2 Chroniques 8
1 Or, vingt ans s’étant accomplis après que Salomon eut bâti la maison du Seigneur et sa propre maison,
Solomon’s [workers] worked for 20 years to build the temple and the king’s palace.
2 Il bâtit les villes qu’Hiram lui avait données, et y fit habiter les enfants d’Israël.
Then his [workers] rebuilt the cities that [King] Hiram had given back to Solomon, and Solomon sent Israelis to live in those cities.
3 Il s’en alla aussi à Emath-Suba, et s’en empara.
Solomon’s [army] then went to Hamath-Zobah [town] and captured it.
4 Et il bâtit Palmyre dans le désert, et les autres villes très fortifiées, il les bâtit en Emath.
His workers also rebuilt walls around Tadmor [town] in the desert, and in [the] Hamath [region] in all the towns where they kept supplies.
5 Il construisit aussi Béthoron la haute, et Béthoron la basse, villes murées, ayant des portes, des verrous et des serrures;
They rebuilt Upper Beth-Horon [town] and Lower Beth-Horon [city], and built walls around them with gates [in the walls] and bars [to fasten the gates].
6 Et de plus Balaath. toutes les villes très fortes qui étaient à Salomon, toutes les villes des quadriges, et les villes de la cavalerie: tout ce que Salomon voulut et décida, il le bâtit, dans Jérusalem, et sur le Liban, et dans tout le pays de sa domination.
They also rebuilt Baalath [town] and all the cities where supplies were kept and the cities where Solomon’s chariots and horses were kept. Solomon’s [workers] built whatever he wanted them to build, in Jerusalem and in Lebanon, and in other places in the area that he ruled.
7 Quant à tout le peuple qui était resté des Héthéens, des Amorrhéens, des Phérézéens, des Hévéens et des Jébuséens, qui n’étaient point de la race d’Israël,
Solomon forced people from many other groups who were not Israelis to work for him like slaves. They were people from the Heth, Amor, Periz, Hiv, and Jebus people-groups.
8 Mais des enfants et des descendants de ceux que les enfants d’Israël n’avaient point tués, Salomon les rendit dépendants et tributaires jusqu’à ce jour.
They were descendants of groups whom the Israelis had not completely destroyed. Solomon forced them to become his slaves, and they are still slaves.
9 Pour les enfants d’Israël, il ne les employa pas à travailler aux ouvrages du roi; car c’étaient des hommes de guerre, les premiers chefs et les commandants de ses quadriges et de sa cavalerie.
But Solomon did not force Israelis to work for him. Israelis became his soldiers and commanders of his chariots and his chariot-drivers.
10 Or tous les princes de l’armée du roi Salomon étaient au nombre de deux cent cinquante, qui instruisaient le peuple.
They were also King Solomon’s chief officials. There were 250 of them, and they supervised the workers.
11 Quant à la fille de Pharaon, il la transporta de la cité de David dans la maison qu’il lui avait bâtie; car le roi dit: Ma femme n’habitera pas dans la maison de David, roi d’Israël, parce quelle a été sanctifiée, du moment que l’arche du Seigneur y est entrée.
Solomon moved his wife, who was the daughter of the king of Egypt, from [the place outside Jerusalem called] ‘The City of David’ to the place that his workers had built for her. He said, “I do not want my wife to live in the palace that [my father] King David’s workers built, because the Sacred Chest [was in that palace for a while], and any place where the Sacred Chest has been is holy.”
12 Alors Salomon offrit des holocaustes au Seigneur sur l’autel du Seigneur, qu’il avait construit devant le portique,
On the altar that Solomon’s [workers] had built in front of the entrance [to the temple], Solomon sacrificed many offerings that were to be completely burned.
13 Pour qu’on y offrît chaque jour des sacrifices, selon le commandement de Moïse, aux jours du sabbat, aux calendes, et aux jours de fête, trois fois par an, c’est-à-dire à la solennité des azymes, à la solennité des semaines et à la solennité des tabernacles.
He did that to obey the rules about what sacrifices Moses had declared should be made. These included sacrifices for every day and for the Sabbath days and to celebrate each day on which there was a new moon and for the three other festivals that were celebrated each year. Those festivals were the Festival of Eating Unleavened Bread, the Harvest Festival, and the Festival of Living in Temporary Shelters.
14 Et il établit, selon les prescriptions de David, son père, les devoirs des prêtres dans leur ministère, les Lévites dans leur ordre, pour chanter des louanges et servir devant les prêtres, suivant le rite de chaque jour, et les portiers, d’après la distribution qui en avait été faite pour chaque porte; ainsi, en effet, l’avait ordonné David, l’homme de Dieu.
Obeying what his father David had commanded, he appointed the groups of priests for their work, and he appointed the descendants of Levi to lead the people while they sang to praise Yahweh and while they assisted the priests in their daily work. He also appointed groups of them to guard all the gates, because that was also what David, the man who pleased God [very well], had commanded.
15 Touchant les commandements du roi, ni les prêtres ni les Lévites n’omirent rien de tout ce qu’il avait ordonné, et par rapport à la garde des trésors,
The priests and other descendants of Levi obeyed completely everything that the king commanded, including [taking care of] the storerooms.
16 Salomon eut toutes les dépenses préparées depuis le jour qu’il jeta les fondements de la maison jusqu’au jour où il l’acheva.
They did all the work [of building the temple] that Solomon told them to do, until it was all completed. So they finishing building the temple.
17 Alors Salomon alla à Asiongaber et à Aïlath, sur le bord de la mer Rouge, qui est dans la terre d’Edom.
Then some of Solomon’s men went to Ezion-Geber and Elath [cities] on the coast of the Red Sea, an area that belonged to the Edom people-group.
18 Or Hiram lui envoya, par l’entremise de ses serviteurs, des vaisseaux et des matelots connaissant la mer, et ils allèrent avec les serviteurs de Salomon à Ophir, et ils emportèrent de là quatre cent cinquante talents d’or, et ils les portèrent au roi Salomon.
King Hiram sent to Solomon from [Tyre city] some ships that were commanded by his officers. They were men who were experienced sailors. These men went in the ships with Solomon’s men to [the] Ophir [region] and brought back about 17 tons of gold, which they delivered to King Solomon.
