2 Chroniques 12

1 Lorsque Roboam eut affermi son royaume et acquis de la force, il abandonna la loi de Yahweh, et tout Israël avec lui.

Now when Rehoboam's position as king had been made certain, and he was strong, he gave up the law of the Lord, and all Israel with him.

2 La cinquième année du règne de Roboam, Sésac, roi d’Égypte, monta contre Jérusalem, — parce qu’ils avaient péché contre Yahweh, —

Now in the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak, king of Egypt, came up against Jerusalem, because of their sin against the Lord,

3 avec mille deux cents chars et soixante mille cavaliers; et l’on ne pouvait compter le peuple qui vint d’Égypte avec lui: Libyens, Sukkiens et Éthiopiens.

With twelve hundred war-carriages and sixty thousand horsemen: and the people who came with him out of Egypt were more than might be numbered: Lubim and Sukkiim and Ethiopians.

4 Il prit les villes fortes qui appartenaient à Juda, et arriva jusqu’à Jérusalem.

And he took the walled towns of Judah, and came as far as Jerusalem.

5 Sémaïas le prophète vint auprès de Roboam et des chefs de Juda qui s’étaient réunis dans Jérusalem à l’approche de Sésac, et il leur dit: « Ainsi dit Yahweh: Vous m’avez abandonné; moi aussi, je vous abandonne entre les mains de Sésac. »

Now Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam and the chiefs of Judah, who had come together in Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said to them, The Lord has said, Because you have given me up, I have given you up into the hands of Shishak.

6 Les chefs d’Israël et le roi s’humilièrent et dirent: « Yahweh est juste! »

Then the chiefs of Israel and the king made themselves low and said, The Lord is upright.

7 Quand Yahweh vit qu’ils s’humiliaient, la parole de Yahweh fut adressée à Sémaïas en ces termes: « Ils se sont humiliés, je ne les détruirai point; dans un peu de temps je leur donnerai la délivrance, et ma colère ne se répandra pas sur Jérusalem par la main de Sésac.

And the Lord, seeing that they had made themselves low, said to Shemaiah, They have made themselves low: I will not send destruction on them, but in a short time I will give them salvation, and will not let loose my wrath on Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.

8 Mais ils lui seront assujettis, afin qu’ils sachent ce que c’est que me servir ou servir les royaumes des pays. »

But still they will become his servants, so that they may see how different my yoke is from the yoke of the kingdoms of the lands.

9 Sésac, roi d’Égypte, monta contre Jérusalem; il prit les trésors de la maison de Yahweh et les trésors de la maison du roi: il prit tout. Il prit les boucliers d’or que Salomon avait faits.

So Shishak, king of Egypt, came up against Jerusalem and took away all the stored wealth of the house of the Lord and the king's house: he took everything away, and with the rest the gold body-covers which Solomon had made.

10 À leur place, le roi Roboam fit des boucliers d’airain, et il les remit aux mains des chefs des coureurs qui gardaient l’entrée de la maison du roi.

And in their place King Rehoboam had other body-covers made of brass and gave them into the care of the captains of the armed men who were stationed at the door of the king's house.

11 Chaque fois que le roi allait à la maison de Yahweh, les coureurs venaient et les portaient; et ils les rapportaient ensuite dans la chambre des coureurs.

And whenever the king went into the house of the Lord, the armed men went with him taking the body-covers, and then took them back to their room.

12 Comme Roboam s’était humilié, la colère de Yahweh se détourna de lui, de sorte qu’il ne fut pas détruit entièrement; et il y eut encore des choses bonnes en Juda.

And when he made himself low, the wrath of the Lord was turned back from him, and complete destruction did not come on him, for there was still some good in Judah.

13 Le roi Roboam s’affermit dans Jérusalem et régna. Il avait quarante et un ans lorsqu’il devint roi, et il régna dix-sept ans à Jérusalem, ville que Yahweh avait choisie parmi toutes les tribus d’Israël pour y mettre son nom. Sa mère s’appelait Naama, l’Ammonite.

So King Rehoboam made himself strong in Jerusalem and was ruling there. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king, and he was ruling for seventeen years in Jerusalem, the town which the Lord had made his out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there; and his mother's name was Naamah, an Ammonite woman.

14 Il fit le mal, parce qu’il n’appliqua pas son cœur à chercher Yahweh.

And he did evil because his heart was not true to the Lord.

15 Les actes de Roboam, les premiers et les derniers, ne sont-ils pas écrits dans les Paroles de Séméïas le prophète et dans celles d’Addo le voyant concernant les généalogies? Il y eut toujours des guerres entre Roboam et Jéroboam.

Now the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, are they not recorded in the words of Shemaiah the prophet and Iddo the seer? And there were wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days.

16 Roboam se coucha avec ses pères, et il fut enterré dans la ville de David. Abia, son fils, régna à sa place.

And Rehoboam went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth in the town of David; and Abijah his son became king in his place.