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 became king, and he was ruling 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.

He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, copying the disgusting ways of the nations whom the Lord had sent out of the land before the children 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.

For he put up again the high places which had been pulled down by his father Hezekiah; and he made altars for the Baals, and pillars of wood, and was a worshipper and servant of all the stars of heaven;

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. "

And he made altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, In Jerusalem will my name be for ever.

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

And he made altars for all the stars of heaven in the two outer squares 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.

More than this, he made his children go through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom; and he made use of secret arts, and signs for reading the future, and unnatural powers, and gave positions to those who had control of spirits and to wonder-workers: he did much evil in the eyes of the Lord, moving him to wrath.

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.

And he put the image he had made in the house of God, the house of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, the town which I have made mine out of all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:

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 never again will I let the feet of Israel be moved out of the land which I have given to their fathers; if only they will take care to do all my orders, even all the law and the orders and the rules given to them by Moses.

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 Manasseh made Judah and the people of Jerusalem go out of the true way, so that they did more evil than those nations whom the Lord gave up to destruction before the children of Israel.

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

And the word of the Lord came to Manasseh and his people, but they gave no 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.

So the Lord sent against them the captains of the army of Assyria, who made Manasseh a prisoner and took him away in chains 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 crying out to the Lord his God in his trouble, he made himself low 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 made prayer to him; and in answer to his prayer God let him come back to Jerusalem and to his kingdom. Then Manasseh was certain that the Lord 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 this he made an outer wall for the town of David, on the west side of Gihon in the valley, as far as the way into the town by the fish doorway; and he put a very high wall round the Ophel; and he put captains of the army in all the walled towns 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.

He took away the strange gods and the image out of the house of the Lord, and all the altars he had put up on the hill of the Lord's house and in Jerusalem, and put them out of the town.

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.

And he put the altar of the Lord in order, offering peace-offerings and praise-offerings on it, and said that all Judah were to be servants of the Lord, the God of Israel.

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

However, the people still made offerings in the high places, but only 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.

Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer to his God, and the words which the seers said to him in the name of the Lord, the God of Israel, are recorded among the acts 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.

And the prayer which he made to God, and how God gave him an answer, and all his sin and his wrongdoing, and the places where he made high places and put up pillars of wood and images, before he put away his pride, are recorded in the history of the seers.

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

So Manasseh went to rest with his fathers, and they put his body to rest in his house, and Amon his son became king 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 became king; and he was ruling 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;

He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as Manasseh his father had done; and Amon made offerings to all the images which his father Manasseh had made, and was their servant.

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

He did not make himself low before the Lord, as his father Manasseh had done, but went on sinning more and more.

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

And his servants made a secret design against him, and put him to death in his 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 people of the land put to death all those who had taken part in the design against King Amon, and made his son Josiah king in his place.