2 Chroniques 14
1 Abia se coucha avec ses pères, et on l'enterra dans la ville de David. Asa, son fils, régna à sa place; de son temps, le pays se reposa pendant dix ans.
So Abijah went to rest with his fathers, and they put him into the earth in the town of David, and Asa his son became king in his place; in his time the land was quiet for ten years.
2 Asa fit ce qui est bien et droit aux yeux de Yahweh, son Dieu. Il fit disparaître les autels de l'étranger et les hauts lieux,
And Asa did what was good and right in the eyes of the Lord his God;
3 il brisa les stèles et coupa les aschérahs.
For he took away the altars of strange gods and the high places, and had the upright stones broken and the wood pillars cut down;
4 Il ordonna à Juda de rechercher Yahweh, le Dieu de ses pères, et d'accomplir la loi et le précepte.
And he made Judah go after the Lord, the God of their fathers, and keep his laws and his orders.
5 Il fit disparaître de toutes les villes de Juda les hauts lieux et les statues; et le royaume fut en repos devant lui.
And he took away the high places and the sun-images from all the towns of Judah; and the kingdom was quiet under his rule.
6 Il bâtit des villes fortes en Juda; car le pays était en repos, et il n'y eut pas de guerre contre lui pendant ces années là, parce que Yahweh lui donna du repos.
He made walled towns in Judah, for the land was quiet and there were no wars in those years, because the Lord had given him rest.
7 Il dit à Juda: " Bâtissons ces villes, entourons-les de murs, de tours, de portes et de serrures; le pays est encore ouvert devant nous; car nous avons recherché Yahweh, notre Dieu; nous l'avons recherché, et il nous a donné du repos de tous cotés. " Ils bâtirent donc et réussirent.
He said to Judah, Let us make these towns, building walls round them with towers and doors and locks. The land is still ours, because we have been true to the Lord our God; we have been true to him and he has given us rest on every side. So they went on building and all went well for them.
8 Asa avait une armée de trois cent mille hommes de Juda, portant le bouclier et la lance, et de deux cent quatre-vingt mille de Benjamin, portant le bouclier et tirant de l'arc, tous vaillants hommes.
And Asa had an army of three hundred thousand men of Judah armed with body-covers and spears, and two hundred and eighty thousand of Benjamin armed with body-covers and bows; all these were men of war.
9 Zara, l'éthiopien, sortit contre eux avec une armée d'un million d'hommes et trois cents chars, et il s'avança jusqu'à Marésa.
And Zerah the Ethiopian, with an army of a million, and three hundred war-carriages, came out against them to Mareshah.
10 Asa sortit contre lui, et ils se rangèrent en bataille dans la vallée de Séphata, près de Marésa.
And Asa went out against him, and they put their forces in position in the valley north of Mareshah.
11 Asa cria vers Yahweh, son Dieu, et dit: " Yahweh, vous pouvez secourir celui qui est faible aussi facilement que celui qui est fort; secourez-nous, Yahweh, notre Dieu! Car c'est sur vous que nous nous appuyons, et c'est en votre nom que nous sommes venus contre cette multitude. Yahweh, vous êtes notre Dieu: qu'un homme ne l'emporte pas contre vous! "
And Asa made prayer to the Lord his God and said, Lord, you only are able to give help against the strong to him who has no strength; come to our help, O Lord our God, for our hope is in you, and in your name we have come out against this great army. O Lord, you are our God; let not man's power be greater than yours.
12 Yahweh frappa les Ethiopiens devant Asa et devant Juda, et les Ethiopiens prirent la fuite.
So the Lord sent fear on the Ethiopians before Asa and Judah; and the Ethiopians went in flight.
13 Asa et le peuple qui était avec lui les poursuivirent jusqu'à Gérare, et il tomba un si grand nombre d'Ethiopiens, qu'il n'y eut plus pour eux espoir de rétablissement, car ils furent brisés devant Yahweh et devant son camp. Asa et son peuple firent un très grand butin;
And Asa and the people who were with him went after them as far as Gerar; and so great was the destruction among the Ethiopians that they were not able to get their army together again, for they were broken before the Lord and before his army; and they took away a great amount of their goods.
14 ils frappèrent toutes les villes autour de Gérare, car la terreur de Yahweh était sur elles; ils pillèrent toutes les villes, car il s'y trouvait un grand butin.
And they overcame all the towns round Gerar, because the Lord sent fear on them; and they took away their goods from the towns, for there were stores of wealth in them.
15 Ils frappèrent aussi les tentes des troupeaux, et ils capturèrent un grand nombre de brebis et des chameaux; et ils s'en revinrent à Jérusalem.
And they made an attack on the tents of the owners of the cattle, and took away great numbers of sheep and camels and went back to Jerusalem.
