2 Chroniques 33
1 Manassé avait douze ans lorsqu'il monta sur le trône, et il régna cinquante-cinq ans à Jérusalem.
Manasseh was 12 years old when he became the king [of Judah], and he ruled from Jerusalem for 55 years.
2 Il fit le mal devant le Seigneur, et commit toutes les abominations des peuples que le Seigneur avait exterminés devant Israël.
He did many things that Yahweh considered to be evil. He imitated the disgusting things that were formerly done by the people-groups that Yahweh had expelled from Israel as his people advanced [though the land].
3 Il se pervertit, et il releva les hauts lieux qu'avait détruits Ezéchias, son père; il dressa des colonnes à Baal, planta des bois sacrés, adora toute l'armée du ciel, et la servit.
He commanded his workers to rebuild the shrines [for worshiping idols] that his father Hezekiah had destroyed. He told them to set up altars to [honor] the statues of Baal, and to make altars to [honor the goddess] Asherah. He bowed down to [worship] all the stars.
4 Et il bâtit des autels dans le temple dont le Seigneur avait dit: Mon nom sera toujours dans Jérusalem.
He directed his workers to build altars [for foreign gods] in the temple, about which Yahweh had said, “It is here in Jerusalem that I want people to worship me, forever.”
5 Et il bâtit des autels à toute l'armée du ciel, dans les deux parvis du temple du Seigneur.
He directed that altars for [worshiping] all the stars be built in both of the courtyards outside the temple.
6 Et il fit passer ses enfants à travers la flamme dans le val de Benennom; et il consulta les devins, les augures et les sorciers; il accueillit des ventriloques et des enchanteurs; il fit de plus en plus le mal devant le Seigneur, pour exciter sa colère.
He even sacrificed [some of] his own sons and burned them in a fire in Hinnom Valley. He performed rituals to practice sorcery. He asked fortune-tellers for advice. He performed witchcraft. He talked to people who consulted the spirits of people who had died to find out what would happen in the future. He did many things that Yahweh considered o be very evil, things that caused Yahweh to become very angry.
7 Et il plaça des statues et des images en fonte dans le temple dont le Seigneur avait dit à David et à Salomon, son fils: En ce temple et à Jérusalem, que j'ai choisis parmi toutes les tribus d'Israël, j'établirai mon nom pour toujours.
Manasseh took a carved idol [that his workers had made] and put it in the temple. That is the temple concerning which God had said to David and to his son Solomon, “My temple will be here in Jerusalem, the city that I have chosen [where I want people to] worship me, forever.
8 Et je n'éloignerai plus le pied d'Israël de la terre que j'ai donnée à leurs pères, pourvu qu'ils soient attentifs à faire tout ce que je leur ai commandé, en se conformant à toute la loi, aux ordonnances et aux jugements donnés par la main de Moïse.
If they will obey all the laws and decrees and regulations that I told Moses to give to them, I will not again force the Israeli people to leave this land that I gave to their ancestors.”
9 Ainsi, Manassé égara Juda et les habitants de Jérusalem, pour qu'ils fissent le mal, plus que toutes les nations que le Seigneur avait exterminées devant Israël.
But Manasseh led the people of Jerusalem and other places in Judah to do things that are wrong, with the result that they did more evil than was done by the people in the people-groups that Yahweh had expelled as the Israeli people advanced [through the land].
10 Et le Seigneur parla à Manassé et à son peuple; mais ils ne l'écoutèrent pas.
Yahweh spoke to Manasseh and the people of Judah, but they paid no attention.
11 Et le Seigneur conduisit contre eux les chefs de l'armée du roi d'Assyrie, et ils prirent Manassé, et ils le chargèrent de chaînes, et ils l'emmenèrent à Babylone.
So Yahweh caused the army commanders of Assyria [and their soldiers] to [come to Jerusalem, and they] captured Manasseh. They put a hook in his nose and put bronze chains on his [feet] and took him to Babylon.
12 Et, dans son affliction, il chercha la face du Seigneur son Dieu, et il s'humilia beaucoup devant la face du Seigneur Dieu de ses pères.
There, while he was suffering, he humbled himself greatly in the presence of Yahweh, the God whom his ancestors [worshiped], and pleaded with Yahweh to help him.
13 Et il le pria; or, Dieu entendit ses cris; il l'exauça, et le ramena à Jérusalem dans son royaume, et Manassé reconnut que le Seigneur seul est Dieu.
When he prayed, Yahweh heard him and pitied him. So he [allowed him to] return to Jerusalem and [to] rule his kingdom again. Then Manasseh realized that Yahweh is [an all-powerful] God.
14 Après cela, il bâtit le mur extérieur de la ville de David, du côté du midi, au sud du torrent, depuis l'entrée de la porte des Poissons, continuant tout autour jusqu'à Ophel; il l'éleva beaucoup, et il établit des chefs de l'armée dans toutes les places fortes de Juda.
Later, Manasseh’s [workers] rebuilt the eastern section of the outer wall around Jerusalem, and [they] made it higher. That section extended from Gihon Spring [north] to the Fish Gate, and around the part of the city that they called Ophel [Hill]. Manasseh also appointed army officers to guard each of the cities in Judah that had walls around them.
15 Et il enleva les dieux étrangers et les statues du temple du Seigneur, et les autels qu'il avait dressés sur la montagne du temple du Seigneur, tant dans Jérusalem que hors de la ville.
Manasseh’s [workers] removed from the temple the idols and the stone statues of gods of other nations. Manasseh also [told them to] remove the altars that they had previously built on Zion Hill and in [other places in] Jerusalem. He had all those things thrown out of the city.
16 Et il releva l'autel du Seigneur, et il y sacrifia des hosties pacifiques et des victimes de louanges; et il dit à Juda de servir le Seigneur Dieu d'Israël.
Then he [told them to] repair the altar of Yahweh, and he offered sacrifices to restore fellowship with Yahweh and to thank him. And he told [the people of] Judah that they must worship [only] Yahweh.
17 Toutefois, le peuple sacrifia encore sur les hauts lieux; mais seulement au Seigneur.
The people continued to offer sacrifices on the hilltops, but only to Yahweh their God.
18 Le reste des actes de Manassé, sa prière à Dieu, et les paroles des voyants qui lui parlèrent au nom du Seigneur Dieu d'Israël,
The other things that happened while Manasseh was ruling, including his prayer to God and the messages from Yahweh that the prophets gave to him, are written in the scroll called ‘The History of the Kings of Israel’.
19 La prière qu'il fit à Dieu et qui fut exaucée, ses péchés, ses égarements, et les endroits où il bâtit des hauts lieux, et où il plaça des bois sacrés et des statues, avant de se convertir, sont écrits aux Récits des voyants.
What Manasseh prayed and how God pitied him because he pleaded to God, and also his sins and ways in which he disobeyed God, and the [list of] places where he built shrines and set up poles to [honor the goddess] Asherah and other idols [before he humbled himself], are written in what the prophets wrote.
20 Et Manassé s'endormit avec ses pères, et on l'ensevelit dans le jardin de son palais, et son fils Amon régna à sa place.
Manasseh died and was buried in his palace. Then his son Amon became the king [of Judah].
21 Amon avait vingt-deux ans quand il monta sur le trône, et il régna deux ans à Jérusalem.
Amon was 22 years old when he became king, and he ruled in Jerusalem for two years.
22 Et il fit le mal devant le Seigneur, comme avait fait son père; il sacrifia à toutes les idoles qu'avait faites Manassé, et il les servit.
He did things that Yahweh considered to be evil, like his father Manasseh had done. Amon worshiped all the idols that Manasseh’s [workers] had made.
23 Et il ne s'humilia pas devant le Seigneur, comme s'était humilié son père; et il multiplia ses péchés.
But he did not humble himself and turn to Yahweh like his father did. So he became more sinful than his father had been.
24 Et ses serviteurs se soulevèrent contre lui, et ils le tuèrent dans son palais.
Then Amon’s officials made plans to kill him. They assassinated him in his palace.
25 Et le peuple de la terre massacra les révoltés, et il proclama roi, à la place d'Amon, Josias, son fils.
But then the people of Judah killed all those who had assassinated Amon, and they appointed his son Josiah to be their king.
