2 Rois 17
1 La douzième année d'Achaz, roi de Juda, Osée, fils d'Éla, devint roi sur Israël, à Samarie, et il régna neuf ans.
Elah’s son Hoshea began to rule Israel after King Ahaz had ruled Judah for twelve years. Hoshea ruled in Samaria for nine years.
2 Il fit ce qui est mauvais aux yeux de l'Éternel; non pas toutefois comme les rois d'Israël qui avaient été avant lui.
He did many things that Yahweh considered to be evil, but he did not do as many evil things as the previous kings of Israel had done.
3 Salmanéser, roi des Assyriens, monta contre lui; et Osée lui fut assujetti, et il lui envoyait un tribut.
[The army of] King Shalmaneser of Assyria attacked and defeated [the army of] King Hoshea. As a result, the Israelis were forced to pay a lot of tribute/taxes to Assyria each year.
4 Mais le roi des Assyriens découvrit qu'Osée conspirait; car Osée avait envoyé des députés vers So, roi d'Égypte, et n'envoyait plus au roi d'Assyrie le tribut annuel. C'est pourquoi le roi des Assyriens l'enferma, et le lia dans une prison.
But several years later, Hoshea secretly planned to rebel against the rulers of Assyria. He sent messengers to So/Osorkon, the king of Egypt, [asking if his army could help the Israelis fight against the army of Assyria]. Hoshea also stopped paying the tribute/taxes that he had been paying to Assyria every year. But the king of Assyria found out about those things, so he told his officers to put Hoshea in prison.
5 Puis le roi des Assyriens monta par tout le pays. Il monta aussi à Samarie, et l'assiégea pendant trois ans.
Then he [brought the army of] Assyria to Israel, and they attacked everywhere in that land. His army surrounded Samaria [city] for three years.
6 La neuvième année d'Osée, le roi des Assyriens prit Samarie; et il transporta les Israélites en Assyrie, et les fit habiter à Chalach et sur le Chabor, fleuve de Gozan, et dans les villes des Mèdes.
Finally, after King Hoshea had been ruling Israel for nine years, the army of Assyria [MTY] [forcefully entered] the city [and] captured [the people]. They took the Israeli people to Assyria and forced some of them to live in Halah [town]. They forced others to live near the Habor River in Gozan district. They forced others to live in the towns where the Mede people-group lived.
7 Car les enfants d'Israël avaient péché contre l'Éternel leur Dieu, qui les avait fait remonter du pays d'Égypte, de dessous la main de Pharaon, roi d'Égypte, et ils avaient adoré d'autres dieux.
Those things happened because the Israeli people had sinned against Yahweh their God. He had rescued their [ancestors] from the power [MTY] of the king of Egypt and brought them [safely] out of Egypt, but later they began to worship other gods.
8 Ils avaient suivi les coutumes des nations que l'Éternel avait chassées devant les enfants d'Israël, et celles qu'avaient établies les rois d'Israël.
They imitated the things that the heathen/pagan people-groups did. Those were the groups that Yahweh had expelled as the Israelis occupied their land. The Israeli people also did the evil things that the kings of Israel (introduced/showed to them).
9 Et les enfants d'Israël firent en secret contre l'Éternel leur Dieu des choses qui ne sont pas droites; et ils se bâtirent des hauts lieux dans toutes leurs villes, depuis la tour des gardes jusqu'à la ville forte.
The Israeli people also secretly did many things that were not pleasing to Yahweh their God. They built shrines [to worship idols] in all their cities, including small towns and big cities with walls around them.
10 Ils se dressèrent des statues et des emblèmes d'Ashéra sur toute haute colline et sous tout arbre vert,
They set up stone pillars [to honor gods], and poles [to worship the goddess] Asherah at the top of every high hill and under every [big] tree.
11 Et firent là des encensements, dans tous les hauts lieux, comme les nations que l'Éternel avait chassées devant eux. Ils firent des choses mauvaises, pour irriter l'Éternel,
The Israelis burned incense in every place where they worshiped those gods, just like the people-groups who lived there previously had done—the groups that Yahweh had expelled from the land. The Israelis did many wicked things that caused Yahweh to become angry.
12 Et servirent les idoles, dont l'Éternel leur avait dit: Vous ne ferez point cela.
Yahweh warned them many times that they should not worship idols, but they did it anyway.
13 Et l'Éternel somma Israël et Juda par chacun de ses prophètes et de ses voyants, leur disant: Revenez de vos mauvaises voies, gardez mes commandements et mes statuts, selon toute la loi que j'ai prescrite à vos pères, et que je vous ai envoyée par mes serviteurs les prophètes.
Yahweh frequently sent his prophets and (seers/those who saw visions from Yahweh) to warn the people of Israel and the people of Judah. The message that Yahweh gave them was, “Turn away from all your evil behavior. Obey my commands and my laws, the laws that I told your ancestors [to obey] and which I told the prophets who served me to tell to you [again].”
14 Mais ils n'écoutèrent point, et ils roidirent leur cou, comme avaient fait leurs pères, qui n'avaient point cru à l'Éternel leur Dieu.
But the Israeli people would not pay attention. They were stubborn [IDM] just like their ancestors were. Just like their ancestors did, they refused to believe in Yahweh their God.
15 Ils méprisèrent ses statuts, et l'alliance qu'il avait traitée avec leurs pères, et les témoignages par lesquels il les avait sommés. Ils allèrent après la vanité, et devinrent vains, et après les nations qui étaient autour d'eux, bien que l'Éternel eût défendu de faire comme elles.
They rejected Yahweh’s laws and the agreement that he had made with their ancestors. They ignored Yahweh’s warnings. They worshiped worthless idols and as a result they themselves became worthless. Although Yahweh had commanded them not to imitate the evil behavior of the people-groups that lived near them, they disobeyed that command.
16 Et, ayant abandonné tous les commandements de l'Éternel leur Dieu, ils se firent des images de fonte, deux veaux; ils firent des emblèmes d'Ashéra, ils se prosternèrent devant toute l'armée des cieux, et ils servirent Baal.
The Israeli people disobeyed all of Yahweh’s commands. They made two metal calves [to worship]. They set up two poles [to worship the goddess] Asherah, and they worshiped [the god] Baal, and the sun, the moon, and the stars.
17 Ils firent aussi passer par le feu leurs fils et leurs filles; ils s'adonnèrent aux divinations et aux sortilèges; et ils se vendirent pour faire ce qui déplaît à l'Éternel, afin de l'irriter.
They also burned their own sons and daughters to be sacrifices [to those gods]. They went to fortune-tellers and they practiced sorcery. They continually chose [MET] to do [all kinds of] evil things that caused Yahweh to become angry.
18 Aussi l'Éternel s'irrita fort contre les Israélites, et les rejeta de devant sa face. Il ne demeura de reste que la seule tribu de Juda.
So, because Yahweh was very angry with the Israeli people, he allowed [their enemies] to take them away [from their country]. Only the people of the tribe of Judah were left [in the land].
19 Juda même ne garda pas les commandements de l'Éternel, son Dieu; mais ils marchèrent dans les coutumes qu'Israël avait établies.
But even the people of Judah did not obey the commands of Yahweh their God. They imitated the evil customs that the Israelis had introduced.
20 Et l'Éternel rejeta toute la race d'Israël; il les humilia, et les livra entre les mains des spoliateurs, jusqu'à les bannir loin de sa face.
So Yahweh rejected all the people of Israel and of Judah. He punished them by allowing the armies of other nations to defeat them [and take them away]. He got rid of all of them.
21 Car Israël fit schisme d'avec la maison de David. Ils établirent roi Jéroboam, fils de Nébat, et Jéroboam détourna Israël de suivre l'Éternel; et il leur fit commettre un grand péché.
Earlier, when Yahweh allowed the people of Israel to separate/break away from the area [MTY] that King David [had estabished], they chose Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, to be their king. Then Jeroboam enticed the people of Israel to stop worshiping Yahweh [and to worship idols instead]. He led them to commit great sins.
22 Et les enfants d'Israël marchèrent dans tous les péchés que Jéroboam avait commis. Ils ne s'en détournèrent point;
And the Israeli people continued to do the evil things that Jeroboam introduced. They did not turn away from those sins,
23 Tellement qu'à la fin l'Éternel les bannit loin de sa face, selon qu'il en avait parlé par tous ses serviteurs, les prophètes. Et Israël fut transporté de son pays en Assyrie, où il est jusqu'à ce jour.
until finally Yahweh got rid of them. That was just what his prophets had warned would happen. The Israeli people were taken away to the land of Assyria, and they still remain there.
24 Alors le roi des Assyriens fit venir des gens de Babylone, de Cutha, d'Avva, de Hamath et de Sépharvaïm, et les établit dans les villes de Samarie, à la place des enfants d'Israël; ils prirent possession de la Samarie, et habitèrent dans ses villes.
The king of Assyria [ordered his soldiers to] take [groups of] people from Babylon, Cuthah, Avva, Hamath, and Sepharvaim [cities] to [the] Samaria [region], and to resettle them in the towns there, to take the place of the Israelis [who lived there previously]. Those people took control over [the whole] Samaria [region] and lived in the towns there.
25 Or, lorsqu'ils commencèrent d'y habiter, ils ne craignaient pas l'Éternel; et l'Éternel envoya contre eux des lions qui les tuaient.
But those people [who came from other countries] did not worship Yahweh when they first arrived in Samaria. So Yahweh sent lions to kill some of them.
26 Et on dit au roi des Assyriens: Les nations que tu as transportées et établies dans les villes de la Samarie ne connaissent pas la manière de servir le dieu du pays, et il a envoyé des lions qui les tuent, parce qu'elles ne connaissent pas la manière de servir le dieu du pays.
Then those people sent a message to the king of Assyria. They wrote, “We people who have resettled in the towns in Samaria do not know how to worship the God [that the Israelis worshiped] in this land. So he has sent lions among us to kill us, because we have not worshiped him correctly.”
27 Alors le roi des Assyriens donna cet ordre: Faites-y aller quelqu'un des sacrificateurs que vous avez amenés captifs; qu'il y aille, qu'il y demeure, et qu'il enseigne la manière de servir le dieu du pays.
[When] the king of Assyria [read this letter, he] commanded [his officers], “You brought many priests here from Samaria. Send one of them back there. Tell him to teach the people who are now living there how to worship correctly the God whom the Israelis worshiped in that land.”
28 Ainsi l'un des sacrificateurs qu'on avait transportés de Samarie, vint et habita à Béthel; et il leur enseigna comment ils devaient craindre l'Éternel.
So [the officers did that]. They sent one of the Israeli priests back to Samaria. That priest went to live in Bethel [city], and he taught the people there how to worship Yahweh.
29 Mais chaque nation se fit ses dieux, et les mit dans les maisons des hauts lieux que les Samaritains avaient faits; chaque nation les mit dans les villes où elle habitait.
But the people [who returned from Babylon and started to live in Samaria and] continued to make their own idols. They placed them in the shrines that the Israelis had built there. The people of each people-group made idols in the cities in which they were living.
30 Les gens de Babylone firent Succoth-Bénoth; les gens de Cuth firent Nergal; les gens de Hamath firent Ashima;
The people from Babylon made idols to represent their god Succoth-Benoth. The people from Cuthah made idols to represent their god Nergal. The people from Hamath made idols to represent their god Ashima.
31 Les Avviens firent Nibchaz et Tharthac; et les Sépharviens brûlaient au feu leurs enfants en l'honneur d'Adrammélec et d'Anammélec, dieux de Sépharvaïm.
The people of Avva made idols to represent their gods Nibhaz and Tartak. The people from Sepharvaim sacrificed their own children. They completely burned them [in pits where hot fires were kept burning, ] as offerings to their gods Adrammelech and Anammelech.
32 Ils adoraient aussi l'Éternel. Mais ils établirent pour sacrificateurs des hauts lieux, des gens pris d'entre eux tous, qui sacrifiaient pour eux dans les maisons des hauts lieux.
But those people also worshiped Yahweh, and they appointed from among their own groups many people to be priests at the shrines on the tops of the hills, in order that those priests could offer sacrifices for them there.
33 Ainsi ils craignaient l'Éternel, et ils servaient en même temps leurs dieux, à la manière des nations d'où on les avait transportés.
So they revered Yahweh, but they also worshiped their own gods, just as the people living in the countries from which they had been taken to Samaria did.
34 Et ils suivent jusqu'à ce jour leurs premières coutumes; ils ne craignent pas l'Éternel; ils ne font ni selon leurs ordonnances et leurs coutumes, ni selon la loi et le commandement que l'Éternel Dieu donna aux enfants de Jacob, qu'il avait nommé Israël.
They still keep their old customs. They really do not worship Yahweh, and they do not obey all the laws and commands that Yahweh gave to the descendants of Jacob, to whom he gave the new name Israel.
35 Car l'Éternel traita alliance avec eux, et leur donna ce commandement: Vous ne craindrez point d'autres dieux; vous ne vous prosternerez point devant eux; vous ne les servirez point, et vous ne leur sacrifierez point.
Yahweh had previously made an agreement with their ancestors, commanding them not to worship other gods or bow down to honor them or do other things to please them or offer sacrifices to them.
36 Mais vous craindrez l'Éternel qui vous a fait monter hors du pays d'Égypte par une grande force et à bras étendu. C'est devant lui que vous vous prosternerez; c'est à lui que vous sacrifierez.
He had said to them, “You must have an awesome respect for me, Yahweh, the one who brought you out of Egypt with my very great power [DOU]. I am the one whom you must bow down to honor, and I am the one to whom you must offer sacrifices.
37 Les statuts, les ordonnances, la loi et les commandements qu'il a écrits pour vous, vous prendrez garde à les pratiquer toujours; et vous ne craindrez pas d'autres dieux.
You must always obey the laws and commands that I [told Moses to] write for you. You must not worship other gods.
38 Vous n'oublierez donc pas l'alliance que j'ai traitée avec vous; vous ne craindrez pas d'autres dieux;
And you must not forget the agreement that I made with your ancestors. You must not revere other gods.
39 Mais c'est l'Éternel votre Dieu que vous craindrez, et il vous délivrera de la main de vos ennemis.
Instead, you must revere me, Yahweh, your God. If you do that, I will rescue you from the power [MTY] of all your enemies.”
40 Mais ils n'écoutèrent point, et ils firent selon leurs premières coutumes.
But the people [from those foreign nations] would not heed what Yahweh said. Instead, they continued to adhere to their old customs.
41 Ainsi ces nations craignaient l'Éternel, et servaient en même temps leurs idoles. Or leurs enfants, et les enfants de leurs enfants, font jusqu'à ce jour comme leurs pères ont fait.
So, they worshiped Yahweh, but they also worshiped their idols. And their descendants still do the same thing.
