2 Chroniques 31
1 Quand tout cela fut terminé, tous les Israélites qui se trouvaient là s’en allèrent par les villes de Juda; ils brisèrent les statues, abattirent les Achêra, démolirent les hauts lieux et les autels dans tout Juda, Benjamin, Ephraïm et Manassé, jusqu’à complète destruction, et tous les enfants d’Israël s’en retournèrent chacun chez soi, dans leurs villes.
After the festival ended, the Israelis who were there went to all the towns in Judah and smashed the stones/pillars [for worshiping idols], and cut down the poles [for worshiping the goddess] Asherah. They destroyed the shrines on the hilltops and the altars [of Baal] throughout the areas where the tribes of Judah and Benjamin lived, and also in the areas of the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh. After destroying all of them, they returned to their own towns.
2 Ezéchias établit les classes de prêtres et de Lévites selon leurs divisions, chacun selon son service, prêtres et Lévites, pour les holocaustes et les rémunératoires, pour faire le service, pour chanter des cantiques et des actions de grâces aux portes de la résidence de l’Eternel.
Hezekiah divided the priests and [other] descendants of Levi into groups. He appointed some of the groups to offer sacrifices that would be completely burned [on the altar] and offerings to maintain fellowship [with Yahweh]. He appointed some groups to do other work at the temple: some to lead the people in their worship, some to thank Yahweh, and some to sing songs to praise to Yahweh at the gates of the temple.
3 Le roi fit don d’une part de ses biens pour les holocaustes, les holocaustes du matin et du soir, les holocaustes des sabbats, des néoménies et des fêtes, ainsi qu’il est écrit dans la loi de Moïse.
The king contributed some of his own funds to buy animals that would be sacrificed in the morning and in the evening of each day, and on the Sabbath days, to celebrate the new moons, and during the other feasts, according to what was written in the laws [that Yahweh gave to Moses].
4 Il dit au peuple, aux habitants de Jérusalem, de donner la part des prêtres et des Lévites, afin qu’ils tinssent ferme à la loi de l’Eternel.
Hezekiah told the people living in Jerusalem to give to the priests and the other descendants of Levi the portions [of meat] that should be given to them, in order that they could devote all their time to obeying the laws of Yahweh.
5 Et quand la chose fut divulguée, les enfants d’Israël donnèrent en abondance les prémices du blé, du moût, de l’huile, du miel et de toutes les productions des champs et apportèrent en abondance la dîme de tout.
As soon as he told that to the people, they generously gave the first part of their harvest of grain, and the first part of the new wine [that they produced], and [olive] oil and honey, and of the crops that grew in their fields. They brought [to the temple] a tenth of all their crops.
6 Les enfants d’Israël et de Juda qui demeuraient dans les villes de Juda, eux aussi, apportèrent la dîme du gros et du menu bétail, la dîme des choses saintes consacrées à l’Eternel, leur Dieu, et ils les donnèrent par monceaux.
The men of Israel and Judah who were living in various towns in Judah also brought a tenth of their cattle and sheep and goats, and a tenth of other things that they had dedicated to Yahweh their God, and they piled all those things in heaps.
7 C’Est au troisième mois qu’ils commencèrent à former les monceaux, et au septième mois qu’ils les finirent.
They started to do that in May and finished doing it in September.
8 Ezéchias et les chefs arrivèrent, virent les monceaux et bénirent l’Eternel et son peuple Israël.
When Hezekiah and his officials saw the heaps, they praised Yahweh and [requested God to] bless the people.
9 Ezéchias interrogea les prêtres et les Lévites au sujet de ces monceaux.
But Hezekiah asked the priests and other descendants of Levi, “Why are these heaps of things here?”
10 Alors Azariahou, le prêtre en chef de la maison de Çadok, lui répondit et dit: "Depuis qu’on a commencé d’apporter l’offrande au temple du Seigneur, on a mangé jusqu’à satiété et il en est resté énormément, car l’Eternel a béni son peuple, et c’est le reste que cette quantité que voici."
Then Azariah the [Supreme] Priest, a descendant of Zadok, replied, “Since the time that the people started to bring their offerings to the temple, we have had even more food than we need. This has happened because Yahweh has greatly blessed our fellow Israelis, with the result that all this is left over [after we priests and other descendants of Levi took all that we need]!”
11 Ezéchias ordonna de préparer des chambres dans le temple de l’Eternel, et on les prépara.
Then Hezekiah ordered that they should prepare storerooms in the temple. So they did that.
12 On apporta fidèlement l’offrande, la dîme et les objets sacrés, que l’on confia à la surveillance de Conaniahou, le Lévite, et de Chimeï son frère, comme second.
Then they brought into the storerooms all the tithes and offerings and the things dedicated to Yahweh [which the people had brought]. One of the descendants of Levi whose name was Conaniah was in charge of those things, and his [younger] brother Shimei was his assistant.
13 Yehiël, Azaziahou, Nahat, Assahel, Yerimôt, Yozabad, Eliël, Yismakhiahou, Mahat et Benayahou étaient préposés sous la direction de Conaniahou et de Chimeï, son frère, par ordre du roi Ezéchias et d’Azariahou, l’intendant du temple de Dieu.
Those two men supervised Jehiel, Azaziah, Nahath, Asahel, Jerimoth, Jozabad, Eliel, Ismakiah, Mahath and Benaiah while they did the work. They were appointed by King Hezekiah; Azariah was in charge of [everything that was done in] the temple.
14 Coré, fils de Yimna, le Lévite, gardien de la porte orientale, était préposé aux offrandes volontaires offertes à Dieu, pour donner l’offrande de l’Eternel et les choses éminemment saintes.
Kore the son of Imnah, another descendant of Levi, who guarded the east gate of the temple, was in charge of the offerings to God that were made voluntarily. He distributed to the priests and [other] descendants of Levi the offerings and other things that were dedicated to Yahweh.
15 Sous ses ordres étaient Eden, Miniamin, Yèchoua, Chemayahou, Amariahou, Chekhaniahou, dans les villes des prêtres pour donner loyalement les portions à leurs frères, suivant leurs divisions, aux grands comme aux petits.
Eden, Miniamin, Jeshua, Shemaiah, Amariah and Shecaniah faithfully assisted him in the towns where the priests lived. They distributed those things to the groups of their fellow priests; they distributed them to everyone, from the youngest to the oldest.
16 Outre ceux qui étaient inscrits comme mâles depuis trois ans et au-dessus, à tous ceux qui entraient dans le temple de l’Eternel, pour les fonctions quotidiennes, pour leur service, selon leurs classes et selon leurs divisions.
They also distributed things to the males who were at least 30 years old, those whose names were written on the scrolls where lists of family names were written. They were males who [were allowed to] enter the temple to perform their tasks/work each day, the tasks that each group had been assigned to do.
17 L’Inscription des prêtres se faisait d’après leurs familles, et les Lévites étaient comptés depuis vingt ans et au-delà d’après leurs fonctions et leurs classes.
The names of the priests were on the scrolls where their clans’ names were written. They also distributed things to groups of [other] descendants of Levi, those who were at least 20 years old.
18 Ils devaient enregistrer aussi leurs petits enfants, femmes, fils et filles avec toute l’assemblée, car ils s’occupaient ponctuellement de la distribution des choses saintes.
They included all their little children and wives and other sons and daughters whose names were on the scrolls where their clans’ names were written, because they also faithfully had dedicated themselves to Yahweh.
19 En outre, les descendants d’Aaron, les prêtres qui étaient à la campagne formant la banlieue de leurs villes avaient dans chaque ville des hommes désignés nominativement pour distribuer les portions à tous les mâles d’entre les prêtres et à tous ceux qui étaient enregistrés parmi les Lévites.
[Hezekiah] also appointed other men to distribute portions of those offerings to the priests and other descendants of Levi who were living in the pasturelands around the towns in Judah. But they gave things only to those who were descendants of Aaron [the first Supreme Priest], whose names were on the scrolls containing the names of their clans.
20 Ezéchias en fit autant dans tout Juda et il fit ce qui est bien, droit et loyal devant l’Eternel, son Dieu.
That is what Hezekiah did throughout Judah. He always faithfully did things that Yahweh his God considered to be right and good.
21 Dans toutes les œuvres qu’il entreprit pour le culte du temple de Dieu, pour la Loi et les commandements, recherchant son Dieu, il agit de tout cœur et réussit.
In everything that he did for the worship in the temple, and as he obeyed God’s laws and commands, he tried to find out what his God wanted, and he worked energetically. So he was successful.
