1 Rois 13
1 Or, voilà qu'un homme de Dieu vint de Juda à Béthel avec la parole du Seigneur, et Jéroboam était devant l'autel pour y sacrifier.
And behold, by the word of the Lord, a man of God went from Judah to Bethel, when Jeroboam was standing over the altar, and burning incense.
2 Et l'homme cria contre l'autel avec la parole du Seigneur, et il dit: Autel! autel! Voici ce que dit le Seigneur: Il naîtra de la maison de David un fils, son nom sera Josias; il immolera sur toi les prêtres des hauts lieux qui font pour toi des sacrifices, et il brûlera sur toi des ossements humains.
And by the word of the Lord, he cried out against the altar. And he said: “O altar, O altar! Thus says the Lord: ‘Behold, a son will be born to the house of David, Josiah by name. And upon you, he will immolate the priests of the high places, who now burn incense upon you. And upon you, he will burn up the bones of men.’”
3 Et, ce jour même, l'homme donna un signe, et dit: Voici la parole qu'a dite le Seigneur; il a dit: Voilà que l'autel est fendu; la graisse qu'on y a déposée va se répandre à terre.
And he gave a sign on the same day, saying: “This will be the sign that the Lord has spoken. Behold, the altar shall be torn apart, and the ashes that are upon it shall be poured out.”
4 Lorsque le roi Jéroboam eut ouï les paroles de l'homme de Dieu et ses imprécations contre l'autel, il étendit sur lui la main, et il dit: Saisissez- le. Aussitôt la main que de l'autel il avait étendue vers l'homme, se dessécha, et il ne put la ramener à lui.
And when the king had heard the word of the man of God, which he had cried out against the altar at Bethel, he extended his hand from the altar, saying, “Apprehend him!” But his hand, which he had extended against him, withered. And he was unable to draw it back to himself.
5 Et l'autel se fendit, et la graisse qu'on y avait déposée se répandit à terre, selon le signe que l'homme de Dieu avait donné avec la parole du Seigneur.
Also, the altar was torn apart, and the ashes were poured out from the altar, in accord with the sign that the man of God had predicted by the word of the Lord.
6 Alors, le roi Jéroboam dit à l'homme de Dieu: Prie devant le Seigneur ton Dieu, que je puisse ramener ma main. L'homme de Dieu pria devant le Seigneur, et il rendit au roi l'usage de sa main, qui redevint comme auparavant.
And the king said to the man of God, “Entreat the face of the Lord your God, and pray for me, so that my hand may be restored to me.” And the man of God prayed before the face of the Lord, and the hand of the king was restored to him, and it became as it had been before.
7 Après cela, le roi dit à l'homme de Dieu: Entre avec moi dans ma demeure, déjeune, et je te ferai des présents.
Then the king said to the man of God: “Come home with me, so that you may dine. And I will give you gifts.”
8 Mais l'homme de Dieu dit au roi: Tu me donnerais la moitié de ta maison que je n'y entrerais pas avec toi; je ne mangerai pas de pain, je ne boirai point d'eau en ce lieu.
And the man of God responded to the king: “Even if you will give me one half part of your house, I will not go with you, nor eat bread, nor drink water in this place.
9 Car le Seigneur, avec sa parole, m'a fait un ordre, il a dit: Ne mange pas de pain, ne bois point d'eau, et, en t'en allant, ne prends pas le chemin par où tu es venu.
For so it was commanded to me by the word of the Lord, ordering: ‘You shall not eat bread, and you shall not drink water, nor shall you return by the way that you came.’”
10 Et il s'en retourna par un autre chemin, et il ne prit point celui par où il était venu à Béthel.
Then he departed by another way, and he did not return along the way that he had traveled to Bethel.
11 Or, il y avait à Béthel un prophète avancé en âge, et ses fils allèrent lui raconter les œuvres que, ce jour-là, l'homme de Dieu avait faites en Béthel, et les paroles qu'il avait dites au roi. Et leur père changea de visage.
Now a certain elderly prophet was living in Bethel. His sons went to him, and they described to him all the works which the man of God had accomplished on that day in Bethel. And they described to their father the words that he had spoken to the king.
12 Et leur père dit: Par où s'en va-t-il? Ses fils lui montrèrent le chemin que venait de prendre l'homme de Dieu venu de Juda.
And their father said to them, “By which way did he depart?” His sons showed him the way by which the man of God, who had come from Judah, had departed.
13 Et il dit à ses fils: Bâtez-moi l'âne; ils lui bâtèrent son âne, et il courut après l'homme.
And he said to his sons, “Saddle the donkey for me.” And when they had saddled it, he climbed on,
14 Il prit le même chemin que l'homme de Dieu; et il le trouva assis sous un chêne, et il lui dit: Es-tu l'homme de Dieu venu de Juda? L'autre répliqua: Je le suis.
and he went away after the man of God. And he found him sitting under a terebinth tree. And he said to him, “Are you the man of God who came from Judah?” And he responded, “I am.”
15 Et il lui dit: Viens avec moi, et mange du pain.
And he said to him, “Come home with me, so that you may eat bread.”
16 Je ne puis te suivre, reprit l'autre, ni manger du pain ni boire de l'eau en ce lieu.
But he said: “I am not able to turn back, nor to go with you. Neither will I eat bread, or drink water in this place.
17 Car le Seigneur m'a donné ses ordres de sa propre bouche; il a dit: Ne mange pas là de pain, n'y bois point d'eau, et, en t'en allant, ne prends pas le chemin par où tu es venu.
For the Lord has spoken to me, by the word of the Lord, saying, “You shall not eat bread, and you shall not drink water in that place, nor shall you return by the way that you arrived.”
18 Mais le vieillard lui dit: Moi aussi je suis comme toi prophète; un ange du Seigneur m'a parlé avec la parole du Seigneur, disant: Ramène-le avec toi en ta maison; qu'il mange du pain, qu'il boive de l'eau. Or, le vieillard le trompait.
And he said to him: “I, too, am a prophet like you. And an Angel spoke to me, by the word of the Lord, saying, ‘Lead him back with you to your house, so that he may eat bread, and drink water.’” And so he deceived him.
19 Il revint donc, il mangea du pain, il but de l'eau en sa maison.
And he led him back with him. Then he ate bread and drank water in his house.
20 Et ceci advint: Comme ils étaient assis à table, la parole du Seigneur vint au prophète qui l'avait ramené.
And while they were sitting at table, the word of the Lord came to the prophet who had led him back.
21 Et il dit à l'homme de Dieu qui était venu de Juda: Voici ce que dit le Seigneur: En punition de ce que tu as irrité la parole du Seigneur, de ce que tu n'as point gardé le commandement que t'avait fait le Seigneur ton Dieu,
And he cried out to the man of God who had arrived from Judah, saying: “Thus says the Lord: Because you were not obedient to the mouth of the Lord, and you did not keep the commandment that the Lord your God instructed to you,
22 De ce que tu es revenu, de ce que tu as bu et mangé dans ce lieu, après qu'il t'avait dit: «Tu n'y mangeras pas de pain, tu n'y boiras point d'eau, » ton corps n'entrera pas dans le sépulcre de tes pères.
and you turned back, and ate bread, and drank water in the place where he commanded you that you should not eat bread, nor drink water: your dead body shall not be carried back to the sepulcher of your fathers.”
23 Or, quand l'homme de Dieu eut mangé du pain et bu de l'eau, il bâta son âne, et s'en alla.
And when he had eaten and had drunk, he saddled his donkey for the prophet whom he had led back.
24 Mais un lion le trouva en route, et le tua; son corps resta étendu sur le chemin; l'âne ne bougea pas, et le lion se tint auprès du corps.
And when he had departed, a lion found him along the way, and it killed him, and his dead body was left upon the road. Now the donkey was standing beside him. And the lion was standing beside the dead body.
25 Et des hommes vinrent à passer; ils virent le cadavre gisant sur le chemin, et le lion se tenant auprès du cadavre; puis, ils entrèrent dans la ville où demeurait le vieux prophète, et ils racontèrent ce qu'ils avaient vu.
And behold, men who were passing by saw the dead body lying in the road, with the lion standing beside the body. And they went and made it widely known in the city where that elderly prophet was living.
26 Le vieillard l'apprit, et il s'écria: Ce doit être l'homme de Dieu qui a irrité la parole du Seigneur.
And when that prophet, who had led him back from the way, had heard it, he said: “It is the man of God, who was disobedient to the mouth of the Lord. And the Lord has delivered him to the lion. And it has torn him apart and killed him, in accord with the word of the Lord, which he spoke to him.”
27 Et il sortit, et il trouva le cadavre gisant sur le chemin, l'âne et le lion se tenant auprès du corps; et le lion n'avait point mangé le mort, et il n'avait point déchiré l'âne.
And he said to his sons, “Saddle a donkey for me.” And when they had saddled it,
28 Et il sortit, et il trouva le cadavre gisant sur le chemin, l'âne et le lion se tenant auprès du corps; et le lion n'avait point mangé le mort, et il n'avait point déchiré l'âne.
and he had departed, he found the dead body lying on the road, with the donkey and the lion standing beside the dead body. The lion did not eat from the dead body, nor did it harm the donkey.
29 Le prophète souleva le corps de l'homme de Dieu, le plaça sur son âne, et le ramena à la ville, afin de l'ensevelir
Then the prophet took the dead body of the man of God, and he placed it upon the donkey, and returning, he brought it into the city of the elderly prophet, so that he might mourn for him.
30 Dans son propre sépulcre; et ils pleurèrent sur lui, disant: Hélas! frère.
And he placed his dead body in his own sepulcher. And they mourned for him, saying: “Alas! Alas! My brother!”
31 Après qu'ils eurent pleuré sur lui, le vieillard dit à ses fils: Quand je mourrai, ensevelissez-moi dans le sépulcre où l'homme de Dieu a été enseveli; placez-moi auprès de ses ossements, afin que mes ossements soient sauvés avec les siens.
And when they had mourned over him, he said to his sons: “When I will have died, bury me in the sepulcher in which the man of God was buried. Place my bones beside his bones.
32 Car la chose qu'il a dite d'après la parole du Seigneur, concernant l'autel de Béthel et les temples des hauts lieux en Samarie, s'accomplira.
For certainly, the word will arrive, which he predicted by the word of the Lord, against the altar, which is in Bethel, and against all the shrines of the high places, which are in the cities of Samaria.”
33 Après ces choses, Jéroboam ne se repentit point de sa méchanceté; il continua de prendre, parmi tout le peuple, des prêtres des hauts lieux. Le premier venu put avoir la main pleine, et devenir prêtre sur les hauts lieux.
After these words, Jeroboam did not turn back from his very evil way. Instead, to the contrary, he made priests for the high places out of the least of the people. Whosoever was willing, he filled his hand, and he became a priest of the high places.
34 Ce fut le péché de la maison de Jéroboam, cause de sa perte et de sa disparition de la face de la terre.
And for this reason, the house of Jeroboam sinned, and was uprooted, and was wiped from the face of the earth.
