2 Rois 23

1 Et ils rapportèrent au roi ces paroles; et il envoya des messagers, et il assembla autour de lui tous les anciens de Juda et de Jérusalem.

And they reported to the king what she had said. And he sent, and all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem were gathered to him.

2 Et le roi monta au temple du Seigneur avec tout Juda, tous les habitants de Jérusalem, les prêtres, les prophètes, tout le peuple, depuis le petit jusqu'au grand, et il lut à leurs oreilles toutes les paroles du livre de l'alliance trouvé dans le temple du Seigneur.

And the king ascended to the temple of the Lord. And with him were all the men of Judah and all who were living in Jerusalem: the priests, and the prophets, and all the people, from the small to the great. And in the hearing of everyone, he read all the words of the book of the covenant, which was found in the house of the Lord.

3 Ensuite, le roi, debout sur le piédestal, renouvela l'alliance devant le Seigneur, afin de suivre le Seigneur, de garder ses commandements, ses témoignages et ses justices, de tout son cœur, dans la plénitude de son âme; et enfin, de faire revivre toutes les paroles de l'alliance écrite dans le livre; or, tout le peuple acquiesça à l'alliance.

And the king stood upon the step. And he struck a covenant before the Lord, so that they would walk after the Lord, and keep his precepts and testimonies and ceremonies, with all their heart and with all their soul, and so that they would carry out the words of this covenant, which had been written in that book. And the people agreed to the covenant.

4 Et le roi prescrivit à Helcias le grand prêtre, aux prêtres du second rang et aux gardiens de la porte, d'enlever du temple du Seigneur tous les vases faits pour Baal, pour le bois sacré et pour l'armée du ciel; il les brûla hors de Jérusalem dans la vallée de Cédron, et il en fit porter les cendres à Béthel.

And the king instructed Hilkiah, the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the doorkeepers, so that they would cast out of the temple of the Lord all the vessels which had been made for Baal, and for the sacred grove, and for the entire army of heaven. And he burned them outside of Jerusalem, in the steep valley of Kidron. And he carried their dust into Bethel.

5 Puis, il brûla vifs les prêtres idolâtres qu'avaient institués les rois de Juda et qui encensaient sur les hauts lieux, soit dans les villes de Juda, soit autour de Jérusalem, et aussi ceux qui encensaient Baal, le soleil, la lune, les douze signes et toute l'armée du ciel.

And he destroyed the soothsayers, whom the kings of Judah had appointed to sacrifice in the high places throughout the cities of Judah, and all around Jerusalem, along with those who were burning incense to Baal, and to the Sun, and to the Moon, and to the twelve signs, and to the entire army of heaven.

6 Et il emporta l'idole des bois sacrés hors du temple, hors de Jérusalem dans le torrent de Cédron; il la réduisit en cendres qu'il dispersa sur la sépulture des fils du peuple.

And he caused the sacred grove to be carried away from the house of the Lord, outside of Jerusalem, to the steep valley of Kidron. And he burned it there, and reduced it to dust. And he cast the dust over the graves of the common people.

7 Il démolit la demeure des initiés qu'on avait construite dans le temple, et où les femmes tissaient des tentes pour le bois sacré.

Also, he destroyed the small places of the effeminate, which were in the house of the Lord, for which the women were weaving something like little houses in the sacred grove.

8 Il assembla ensuite tous les prêtres des villes de Juda; et il souilla les hauts lieux, où les prêtres avaient brûlé de l'encens, depuis Gebal jusqu'à Bersabée; puis, il abattit la maison des portes, à côté de la demeure de de Josué, prince de Jérusalem, à gauche, en sortant de la ville.

And he gathered together all the priests from the cities of Judah. And he defiled the high places, where the priests were sacrificing, from Geba as far as Beersheba. And he tore down the altars of the gates at the entrance to the gate of Joshua, the leader of the city, which was to the left of the gate of the city.

9 Cependant, les prêtres des hauts lieux ne montèrent plus à l'autel du Seigneur à Jérusalem, à moins qu'ils n'eussent mangé des azymes au milieu de leurs frères.

Yet truly, the priests of the high places did not ascend to the altar of the Lord in Jerusalem. For they would only eat from the unleavened bread in the midst of their brothers.

10 Josias souilla encore Tapheth dans le val des fils d'Ennom, où ils faisaient passer dans la flamme de Moloch, les uns leurs fils, les autres leurs filles.

Also, he defiled Topheth, which is in the steep valley of the son of Hinnom, so that no one would consecrate his son or his daughter, through fire, to Molech.

11 Il brûla les chevaux que les rois de Juda avaient consacrés au soleil, à l'entrée du temple, dans le trésor de Nathan, eunuque du roi, à Pharurim; il brûla en outre le char du soleil,

Also, he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the Sun, at the entrance to the temple of the Lord, beside the hallway of Nathan-melech, the eunuch, who was in Pharurim. And he burned the chariots of the Sun with fire.

12 Et les autels que les rois de Juda avaient élevés sur la terrasse au- dessus de la chambre d'Achaz, et ceux que Manassé avait construits dans les deux parvis du temple; il en fit jeter les cendres dans le torrent de Cédron.

Also, the altars which were upon the roof of the upper room of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the temple of the Lord, the king destroyed. And he hurried from there, and he scattered their ashes into the torrent Kidron.

13 Le roi souilla aussi le temple que Salomon, roi d'Israël, avait érigé en face de Jérusalem, à droite du chemin de la montagne de Mosthath, en l'honneur d'Astarté, abomination des Sidoniens et de Chamos, abomination de Moab et de Moloch, abomination des Ammonites.

Also, the high places which were in Jerusalem, to the right side of the Mount of Offense, which Solomon, the king of Israel, had built to Ashtoreth, the idol of the Sidonians, and to Chemosh, the offense of Moab, and to Milcom, the abomination of the sons of Ammon, the king defiled.

14 Il mit en pièces leurs colonnes, détruisit leurs bois sacrés, et remplit d'ossements humains le lieu où on les adorait.

And he crushed the statues, and he cut down the sacred groves. And he filled their places with the bones of the dead.

15 Puis, il abattit l'autel qu'en Béthel, sur le haut lieu, Jéroboam, fils de Nabat, avait élevé et où il avait fait tomber tout le peuple dans le péché; il le démolit. Il en broya les pierres, il les réduisit en poudre, et il brûla le bois sacré.

Then too, the altar which was in Bethel, and the high place which Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin, had made: both that altar and the high place he tore down, and burned, and reduced to dust. And then he also set fire to the sacred grove.

16 Et Josias, se détournant, vit les sépulcres de cette ville; aussitôt, il donna ses ordres: il en fit extraire les ossements, et il les brûla sur l'autel pour le souiller, selon la parole du Seigneur qu'avait dite l'homme de Dieu quand Jéroboam avait célébré la fête de l'autel; puis, se retournant encore, il leva les yeux et il vit la sépulture de cet homme de Dieu qui avait dit ces paroles.

And in that place Josiah, turning, saw the sepulchers which were on the mount. And he sent and took the bones from the sepulchers. And he burned them upon the altar, and he defiled it in accord with the word of the Lord, which was spoken by the man of God, who had predicted these events.

17 Et il dit: Quel est ce tombeau que j'aperçois? Et les hommes de la ville lui répondirent: Celui de l'homme de Dieu qui est venu de Juda, et qui a fait les imprécations contre l'autel de Béthel.

And he said, “What is that monument that I see?” And the citizens of that city responded to him: “It is the sepulcher of the man of God, who came from Judah, and who predicted these events, which you have carried out concerning the altar of Bethel.”

18 Et le roi dit: Respectez-le; que nul n'enlève ses ossements. Et ses os furent sauvés avec ceux du prophète qui était venu de Samarie.

And he said: “Permit him. Let no one move his bones.” And his bones have remained untouched, with the bones of the prophet who had arrived from Samaria.

19 Josias détruisit donc tous les temples des hauts lieux que les rois d'Israël avaient élevés dans les villes de Samarie, pour y irriter le Seigneur, et il y fit la même chose qu'à Béthel.

Then too, all the shrines of the high places, which were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the Lord, Josiah took away. And he acted toward them according to all the works that he had done in Bethel.

20 Et il sacrifia sur leurs autels tous les prêtres des hauts lieux qui étaient là, il y brûla les os des hommes, et il retourna à Jérusalem.

And all the priests of the high places, who were in that place, he killed upon the altars. And he burned the bones of the men upon them. And he returned to Jerusalem.

21 Et le roi donna ses ordres à tout le peuple, disant: Immolez la pâque au Seigneur notre Dieu, comme il est écrit au livre de cette alliance.

And he instructed all the people, saying: “Keep the Passover to the Lord your God, according to what has been written in the book of this covenant.”

22 Car, on n'avait point ainsi célébré cette fête depuis le temps des Juges qui jugeaient Israël; ni sous les rois d'Israël, ni sous les rois de Juda.

Now no similar Passover was kept, from the days of the judges, who judged Israel, and from all the days of the kings of Israel and the kings of Judah,

23 Ce ne fut qu'en la dix-huitième année du règne de Josias, que l'on immola la pâque au Seigneur à Jérusalem

as this Passover, which was kept to the Lord in Jerusalem, in the eighteenth year of king Josiah.

24 En outre, Josias extermina les initiés et les devins; Il détruisit les idoles, les images et toutes les abominations qui existaient tant à Jérusalem qu'en Juda, afin de respecter les paroles de la Loi écrite dans le livre, que le prêtre Chelsias avait trouvé dans la maison du Seigneur.

Then too, Josiah took away those who divined by spirits, and the soothsayers, and the images of the idols, and the defilements, and the abominations, which had been in the land of Judah and Jerusalem, so that he might establish the words of the law, which were written in the book, which Hilkiah, the priest, found in the temple of the Lord.

25 Il n'y avait point eu auparavant de roi qui, comme lui, se convertît à Dieu de tout son cœur, de toute son âme et de toutes ses forces, conformément à la loi de Moïse; et il n'y en eut point après lui.

There was no king before him similar to him, who returned to the Lord with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his strength, in accord with the entire law of Moses. And after him, there rose up no one similar to him.

26 Mais le Seigneur ne détourna point la colère dont il était enflammé contre Juda, à cause des offenses qu'il avait reçues de Manassé.

Yet truly, the Lord did not turn away from the wrath of his great fury, his fury which was enraged against Judah because of the provocations by which Manasseh had provoked him.

27 Et le Seigneur dit: J'expulserai aussi Juda de devant ma face comme j'ai expulsé Israël; je répudierai cette ville que j'avais choisie, cette Jérusalem, et le temple dont j'avais dit: C'est là que sera mon nom.

And so the Lord said: “And now I will remove Judah from my face, just as I removed Israel. And I will cast aside this city, Jerusalem, which I have chosen, and the house, about which I said: My name shall be there.”

28 Quant au reste de l'histoire de Josias, n'est-il pas écrit au livre des Faits et gestes des rois de Juda?

Now the rest of the words of Josiah, and all that he did, have these not been written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Judah?

29 Sous son règne, le Pharaon d'Égypte Néchao marcha sur le fleuve Euphrate contre le roi des Assyriens; Josias se porta à sa rencontre, et Néchao le tua à Mageddo, au premier choc.

During his days, Pharaoh Neco, the king of Egypt, ascended against the king of the Assyrians to the river Euphrates. And king Josiah went out to meet him. And when he had seen him, he was killed at Megiddo.

30 Les serviteurs placèrent son corps sur un char, et le ramenèrent de Mageddo à Jérusalem, et ils l'ensevelirent dans son sépulcre; alors, le peuple de la terre prit Joachaz, fils de Josias; il le sacra, et il le proclama roi la place de son père.

And his servants carried him dead from Megiddo. And they took him to Jerusalem, and they buried him in his own sepulcher. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz, the son of Josiah. And they anointed him, and made him king in place of his father.

31 Joachaz avait vingt-trois ans quand il monta sur le trône, et il régna trois mois à Jérusalem; le nom de sa mère était Amital, fille de Jérémie de Lebna.

Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he had begun to reign, and he reigned for three months in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah, from Libnah.

32 Et il fit le mal aux yeux du Seigneur, comme l'avaient fait ses pères.

And he did evil before the Lord, according to all that his fathers had done.

33 Et le Pharaon Néchao le transporta en Rablaam dans la terre d'Emath, pour qu'il ne régnât point à Jérusalem; puis, il imposa à la terre un tribut de cent talents d'argent et de cent talents d'or.

And Pharaoh Neco bound him at Riblah, which is in the land of Hamath, so that he would not reign in Jerusalem. And he imposed a penalty on the land: one hundred talents of silver, and one talent of gold.

34 A sa place, le Pharaon Néchao leur donna pour roi Eliacim, fils de Josias, et il changea son nom, et il l'appela Joacin. Et il emmena Joachaz en Égypte, où il mourut.

And Pharaoh Neco appointed Eliakim, the son of Josiah, as king in place of Josiah his father. And he changed his name to Jehoiakim. Then he took Jehoahaz away, and he brought him into Egypt, and there he died.

35 Joacin donna au Pharaon de l'argent et de l'or, mais il taxa la terre pour payer le tribut au Pharaon; chacun donna de l'argent et de l'or selon sa taxe; tout le peuple donna donc le tribut au Pharaon.

Now Jehoiakim gave silver and gold to Pharaoh, when he had taxed the land, according to each one who would contribute by the command of Pharaoh. And he exacted both silver and gold from the people of the land, from each one according to his ability, so that he would give to Pharaoh Neco.

36 Joacin avait vingt-cinq ans lorsqu'il monta sur le trône, et il régna onze ans à Jérusalem; sa mère se nommait Jeldaph, fille de Phadaël, de Rhuma.

Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he had begun to reign, and he reigned for eleven years in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Zebidah, the daughter of Pedaiah, from Rumah.

37 Et il fit le mal aux yeux du Seigneur comme avaient fait tous ses aïeux.

And he did evil before the Lord, in accord with all that his fathers had done.