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1 Alors, le roi Roboam se rendit à Sichem, parce que tout Israël y était venu pour le proclamer roi.
All [HYP] the people of [northern] Israel went to Shechem [city] in order to appoint Rehoboam to be their king. So Rehoboam also went there.
2 Et le peuple parla au roi Roboam, disant:
When Jeroboam, who was still in Egypt, heard about that, he returned from Egypt [to Israel].
3 Et le peuple parla au roi Roboam, disant:
The [leaders of the northern tribes] summoned him, and they went together [to talk] to Rehoboam. They said to him,
4 Ton père a rendu pesant notre joug; allège donc maintenant la servitude trop dure de ton père; que notre joug soit moins lourd, et nous te servirons.
“Your father [Solomon] forced us to work very hard [MET] for him. If you (lighten these loads/do not force us to work that hard), and if you charge us less taxes than we were paying to him, we will serve you [faithfully].”
5 Et il leur dit: Allez-vous-en pendant trois jours; puis, revenez près de moi, et ils s'en allèrent.
He replied, “Go away, and come back three days from now [and I will give you my answer].” So those leaders and Jeroboam left.
6 Et le roi consulta les anciens qui, du vivant de Salomon, son père, se tenaient auprès de lui, disant: Que me conseillez-vous de répondre à ce peuple?
Then King Rehoboam consulted the older men who had advised his father Solomon while he was still living. He asked them, “What shall I say to answer those men?”
7 Ils lui dirent: Si aujourd'hui tu te montres le serviteur de ce peuple, si tu te montres agréable pour lui, si tu lui dit de bonnes paroles, ils seront tes serviteurs tous les jours.
They replied, “If you want to serve your people well, speak kindly to those men when you reply to them. If you do that, your people will always serve you faithfully.”
8 Mais il dédaigna le conseil que les anciens lui avaient donné, et il consulta les jeunes gens élevés avec lui, et qui se tenaient auprès de lui.
But he ignored what the older men advised him to do. Instead, he consulted the younger men who had grown up with him, who were now (his advisors/the ones who told him what would be good to do).
9 Et il leur dit: Que me conseillez-vous? Que dois-je répondre à ce peuple qui me dit: Allège le joug que nous a mis ton père?
He said to them, “What should I say to the men who are asking me to reduce the [work and taxes] that my father required from them?”
10 Or, les jeunes gens élevés avec lui, et qui se tenaient auprès de lui, dirent: Tu diras ces choses à ce peuple qui t'a dit: Ton père a rendu pesant notre joug, maintenant donc, allège-le, tu leur diras ces choses: Mon petit doigt est plus gros que les reins de mon père.
They replied, “This is what you should tell them: ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist.
11 Mon père vous a chargés d'un joug pesant, je le rendrai pour vous plus pesant encore. Mon père vous a châtiés à coups de fouet, moi je vous châtierai avec des scorpions.
What I mean is that my father required you [to work hard and pay high taxes]. But I will make those loads heavier. [It was as though] my father whipped you, but [it will be as though] I will whip you with whips that have pieces of metal in them.’”
12 Or, tout Israël se réunit autour du roi Roboam, le troisième jour, comme il le leur avait prescrit, disant: Revenez dans trois jours.
So three days later, Jeroboam and all the leaders came to Rehoboam again, as he had told them to do.
13 Et le roi leur répondit durement, car il avait dédaigné le conseil que les anciens lui avaient donné.
The king ignored the advice of the older men and spoke harshly to the Israeli leaders.
14 Et il leur parla selon le conseil des jeunes gens, et il leur dit: Mon père vous a chargés d'un joug pesant, je le rendrai pour vous plus pesant encore; mon père vous a châtiés à coups de fouet, je vous châtierai avec des scorpions.
[He told them what the younger men had advised.] He said, “My father put heavy burdens [of work and taxes] on you, but I will put heavier burdens on you. [It was as though] he beat you with whips, but I will beat you with whips that have pieces of metal in them!”
15 Et le roi n'avait point écouté les fils d'Israël, parce que le Seigneur s'était tourné contre lui, afin de confirmer la parole qu'il avait dite concernant Jéroboam, fils de Nabat, par Achias le Silonite.
So the king did not pay any attention to the Israeli leaders. But this happened in order that what Yahweh wanted would occur, what he had told the prophet Ahijah about Jeroboam [becoming king of the ten tribes].
16 Quand Israël vit que le roi ne l'avait pas écouté, le peuple répondit au roi: Qu'y a-t-il entre nous et David? Notre héritage ne dépend pas du fils de Jessé. Hâte-toi, ô Israël! de retourner en tes demeures; et toi, David, nourris ta maison. Et Israël s'en alla chacun en sa demeure.
When the Israeli leaders realized that the king did not pay any attention to what they said, they shouted, “We do not [RHQ] want anything to do with this descendant of King David! We will not pay attention to what this grandson of Jesse says! You people of Israel, let’s go home! As for this descendant of David [MTY], he can rule his own kingdom [MTY]!” So the Israeli leaders returned to their homes.
17 Alors, le roi leur envoya Adonisam, intendant des impôts; ils le lapidèrent, il mourut; et le roi Roboam s'empressa de fuir pour se renfermer dans Jérusalem.
And [after that, ] the [only Israeli] people whom Rehoboam ruled over were those who lived in the territory of [the tribe of] Judah.
18 Alors, le roi leur envoya Adonisam, intendant des impôts; ils le lapidèrent, il mourut; et le roi Roboam s'empressa de fuir pour se renfermer dans Jérusalem.
Then King Rehoboam sent Adoniram [to talk to the Israeli people]. Adoniram was the man who supervised [all the men who were] forced to work [for Rehoboam]. But the Israeli people killed him by throwing stones at him. When that happened, King Rehoboam quickly got in his chariot and escaped to Jerusalem.
19 Et jusqu'à nos jours la maison de David a été rejetée par Israël.
Ever since that time, the people of [the northern tribes of] Israel have been rebelling against the descendants [MTY] of [King] David.
20 Et tout Israël apprit que Jéroboam était revenu d'Égypte, et ils l'envoyèrent chercher pour venir à l'assemblée; ils le proclamèrent roi d'Israël, et il ne resta plus à la maison de David que les tribus de Juda et de Benjamin.
When the Israeli people heard that Jeroboam had returned [from Egypt], they invited him to come to a meeting, and there they appointed him to be the king of Israel. Only the people of the tribes of Judah [and Benjamin] continued to be loyal to [the kings descended from King] [MTY] David.
21 Cependant, Roboam était entré à Jérusalem; il réunit la synagogue de Juda et la tribu de Benjamin, cent vingt mille jeunes gens allant à la guerre, afin de combattre Israël, et de recouvrer la royauté pour le fils de Salomon.
When Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he gathered 180,000 of the best soldiers from the tribes [MTY] of Judah and Benjamin. He wanted them to fight against the northern tribes of [MTY] Israel [and defeat them], in order that he could [rule all the tribes of] his kingdom again.
22 Mais la parole du Seigneur vint à Samaïas, homme de Dieu, disant:
But God spoke to the prophet Shemaiah and said this to him:
23 Parle à Roboam, fils de Salomon, roi de Juda, à toute la maison de Juda, à Benjamin et au reste du peuple, dis-leur:
“Go and tell this to [Solomon’s son] Rehoboam, the king of Judah, and to all the people of the tribes of Judah and Benjamin and the people from the northern tribe who live in Judah:
24 Voici ce que dit le Seigneur: Ne partez pas, ne combattez point vos frères, les fils d'Israël; retournez chacun en votre demeure, car cette chose est de moi. Ils obéirent à la parole du Seigneur, et, selon son ordre, ils renoncèrent à marcher.
‘Yahweh says that you must not go to fight against your own relatives, the people of Israel. All of you must go home. What has happened is what Yahweh wanted to happen.’” [So Shemaiah went and told that to them, ] and they all paid attention to what Yahweh had commanded them to do, and they went home.
25 Ensuite, Jéroboam rebâtit Sichem en la montagne d'Ephraïm, et il y demeura; puis, il sortit, et il bâtit Pharmel.
Then Jeroboam’s workers built [walls around] Shechem [city] in the hilly area [where the descendants] of Ephraim [lived], and he ruled from there for a while. He and his workers then left there and went to Peniel [town], and they built walls around that town.
26 Et Jéroboam se dit en son cœur: La royauté va retourner à la maison de David;
Then Jeroboam said to himself, “If my people [continue to] go to Jerusalem and offer sacrifices to Yahweh at the temple there, soon they will again become loyal to Rehoboam, the king of Judah [DOU], and they will kill me.”
27 Si ce peuple continue de faire des sacrifices dans le temple du Seigneur à Jérusalem, le cœur du peuple retournera au Seigneur et à son maître Roboam, roi de Juda, et ils me feront périr.
28 Le roi prit donc conseil, et il se décida; il fit deux génisses d'or, et il dit au peuple: C'est assez de voyages à Jérusalem; Israël, voici tes dieux, qui t'ont ramené de l'Égypte.
So he consulted [his advisors, and then he did what they suggested]. He [told his workers to] make gold [statues of] two calves. Then he said to the people, “You have been going to Jerusalem [to worship] for a long time. It is a big trouble for you to continue going there. You people of Israel, look! These statues are the gods that brought our [ancestors] up from Egypt! [So you can worship these, here!]”
29 Et il plaça l'une des deux génisses à Béthel, et il donna l'autre à Dan.
He [told his workers to] place one of the statues in Bethel [city in the south] and one in Dan [city in the north].
30 Et cette chose devint une cause de péché; le peuple alla jusqu'à Dan, devant l'une des deux génisses, et il abandonna le temple du Seigneur.
So [what Jeroboam did caused] the people [to] sin. Some of them went and worshiped the calf at Bethel, and others went and worshiped the other calf at Dan.
31 Il bâtit des temples sur les hauts lieux; il prit des prêtres de toutes les tribus du peuple, et ces prêtres n'étaient pas des fils de Lévi.
[Moses had declared that only men from the tribe of Levi would be priests, but] Jeroboam also told his workers to build shrines on hilltops, and then he appointed men who were not from the tribe of Levi to be priests.
32 Jéroboam institua aussi une fête le huitième mois, quinzième jour de la lune, le jour même que l'on fêtait en la terre de Juda, et il monta à l'autel qu'il avait élevé à Béthel pour y sacrifier aux génisses qu'il avait fabriquées, et il plaça en Béthel les prêtres des hauts lieux qu'il avait consacrés.
He also appointed Adonijah and two priests, Elishama and Jehoram. They had a celebration at the end of October, like the celebration [of Living in Temporary Shelters] that occurred in Judah [each year]. On the altar [that they built] in Bethel, he offered sacrifices to the gold statues of calves that they had made, and he stationed the priests there at the shrines that his workers had built.
33 Et il monta à l'autel qu'il avait dressé, le quinzième jour du huitième mois, pendant la fête qu'il avait imaginée en son cœur; il fit célébrer cette fête par les fils d'Israël, et il monta à l'autel pour y sacrifier.
Jeroboam went up to that altar on that day in October which he himself had chosen. There on that altar he burned incense [to be a sacrifice]. And he declared that the people should celebrate that festival [on that same day every year].
