2 Chroniques 1
1 Et Salomon, fils de David, s’affermit dans son royaume; et l’Éternel, son Dieu, fut avec lui et l’agrandit extrêmement.
David’s son [King] Solomon was able to gain complete control over his kingdom, because Yahweh his God helped him and enabled him to become very powerful.
2 Et Salomon parla à tout Israël, aux chefs de milliers et de centaines, et aux juges, et à tous les princes de tout Israël, chefs des pères;
[When] David [was king, he had arranged for a new] Sacred Tent [to be] made in Jerusalem. Then David [and the Israeli leaders] had brought God’s Sacred Chest from Kiriath-Jearim [city] to the new Sacred Tent in Jerusalem that he had prepared for it. But [when Solomon became the king, ] the first Sacred Tent was still at Gibeon [city]. That was the tent that Moses, the man who served God [well], had [arranged to be] made in the desert. And the bronze altar that Bezalel, the son of Uri and grandson of Hur, had made was also still in Gibeon, in front of the first Sacred Tent. [One day] Solomon summoned the army commanders of 1,000 soldiers and the commanders of 100 soldiers and the judges and all the other leaders in Israel. He told them to go with him to Gibeon. So they all went to a hill in Gibeon [where the Sacred Tent was], and Solomon and all the others with him worshiped Yahweh there.
3 et Salomon, et toute la congrégation avec lui, allèrent au haut lieu qui était à Gabaon; car là était la tente d’assignation de Dieu, que Moïse, serviteur de l’Éternel, avait faite dans le désert
4 (mais David avait fait monter l’arche de Dieu de Kiriath-Jéarim au [lieu] que David lui avait préparé; car il lui avait tendu une tente à Jérusalem);
5 et l’autel d’airain qu’avait fait Betsaleël, fils d’Uri, fils de Hur, était là, devant le tabernacle de l’Éternel; et Salomon et la congrégation la recherchèrent.
6 Et Salomon offrit là, devant l’Éternel, sur l’autel d’airain qui était devant la tente d’assignation; il offrit 1 000 holocaustes sur cet [autel].
Then Solomon went up to the bronze altar in front of the Sacred Tent, and he offered 1,000 animals to be [killed and] completely burned [on the altar].
7 Cette même nuit Dieu apparut à Salomon, et lui dit: Demande ce que tu veux que je te donne.
That night God appeared to Solomon [in a dream] and said to him, “Request whatever you want me to give to you.”
8 Et Salomon dit à Dieu: Tu as usé d’une grande bonté envers David, mon père, et tu m’as fait roi à sa place:
Solomon replied, “You were very kind to David my father, and now you have appointed me to be the king to succeed him.
9 maintenant, Éternel Dieu, que ta parole à David, mon père, soit ferme; car tu m’as établi roi sur un peuple nombreux comme la poussière de la terre:
So Yahweh my God, you have caused me to become the king to rule people who are as many as the particles of dirt on the earth. So do what you promised my father David.
10 maintenant, donne-moi de la sagesse et de la connaissance, et je sortirai et j’entrerai devant ce peuple; car qui jugera ton peuple qui est si grand?
Please enable me to be wise and to know [what I should do], in order that I may rule these people [well], because there is no one who can rule all this great nation of yours [without your help].”
11 Et Dieu dit à Salomon: Parce que c’est cela qui était dans ton cœur, et que tu n’as pas demandé des richesses, des biens, et de la gloire, ni la vie de ceux qui te haïssent, et que tu n’as pas non plus demandé de longs jours, mais que tu as demandé pour toi de la sagesse et de la connaissance afin de pouvoir juger mon peuple sur lequel je t’ai établi roi,
God replied, “[I am pleased with what] you desire; you have not requested a huge amount of money or to be honored or that your enemies be killed. And you have not requested that you live for a long time. Instead, you have requested that [I enable] you [to] be wise and [to] know [what you should do] in order that you may govern [well] my people whom I have appointed you to rule.
12 la sagesse et la connaissance te sont données; et je te donnerai des richesses, et des biens, et de la gloire, comme n’en ont pas eu les rois qui ont été avant toi, et comme après toi aucun n’en aura.
Therefore I will enable you to be wise and to know [what you should do to rule my people well]. But I will also enable you to have a huge amount of money and to be honored, more than anyone who was previously a king ever was honored, more than anyone who later becomes king will be honored.”
13 Et Salomon revint à Jérusalem, du haut lieu qui était à Gabaon, de devant la tente d’assignation, et il régna sur Israël.
Then Solomon [and the people who were with him all] left from being in front of he Sacred Tent [on the hill in Gibeon], and they returned to Jerusalem. From there he ruled the Israeli people.
14 Et Salomon rassembla des chars et des cavaliers; et il eut 1 400 chars et 12 000 cavaliers; et il les plaça dans les villes à chars, et auprès du roi à Jérusalem.
Solomon acquired 1,400 chariots and 12,000 men who rode [on horses]. He put some of the chariots and horses in Jerusalem, and put some of them in various other cities.
15 Et le roi fit que l’argent et l’or, dans Jérusalem, étaient comme les pierres, et il fit que les cèdres étaient, en quantité, comme les sycomores qui sont dans le pays plat.
During the years that Solomon was king, silver and gold were as common in Jerusalem as stones, and [lumber from] cedar trees were as plentiful as [lumber from] ordinary sycamore trees in the foothills.
16 Et quant aux chevaux de Salomon, il les tirait d’Égypte: une caravane de marchands du roi prenait un convoi [de chevaux] pour un certain prix;
Solomon’s horses were imported/brought from Egypt and from [the] Kue [region in Turkey].
17 et on faisait monter et sortir d’Égypte un char pour 600 [sicles] d’argent, et un cheval pour 150; et on en faisait venir ainsi, par leur main, pour tous les rois des Héthiens et pour les rois de Syrie.
In Egypt his men paid 15 pounds of silver for each chariot and 3-3/4 pounds of silver for each horse. They also exported/sold many of them to the kings of the Heth and Aram people-groups.
