2 Chroniques 8
1 Or, au bout des vingt ans employés par Salomon à construire la maison du Seigneur et son propre palais,
Solomon’s [workers] worked for 20 years to build the temple and the king’s palace.
2 Salomon fortifia les villes que lui avait cédées Houram, roi de Tyr, et les peupla d’Israélites.
Then his [workers] rebuilt the cities that [King] Hiram had given back to Solomon, and Solomon sent Israelis to live in those cities.
3 Puis, Salomon marcha contre Hamat-Çoba et s’en rendit maître.
Solomon’s [army] then went to Hamath-Zobah [town] and captured it.
4 Il bâtit le Tadmor du désert ainsi que toutes les villes d’approvisionnement qu’il éleva dans le pays de Hamat.
His workers also rebuilt walls around Tadmor [town] in the desert, and in [the] Hamath [region] in all the towns where they kept supplies.
5 Il bâtit le Beth-Horôn supérieur et le Beth-Horôn inférieur, villes fortes munies de murailles, de portes et de verrous,
They rebuilt Upper Beth-Horon [town] and Lower Beth-Horon [city], and built walls around them with gates [in the walls] and bars [to fasten the gates].
6 de même Baalat et toutes les autres villes d’approvisionnement de Salomon, toutes les villes de chariots, celles des cavaliers, bref, tout ce qu’il plaisait à Salomon de construire à Jérusalem, au Liban et dans tout le pays soumis à sa domination.
They also rebuilt Baalath [town] and all the cities where supplies were kept and the cities where Solomon’s chariots and horses were kept. Solomon’s [workers] built whatever he wanted them to build, in Jerusalem and in Lebanon, and in other places in the area that he ruled.
7 Toute la population survivante des Héthéens, des Amorréens, des Phérézéens, des Hévéens et des Jébuséens, lesquels ne font point partie des enfants d’Israël,
Solomon forced people from many other groups who were not Israelis to work for him like slaves. They were people from the Heth, Amor, Periz, Hiv, and Jebus people-groups.
8 leurs descendants qui étaient restés après eux dans le pays et que les enfants d’Israël n’avaient pas exterminés, Salomon les obligea à payer tribut; ce qu’ils font encore aujourd’hui.
They were descendants of groups whom the Israelis had not completely destroyed. Solomon forced them to become his slaves, and they are still slaves.
9 Pour les enfants d’Israël, Salomon n’en employa point comme esclaves pour ses travaux; ils étaient seulement ses hommes de guerre, ses fonctionnaires, capitaines, commandants de ses chars et de sa cavalerie.
But Solomon did not force Israelis to work for him. Israelis became his soldiers and commanders of his chariots and his chariot-drivers.
10 Les surveillants en chef du roi Salomon étaient au nombre de deux cent cinquante, chargés de diriger le peuple.
They were also King Solomon’s chief officials. There were 250 of them, and they supervised the workers.
11 Quant à la fille de Pharaon, Salomon lui fit quitter la Cité de David pour l’installer dans la demeure qu’il lui avait construite, "car, disait-il, je ne dois pas laisser résider une femme dans les demeures de David, roi d’Israël, devenues sacrées depuis que l’arche du Seigneur y a été transférée".
Solomon moved his wife, who was the daughter of the king of Egypt, from [the place outside Jerusalem called] ‘The City of David’ to the place that his workers had built for her. He said, “I do not want my wife to live in the palace that [my father] King David’s workers built, because the Sacred Chest [was in that palace for a while], and any place where the Sacred Chest has been is holy.”
12 Dès lors, Salomon offrait des holocaustes au Seigneur, sur l’autel qu’il lui avait élevé devant le portique;
On the altar that Solomon’s [workers] had built in front of the entrance [to the temple], Solomon sacrificed many offerings that were to be completely burned.
13 en se conformant au rite de chaque jour, il les offrait, selon les prescriptions de Moïse, les jours du Sabbat et des néoménies et aux fêtes qui se suivent trois fois par an, à la fête des Azymes, à la fête des Semaines et à la fête des Tabernacles.
He did that to obey the rules about what sacrifices Moses had declared should be made. These included sacrifices for every day and for the Sabbath days and to celebrate each day on which there was a new moon and for the three other festivals that were celebrated each year. Those festivals were the Festival of Eating Unleavened Bread, the Harvest Festival, and the Festival of Living in Temporary Shelters.
14 En vertu de la réglementation de son père David, il installa les sections de prêtres dans leur service et les Lévites dans leurs charges, consistant à réciter les cantiques et à faire le service concurremment avec les prêtres, selon le rite de chaque jour; il posta aussi les portiers par escouades à chacune des portes, comme l’avait ordonné David, l’homme de Dieu.
Obeying what his father David had commanded, he appointed the groups of priests for their work, and he appointed the descendants of Levi to lead the people while they sang to praise Yahweh and while they assisted the priests in their daily work. He also appointed groups of them to guard all the gates, because that was also what David, the man who pleased God [very well], had commanded.
15 On ne s’écarta en rien des prescriptions du roi David, concernant les prêtres et les Lévites, et notamment les trésors.
The priests and other descendants of Levi obeyed completely everything that the king commanded, including [taking care of] the storerooms.
16 l’œuvre entière de Salomon fut accomplie à ce jour: la fondation de la maison du Seigneur jusqu’à son achèvement. La maison du Seigneur se trouva complète.
They did all the work [of building the temple] that Solomon told them to do, until it was all completed. So they finishing building the temple.
17 Alors Salomon se rendit à Ecion-Ghéber et à Elot, au bord de la mer dans le pays d’Edom.
Then some of Solomon’s men went to Ezion-Geber and Elath [cities] on the coast of the Red Sea, an area that belonged to the Edom people-group.
18 Houram lui expédia, par ses serviteurs, des vaisseaux et des matelots experts dans la marine, qui se rendirent avec les serviteurs de Salomon à Ophir, d’où ils emportèrent quatre cent cinquante kikkar d’or, qu’ils remirent au roi Salomon.
King Hiram sent to Solomon from [Tyre city] some ships that were commanded by his officers. They were men who were experienced sailors. These men went in the ships with Solomon’s men to [the] Ophir [region] and brought back about 17 tons of gold, which they delivered to King Solomon.
