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 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 evil in the sight of Jehovah, like the abominations of the nations that Jehovah had dispossessed from before 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 built again the high places that Hezekiah his father had broken down; and he reared up altars to the Baals, and made Asherahs, 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 Jehovah, of which Jehovah had said, In Jerusalem shall my name be 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 both courts of the house of Jehovah.

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 caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom; and he used magic and divination and sorcery, and appointed necromancers and soothsayers: he wrought evil beyond measure in the sight of Jehovah, to provoke 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.

And he set the graven image of the idol that he had made, in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will I 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."

neither will I any more remove the foot of Israel from out of the land that I have appointed to your fathers; if they will only take heed to do all that I commanded them through Moses, according to all the law and the statutes and the ordinances.

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.

And Manasseh led Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem astray, to do more evil than the nations that Jehovah had destroyed from before the children of Israel.

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

And Jehovah spoke to Manasseh and to his people; but they did not hearken.

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 Jehovah brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh with fetters, and bound him with chains of brass, and carried 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 in affliction, he besought Jehovah his God, and humbled himself greatly 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 prayed to him. And he was intreated of him and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that Jehovah, he was 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 after this he built the outer wall of the city of David, on the west, toward Gihon, in the valley, even to the entrance of the fish-gate, and carried it round Ophel, and raised it up a very great height; and he put captains of war 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.

And he removed the strange gods, and the idol out of the house of Jehovah, and all the altars that he had built on the mount of the house of Jehovah and in Jerusalem, and cast [them] out of 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 reinstated the altar of Jehovah, and sacrificed on it peace-offerings and thank-offerings, and commanded Judah to serve Jehovah 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 sacrificed still on the high places, although to Jehovah their God only.

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 Manasseh, and his prayer to his God, and the words of the seers that spoke to him in the name of Jehovah the God of Israel, behold, they [are written] in the acts 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.

And his prayer, and [how God] was intreated of him, and all his sin and his unfaithfulness, and the places in which he built high places, and set up Asherahs and graven images, before he was humbled, behold, they are written among the words of Hozai.

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

And Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own 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-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 evil in the sight of Jehovah, as Manasseh his father had done; and Amon sacrificed to all the graven images that Manasseh his father 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 did not humble himself before Jehovah, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself; for he, Amon, multiplied trespass.

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 own 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.

But the people of the land smote all them that had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead.