2 Rois 17
1 La douzième année d’Achaz, roi de Juda, Osée, fils d’Éla, commença de régner à Samarie sur Israël; [il régna] neuf ans.
Elah’s son Hoshea began to rule Israel after King Ahaz had ruled Judah for twelve years. Hoshea ruled in Samaria for nine years.
2 Et il fit ce qui est mauvais aux yeux de l’Éternel, non pas toutefois comme les rois d’Israël qui avaient été avant lui.
He did many things that Yahweh considered to be evil, but he did not do as many evil things as the previous kings of Israel had done.
3 Shalmanéser, roi d’Assyrie, monta contre lui, et Osée devint son serviteur, et lui envoya des présents.
[The army of] King Shalmaneser of Assyria attacked and defeated [the army of] King Hoshea. As a result, the Israelis were forced to pay a lot of tribute/taxes to Assyria each year.
4 Et le roi d’Assyrie découvrit qu’Osée conspirait; car [Osée] avait envoyé des messagers à Sô, roi d’Égypte, et il n’envoyait pas de présents au roi d’Assyrie comme [il avait fait] d’année en année; et le roi d’Assyrie l’enferma dans une prison et le lia.
But several years later, Hoshea secretly planned to rebel against the rulers of Assyria. He sent messengers to So/Osorkon, the king of Egypt, [asking if his army could help the Israelis fight against the army of Assyria]. Hoshea also stopped paying the tribute/taxes that he had been paying to Assyria every year. But the king of Assyria found out about those things, so he told his officers to put Hoshea in prison.
5 Et le roi d’Assyrie monta par tout le pays, et monta à Samarie, et l’assiégea trois ans.
Then he [brought the army of] Assyria to Israel, and they attacked everywhere in that land. His army surrounded Samaria [city] for three years.
6 La neuvième année d’Osée, le roi d’Assyrie prit Samarie, et il transporta Israël en Assyrie, et les fit habiter à Khalakh, et sur le Khabor, fleuve de Gozan, et dans les villes des Mèdes.
Finally, after King Hoshea had been ruling Israel for nine years, the army of Assyria [MTY] [forcefully entered] the city [and] captured [the people]. They took the Israeli people to Assyria and forced some of them to live in Halah [town]. They forced others to live near the Habor River in Gozan district. They forced others to live in the towns where the Mede people-group lived.
7 Et il était arrivé que les fils d’Israël avaient péché contre l’Éternel, leur Dieu, qui les avait fait monter du pays d’Égypte, de dessous la main du Pharaon, roi d’Égypte, et qu’ils avaient révéré d’autres dieux.
Those things happened because the Israeli people had sinned against Yahweh their God. He had rescued their [ancestors] from the power [MTY] of the king of Egypt and brought them [safely] out of Egypt, but later they began to worship other gods.
8 Et ils marchèrent dans les statuts des nations que l’Éternel avait dépossédées devant les fils d’Israël, et [dans ceux] que les rois d’Israël avaient établis.
They imitated the things that the heathen/pagan people-groups did. Those were the groups that Yahweh had expelled as the Israelis occupied their land. The Israeli people also did the evil things that the kings of Israel (introduced/showed to them).
9 Et les fils d’Israël firent en secret contre l’Éternel, leur Dieu, des choses qui ne sont pas droites; et ils se bâtirent des hauts lieux dans toutes leurs villes, depuis la tour des gardes jusqu’à la ville forte;
The Israeli people also secretly did many things that were not pleasing to Yahweh their God. They built shrines [to worship idols] in all their cities, including small towns and big cities with walls around them.
10 et ils se dressèrent des statues et des ashères sur toute haute colline et sous tout arbre vert,
They set up stone pillars [to honor gods], and poles [to worship the goddess] Asherah at the top of every high hill and under every [big] tree.
11 et firent fumer là de l’encens sur tous les hauts lieux, comme les nations que l’Éternel avait transportées de devant eux; et ils firent des choses mauvaises, pour provoquer à colère l’Éternel;
The Israelis burned incense in every place where they worshiped those gods, just like the people-groups who lived there previously had done—the groups that Yahweh had expelled from the land. The Israelis did many wicked things that caused Yahweh to become angry.
12 et ils servirent les idoles, au sujet desquelles l’Éternel leur avait dit: Vous ne ferez point cela.
Yahweh warned them many times that they should not worship idols, but they did it anyway.
13 Et l’Éternel rendit témoignage contre Israël et contre Juda par tous les prophètes, tous les voyants, disant: Détournez-vous de vos mauvaises voies; et gardez mes commandements, mes statuts, selon toute la loi que j’ai commandée à vos pères et que je vous ai envoyée par mes serviteurs les prophètes.
Yahweh frequently sent his prophets and (seers/those who saw visions from Yahweh) to warn the people of Israel and the people of Judah. The message that Yahweh gave them was, “Turn away from all your evil behavior. Obey my commands and my laws, the laws that I told your ancestors [to obey] and which I told the prophets who served me to tell to you [again].”
14 Et ils n’écoutèrent pas, et roidirent leur cou comme le cou de leurs pères, qui n’avaient pas cru l’Éternel, leur Dieu.
But the Israeli people would not pay attention. They were stubborn [IDM] just like their ancestors were. Just like their ancestors did, they refused to believe in Yahweh their God.
15 Et ils rejetèrent ses statuts, et son alliance qu’il avait faite avec leurs pères, et ses témoignages qu’il leur avait donnés, et ils marchèrent après la vanité, et agirent vainement, et en suivant les nations qui étaient autour d’eux, touchant lesquelles l’Éternel leur avait commandé de ne pas faire comme elles.
They rejected Yahweh’s laws and the agreement that he had made with their ancestors. They ignored Yahweh’s warnings. They worshiped worthless idols and as a result they themselves became worthless. Although Yahweh had commanded them not to imitate the evil behavior of the people-groups that lived near them, they disobeyed that command.
16 Et ils abandonnèrent tous les commandements de l’Éternel, leur Dieu, et se firent des images de fonte, deux veaux, et se firent des ashères, et se prosternèrent devant toute l’armée des cieux, et servirent Baal.
The Israeli people disobeyed all of Yahweh’s commands. They made two metal calves [to worship]. They set up two poles [to worship the goddess] Asherah, and they worshiped [the god] Baal, and the sun, the moon, and the stars.
17 Et ils firent passer leurs fils et leurs filles par le feu, et pratiquèrent la divination et s’adonnèrent aux enchantements, et se vendirent pour faire ce qui est mauvais aux yeux de l’Éternel, pour le provoquer à colère.
They also burned their own sons and daughters to be sacrifices [to those gods]. They went to fortune-tellers and they practiced sorcery. They continually chose [MET] to do [all kinds of] evil things that caused Yahweh to become angry.
18 Et l’Éternel fut très irrité contre Israël, et les ôta de devant sa face; il n’en resta que la seule tribu de Juda.
So, because Yahweh was very angry with the Israeli people, he allowed [their enemies] to take them away [from their country]. Only the people of the tribe of Judah were left [in the land].
19 Et Juda non plus ne garda pas les commandements de l’Éternel, son Dieu; et ils marchèrent dans les statuts qu’Israël avait établis.
But even the people of Judah did not obey the commands of Yahweh their God. They imitated the evil customs that the Israelis had introduced.
20 Et l’Éternel rejeta toute la semence d’Israël, et il les affligea, et les livra en la main des pillards, jusqu’à ce qu’il les ait rejetés de devant sa face.
So Yahweh rejected all the people of Israel and of Judah. He punished them by allowing the armies of other nations to defeat them [and take them away]. He got rid of all of them.
21 Car Israël s’était séparé de la maison de David, et avait fait roi Jéroboam, fils de Nebath; et Jéroboam avait détourné violemment Israël de suivre l’Éternel, et les avait fait commettre un grand péché.
Earlier, when Yahweh allowed the people of Israel to separate/break away from the area [MTY] that King David [had estabished], they chose Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, to be their king. Then Jeroboam enticed the people of Israel to stop worshiping Yahweh [and to worship idols instead]. He led them to commit great sins.
22 Et les fils d’Israël marchèrent dans tous les péchés que Jéroboam avait commis; ils ne s’en détournèrent point,
And the Israeli people continued to do the evil things that Jeroboam introduced. They did not turn away from those sins,
23 jusqu’à ce que l’Éternel ôta Israël de devant sa face, comme il avait dit par tous ses serviteurs les prophètes; et Israël fut transporté de dessus sa terre en Assyrie, [où il est] jusqu’à ce jour.
until finally Yahweh got rid of them. That was just what his prophets had warned would happen. The Israeli people were taken away to the land of Assyria, and they still remain there.
24 Et le roi d’Assyrie fit venir [des gens] de Babel, et de Cuth, et d’Avva, et de Hamath, et de Sepharvaïm, et [les] fit habiter dans les villes de la Samarie, à la place des fils d’Israël; et ils possédèrent la Samarie, et habitèrent dans ses villes.
The king of Assyria [ordered his soldiers to] take [groups of] people from Babylon, Cuthah, Avva, Hamath, and Sepharvaim [cities] to [the] Samaria [region], and to resettle them in the towns there, to take the place of the Israelis [who lived there previously]. Those people took control over [the whole] Samaria [region] and lived in the towns there.
25 Et il arriva, quand ils commencèrent d’y habiter, qu’ils ne craignaient pas l’Éternel, et l’Éternel envoya contre eux des lions qui les tuaient.
But those people [who came from other countries] did not worship Yahweh when they first arrived in Samaria. So Yahweh sent lions to kill some of them.
26 Et on parla au roi d’Assyrie, disant: Les nations que tu as transportées et que tu as fait habiter dans les villes de Samarie ne connaissent pas la coutume du dieu du pays, et il a envoyé contre elles des lions, et voici, [ces lions] les font mourir, parce qu’elles ne connaissent pas la coutume du dieu du pays.
Then those people sent a message to the king of Assyria. They wrote, “We people who have resettled in the towns in Samaria do not know how to worship the God [that the Israelis worshiped] in this land. So he has sent lions among us to kill us, because we have not worshiped him correctly.”
27 Et le roi d’Assyrie commanda, disant: Faites aller là quelqu’un des sacrificateurs que vous en avez transportés; et qu’il aille et qu’il demeure là, et qu’il leur enseigne la coutume du dieu du pays.
[When] the king of Assyria [read this letter, he] commanded [his officers], “You brought many priests here from Samaria. Send one of them back there. Tell him to teach the people who are now living there how to worship correctly the God whom the Israelis worshiped in that land.”
28 Et un des sacrificateurs qu’on avait transportés de Samarie, vint et habita à Béthel, et il leur enseignait comment ils devaient craindre l’Éternel.
So [the officers did that]. They sent one of the Israeli priests back to Samaria. That priest went to live in Bethel [city], and he taught the people there how to worship Yahweh.
29 Et chaque nation se fit ses dieux, et elles les placèrent dans les maisons des hauts lieux que les Samaritains avaient faites, chaque nation dans ses villes où elle habitait.
But the people [who returned from Babylon and started to live in Samaria and] continued to make their own idols. They placed them in the shrines that the Israelis had built there. The people of each people-group made idols in the cities in which they were living.
30 Et les hommes de Babel firent Succoth-Benoth; et les hommes de Cuth firent Nergal; et les hommes de Hamath firent Ashima;
The people from Babylon made idols to represent their god Succoth-Benoth. The people from Cuthah made idols to represent their god Nergal. The people from Hamath made idols to represent their god Ashima.
31 et les Avviens firent Nibkhaz et Tharthak; et les Sepharviens brûlaient au feu leurs fils à Adrammélec et à Anammélec, les dieux de Sepharvaïm.
The people of Avva made idols to represent their gods Nibhaz and Tartak. The people from Sepharvaim sacrificed their own children. They completely burned them [in pits where hot fires were kept burning, ] as offerings to their gods Adrammelech and Anammelech.
32 Et ils craignaient l’Éternel, et se firent d’entre toutes les classes [du peuple] des sacrificateurs des hauts lieux, qui offraient [des sacrifices] pour eux dans les maisons des hauts lieux:
But those people also worshiped Yahweh, and they appointed from among their own groups many people to be priests at the shrines on the tops of the hills, in order that those priests could offer sacrifices for them there.
33 ils craignaient l’Éternel, et ils servaient leurs dieux selon la coutume des nations d’où ils avaient été transportés.
So they revered Yahweh, but they also worshiped their own gods, just as the people living in the countries from which they had been taken to Samaria did.
34 Jusqu’à ce jour ils font selon leurs premières coutumes: ils ne craignent pas l’Éternel, et ils ne font pas selon leurs statuts et selon leurs coutumes, ni selon la loi et selon le commandement que l’Éternel avait commandés aux fils de Jacob, qu’il nomma Israël.
They still keep their old customs. They really do not worship Yahweh, and they do not obey all the laws and commands that Yahweh gave to the descendants of Jacob, to whom he gave the new name Israel.
35 Et l’Éternel avait fait alliance avec eux, et il leur avait commandé, disant: Vous ne craindrez point d’autres dieux, et vous ne vous prosternerez point devant eux; et vous ne les servirez point, et ne leur sacrifierez point.
Yahweh had previously made an agreement with their ancestors, commanding them not to worship other gods or bow down to honor them or do other things to please them or offer sacrifices to them.
36 Mais l’Éternel seul, qui vous a fait monter du pays d’Égypte par une grande force et à bras étendu, lui, vous le craindrez, et vous vous prosternerez devant lui, et à lui vous sacrifierez.
He had said to them, “You must have an awesome respect for me, Yahweh, the one who brought you out of Egypt with my very great power [DOU]. I am the one whom you must bow down to honor, and I am the one to whom you must offer sacrifices.
37 Et les statuts, et les ordonnances, et la loi, et le commandement, qu’il a écrits pour vous, vous prendrez garde à les pratiquer tous les jours; et vous ne craindrez pas d’autres dieux.
You must always obey the laws and commands that I [told Moses to] write for you. You must not worship other gods.
38 Et vous n’oublierez pas l’alliance que j’ai faite avec vous, et vous ne craindrez pas d’autres dieux;
And you must not forget the agreement that I made with your ancestors. You must not revere other gods.
39 mais vous craindrez l’Éternel, votre Dieu, et lui vous délivrera de la main de tous vos ennemis.
Instead, you must revere me, Yahweh, your God. If you do that, I will rescue you from the power [MTY] of all your enemies.”
40 Et ils n’écoutèrent pas, mais ils firent selon leur première coutume.
But the people [from those foreign nations] would not heed what Yahweh said. Instead, they continued to adhere to their old customs.
41 Et ces nations-là craignaient l’Éternel, et servaient leurs images; leurs fils aussi, et les fils de leurs fils, font jusqu’à ce jour comme leurs pères ont fait.
So, they worshiped Yahweh, but they also worshiped their idols. And their descendants still do the same thing.
