2 Chroniques 28
1 Achaz était âgé de 20 ans lorsqu’il commença de régner; et il régna 16 ans à Jérusalem. Et il ne fit pas ce qui est droit aux yeux de l’Éternel, comme [avait fait] David, son père;
Ahaz was 20 years old when he became the king [of Judah]. He ruled from Jerusalem for 16 years. His ancestor King David was a good king, but Ahaz was not like David. He constantly disobeyed Yahweh
2 mais il marcha dans les voies des rois d’Israël, et même il fit des images de fonte pour les Baals;
and was as sinful as the kings of Israel had been. He made idols of the god Baal.
3 et il fit fumer [de l’encens] dans la vallée du fils de Hinnom, et brûla ses fils par le feu, selon les abominations des nations que l’Éternel avait dépossédées devant les fils d’Israël.
He burned incense in Hinnom Valley. He even [killed some of] his own sons [and] offered [them] as sacrifices to be completely burned. That imitated the disgusting customs of the people-groups who previously lived there, people whom Yahweh had expelled as the Israelis advanced through the land.
4 Et il sacrifiait et faisait fumer de l’encens sur les hauts lieux, et sur les collines, et sous tout arbre vert.
Ahaz offered sacrifices [to idols] at shrines on hilltops and under every big green tree.
5 Et l’Éternel, son Dieu, le livra en la main du roi de Syrie; et [les Syriens] le frappèrent, et lui prirent un grand nombre de captifs, et les amenèrent à Damas. Et il fut aussi livré en la main du roi d’Israël, qui lui infligea une grande défaite.
Therefore Yahweh his God allowed his army to be defeated by the army of the king of Syria. They captured many soldiers of Judah and took them as prisoners to Damascus. The army of the king of Israel also defeated the army of Judah and killed very many of their soldiers.
6 Et Pékakh, fils de Remalia, tua en un seul jour 120 000 [hommes] de Juda, tous hommes vaillants; car ils avaient abandonné l’Éternel, le Dieu de leurs pères.
In one day the army of Remaliah’s son, King Pekah [of Israel], killed 120,000 soldiers in Judah. That happened because [the people of] Judah had abandoned Yahweh, the God whom their ancestors [worshiped].
7 Et Zicri, un homme fort d’Éphraïm, tua Maascéïa, fils du roi, et Azrikam, prince de la maison [du roi], et Elkana, le second après le roi.
Zicri, a warrior from the tribe of Ephraim, killed king Ahaz’s son Maaseiah, Azrikam the officer in charge of the palace, and Elkanah, the king’s assistant.
8 Et les fils d’Israël emmenèrent d’entre leurs frères 200 000 captifs, femmes, fils, et filles; ils leur enlevèrent aussi un grand butin, et amenèrent le butin à Samarie.
The soldiers of Israel captured 200,000 of the people of Judah, including many wives and sons and daughters [of the soldiers of Judah]. They also seized and took back to Samaria many valuable things.
9 Et il y avait là un prophète de l’Éternel, nommé Oded, et il sortit au-devant de l’armée qui revenait à Samarie, et leur dit: Voici, dans son courroux contre [ceux de] Juda, l’Éternel, le Dieu de vos pères, les a livrés entre vos mains, et vous les avez tués avec une rage qui est parvenue jusqu’aux cieux.
But a prophet of Yahweh whose name was Obed was there [in Samaria]. He went out of the city to meet the army when it returned to Samaria. He said to them, “Because Yahweh, the God whom your ancestors [belonged to], was angry with [the people of] Judah, he allowed you to defeat them. But God has seen the cruel way that you slaughtered them.
10 Et maintenant, vous pensez vous assujettir comme serviteurs et servantes les fils de Juda et de Jérusalem! N’avez-vous pas avec vous, ne concernant que vous, des péchés contre l’Éternel, votre Dieu?
And now you want to [sin by] causing men and women from Judah to become your slaves, but you have certainly also sinned against Yahweh our God!
11 Et maintenant, écoutez-moi: renvoyez les captifs que vous avez emmenés captifs d’entre vos frères; car l’ardeur de la colère de l’Éternel est sur vous.
So listen to me! Send back [to Judah] your fellow-countrymen whom you have captured, because Yahweh is extremely angry with you [for what you did to them].”
12 Et des hommes d’entre les chefs des fils d’Éphraïm, Azaria, fils de Jokhanan, Bérékia, fils de Meshillémoth, et Ézéchias, fils de Shallum, et Amasça, fils de Hadlaï, se levèrent contre ceux qui venaient de l’armée,
Then some of the leaders of [the tribe of] Ephraim—Azariah the son of Jehohanan, Berekiah the son of Meshillemoth, Jehizkiah the son of Shallum, and Amasa the son of Hadlai—rebuked those who were returning from the battle.
13 et leur dirent: Vous ne ferez point entrer ici les captifs, car, pour notre culpabilité devant l’Éternel, vous pensez ajouter à nos péchés et à notre crime; car notre crime est grand, et l’ardeur de la colère est sur Israël.
They said to them, “You must not bring those prisoners here! If you do that, Yahweh will consider that we are guilty of sinning. We are already guilty of committing many sins; do you want to cause us to be even more guilty by committing another sin? God is already very angry with [us people of] Israel!”
14 Et les gens armés abandonnèrent les captifs et le butin devant les chefs et devant toute la congrégation.
So, while their leaders and others were watching, the soldiers released the prisoners, and also gave back to them the valuable things that they had captured.
15 Et les hommes qui ont été nommés par [leurs] noms se levèrent et prirent les captifs, et vêtirent du butin tous ceux d’entre eux qui étaient nus; et ils les vêtirent et les chaussèrent, et leur donnèrent à manger et à boire, et les oignirent; et ils conduisirent sur des ânes tous ceux qui étaient faibles, et les amenèrent à Jéricho, la ville des palmiers, auprès de leurs frères; et ils s’en retournèrent à Samarie.
The leaders who were selected took some of the clothes that the soldiers had taken from the prisoners and gave those clothes back to the people who were naked. They also gave to the prisoners sandals and other clothes and things to eat and drink, and they gave them olive oil to rub on their wounds. They gave donkeys to those who were very weak, in order that they could ride on them. Then they led them all to Jericho, the city that had many palm trees. Then those leaders [of Israel] returned to Samaria.
16 En ce temps-là, le roi Achaz envoya vers les rois d’Assyrie pour qu’ils l’aident.
About that time, King Ahaz sent [a message] to the king of Assyria requesting help.
17 Et les Édomites vinrent de nouveau, et frappèrent Juda, et emmenèrent des captifs.
[He did that because the army from] the Edom people-group had come again and attacked Judah and taken away many of the people of Judah as prisoners.
18 Et les Philistins se jetèrent sur les villes du pays plat et du midi de Juda, et prirent Beth-Shémesh, et Ajalon, et Guedéroth, et Soco et les villages de son ressort, et Thimna et les villages de son ressort, et Guimzo et les villages de son ressort; et ils y habitèrent.
At the same time, men from Philistia had raided/attacked towns in the foothills and in the southern desert of Judah. They had captured Beth-Shemesh, Aijalon, and Gederoth [cities], as well as Soco, Timnah and Gimzo [towns] and the nearby villages.
19 Car l’Éternel abaissa Juda, à cause d’Achaz, roi d’Israël, car il avait rejeté tout frein en Juda, et avait beaucoup péché contre l’Éternel.
Yahweh [allowed those things to happen in order to] humble king Ahaz, because he had encouraged the people of Judah to do wicked things and had disobeyed Yahweh very much.
20 Et Tilgath-Pilnéser, roi d’Assyrie, vint contre lui, et le traita en ennemi, et ne le fortifia pas.
Tiglath-Pileser, the king of Assyria, sent [his army saying that they would] help Ahaz, but instead of helping him, they caused him to experience trouble.
21 Car Achaz dépouilla la maison de l’Éternel et la maison du roi et des chefs, et donna [les dépouilles] au roi d’Assyrie, mais il ne lui fut d’aucune aide.
Ahaz’s [soldiers] took some of the [valuable] things from the temple and from the king’s palace and from other leaders of Judah and sent them to the king of Assyria [to pay him to help them], but the king of Assyria refused to help Ahaz.
22 Et au temps de sa détresse, il ajouta aussi à son péché contre l’Éternel, lui, le roi Achaz;
While King Ahaz was experiencing those troubles, he disobeyed Yahweh even more.
23 et il sacrifia aux dieux de Damas qui l’avaient frappé, et il dit: Puisque les dieux des rois de Syrie leur sont en aide, je leur sacrifierai, et ils me seront en aide. Et ils furent sa ruine et celle de tout Israël.
He offered sacrifices to the gods that were worshiped in Damascus, whose [army] had defeated his [army]. He thought, “The gods that are worshiped by the kings of Syria have helped them, so I will offer sacrifices to those gods in order that they will help me.” But worshiping those gods caused Ahaz and all of Israel to be ruined.
24 Et Achaz rassembla les ustensiles de la maison de Dieu, et mit en pièces les ustensiles de la maison de Dieu; et il ferma les portes de la maison de l’Éternel, et se fit des autels dans tous les coins de Jérusalem.
Ahaz gathered all the furnishings [that were used] in the temple and broke them into pieces. He locked the doors of the temple and set up altars [for worshiping idols] at every street corner in Jerusalem.
25 Et dans chacune des villes de Juda il fit des hauts lieux pour brûler de l’encens à d’autres dieux; et il provoqua à colère l’Éternel, le Dieu de ses pères.
In every town in Judah, his workers built shrines to burn sacrifices to other gods, and that caused Yahweh, the God whom their ancestors [worshiped], to be very angry.
26 Et le reste de ses actes, et toutes ses voies, les premières et les dernières, voici, ils sont écrits dans le livre des rois de Juda et d’Israël.
A record of the other things that Ahaz did while he was the king, from when he started to rule until he died, is written in the scroll called ‘The History of the Kings of Judah and Israel’.
27 Et Achaz s’endormit avec ses pères, et on l’enterra dans la ville, à Jérusalem; mais on ne le mit pas dans les sépulcres des rois d’Israël. Et Ézéchias, son fils, régna à sa place.
Ahaz died and was buried in Jerusalem, but he was not buried in the tombs where the other kings [had been buried]. Then his son Hezekiah became the king.
