2 Chroniques 33

1 Manassé avait douze ans lorsqu’il devint roi, et il régna cinquante-cinq ans à Jérusalem.

Manasseh was twelve years old when he had begun to reign, and he reigned for fifty-five years in Jerusalem.

2 Il fit ce qui est mal aux yeux de Yahweh, imitant les abominations des nations que Yahweh avait chassées devant les enfants d’Israël.

But he did evil before the Lord, in accord with all the abominations of the nations which the Lord overturned before the sons of Israel.

3 Il rebâtit les hauts lieux qu’Ezéchias, son père, avait renversés; il éleva des autels aux Baals, il fit des aschérahs, et il se prosterna devant toute l’armée du ciel et la servit.

And turning away, he repaired the high places, which had been demolished by his father, Hezekiah. And he constructed altars to the Baals, and made sacred groves. And he adored the entire army of heaven, and he served them.

4 Il bâtit des autels dans la maison de Yahweh, de laquelle Yahweh avait dit: « C’est dans Jérusalem que sera mon nom à perpétuité. »

Also, he built altars in the house of the Lord, about which the Lord had said, “My name shall be in Jerusalem forever.”

5 Il bâtit des autels à toute l’armée du ciel dans les deux parvis de la maison de Yahweh.

But he built these for the entire army of heaven, in the two courts of the house of the Lord.

6 Il fit passer ses fils par le feu dans la vallée de Ben-Ennom; il pratiquait les augures, la divination et la magie; il institua des nécromanciens et des sorciers.

And he caused his sons to pass through fire in the Valley of the son of Hinnom. He observed dreams, followed divinations, served the occult arts, had with him magicians and enchanters, and worked many evils before the Lord, so that he provoked him.

7 Il mit l’image de l’idole qu’il avait faite dans la maison de Dieu, dont Dieu avait dit à David et à Salomon, son fils: « C’est dans cette maison et c’est dans Jérusalem, que j’ai choisie parmi toutes les tribus d’Israël, que je veux placer mon nom à perpétuité.

Also, he set up a graven image and molten statue in the house of God, about which God said to David, and to his son Solomon: “In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel, I will place my name forever.

8 Je ne ferai plus sortir le pied d’Israël de dessus la terre que j’ai destinée à vos pères, pourvu seulement qu’ils aient soin de mettre en pratique tout ce que je leur ai commandé, selon toute la loi, les préceptes et les ordonnances prescrites par l’organe de Moïse. »

And I will not cause the foot of Israel to be moved from the land which I delivered to their fathers. Yet this is so, only if they will take care to do what I have instructed them, by the hand of Moses, with the entire law and the ceremonies and the judgments.”

9 Manassé égara Juda et les habitants de Jérusalem, au point qu’ils firent plus de mal que les nations que Yahweh avait détruites devant les enfants d’Israël.

And so Manasseh seduced Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that they did evil, more so than all the nations which the Lord had overturned before the face of the sons of Israel.

10 Yahweh parla à Manassé et à son peuple, mais il n’y firent pas attention.

And the Lord spoke to him and to his people, but they were not willing to pay attention.

11 Alors Yahweh fit venir contre eux les chefs de l’armée du roi d’Assyrie; ils prirent Manassé avec des anneaux et, l’ayant lié d’une double chaîne d’airain, ils le menèrent à Babylone.

Therefore, he led over them the leaders of the army of the king of the Assyrians. And they captured Manasseh, and they led him, bound with chains and fetters, to Babylon.

12 Lorsqu’il fut dans l’angoisse, il implora Yahweh, son Dieu, et il s’humilia profondément devant le Dieu de ses pères.

And after this, being in great anguish, he prayed to the Lord his God. And he did penance greatly before the God of his fathers.

13 Il le pria, et Yahweh, se laissant fléchir, écouta sa supplication et le ramena à Jérusalem dans sa royauté. Et Manassé reconnut que Yahweh est Dieu.

And he petitioned and begged him intently. And he heeded his prayer, and led him back to Jerusalem, into his kingdom. And Manasseh realized that the Lord himself was God.

14 Après cela, il bâtit un mur extérieur à la cité de David, à l’occident, vers Gihon dans la vallée, jusqu’à l’entrée de la porte des poissons, de manière à entourer Ophel, et il l’éleva à une grande hauteur. Il mit aussi des chefs militaires dans toutes les villes fortes, en Juda.

After these things, he built a wall outside the City of David, to the west of Gihon, at the steep valley, from the entrance to the fish gate, circling around as far as Ophel. And he raised it up greatly. And he appointed leaders of the army in all the fortified cities of Judah.

15 Il fit disparaître de la maison de Yahweh les dieux étrangers et l’idole, ainsi que tous les autels qu’il avait bâtis sur la montagne de la maison de Yahweh et à Jérusalem, et il les jeta hors de la ville.

And he took away the foreign gods, and the idol from the house of the Lord, and also the altars which he had made on the mount of the house of the Lord and in Jerusalem. And he cast all these things outside the city.

16 Il rebâtit l’autel de Yahweh et y offrit des sacrifices de paix et d’actions de grâces, et il dit à Juda de servir Yahweh, le Dieu d’Israël.

Then he repaired the altar of the Lord, and he immolated upon it victims, and peace offerings, with praise. And he instructed Judah to serve the Lord, the God of Israel.

17 Le peuple sacrifiait bien encore sur les hauts lieux, mais seulement à Yahweh, son Dieu.

Yet still the people were immolating on the high places, to the Lord their God.

18 Le reste des actes de Manassé, sa prière à son Dieu, et les paroles des voyants qui lui parlèrent au nom de Yahweh, le Dieu d’Israël, voici que cela se trouve dans les actes des rois d’Israël.

But the rest of the deeds of Manasseh, and his prayer to his God, and also the words of the seers who were speaking to him in the name of the Lord, the God of Israel, are contained in the words of the kings of Israel.

19 Sa prière et la manière dont il fut exaucé, ses péchés et ses infidélités; les places où il bâtit les hauts lieux et dressa des aschérahs et des images avant de s’être humilié, voici que cela est écrit dans les Paroles de Hozaï.

Also, his prayer and its heeding, and all his sins and contempt, and the sites on which he built high places and made sacred groves and statues, before he repented, have been written in the words of Hozai.

20 Manassé se coucha avec ses pères, et on l’enterra dans sa maison. Amon, son fils, régna à sa place.

Then Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house. And his son, Amon, reigned in his place.

21 Amon avait vingt-deux ans lorsqu’il devint roi, et il régna deux ans à Jérusalem.

Amon was twenty-two years old when he had begun to reign, and he reigned for two years in Jerusalem.

22 Il fit ce qui est mal aux yeux de Yahweh, comme avait fait Manassé, son père; Amon sacrifia à toutes les images qu’avait faites Manassé, son père, et il les servit;

And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, just as his father Manasseh had done. And he immolated to all the idols that Manasseh had fabricated, and he served them.

23 et il ne s’humilia pas devant Yahweh, comme s’était humilié Manassé, son père; car lui, Amon, multiplia le péché.

But he did not turn his face to the Lord, as his father Manasseh had turned himself. And he sinned much more grievously.

24 Ses serviteurs conspirèrent contre lui et le mirent à mort dans sa maison.

And when his servants had conspired against him, they killed him in his own house.

25 Mais le peuple du pays frappa tous ceux qui avaient conspiré contre le roi Amon, et le peuple du pays établit roi à sa place Josias, son fils.

But the rest of the multitude of the people, having slain those who had struck down Amon, appointed his son, Josiah, as king in his place.