2 Chroniques 25
1 Amatsia était âgé de 25 ans lorsqu’il commença de régner; et il régna 29 ans à Jérusalem; et le nom de sa mère était Jehoaddan, de Jérusalem.
Amaziah was 25 years old when he became the king [of Judah], and he ruled from Jerusalem for 29 years. His mother was Jehoaddin; she was from Jerusalem.
2 Et il fit ce qui est droit aux yeux de l’Éternel, non pas toutefois d’un cœur parfait.
Amaziah did many things that pleased Yahweh, but he did not do them enthusiastically.
3 Et il arriva que, quand la royauté fut affermie entre ses mains, il fit mourir ses serviteurs qui avaient frappé le roi son père.
As soon as he was in complete control of his kingdom, he caused to be executed the officials who had murdered his father.
4 Mais leurs fils, il ne les mit pas à mort, car [il fit] selon ce qui est écrit dans la loi, dans le livre de Moïse, où l’Éternel a commandé, disant: Les pères ne mourront pas pour les fils, et les fils ne mourront pas pour les pères; car chacun mourra pour son péché.
But he did not command their sons to be executed; he obeyed what was in the laws that Moses had written. In those laws Yahweh had commanded, “People must not be executed because of [what] their children [have done], and children must not be executed for [what] their parents [have done]. People must be executed only for the sins that they themselves have committed.”
5 Et Amatsia rassembla Juda, et il les rangea selon [leurs] maisons de pères, selon les chefs de milliers, et selon les chefs de centaines, pour tout Juda et Benjamin; et il fit le recensement de ceux qui étaient âgés de 20 ans et au-dessus: et il trouva 300 000 hommes d’élite, propres pour la guerre, portant la pique et le bouclier.
Amaziah summoned the men of [the tribes of] Judah and Benjamin to come to Jerusalem, and there he put them in groups, each clan in a group by themselves. Then he appointed officers to command each group. Some officers commanded 100 men and some commanded 1,000 men. They counted the men who were at least 20 years old; altogether there were 300,000 men. They were all men who were prepared to be in the army, and able to [fight well, ] using spears and shields.
6 Et il prit à sa solde, d’Israël, 100 000 hommes forts et vaillants, pour 100 talents d’argent.
Amaziah also hired 100,000 capable soldiers from Israel and paid almost four tons of silver for them.
7 Et un homme de Dieu vint à lui, disant: Ô roi! que l’armée d’Israël ne marche pas avec toi; car l’Éternel n’est pas avec Israël, avec tous les fils d’Éphraïm.
But a prophet came to him and said, “Your majesty, you must not allow those soldiers from Israel to march with your soldiers, because Yahweh does not help the people of the tribe of Ephraim or from [anywhere else in] Israel.
8 Que si tu vas, fais-le, fortifie-toi pour la bataille; Dieu te fera tomber devant l’ennemi; car c’est en Dieu qu’est le pouvoir pour aider et pour faire tomber.
Even if your soldiers go and fight courageously in battles, God will cause your enemies to defeat you; do not forget that God has the power to help armies or to cause them to be defeated.”
9 Et Amatsia dit à l’homme de Dieu: Mais que faire quant aux 100 talents que j’ai donnés à la troupe d’Israël? Et l’homme de Dieu dit: Il appartient à l’Éternel de te donner beaucoup plus que cela.
Amaziah asked that prophet, “If I do that, what about the huge amount of silver that I paid to hire those soldiers from Israel?” The prophet replied, “Yahweh is able to pay you back more money than you paid [to hire those soldiers].”
10 Et Amatsia sépara la troupe qui lui était venue d’Éphraïm, afin qu’ils s’en aillent chez eux; et leur colère s’embrasa beaucoup contre Juda, et ils s’en retournèrent chez eux dans une ardente colère.
So Amaziah told those soldiers from Israel to return home. They left to go home, but they were very angry with the king of Judah [for not allowing them to stay and fight].
11 Et Amatsia se fortifia, et conduisit son peuple, et s’en alla à la vallée du Sel, et frappa 10 000 [hommes] des fils de Séhir.
Then Amaziah became brave, and he led his army to the Salt Valley. There they killed 10,000 men from the Edom people-group.
12 Et les fils de Juda emmenèrent captifs 10 000 hommes, vivants, et les menèrent sur le sommet d’un rocher, et les précipitèrent du sommet du rocher, et ils furent tous mis en pièces.
The army of Judah also captured 10,000 others, and took them to the top of a cliff and threw them all down over the cliff, with the result that their corpses were all smashed to pieces.
13 Mais ceux de la troupe qu’Amatsia avait renvoyée, afin qu’elle n’aille pas à la guerre avec lui, tombèrent sur les villes de Juda, depuis Samarie jusqu’à Beth-Horon, et y frappèrent 3 000 [hommes] et enlevèrent un grand butin.
While that was happening, the soldiers from Israel whom Amaziah had sent home after not allowing them to fight along with his soldiers, raided cities and towns in Judea, from Samaria [city] to Beth-Horon [town]. They killed 3,000 people and took away a great amount of valuable things.
14 Et il arriva, après qu’Amatsia fut revenu de la défaite des Édomites, qu’il apporta les dieux des fils de Séhir, et se les établit pour dieux, et se prosterna devant eux et leur brûla de l’encens.
When Amaziah returned [to Jerusalem] after his army had slaughtered the soldiers from Edom, he brought the idols that were worshiped by the people of Edom. He set them up to be his own gods. Then he bowed down to [worship] them and offered sacrifices to them.
15 Et la colère de l’Éternel s’embrasa contre Amatsia, et il lui envoya un prophète, et il lui dit: Pourquoi recherches-tu les dieux d’un peuple qui n’ont pas délivré leur peuple de ta main?
Because of that, Yahweh was very angry with Amaziah. He sent a prophet to him, who said, “Why do you worship these foreign gods that were not even able to save their own people when your army attacked them?”
16 Et il arriva, comme il parlait au roi, que celui-ci lui dit: Est-ce qu’on t’a fait conseiller du roi? Désiste-toi. Pourquoi te frapperait-on? Et le prophète se désista, et dit: Je sais que Dieu a résolu de te perdre, parce que tu as fait cela, et que tu n’as pas écouté mon conseil.
While he was still speaking, the king said to him, “We certainly did not appoint you to be one of my advisors. So stop [talking]! If you say anything more, [I will tell my soldiers to] kill you!” So the prophet said, “I know that God has determined to get rid of you, because you have [begun to] worship idols, and have not heeded my advice.” Then the prophet said nothing more.
17 Et Amatsia, roi de Juda, prit conseil, et envoya vers Joas, fils de Joakhaz, fils de Jéhu, roi d’Israël, disant: Viens, voyons-nous face à face.
Some time later Amaziah, the king of Judah, consulted his advisors. Then he sent a message to Jehoash, the king of Israel. He wrote, “Come here and let’s talk together.”
18 Et Joas, roi d’Israël, envoya vers Amatsia, roi de Juda, disant: L’épine qui est au Liban a envoyé au cèdre qui est au Liban, disant: Donne ta fille pour femme à mon fils. Et une bête des champs qui est au Liban a passé, et a foulé l’épine.
But Jehoash replied to King Amaziah, “One time a thistle growing [in the mountains] in Lebanon sent a message to a cedar tree saying, ‘Let your daughter marry my son.’ But a wild animal in Lebanon came along and trampled the thistle under its feet.
19 Tu dis: Voici, tu as frappé Édom! et ton cœur s’est élevé pour que tu te glorifies. Maintenant, reste dans ta maison; pourquoi te mettrais-tu aux prises avec le malheur et tomberais-tu, toi, et Juda avec toi?
[The meaning of what I am saying is that] you are saying to yourself that your army has defeated the army of Edom, so you have become very proud. But you should stay at your home. It would not be good for you to cause trouble, which would result in you and your kingdom of Judah being destroyed.”
20 Et Amatsia n’écouta pas; car cela venait de la part de Dieu, afin de les livrer en la main [de leurs ennemis], parce qu’ils avaient recherché les dieux d’Édom.
But Amaziah refused to heed Jehoash’s message. That happened because God wanted Jehoash’s army to defeat them, because they were worshiping the gods of Edom.
21 Et Joas, roi d’Israël, monta; et ils se virent face à face, lui et Amatsia, roi de Juda, à Beth-Shémesh, qui est à Juda.
So Jehoash’s army attacked. Their two armies faced each other at Beth-Shemesh [city] in Judah.
22 Et Juda fut battu devant Israël; et ils s’enfuirent, chacun dans sa tente.
The army of Judah was badly defeated by the army of Israel, and all the soldiers of Judah fled to their homes.
23 Et Joas, roi d’Israël, prit Amatsia, roi de Juda, fils de Joas, fils de Joakhaz, à Beth-Shémesh, et l’amena à Jérusalem; et il abattit la muraille de Jérusalem depuis la porte d’Éphraïm jusqu’à la porte du coin, 400 coudées,
King Jehoash’s army also captured King Amaziah there. Then he brought Amaziah to Jerusalem, and his soldiers tore down the wall [that was around the city], from the Ephraim Gate to the Corner Gate. That was a section that was about 600 feet long.
24 et [prit] tout l’or et l’argent, et tous les ustensiles qui furent trouvés dans la maison de Dieu, sous la main d’Obed-Édom, et les trésors de la maison du roi, et des otages; et il s’en retourna à Samarie.
His soldiers also carried away the gold and silver and other valuable furnishings from the temple which the descendants of Obed-Edom had previously been guarding. They also took away the valuable things in the palace, and they took to Samaria some prisoners whom they had captured.
25 Et Amatsia, fils de Joas, roi de Juda, vécut 15 ans après la mort de Joas, fils de Joakhaz, roi d’Israël.
King Jehoash of Israel died, and King Amaziah of Judah lived for 15 years after that.
26 Et le reste des actes d’Amatsia, les premiers et les derniers, voici, cela n’est-il pas écrit dans le livre des rois de Juda et d’Israël?
An account of all the other things that Amaziah did while he was the king [of Judah] is written in the scroll called ‘The History of the Kings of Judah and Israel’.
27 Et, depuis le temps où Amatsia se fut détourné de l’Éternel, on fit une conspiration contre lui à Jérusalem, et il s’enfuit à Lakis; et on envoya après lui à Lakis, et là on le mit à mort.
From the time that Amaziah started to disobey Yahweh, some men in Jerusalem planned to kill him. He was able to escape to Lachish [city], but those who wanted to kill him sent another group of people to Lachish and killed him there.
28 Et on le transporta sur des chevaux, et on l’enterra auprès de ses pères dans la ville de Juda.
They put his corpse on a horse and brought it back to Jerusalem and buried it where his ancestors [had been buried] in the part of Jerusalem called ‘The City of David’.
