2 Chroniques 26
1 Tout le peuple de la terre prit alors Ozias, qui avait seize ans, et ils le proclamèrent roi à la place d'Amasias, son père.
After King Amaziah died, all the people of Judah appointed his son Uzziah, who then was 16 years old, as their king. [One of the things that happened] while he was the king [was that] his men captured Elath [town on the Gulf of Aqaba] and rebuilt it.
2 Il rebâtit Elath, et la rendit à Juda lorsque le roi se fut endormi avec ses pères.
3 Ozias avait seize ans quand il monta sur le trône, et il régna cinquante- deux ans à Jérusalem; sa mère s'appelait Jéchélie de Jérusalem.
Uzziah ruled in Jerusalem for 52 years. His mother was Jecoliah; she was from Jerusalem.
4 Et il fit ce qui est droit devant le Seigneur, comme avait fait d'abord Amasias, son père.
Uzziah did things that Yahweh considered to be good, like his father Amaziah had done.
5 Il chercha le Seigneur tant que vécut Zacharie, homme sage et craignant Dieu; tant qu'il vécut, Ozias chercha le Seigneur, et le Seigneur le fit prospérer.
He tried to please God while [the priest] Zechariah was living, because Zechariah taught him to revere God. As long as Uzziah tried to please God, God enabled him to be successful.
6 Il se mit en campagne, combattit les Philistins, renversa les murs de Geth, les murs de Jabner, les murs d'Azot, et bâtit des villes, près d'Azot, sur la terre des étrangers.
Uzziah and his army started to fight against the army of Philistia. They tore down the walls of Gath, Jabneh, and Ashdod [cities]. Then they rebuilt the towns near Ashdod and in other places in Philistia.
7 Et le Seigneur le fortifia contre les Philistins, contre les Arabes qui habitent au milieu des rochers, et contre les Minéens.
God helped them to fight the army of Philistia and the Arabs who lived in [the town of] Gur-Baal and the descendants of Meun who had come to that area from Edom.
8 Alors, les Minéens lui firent des présents, et son nom se répandit jusqu'à l'entrée de l'Égypte; car il se fortifia extrêmement.
Even the Ammon [people-group] paid taxes to Uzziah each year. So Uzziah became famous as far as the border of Egypt, because he had become very powerful.
9 Ozias bâtit aussi des tours dans Jérusalem: sur la porte de l'Angle, sur la porte de la Vallée, sur les angles, et il les fortifia.
Uzziah’s [workers] built watchtowers in Jerusalem at the Corner Gate, at the Valley Gate, and at the place where the wall turns, and they placed weapons in them.
10 Et il bâtit des tours dans le désert, et il fit, en pierres de taille, une multitude de citernes, parce qu'il possédait de nombreux troupeaux dans les basses terres et dans la plaine, et il employait beaucoup de vignerons sur la montagne et sur le Carmel, car il était cultivateur.
They also built watchtowers in the desert and dug many wells. They did that [to provide water] for a lot of the king’s cattle that were in the foothills and in the plains. Uzziah liked farming, so he also stationed workers [to take care of] his fields and vineyards in the hills and in the fertile areas.
11 Son armée était aguerrie; au dehors, elle se rangeait en bataille; à l'intérieur, elle se déployait pour qu'on en fit la revue; ceux qui la dénombraient étaient le scribe Jehiel, le juge Maasias, et Ananias le lieutenant du roi.
Uzziah’s army was trained for fighting battles. They were in groups that were always ready to go into battle. Jeiel, the king’s secretary, and Maaseiah, one of the army officers, counted the men and placed them in groups. Hananiah, one of the king’s officials, was their commander.
12 Le nombre des vaillants, chefs de familles, qui allaient en guerre, s'élevait à deux mille deux cents.
There were 2,600 leaders of those groups of soldiers.
13 Et ils commandaient une armée aguerrie de trois cent soixante-dix mille cinq cents hommes, qui marchaient au combat, pleins de force et de vaillance, pour défendre le roi contre ses ennemis.
In the groups that those leaders commanded there were a total of 307,500 well-trained soldiers. It was a very powerful army which was ready to help the king fight against his enemies.
14 Ozias les avait tous armés de longs boucliers, de javelines, de casques, d'arcs et de frondes.
Uzziah gave to each soldier a shield, a spear, a helmet, a vest made of iron plates, a bow [and arrows], and a slingshot.
15 Et il fit exécuter à Jérusalem des machines, œuvres d'un habile calculateur, pour être sur les tours et sur les angles, ou pour lancer des traits ou de grosses pierres; partout, même au loin, on parla beaucoup de ses engins; car il en était merveilleusement secouru, et en tirait une grande force.
In Jerusalem his skilled workers made machines to put on the watchtowers and on the corners [of the walls], to shoot arrows and to hurl large stones. He became very famous even in distant places, because God helped him very much and enabled him to become very powerful.
16 Mais, comme il se fortifiait, son cœur s'enorgueillit pour sa perte; et il pécha contre le Seigneur son Dieu, et il entra dans le temple du Seigneur pour brûler de l'encens sur l'autel des parfums.
But because Uzziah was very powerful, he became very proud, and that led to his being punished. He disobeyed what Yahweh his God had commanded. He went into the temple to burn incense on the altar [where God had said that only the priests should burn] incense.
17 Et Azarias le prêtre y entra sur ses pas, accompagné de quatre-vingts prêtres du Seigneur, hommes intrépides.
Azariah the [Supreme] Priest and 80 other brave priests followed him into the temple.
18 Et ils s'arrêtèrent devant le roi Ozias, et ils lui dirent: Ce n'est pas à toi, Ozias, d'encenser le Seigneur, mais aux prêtres, fils d'Aaron, qui sont consacrés pour faire les sacrifices. Sors du Saint des saints, car tu t'es séparé du Seigneur, et cela ne tournera pas à ta gloire auprès de Dieu.
They rebuked him and said to him, “Uzziah, it is not right for you to burn incense to [honor] Yahweh. That duty is only for the priests, those who are descendants of Aaron [our first Supreme Priest]! You must leave [immediately], because you have disobeyed Yahweh our God, and he will not honor you [for what you have done]!”
19 Mais Ozias s'irrita; or, il avait à la main l'encensoir pour brûler de l'encens dans le temple, et, pendant qu'il s'irritait contre les prêtres, la lèpre parut sur son front, devant les prêtres dans le temple du Seigneur, au pied de l'autel des parfums.
Uzziah had in his hand a pan for burning incense. He became very angry with the priests, but suddenly there was leprosy on his forehead.
20 Et le grand prêtre Azarias et les prêtres, en se retournant vers lui, virent la lèpre sur son front; ils eurent hâte de le faire sortir, et lui-même n'était pas moins empressé, car le Seigneur l'avait châtié.
When Azariah the [Supreme] Priest and all the other priests [who were there] looked at him, they saw the leprosy on his forehead, so they quickly took him outside. And truly the king was eager to leave the temple, because he knew that it was Yahweh who had caused him to have that leprosy, [and he did not want it to become worse.]
21 Le roi Ozias resta lépreux jusqu'au jour de sa mort; et lépreux, il demeura dans une maison isolée, parce qu'il avait été retranché du temple du Seigneur. Et Joatham, son fils, fut mis à la tête du royaume, jugeant le peuple de la terre.
King Uzziah had leprosy until he died. And because he had leprosy, he lived in a house that was not near other houses, and he was not allowed to enter [the courtyard of] the temple. His son Jotham supervised the palace and ruled the people of Judah.
22 Le reste des actes d'Ozias, les premiers et les derniers, ont été écrits par le prophète Jessé (Isaïe).
A record of all the other things that Uzziah did while he was the king [of Judah] was written by the prophet Isaiah, the son of Amoz.
23 Et Ozias s'endormit avec ses pères, et on l'ensevelit auprès d'eux, dans le champ où est le sépulcre des rois, parce que, dirent-ils, il était lépreux. Et Joatham, son fils, régna à sa place.
Because Uzziah was a leper, [when he died, ] they would not bury him in the tombs where the other kings were buried. Instead, he was buried in a nearby cemetery that the kings owned. Then his son Jotham became the king [of Judah].
