2 Chroniques 33

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

Manasses was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.

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 that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, according to all the abominations of the heathen, whom the Lord destroyed from before the face of the children of Israel.

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.

And he returned and built the high places, which his father Ezekias had pulled down, and set up images to Baalim, and made groves, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.

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."

And he built altars in the house of the Lord, concerning which the Lord said, In Jerusalem shall be my name for ever.

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

And he built altars to all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord.

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 also passed his children through the fire in the valley of Benennom; and he divined, and used auspices, and sorceries, and appointed those who had divining spirits, and enchanters, and wrought abundant wickedness before the Lord, to provoke him.

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.

And he set the graven [image], the molten [statue], the idol which he made, in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name for ever;

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."

and I will not again remove the foot of Israel from the land which I gave to their fathers, if only they will take heed to do all things which I have commanded them, according to all the law and the ordinances and the judgments [given] by the hand of Moses.

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 Manasses led astray Juda and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to do evil beyond all the nations which the Lord cast out from before the children of Israel.

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

And the Lord spoke to Manasses, and to his people: but they hearkened not.

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.

And the Lord brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, and they took Manasses in bonds, and bound him in fetters, and brought 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 when he was afflicted, he sought the face of the Lord his God, and was greatly humbled before the face of 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 he prayed to him: and he hearkened to him, and listened to his cry, and brought him back to Jerusalem to his kingdom: and Manasses knew that the Lord he 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.

And afterward he built a wall without the city of David, from the southwest southward in the valleys and at the entrance through the fish-gate, as men go out by the gate round about, even as far as Opel: and he raised it much, and set captains of the host in all the fortified cities in Juda.

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.

And he removed the strange gods, and the graven [image] out of the house of the Lord, and all the altars which he had built in the mount of the house of the Lord, and in Jerusalem, and without 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.

And he repaired the altar of the Lord, and offered upon it a sacrifice of peace-offering and thank-offering, and he told Juda to serve the Lord 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 on the high places, 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.

And the rest of the acts of Manasses, and his prayer to God, and the words of the seers that spoke to him in the name of the God 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.

behold, [they are] in the account of his prayer; and [God] hearkened to him. And all his sins, and his backslidings, and the spots on which he built the high places, and set there groves and graven images, before he repented, behold, they are written in the books of the seers.

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

And Manasses slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the garden of his house: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.

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

Amon was twenty and two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem.

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 that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, as his father Manasses did: and Amon sacrificed to all the idols which his father Manasses had made, and served them.

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

And he was not humbled before the Lord as his father Manasses was humbled; for his son Amon abounded in transgression.

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

And his servants conspired against him, and slew him in his house.

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.

And the people of the land slew the men who had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josias his son king in his stead.