2 Chroniques 33

1 Manassé avait douze ans en montant sur le trône, et il régna cinquante-cinq ans à Jérusalem.

Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty-five years.

2 Il fit le mal aux yeux de l’Eternel, imitant les abominations des peuples que l’Eternel avait dépossédés au profit des enfants d’Israël.

And he did evil in the sight of the LORD by following the abominations of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.

3 Il rétablit de nouveau les hauts lieux qu’Ezéchias, son père, avait détruits, érigea des autels aux Bealim, dressa des Achêra, se prosterna devant toute la milice céleste et l’adora.

For he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had torn down, and he raised up altars for the Baals and made Asherah poles. And he worshiped and served all the host of heaven.

4 Il construisit des autels dans le temple du Seigneur, malgré cette parole de l’Eternel: "C’Est à Jérusalem que sera mon nom à jamais."

Manasseh also built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, “My Name will remain in Jerusalem forever.”

5 Or, c’est en l’honneur de toute la milice céleste qu’il érigea des autels dans les deux parvis du temple.

In both courtyards of the house of the LORD, he built altars to all the host of heaven.

6 Il fit passer ses fils par le feu dans la vallée de Ben-Hinnôm, s’adonna aux augures, aux sortilèges, aux sorcelleries, et pratiqua les évocations et les divinations. Immense fut le mal qu’il fit aux yeux de l’Eternel pour l’irriter.

He sacrificed his sons in the fire in the Valley of Hinnom. He practiced sorcery, divination, and witchcraft, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did great evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger.

7 La statue de l’idole qu’il avait fabriquée, il la plaça dans le temple de Dieu, dont Dieu avait dit à David et à son fils Salomon: "C’Est dans ce temple, à Jérusalem, la ville élue entre toutes les tribus d’Israël, que je ferai résider à jamais mon nom.

Manasseh even took the carved image he had made and set it up in the house of God, of which God had said to David and his son Solomon, “In this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will establish My Name forever.

8 Je n’éloignerai plus les pas d’Israël du pays que j’ai assigné à vos pères, pourvu qu’ils accomplissent scrupuleusement ce que je leur ai prescrit, toute la loi, les statuts et les préceptes transmis par Moïse."

I will never again cause the feet of the Israelites to leave the land that I assigned to your fathers, if only they are careful to do all that I have commanded them through Moses—all the laws, statutes, and judgments.”

9 Mais Manassé induisit Juda et les habitants de Jérusalem à agir plus mal que les peuples exterminés par l’Eternel au profit des enfants d’Israël.

So Manasseh led the people of Judah and Jerusalem astray, so that they did greater evil than the nations that the LORD had destroyed before the Israelites.

10 L’Eternel parla à Manassé et à son peuple, mais ils n’écoutèrent point.

And the LORD spoke to Manasseh and his people, but they did not listen.

11 Alors l’Eternel amena contre eux les chefs de l’armée du roi d’Assyrie; ils se saisirent de Manassé, qu’ils mirent aux fers, le lièrent avec des chaînes et l’emmenèrent à Babylone.

So the LORD brought against them the military commanders of the king of Assyria, who captured Manasseh, put a hook in his nose, bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon.

12 Mais, dans sa détresse, il supplia l’Eternel, son Dieu, et s’humilia profondément devant le Dieu de ses pères.

And in his distress, Manasseh sought the favor of the LORD his God and earnestly humbled himself before the God of his fathers.

13 Il l’implora, et Dieu l’exauça, entendit sa supplication, le ramena à Jérusalem sur son trône, et Manassé reconnut que le Seigneur est Dieu.

And when he prayed to Him, the LORD received his plea and heard his petition; so He brought him back to Jerusalem and to his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD is God.

14 Après cela, il bâtit un mur extérieur à la Cité de David, à l’ouest, vers le Ghihôn, dans la vallée, jusqu’à la porte des Poissons; il le fit contourner l’Ophel et lui donna une grande hauteur; il établit aussi des chefs militaires dans toutes les villes fortes de Juda.

After this, Manasseh rebuilt the outer wall of the City of David from west of Gihon in the valley to the entrance of the Fish Gate, and he brought it around the hill of Ophel and heightened it considerably. He also stationed military commanders in all the fortified cities of Judah.

15 Il retira les dieux étrangers et l’idole du temple de l’Eternel, et tous les autels qu’il avait bâtis sur la montagne du temple de l’Eternel et à Jérusalem, et les jeta hors de la ville.

He removed the foreign gods and the idol from the house of the LORD, along with all the altars he had built on the temple mount and in Jerusalem, and he dumped them outside the city.

16 Il restaura l’autel de l’Eternel, y offrit des sacrifices de rémunération et de reconnaissance, et ordonna à Juda de servir l’Eternel, Dieu d’Israël.

Then he restored the altar of the LORD and sacrificed peace offerings and thank offerings on it, and he told Judah to serve the LORD, the God of Israel.

17 Mais le peuple continua à sacrifier sur les hauts lieux, toutefois, seulement à l’Eternel, leur Dieu.

Nevertheless, the people still sacrificed at the high places, but only to the LORD their God.

18 Le reste de l’histoire de Manassé, la prière qu’il adressa à son Dieu, les oracles des Voyants qui lui parlèrent au nom de l’Eternel, Dieu d’Israël, tout cela est consigné dans l’histoire des rois d’Israël.

As for the rest of the acts of Manasseh, along with his prayer to his God and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of the LORD, the God of Israel, they are indeed written in the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.

19 Et sa prière, la façon dont Dieu l’exauça, tous ses péchés et son infidélité, les endroits où il bâtit des hauts lieux et dressa des Achêra et des idoles avant qu’il s’humiliât, tout cela se trouve consigné dans les paroles des Voyants.

His prayer and how God received his plea, as well as all his sin and unfaithfulness, and the sites where he built high places and set up Asherah poles and idols before he humbled himself, they are indeed written in the Records of the Seers.

20 Manassé s’endormit avec ses pères et fut enseveli dans sa maison. Son fils Amon lui succéda.

And Manasseh rested with his fathers and was buried at his palace. And his son Amon reigned in his place.

21 Amon avait vingt-deux ans en montant sur le trône, et il régna deux ans à Jérusalem.

Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem two years.

22 Il fit le mal aux yeux de l’Eternel, à l’exemple de Manassé, son père. Toutes les idoles qu’avait fabriquées Manassé son père, Amon leur offrit des sacrifices et il les adora.

And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, as his father Manasseh had done. Amon served and sacrificed to all the idols that his father Manasseh had made,

23 Il ne s’humilia point devant l’Eternel comme s’était humilié Manassé, son père, car lui, Amon, accumula les fautes.

but he did not humble himself before the LORD as his father Manasseh had done; instead, Amon increased his guilt.

24 Ses officiers conspirèrent contre lui et le mirent à mort dans son palais.

Then the servants of Amon conspired against him and killed him in his palace.

25 La population du pays massacra tous ceux qui s’étaient conjurés contre le roi Amon et proclama roi à sa place son fils Josias.

But the people of the land killed all those who had conspired against King Amon, and they made his son Josiah king in his place.