2 Rois 24
1 En ce temps-là, Nabuchodonosor, roi de Babylone, vint, et Joacin lui fut asservi trois ans; ensuite il changea de pensée, et il refusa de lui obéir.
While Jehoiakim was ruling [Judah, the army of] King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon invaded Judah. [They defeated the Judean army, and as a result, ] Jehoiakim was required to pay a lot of tribute/taxes to King Nebuchadnezzar. But after three years, Jehoiakim rebelled.
2 Alors, le Seigneur envoya contre lui des bandes de la Chaldée, de la Syrie, de Moab et des fils d'Ammon; il les envoya en la terre de Juda pour prévaloir sur elle, selon la parole que le Seigneur avait dite par la voix de ses serviteurs les prophètes;
Then Yahweh sent raiders from Babylonia and Syria, and from the Moab and Ammon people-groups, to attack the people of Judah and get rid of them, just as Yahweh had told his prophets to warn the people would happen.
3 De plus, la colère du Seigneur contre Juda voulait l'expulser de devant sa face à cause des péchés de Manassé, et de tout ce qu'avait fait ce roi;
These things happened to the people of Judah according to what Yahweh commanded. [He had decided] to get rid of the people of Judah because of the many sins that King Manasseh [had committed].
4 Car il avait versé le sang innocent, il en avait rempli Jérusalem; et le Seigneur ne voulait point s'apaiser.
Manasseh had even caused many innocent people in Jerusalem to be killed, and Yahweh would not forgive that.
5 Quant au reste de l'histoire de Joacin, n'est-il pas écrit au livre des Faits et gestes des rois de Juda?
The other things that happened while Jehoiakim was king, and all the things that he did, are written in the scroll called ‘The History of the Kings of Judah’.
6 Et Joacin s'endormit avec ses pères, et son fils Joachim, régna à sa place.
When Jehoiakim died, his son Jehoiachin became the king.
7 Et le roi d'Égypte ne sortit plus de sa contrée, parce que, depuis le torrent d'Égypte jusqu'à l'Euphrate, le roi de Babylone avait pris tout ce qui appartenait à l'Égyptien.
[The army of] the king of Babylon [defeated the army of Egypt, and] took control of all the area that the Egyptians formerly controlled, from the brook [at the border] of Egypt [in the south] to the Euphrates River [in the north]. So [the army of] the king of Egypt did not return [to attack Judah] again.
8 Joachim avait dix-huit ans quand il monta sur le trône, et il régna trois mois à Jérusalem; sa mère se nommait Nestha, fille d'Ellanastham, de Jérusalem.
Jehoiachin was 18 years old when he became the king of Judah. His mother’s name was Nehushta; she was the daughter of a man from Jerusalem named Elnathan. Jehoiachin ruled in Jerusalem for [only] three months.
9 Et il fit le mal devant le Seigneur, comme avait fait son père.
Jehoiachin did many things that Yahweh considered to be evil, just as his father had done.
10 En ce temps-là, Nabuchodonosor, roi de Babylone, marcha sur Jérusalem, et la ville fut investie.
[While Jehoiachin was king, ] some officers of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came [along with the whole Babylonian army] to Jerusalem, and they surrounded the city.
11 Et Nabuchodonosor mit le siège devant la ville, et ses serviteurs la tinrent assiégée.
While they were doing that, Nebuchadnezzar himself came to the city.
12 Or, Joachim, roi de Juda, se rendit au roi de Babylone, lui, ses serviteurs, sa mère, ses chefs et ses eunuques; le roi de Babylone le fit captif en la huitième année de son règne.
Then King Jehoiachin and his mother and his advisors and important officers and palace officials all surrendered to the Babylonian army. These thngs happened when Nebuchadnezzar had been king for eight years. He arrested Jehoiachin and took him to Babylon.
13 Et il enleva de Jérusalem tous les trésors du temple du Seigneur et tous les trésors du palais du roi; il brisa tous les vaisseaux d'or qu'avait faits, dans le temple, le roi Salomon, selon la parole du Seigneur.
Just as Yahweh had said would happen, Nebuchadnezzar’s [soldiers] took [to Babylon] all the valuable things from Yahweh’s temple and from the king’s palace. They cut apart all the gold items that King Solomon had put in the temple.
14 Et il emmena en captivité, au nombre de dix mille, tous les chefs, tous les hommes vaillants, et en outre tous les charpentiers et tous les maçons; il ne resta dans la terre que les indigents.
They took from Jerusalem [to Babylon] 10,000 people, including the important officials and the best soldiers and the people who made and repaired things that were made of metal. Only the very poor people were left in Judah.
15 Il transporta aussi à Babylone, Joachim, la mère du roi, les femmes du roi et ses eunuques; il conduisit tous les riches de la terre de Jérusalem à Babylone,
Nebuchadnezzar’s soldiers also took to Babylon Jehoiachin’s wives and officials, his mother, and [all] the important people.
16 Et tous les hommes dans la force de l'âge au nombre de soixante-dix mille, et mille charpentiers ou maçons, tous faisant la guerre. Le roi Nabuchodonosor les emmena captifs à Babylone.
They also took to Babylon 7,000 of the best soldiers and 1,000 men who knew how to make and repair things that are made from metal. All of these people whom they took were strong and able to fight in wars.
17 Et il remplaça Joachim par Batthanias, fils de Josias, et il donna à ce roi le nom de Sédécias.
Then the king of Babylon appointed Jehoiachin’s uncle, Mattaniah, to be the king [of Judah], and he changed Mattaniah’s name to Zedekiah.
18 Sédécias avait vingt-neuf ans quand il monta sur le trône, et il régna onze ans à Jérusalem; le nom de sa mère était Amital, fille de Jérémie.
When Zedekiah was twenty-one years old, he became king, and he ruled in Jerusalem for eleven years. His mother’s name was Hamutal; she was the daughter of a man named Jeremiah from Libnah [town].
19 Et il fit le mal devant le Seigneur, comme avait fait Joacin;
But Zedekiah did many things that Yahweh considered to be evil, just as Jehoiakim had done.
20 Car, telle était la pensée du Seigneur contre Jérusalem et contre Juda, jusqu'à ce qu'il les eut expulsés de devant sa face. Or, Sédécias se révolta contre le roi de Babylone.
Yahweh was very angry. So (and finally/after he had been patient a long time) he expelled the people of Jerusalem and [the other places in] Judah and sent them to Babylon. [That is what happened when] Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
