a letter from the prophet Elijah. Elijah had written this in the letter: “This is what Yahweh, the God whom your ancestor [King] David [worshiped], says: 'You have not done things that please me like your father Jehoshaphat did or what King Asa did.
13 mais que tu as marché dans la voie des rois d’Israël; parce que tu as poussé à la prostitution Juda et les habitants de Jérusalem, comme la maison d’Achab poussait Israël à la prostitution, et parce que tu as fait mourir tes frères, meilleurs que toi, la maison même de ton père:
Instead, you have continually done the [evil things] that the kings of Israel have done. You have encouraged the people in Jerusalem and other places in Judah to stop worshiping Yahweh, like the descendants of Ahab did. You have also murdered your own brothers, who were more righteous men than you are.
14 voici que Yahweh frappera d’une grande plaie ton peuple, tes fils, tes femmes et tout ce qui t’appartient;
So now Yahweh is about to very severely punish the people in your kingdom and even your own children and your wives and everything that you own.
15 et toi, tu seras frappé de graves maladies, d’une maladie d’entrailles, telle que tes entrailles sortiront par la violence du mal, pendant de nombreux jours ».
And you yourself will have an intestinal disease that will continue to become worse, and you will suffer from it until you die.'”
16 Et Yahweh excita contre Joram l’esprit des Philistins et des Arabes voisins des Ethiopiens.
Then Yahweh caused some men from the Philistia people-group and some Arabs who lived near the coast [of the Mediterranean Sea], where people from Ethiopia had settled, to become angry with Jehoram.
17 Etant montés en Juda, ils s’y répandirent, pillèrent toutes les richesses qui se trouvaient dans la maison du roi, et emmenèrent aussi ses fils et ses femmes, de sorte qu’il ne lui resta plus d’autre fils que Joachaz, le plus jeune de ses fils.
Their army invaded Judah and took away [from Jerusalem] all the valuable things that they found in the king’s palace, and even his sons and wives. His youngest son, Ahaziah, was the only one of his sons whom they did not take away.
18 Après tout cela, Yahweh le frappa dans ses entrailles d’une maladie sans remède.
After that happened, Yahweh caused Jehoram to be afflicted with an intestinal disease that no one could cure.
19 Les jours s’écoulant, sur la fin de la seconde année, les entrailles de Joram sortirent par la violence de son mal. Il mourut dans de grandes souffrances, et son peuple ne brûla pas de parfums en son honneur, comme il en avait brûlé pour ses pères.
About two years later, while he was in great pain, he died because of that disease. The people of Judah had made bonfires to honor his ancestors when they died, but they did not make a bonfire for Jehoram.
20 Joram avait trente-deux ans lorsqu’il devint roi, et il régna huit ans à Jérusalem. Il s’en alla sans être regretté, et on l’enterra dans la ville de David, mais non dans les sépulcres des rois.
Jehoram was 32 years old when he became the king, and he ruled in Jerusalem for eight years. No one was sorry when he died. His corpse was buried in [the part of Jerusalem called] ‘The City of David’, but he was not buried where the other kings [of Judah] had been buried.
