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.

Then the king summoned all the elders of Jerusalem and [of the other places in] Judah.

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.

They went together to the temple, along with the priests and the prophets, and many other [HYP] people, from the most important people to the least important people. And while they listened, the king read to them all of the laws that Moses had written. He read from the scroll that had been found in the temple.

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.

Then the king stood next to the pillar [where the kings stood when they made important announcements], and while Yahweh was listening, he repeated his promise to sincerely obey [DOU] all of Yahweh’s commands and regulations [DOU]. He also promised to (fulfill the conditions of/do what was written in) the agreement he made with Yahweh. And all the people also promised to obey the agreement.

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.

Then the king commanded Hilkiah the Supreme Priest and all the other priests who assisted him and the men who guarded the entrance to the temple to bring out from the temple all the items that people had been using to worship Baal, the goddess Asherah, and the stars. [After they carried them out, ] they burned all those things outside the city near the Kidron Valley. Then they took all the ashes to Bethel, [because that city was already considered to be desecrated/unholy].

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.

There were many pagan priests that the previous kings of Judah had appointed to burn incense on the altars on the tops of hills in Judah. They had been offering sacrifices to Baal, to the sun, the moon, the planets, and the stars. The king stopped them from doing those things.

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.

He [commanded that] the statue of the goddess Asherah [be] taken out of the temple. Then they took it outside Jerusalem, down to the Kidron Brook, and burned it. Then they pounded the ashes to powder and scattered that over the graves in the public cemetery.

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.

He also destroyed the rooms in the temple where the temple male prostitutes lived. That was where women wove robes that were used to worship the goddess Asherah.

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.

Josiah also brought [to Jerusalem] all the priests who were offering sacrifices in the other cities in Judah. He also desecrated the places on the tops of hills where the priests had burned incense [to honor idols], from Geba [in the north] to Beersheba [in the south]. Those priests were not allowed to offer sacrifices in the temple, but they [were allowed to] eat the unleavened bread that the priests [who worked in the temple] ate. He also [commanded that] the altars that were dedicated to the goat demons near the gate built by Joshua, the mayor of Jerusalem, [be] destroyed. Those altars were at the left of the main gate into 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.

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.

Josiah also desecrated the place named Topheth, in the Hinnom Valley, in order that no one could offer his son or daughter there to be completely burned for a sacrifice to [the god] 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,

He also removed the horses that the [previous] kings of Judah had dedicated to worshiping the sun, and he burned the chariots that were used in that worship. Those horses and chariots were kept in the courtyard outside the temple, near the entrance to the temple, and near the room where [one of Josiah’s] officials, whose name was Nathan-Melech, lived.

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.

Josiah also commanded his servants to tear down the altars that the previous kings of Judah had built on the roof of the palace, above the room where King Ahaz had stayed. They also tore down the altars that had been built by King Manasseh in the two courtyards outside the temple. He commanded that they be smashed to pieces and thrown down into the Kidron Valley.

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.

He also commanded that the altars that King Solomon had built east of Jerusalem, south of Olive Tree Hill, be desecrated. Solomon had built them for the worship of the disgusting idols—the [statue of the goddess] Astarte [worshiped by the people in] Sidon [city], Chemosh the god of the Moab people-group, and Molech the god of the Ammon people-group.

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

They also broke into pieces the stone pillars that the Israeli people worshiped, and cut down the [pillars that honored the goddess] Asherah, and they scattered the ground there with human bones [to desecrate it].

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.

Furthermore, he commanded them to tear down the place of worship at Bethel which had been built by King Jeroboam, the king who persuaded the people of Israel to sin. They tore down the altar. Then they broke its stones into pieces and pounded them to become powder. They also burned the statue [of the goddess] Asherah.

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.

Then Josiah looked around and saw some tombs there on the hill. He commanded his men to take the bones out of those tombs and burn them on the altar. By doing that, he desecrated the altar. That was what a prophet had predicted many years before when Jeroboam was standing close to that altar at a festival. Then Josiah looked up and saw the tomb of the prophet who had predicted that.

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.

Josiah asked, “Whose tomb is that?” The people of Bethel replied, “It is the tomb of the prophet who came from Judah and predicted that these things that you have just now done to this altar would happen.”

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.

Josiah replied, “Allow his tomb to remain as it is. Do not remove the prophet’s bones from the tomb.” So the people did not remove those bones, or the bones of the other prophet, the one who had come 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.

In every city in Israel, at Josiah’s command, they tore down the shrines that had been built by the previous kings of Israel, which had caused Yahweh to become very angry. He did to all those shrines/altars the same thing that he had done to the altars at 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.

He ordered that all the priests who offered sacrifices on the altars on the tops of hills must be killed on those altars. Then he burned human bones on every one of those altars [to desecrate them]. Then 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.

Then the king commanded all the people to celebrate the Passover Festival to honor Yahweh their God, which was written in the law of Moses that they should do [every year].

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.

During all the years that leaders ruled Israel and during all the years that kings had ruled Israel and Judah, they had not celebrated that festival.

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

But now, after Josiah had been ruling for almost 18 years, to [honor] Yahweh they celebrated the Passover Festival in Jerusalem.

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.

Furthermore, Josiah got rid of all the people in Jerusalem and other places in Judah who practiced sorcery and those who requested the spirits of dead people [to tell them what they should do]. He also removed from Jerusalem and from the other places in Judah all the household idols and all the other idols and abominable things. He did those things in order to obey what had been written in the scroll that Hilkiah had found in the temple.

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.

Josiah was totally devoted to Yahweh. There had never been [in Judah or Israel] a king like him. He obeyed all the laws of Moses. And there has never since then been a king like Josiah.

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.

But Yahweh had become extremely angry with the people of Judah because of all the things that [King] Manasseh had done to infuriate him, and he continued to be very angry.

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.

He said, “I will do to Judah what I have done to Israel. I will banish the people of Judah, with the result that they will never enter my presence again. And I will reject Jerusalem, the city that I chose [to belong to me], and I will abandon the temple, the place where I said that I [MTY] should be worshiped.”

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

[If you want to know more about] [RHQ] all the other things that Josiah did, they are written in the scroll called ‘The History 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.

While Josiah was the king of Judah, King Neco of Egypt led his army north to the Euphrates River to help the king of Assyria. King Josiah tried to stop the army of Egypt at Megiddo [city], but Josiah was killed in a battle there.

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.

His officials placed his corpse in a chariot and took it back to Jerusalem, where it was buried in his own tomb, a tomb where the other previous kings had not been buried. Then the people of Judah poured [olive] oil on [the head of] Josiah’s son Joahaz, to appoint him to be the new king.

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.

Joahaz was 23 years old when he became the king [of Judah], but he ruled from Jerusalem for [only] three months. His mother was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah from Libnah [city].

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

Joahaz did many things that Yahweh said were evil, just like many of his ancestors 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.

King Neco’s [army came from Egypt and captured him and] tied him up with chains and took him as a prisoner to Riblah [town] in Hamath [district], to prevent him from continuing to rule in Jerusalem. Neco forced the people of Judah to pay to him (7,500 pounds/3,400 kg.) of silver and (75 pounds/34 kg.) 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.

King Neco appointed another son of Josiah, Eliakim, to be the new king, and he changed Eliakim’s name to Jehoiakim. Then he took Joahaz to Egypt, and later Joahaz died there in Egypt.

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.

King Jehoiakim collected a tax from the people [of Judah]. He collected more from the rich people and less from the poor people. He collected silver and gold from them, in order to pay to the king of Egypt what he commanded them to give.

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 became the king [of Judah], and he ruled from Jerusalem for eleven years. His mother was Zebidah, the daughter of Pedaiah from Rumah [town].

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

He did many things that Yahweh says are evil, like his ancestors had done.