2 Chroniques 25
1 Amasias avait vingt-cinq ans lorsqu’il commença à régner, et il régna vingt-neuf ans à Jérusalem: le nom de sa mère était Joadan de Jérusalem.
Amaziah was 25 years old when he became the king [of Judah], and he ruled from Jerusalem for 29 years. His mother was Jehoaddin; she was from Jerusalem.
2 Et il fit le bien en la présence du Seigneur, mais non avec un cœur parfait.
Amaziah did many things that pleased Yahweh, but he did not do them enthusiastically.
3 Et, lorsqu’il vit son empire affermi, il fit égorger les serviteurs qui avaient tué le roi son père;
As soon as he was in complete control of his kingdom, he caused to be executed the officials who had murdered his father.
4 Mais leurs enfants, il ne les tua point, comme il est écrit dans le Livre de la loi de Moïse, où le Seigneur a ordonné, disant: Des pères ne seront pas mis à mort pour des enfants, ni des enfants pour des pères; mais chacun mourra pour son péché.
But he did not command their sons to be executed; he obeyed what was in the laws that Moses had written. In those laws Yahweh had commanded, “People must not be executed because of [what] their children [have done], and children must not be executed for [what] their parents [have done]. People must be executed only for the sins that they themselves have committed.”
5 Amasias assembla donc Juda, et il les établit par familles, tribuns et centurions dans tout Juda et Benjamin; et il les recensa depuis vingt ans et au-dessus, et il trouva trois cent mille jeunes hommes qui pouvaient sortir pour les combats, et porter une lance et un bouclier.
Amaziah summoned the men of [the tribes of] Judah and Benjamin to come to Jerusalem, and there he put them in groups, each clan in a group by themselves. Then he appointed officers to command each group. Some officers commanded 100 men and some commanded 1,000 men. They counted the men who were at least 20 years old; altogether there were 300,000 men. They were all men who were prepared to be in the army, and able to [fight well, ] using spears and shields.
6 Il engagea aussi cent mille hommes robustes d’Israël au prix de cent talents d’argent.
Amaziah also hired 100,000 capable soldiers from Israel and paid almost four tons of silver for them.
7 Or un homme de Dieu vint vers lui, et dit: ô roi, que l’armée d’Israël ne sorte pas avec vous; car Dieu n’est point avec Israël, ni avec les enfants d’Ephraïm.
But a prophet came to him and said, “Your majesty, you must not allow those soldiers from Israel to march with your soldiers, because Yahweh does not help the people of the tribe of Ephraim or from [anywhere else in] Israel.
8 Que si vous croyez que la guerre consiste dans la force de l’armée, Dieu fera que vous serez vaincu par vos ennemis; car c’est à Dieu à secourir et à mettre en fuite.
Even if your soldiers go and fight courageously in battles, God will cause your enemies to defeat you; do not forget that God has the power to help armies or to cause them to be defeated.”
9 Et Amasias demanda à l’homme de Dieu: Que sera-t-il donc fait des cent talents que j’ai donnés aux soldats d’Israël? Et l’homme de Dieu lui répondit: Le Seigneur a de quoi pouvoir vous donner beaucoup plus que ces cent talents.
Amaziah asked that prophet, “If I do that, what about the huge amount of silver that I paid to hire those soldiers from Israel?” The prophet replied, “Yahweh is able to pay you back more money than you paid [to hire those soldiers].”
10 C’est pourquoi Amasias sépara l’armée qui lui était venue d’Ephraïm, afin qu’elle retournât en son lieu; mais c’est violemment irritées contre Juda que ces troupes retournèrent dans leur contrée.
So Amaziah told those soldiers from Israel to return home. They left to go home, but they were very angry with the king of Judah [for not allowing them to stay and fight].
11 Or Amasias, conduisit son peuple résolument; il alla dans la vallée des Salines, et il battit les enfants de Séir au nombre de dix mille.
Then Amaziah became brave, and he led his army to the Salt Valley. There they killed 10,000 men from the Edom people-group.
12 Et les enfants de Juda prirent dix autres mille hommes; ils les amenèrent sur le pic du rocher, et les précipitèrent du haut en bas, et tous furent brisés.
The army of Judah also captured 10,000 others, and took them to the top of a cliff and threw them all down over the cliff, with the result that their corpses were all smashed to pieces.
13 Mais l’armée qu’Amasias avait renvoyée, afin qu’elle n’allât pas avec lui au combat, se répandit dans les villes de Juda, depuis Samarie jusqu’à Béthoron, et, trois mille hommes tués, elle enleva un grand butin.
While that was happening, the soldiers from Israel whom Amaziah had sent home after not allowing them to fight along with his soldiers, raided cities and towns in Judea, from Samaria [city] to Beth-Horon [town]. They killed 3,000 people and took away a great amount of valuable things.
14 Or Amasias, après avoir taillé en pièces les Iduméens et avoir emporté les dieux des enfants de Séir, en fit des dieux pour lui-même; il les adorait, et leur brûlait de l’encens.
When Amaziah returned [to Jerusalem] after his army had slaughtered the soldiers from Edom, he brought the idols that were worshiped by the people of Edom. He set them up to be his own gods. Then he bowed down to [worship] them and offered sacrifices to them.
15 C’est pourquoi le Seigneur, irrité contre Amasias, envoya vers lui un prophète pour lui dire: Pourquoi avez-vous adoré les dieux qui n’ont pas délivré leur peuple de votre main?
Because of that, Yahweh was very angry with Amaziah. He sent a prophet to him, who said, “Why do you worship these foreign gods that were not even able to save their own people when your army attacked them?”
16 Comme le prophète disait ces choses, Amasias lui répondit: Est-ce que tu es conseiller du roi? Tais-toi, de peur que je ne te tue. Alors le prophète se retirant: Je sais, dit-il, que Dieu a résolu de vous tuer, parce que vous avez fait ce mal, et que de plus vous n’avez pas voulu acquiescer à mes conseils.
While he was still speaking, the king said to him, “We certainly did not appoint you to be one of my advisors. So stop [talking]! If you say anything more, [I will tell my soldiers to] kill you!” So the prophet said, “I know that God has determined to get rid of you, because you have [begun to] worship idols, and have not heeded my advice.” Then the prophet said nothing more.
17 Ainsi Amasias, roi de Juda, ayant pris une détestable résolution, envoya vers Joas, fils de Joachaz, fils de Jéhu, roi d’Israël, disant: Venez, et voyons-nous mutuellement.
Some time later Amaziah, the king of Judah, consulted his advisors. Then he sent a message to Jehoash, the king of Israel. He wrote, “Come here and let’s talk together.”
18 Mais Joas renvoya les messagers, disant: Le chardon qui est au Liban envoya vers le cèdre du Liban, disant: Donnez votre fille à mon fils pour femme; et voilà que les bêtes qui étaient dans la forêt du Liban passèrent et foulèrent aux pieds le chardon.
But Jehoash replied to King Amaziah, “One time a thistle growing [in the mountains] in Lebanon sent a message to a cedar tree saying, ‘Let your daughter marry my son.’ But a wild animal in Lebanon came along and trampled the thistle under its feet.
19 Vous avez dit: J’ai battu Edom, et c’est pourquoi votre cœur s’élève jusqu’à l’orgueil. Demeurez en votre maison: pourquoi provoquez-vous un malheur pour que vous tombiez, et vous et Juda avec vous?
[The meaning of what I am saying is that] you are saying to yourself that your army has defeated the army of Edom, so you have become very proud. But you should stay at your home. It would not be good for you to cause trouble, which would result in you and your kingdom of Judah being destroyed.”
20 Amasias ne voulut pas l’écouter, parce que la volonté du Seigneur était qu’il fût livré dans les mains des ennemis, à cause des dieux d’Edom.
But Amaziah refused to heed Jehoash’s message. That happened because God wanted Jehoash’s army to defeat them, because they were worshiping the gods of Edom.
21 Joas, roi d’Israël, monta donc, et les deux armées se mirent en présence. Or Amasias, roi de Juda, était campé à Bethsamès de Juda;
So Jehoash’s army attacked. Their two armies faced each other at Beth-Shemesh [city] in Judah.
22 Et Juda tomba devant Israël, et s’enfuit dans ses tabernacles.
The army of Judah was badly defeated by the army of Israel, and all the soldiers of Judah fled to their homes.
23 Pour Amasias, roi de Juda, fils de Joas, fils de Joachaz, Joas, roi d’Israël, le prit dans Bethsamès, et l’emmena à Jérusalem; et il détruisit aussi son mur, depuis la porte d’Ephraïm jusqu’à la porte de l’angle, espace de quatre cents coudées.
King Jehoash’s army also captured King Amaziah there. Then he brought Amaziah to Jerusalem, and his soldiers tore down the wall [that was around the city], from the Ephraim Gate to the Corner Gate. That was a section that was about 600 feet long.
24 Il emporta encore tout l’or et l’argent et tous les vases qu’il avait trouvés dans la maison de Dieu et chez Obédédom, et même dans les trésors de la maison royale; il ramena aussi à Samarie les fils des otages.
His soldiers also carried away the gold and silver and other valuable furnishings from the temple which the descendants of Obed-Edom had previously been guarding. They also took away the valuable things in the palace, and they took to Samaria some prisoners whom they had captured.
25 Or Amasias, fils de Joas, roi de Juda, vécut quinze ans après que fut mort Joas, fils de Joachaz, roi d’Israël.
King Jehoash of Israel died, and King Amaziah of Judah lived for 15 years after that.
26 Mais le reste des actions d’Amasias, des premières et des dernières, est écrit dans le Livre des rois de Juda et d’Israël.
An account of all the other things that Amaziah did while he was the king [of Judah] is written in the scroll called ‘The History of the Kings of Judah and Israel’.
27 Après qu’Amasias eut abandonné le Seigneur, on lui tendit des embûches dans Jérusalem; et, comme il se fut enfui à Lachis, on envoya, et on le tua là.
From the time that Amaziah started to disobey Yahweh, some men in Jerusalem planned to kill him. He was able to escape to Lachish [city], but those who wanted to kill him sent another group of people to Lachish and killed him there.
28 Et le rapportant sur les chevaux, on l’ensevelit avec ses pères dans la cité de David.
They put his corpse on a horse and brought it back to Jerusalem and buried it where his ancestors [had been buried] in the part of Jerusalem called ‘The City of David’.
