2 Chroniques 33
1 Manassé avait douze ans lorsqu'il monta sur le trône, et il régna cinquante-cinq ans à Jérusalem.
Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign; he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.
2 Il fit le mal devant le Seigneur, et commit toutes les abominations des peuples que le Seigneur avait exterminés devant Israël.
He did what was evil in the sight of Yahweh, like the disgusting things of the nations whom Yahweh had driven out before the people of Israel.
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.
For he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had torn down, and he built altars for the Baals, he made Asherah poles, and he bowed down to all the stars of heaven and worshiped them.
4 Et il bâtit des autels dans le temple dont le Seigneur avait dit: Mon nom sera toujours dans Jérusalem.
Manasseh built altars in the house of Yahweh, although Yahweh had commanded, “It is in Jerusalem that my name will be forever.”
5 Et il bâtit des autels à toute l'armée du ciel, dans les deux parvis du temple du Seigneur.
He built altars for all the stars of heaven in the two courtyards of the house of Yahweh.
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.
In the Valley of Ben Hinnom he caused his sons to pass through the fire. He practiced sorcery, divination and he read omens, and he consulted with those who talked with the dead and with those who talked with spirits. Manasseh did much evil in the sight of Yahweh, and he provoked him to anger.
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.
The carved figure he had made, he placed it in the house of God. It was about this house that God had spoken to David and Solomon his son; he had said, “It is in this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel, that I will put my name 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.
I will not move the people of Israel any more out of the land that I assigned to their ancestors, if they will only be careful to keep all that I have commanded them, following all the law, statutes, and decrees which I gave them through Moses.”
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.
Manasseh led Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to do evil even more than the nations that Yahweh had destroyed before the people of Israel.
10 Et le Seigneur parla à Manassé et à son peuple; mais ils ne l'écoutèrent pas.
Yahweh spoke to Manasseh, and to his people, 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 brought on them the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh in chains, bound him with fetters, and took him off 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.
When Manasseh was in distress, he implored Yahweh, his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his ancestors.
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.
He prayed to him; and God was begged by him, and God heard his begging and brought him back to Jerusalem, into his kingship. Then Manasseh knew that Yahweh was 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.
After this, Manasseh built an outer wall to the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, to the entrance at the Fish Gate. He surrounded the hill of Ophel with it and raised the wall up to a very great height. He put courageous commanders in all the fortified cities of Judah.
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.
He took away the foreign gods, the idol out of the house of Yahweh, and all the altars that he had built on the mount of the house of Yahweh and in Jerusalem, and threw them 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.
He rebuilt the altar of Yahweh and offered on it sacrifices of fellowship offerings and thank offerings; he commanded Judah to serve Yahweh, the God of Israel.
17 Toutefois, le peuple sacrifia encore sur les hauts lieux; mais seulement au Seigneur.
However, the people still sacrificed at the high places, 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,
As to the other matters concerning Manasseh, his prayer to his God, and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel, behold, they are written among the deeds 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.
In that account there is history of his prayer, and how God was moved by it. There is also an account of all his sin and his trespasses, and the places where he had built high places and set up the Asherah poles and the carved figures, before he humbled himself—they are written about in the Chronicles of the Seers.
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.
So Manasseh slept with his ancestors, and they buried him in his own house. Amon, his son, became king in his place.
21 Amon avait vingt-deux ans quand il monta sur le trône, et il régna deux ans à Jérusalem.
Amon was twenty-two years old when he began to reign; he reigned two years in Jerusalem.
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 what was evil in the sight of Yahweh, as Manasseh, his father, had done. Amon sacrificed to all the carved figures that Manasseh his father had made, and he worshiped them.
23 Et il ne s'humilia pas devant le Seigneur, comme s'était humilié son père; et il multiplia ses péchés.
He did not humble himself before Yahweh, as Manasseh his father had done. Instead, this same Amon trespassed more and more.
24 Et ses serviteurs se soulevèrent contre lui, et ils le tuèrent dans son palais.
His servants conspired against him and put him to death in his own house.
25 Et le peuple de la terre massacra les révoltés, et il proclama roi, à la place d'Amon, Josias, son fils.
But the people of the land killed all those who had conspired against King Amon, and they made Josiah, his son, king in his place.
