2 Chroniques 33
1 Manassé avait douze ans quand il commença à régner, et il régna cinquante-cinq ans à Jérusalem.
Manasseh was 12 years old when he became the king [of Judah], and he ruled from Jerusalem for 55 years.
2 Or il fit le mal devant le Seigneur, suivant les abominations des nations que le Seigneur avait détruites devant les enfants d’Israël.
He did many things that Yahweh considered to be evil. He imitated the disgusting things that were formerly done by the people-groups that Yahweh had expelled from Israel as his people advanced [though the land].
3 Et il en revint à restaurer les hauts lieux qu’avait démolis Ezéchias, son père; il construisit des autels aux Baalim, il fit des bois sacrés, et il adora toute la milice du ciel, et la servit.
He commanded his workers to rebuild the shrines [for worshiping idols] that his father Hezekiah had destroyed. He told them to set up altars to [honor] the statues of Baal, and to make altars to [honor the goddess] Asherah. He bowed down to [worship] all the stars.
4 Il bâtit aussi des autels dans la maison du Seigneur, de laquelle le Seigneur avait dit: C’est dans Jérusalem que sera mon nom éternellement.
He directed his workers to build altars [for foreign gods] in the temple, about which Yahweh had said, “It is here in Jerusalem that I want people to worship me, forever.”
5 Or il les bâtit à toute l’armée du ciel, dans les deux parvis du temple du Seigneur.
He directed that altars for [worshiping] all the stars be built in both of the courtyards outside the temple.
6 Et il fit passer ses fils par le feu dans la vallée de Bénennom: il observait les songes, il suivait les augures, il s’adonnait à l’art magique, il avait avec lui des magiciens et des enchanteurs, et il commit de grand maux devant le Seigneur, jusqu’à l’irriter.
He even sacrificed [some of] his own sons and burned them in a fire in Hinnom Valley. He performed rituals to practice sorcery. He asked fortune-tellers for advice. He performed witchcraft. He talked to people who consulted the spirits of people who had died to find out what would happen in the future. He did many things that Yahweh considered o be very evil, things that caused Yahweh to become very angry.
7 Il mit aussi une image taillée au ciseau et une statue de fonte dans la maison du Seigneur, de laquelle Dieu avait dit à David et à Salomon, son fils: C’est dans cette maison et dans Jérusalem, que j’ai choisie d’entre toutes les tribus d’Israël, que j’établirai mon nom pour jamais.
Manasseh took a carved idol [that his workers had made] and put it in the temple. That is the temple concerning which God had said to David and to his son Solomon, “My temple will be here in Jerusalem, the city that I have chosen [where I want people to] worship me, forever.
8 Et je ne ferai pas mouvoir le pied d’Israël de la terre que j’ai livrée à leurs pères, pourvu seulement qu’ils aient soin d’accomplir ce que je leur ai ordonné, toute la loi, les cérémonies et les ordonnances, que je leur ai données par l’entremise de Moïse.
If they will obey all the laws and decrees and regulations that I told Moses to give to them, I will not again force the Israeli people to leave this land that I gave to their ancestors.”
9 Manassé séduisit donc Juda et les habitants de Jérusalem, en sorte qu’ils firent plus de mal que toutes les autres nations que le Seigneur avait exterminées de la face des enfants d’Israël.
But Manasseh led the people of Jerusalem and other places in Judah to do things that are wrong, with the result that they did more evil than was done by the people in the people-groups that Yahweh had expelled as the Israeli people advanced [through the land].
10 Et Dieu lui parla, à lui et à son peuple, et ils ne voulurent point faire attention.
Yahweh spoke to Manasseh and the people of Judah, but they paid no attention.
11 C’est pourquoi Dieu amena sur eux les princes de l’armée du roi des Assyriens; ils prirent donc Manassé, et après l’avoir lié de chaînes et lui avoir mis des entraves, ils l’emmenèrent à Babylone.
So Yahweh caused the army commanders of Assyria [and their soldiers] to [come to Jerusalem, and they] captured Manasseh. They put a hook in his nose and put bronze chains on his [feet] and took him to Babylon.
12 Lorsque Manassé se trouva dans cette détresse, il pria le Seigneur son Dieu, et fit beaucoup pénitence devant le Dieu de ses pères.
There, while he was suffering, he humbled himself greatly in the presence of Yahweh, the God whom his ancestors [worshiped], and pleaded with Yahweh to help him.
13 Et il l’implora, et le supplia avec instance; et le Seigneur exauça sa prière, et le ramena à Jérusalem dans son royaume; et Manassé reconnut que le Seigneur était le vrai Dieu.
When he prayed, Yahweh heard him and pitied him. So he [allowed him to] return to Jerusalem and [to] rule his kingdom again. Then Manasseh realized that Yahweh is [an all-powerful] God.
14 Après cela, il bâtit un mur hors de la cité de David, à l’occident de Gihon, dans la vallée, depuis l’entrée de la porte des Poissons, à travers l’enceinte, jusqu’à Ophel, et il l’éleva très haut: il établit aussi des princes de l’armée dans toutes les villes de Juda fortifiées;
Later, Manasseh’s [workers] rebuilt the eastern section of the outer wall around Jerusalem, and [they] made it higher. That section extended from Gihon Spring [north] to the Fish Gate, and around the part of the city that they called Ophel [Hill]. Manasseh also appointed army officers to guard each of the cities in Judah that had walls around them.
15 Et il enleva les dieux étrangers et le simulacre de la maison du Seigneur, comme aussi les autels qu’il avait faits sur la montagne de la maison du Seigneur et dans Jérusalem, et il jeta tout hors de la ville.
Manasseh’s [workers] removed from the temple the idols and the stone statues of gods of other nations. Manasseh also [told them to] remove the altars that they had previously built on Zion Hill and in [other places in] Jerusalem. He had all those things thrown out of the city.
16 De plus il restaura l’autel du Seigneur, et il immola dessus des victimes et des hosties pacifiques et de louange; et il ordonna à Juda de servir le Seigneur Dieu d’Israël.
Then he [told them to] repair the altar of Yahweh, and he offered sacrifices to restore fellowship with Yahweh and to thank him. And he told [the people of] Judah that they must worship [only] Yahweh.
17 Cependant le peuple immolait encore sur les hauts lieux au Seigneur son Dieu.
The people continued to offer sacrifices on the hilltops, but only to Yahweh their God.
18 Mais le reste des faits de Manassé, sa supplication à son Dieu, et les paroles des Voyants qui lui parlaient au nom du Seigneur Dieu d’Israël, sont contenus dans le Livre des actions des rois d’Israël;
The other things that happened while Manasseh was ruling, including his prayer to God and the messages from Yahweh that the prophets gave to him, are written in the scroll called ‘The History of the Kings of Israel’.
19 De plus, sa prière à Dieu, et la manière dont il fut exaucé, tous ses péchés, le mépris de Dieu, comme aussi les endroits dans lesquels il bâtit des hauts lieux, et fit des bois sacrés et des statues, avant qu’il fît pénitence, sont écrits parmi les paroles d’Hozaï.
What Manasseh prayed and how God pitied him because he pleaded to God, and also his sins and ways in which he disobeyed God, and the [list of] places where he built shrines and set up poles to [honor the goddess] Asherah and other idols [before he humbled himself], are written in what the prophets wrote.
20 Manassé dormit donc avec ses pères, et on l’ensevelit dans sa maison; et son fils Amon régna en sa place.
Manasseh died and was buried in his palace. Then his son Amon became the king [of Judah].
21 Amon avait vingt-deux ans lorsqu’il commença à régner, et il régna deux ans dans Jérusalem.
Amon was 22 years old when he became king, and he ruled in Jerusalem for two years.
22 Et il fit le mal en la présence du Seigneur, comme avait fait Manassé son père, et il sacrifia à toutes les idoles que Manassé avait fabriquées, et il les servit.
He did things that Yahweh considered to be evil, like his father Manasseh had done. Amon worshiped all the idols that Manasseh’s [workers] had made.
23 Et il ne révéra point la face du Seigneur, comme la révéra Manassé son père, et il commit des crimes beaucoup plus grands.
But he did not humble himself and turn to Yahweh like his father did. So he became more sinful than his father had been.
24 Or ses serviteurs, ayant conspiré contre lui, le tuèrent dans sa maison.
Then Amon’s officials made plans to kill him. They assassinated him in his palace.
25 Mais le reste du peuple, après avoir taillé en pièces ceux qui avaient tué Amon, établit roi Josias, son fils, en sa place.
But then the people of Judah killed all those who had assassinated Amon, and they appointed his son Josiah to be their king.
