2 Chroniques 33
1 Manassé était âgé de douze ans lorsqu’il commença de régner; et il régna 55 ans à Jérusalem.
Manasseh was 12 years old when he became the king [of Judah], and he ruled from Jerusalem for 55 years.
2 Et il fit ce qui est mauvais aux yeux de l’Éternel, selon les abominations des nations que l’Éternel avait dépossédées devant les fils d’Israël.
He did many things that Yahweh considered to be evil. He imitated the disgusting things that were formerly done by the people-groups that Yahweh had expelled from Israel as his people advanced [though the land].
3 Et il rebâtit les hauts lieux, qu’Ézéchias, son père, avait démolis, et éleva des autels aux Baals, et fit des ashères, et il se prosterna devant toute l’armée des cieux, et les servit;
He commanded his workers to rebuild the shrines [for worshiping idols] that his father Hezekiah had destroyed. He told them to set up altars to [honor] the statues of Baal, and to make altars to [honor the goddess] Asherah. He bowed down to [worship] all the stars.
4 et il bâtit des autels dans la maison de l’Éternel, de laquelle l’Éternel avait dit: C’est dans Jérusalem que sera mon nom à toujours;
He directed his workers to build altars [for foreign gods] in the temple, about which Yahweh had said, “It is here in Jerusalem that I want people to worship me, forever.”
5 et il bâtit des autels à toute l’armée des cieux, dans les deux parvis de la maison de l’Éternel;
He directed that altars for [worshiping] all the stars be built in both of the courtyards outside the temple.
6 et il fit passer ses fils par le feu dans la vallée du fils de Hinnom; et il pronostiquait, et pratiquait les enchantements et la magie, et il établit des évocateurs d’esprits et des diseurs de bonne aventure: il fit outre mesure ce qui est mauvais aux yeux de l’Éternel, pour le provoquer à colère.
He even sacrificed [some of] his own sons and burned them in a fire in Hinnom Valley. He performed rituals to practice sorcery. He asked fortune-tellers for advice. He performed witchcraft. He talked to people who consulted the spirits of people who had died to find out what would happen in the future. He did many things that Yahweh considered o be very evil, things that caused Yahweh to become very angry.
7 Et il plaça une image taillée, l’idole qu’il avait faite, dans la maison de Dieu, de laquelle Dieu avait dit à David et à Salomon, son fils: C’est dans cette maison, et dans Jérusalem que j’ai choisie entre toutes les tribus d’Israël, que je mettrai mon nom à toujours;
Manasseh took a carved idol [that his workers had made] and put it in the temple. That is the temple concerning which God had said to David and to his son Solomon, “My temple will be here in Jerusalem, the city that I have chosen [where I want people to] worship me, forever.
8 et je n’ôterai plus le pied d’Israël de dessus la terre que j’ai assignée à vos pères, si seulement ils prennent garde à faire tout ce que je leur ai commandé par Moïse, selon toute la loi et les statuts et les ordonnances.
If they will obey all the laws and decrees and regulations that I told Moses to give to them, I will not again force the Israeli people to leave this land that I gave to their ancestors.”
9 Et Manassé fit errer Juda et les habitants de Jérusalem, [en les induisant] à faire le mal plus que les nations que l’Éternel avait détruites devant les fils d’Israël.
But Manasseh led the people of Jerusalem and other places in Judah to do things that are wrong, with the result that they did more evil than was done by the people in the people-groups that Yahweh had expelled as the Israeli people advanced [through the land].
10 Et l’Éternel parla à Manassé, et à son peuple; mais ils n’y firent pas attention.
Yahweh spoke to Manasseh and the people of Judah, but they paid no attention.
11 Et l’Éternel fit venir contre eux les chefs de l’armée du roi d’Assyrie, et ils prirent Manassé dans des ceps, et le lièrent avec des chaînes d’airain et l’emmenèrent à Babylone.
So Yahweh caused the army commanders of Assyria [and their soldiers] to [come to Jerusalem, and they] captured Manasseh. They put a hook in his nose and put bronze chains on his [feet] and took him to Babylon.
12 Et quand il fut dans la détresse, il implora l’Éternel, son Dieu, et s’humilia beaucoup devant le Dieu de ses pères,
There, while he was suffering, he humbled himself greatly in the presence of Yahweh, the God whom his ancestors [worshiped], and pleaded with Yahweh to help him.
13 et le pria; et il se laissa fléchir par lui, et écouta sa supplication, et le ramena à Jérusalem dans son royaume; et Manassé reconnut que c’est l’Éternel qui est Dieu.
When he prayed, Yahweh heard him and pitied him. So he [allowed him to] return to Jerusalem and [to] rule his kingdom again. Then Manasseh realized that Yahweh is [an all-powerful] God.
14 Et après cela, il bâtit la muraille extérieure de la ville de David, au couchant, vers Guihon, dans la vallée, et vers l’entrée de la porte des poissons, et il entoura Ophel [d’un mur], et l’éleva très haut; et il mit des chefs de l’armée dans toutes les villes fortes de Juda.
Later, Manasseh’s [workers] rebuilt the eastern section of the outer wall around Jerusalem, and [they] made it higher. That section extended from Gihon Spring [north] to the Fish Gate, and around the part of the city that they called Ophel [Hill]. Manasseh also appointed army officers to guard each of the cities in Judah that had walls around them.
15 Et il ôta de la maison de l’Éternel les dieux étrangers et l’idole, et tous les autels qu’il avait bâtis sur la montagne de la maison de l’Éternel et à Jérusalem, et les jeta hors de la ville.
Manasseh’s [workers] removed from the temple the idols and the stone statues of gods of other nations. Manasseh also [told them to] remove the altars that they had previously built on Zion Hill and in [other places in] Jerusalem. He had all those things thrown out of the city.
16 Et il mit en état l’autel de l’Éternel, et y sacrifia des sacrifices de prospérités et d’action de grâces; et il commanda à Juda de servir l’Éternel, le Dieu d’Israël.
Then he [told them to] repair the altar of Yahweh, and he offered sacrifices to restore fellowship with Yahweh and to thank him. And he told [the people of] Judah that they must worship [only] Yahweh.
17 Toutefois le peuple sacrifiait encore sur les hauts lieux, mais seulement à l’Éternel, leur Dieu.
The people continued to offer sacrifices on the hilltops, but only to Yahweh their God.
18 Et le reste des actes de Manassé, et sa prière à son Dieu, et les paroles des voyants qui lui parlèrent au nom de l’Éternel, le Dieu d’Israël, voici, cela est [écrit] dans les actes des rois d’Israël.
The other things that happened while Manasseh was ruling, including his prayer to God and the messages from Yahweh that the prophets gave to him, are written in the scroll called ‘The History of the Kings of Israel’.
19 Et sa prière, et comment [Dieu] fut fléchi, et tout son péché, et le mal qu’il commit, et les endroits où il bâtit des hauts lieux et dressa des ashères et des images taillées, avant qu’il se soit humilié, voici, cela est écrit dans les paroles de Hozaï.
What Manasseh prayed and how God pitied him because he pleaded to God, and also his sins and ways in which he disobeyed God, and the [list of] places where he built shrines and set up poles to [honor the goddess] Asherah and other idols [before he humbled himself], are written in what the prophets wrote.
20 Et Manassé s’endormit avec ses pères, et on l’enterra dans sa maison; et Amon, son fils, régna à sa place.
Manasseh died and was buried in his palace. Then his son Amon became the king [of Judah].
21 Amon était âgé de 22 ans lorsqu’il commença de régner; et il régna deux ans à Jérusalem.
Amon was 22 years old when he became king, and he ruled in Jerusalem for two years.
22 Et il fit ce qui est mauvais aux yeux de l’Éternel, comme avait fait Manassé, son père; et Amon sacrifia à toutes les images taillées que Manassé, son père, avait faites, et les servit;
He did things that Yahweh considered to be evil, like his father Manasseh had done. Amon worshiped all the idols that Manasseh’s [workers] had made.
23 et il ne s’humilia point devant l’Éternel, comme Manassé, son père, s’était humilié; car lui, Amon, multiplia son péché.
But he did not humble himself and turn to Yahweh like his father did. So he became more sinful than his father had been.
24 Et ses serviteurs conspirèrent contre lui, et le mirent à mort dans sa maison.
Then Amon’s officials made plans to kill him. They assassinated him in his palace.
25 Mais le peuple du pays tua tous ceux qui avaient conspiré contre le roi Amon; et le peuple du pays établit pour roi Josias, son fils, à sa place.
But then the people of Judah killed all those who had assassinated Amon, and they appointed his son Josiah to be their king.
