2 Chroniques 1
1 Salomon, fils de David, fut donc affermi dans la royauté, et le Seigneur son Dieu était avec lui; et le Seigneur l’éleva très haut.
David’s son [King] Solomon was able to gain complete control over his kingdom, because Yahweh his God helped him and enabled him to become very powerful.
2 Et Salomon donna des ordres à tout Israël, aux tribuns, aux centurions, aux autres chefs, aux magistrats et aux princes des familles;
[When] David [was king, he had arranged for a new] Sacred Tent [to be] made in Jerusalem. Then David [and the Israeli leaders] had brought God’s Sacred Chest from Kiriath-Jearim [city] to the new Sacred Tent in Jerusalem that he had prepared for it. But [when Solomon became the king, ] the first Sacred Tent was still at Gibeon [city]. That was the tent that Moses, the man who served God [well], had [arranged to be] made in the desert. And the bronze altar that Bezalel, the son of Uri and grandson of Hur, had made was also still in Gibeon, in front of the first Sacred Tent. [One day] Solomon summoned the army commanders of 1,000 soldiers and the commanders of 100 soldiers and the judges and all the other leaders in Israel. He told them to go with him to Gibeon. So they all went to a hill in Gibeon [where the Sacred Tent was], and Solomon and all the others with him worshiped Yahweh there.
3 Et il s’en alla avec toute la multitude au haut lieu de Gabaon, où était le tabernacle de l’alliance de Dieu, que fit Moïse, serviteur de Dieu, dans le désert.
4 Quant à l’arche de Dieu, David l’avait amenée de Cariathiarim au lieu qu’il lui avait préparé, et où il lui avait dressé un tabernacle, c’est-à-dire à Jérusalem.
5 Mais l’autel d’airain qu’avait fait Béséléel fils d’Uri, fils de Hur, était resté là devant le tabernacle du Seigneur; et Salomon alla le chercher, lui et toute l’assemblée.
6 Et Salomon monta sur l’autel d’airain devant le tabernacle de l’alliance du Seigneur, et il y offrit mille hosties.
Then Solomon went up to the bronze altar in front of the Sacred Tent, and he offered 1,000 animals to be [killed and] completely burned [on the altar].
7 Or voilà qu’en cette nuit même Dieu lui apparut, disant: Demande ce que tu veux que je te donne.
That night God appeared to Solomon [in a dream] and said to him, “Request whatever you want me to give to you.”
8 Alors Salomon dit à Dieu: C’est vous qui avez fait une grande miséricorde à David, mon père, et qui m’avez établi roi à sa place.
Solomon replied, “You were very kind to David my father, and now you have appointed me to be the king to succeed him.
9 Maintenant donc, Seigneur Dieu, qu’elle s’accomplisse, la promesse que vous avez faite à David, mon père: car c’est vous qui m’avez établi roi sur votre peuple, qui est aussi innombrable que la poussière de la terre.
So Yahweh my God, you have caused me to become the king to rule people who are as many as the particles of dirt on the earth. So do what you promised my father David.
10 Donnez-moi de la sagesse et de l’intelligence, enfin que j’entre et sorte devant votre peuple; car qui peut juger dignement ce peuple qui est vôtre, et qui est si grand?
Please enable me to be wise and to know [what I should do], in order that I may rule these people [well], because there is no one who can rule all this great nation of yours [without your help].”
11 Alors Dieu répondit à Salomon: Parce que cela a plu de préférence à ton cœur, et que tu ne m’as point demandé des richesses, ni des biens, ni de la gloire, ni les âmes de ceux qui te haïssent, ni des jours de vie très nombreux; mais que tu as demandé de la sagesse et de la science, afin que tu puisses juger mon peuple sur lequel je t’ai établi roi:
God replied, “[I am pleased with what] you desire; you have not requested a huge amount of money or to be honored or that your enemies be killed. And you have not requested that you live for a long time. Instead, you have requested that [I enable] you [to] be wise and [to] know [what you should do] in order that you may govern [well] my people whom I have appointed you to rule.
12 La sagesse et la science te sont données; et quant à des richesses, à des biens, à de la gloire, je t’en donnerai de telle sorte, que nul parmi les rois, ni avant toi, ni après toi, n’aura été semblable à toi.
Therefore I will enable you to be wise and to know [what you should do to rule my people well]. But I will also enable you to have a huge amount of money and to be honored, more than anyone who was previously a king ever was honored, more than anyone who later becomes king will be honored.”
13 Salomon vint donc du haut lieu de Gabaon à Jérusalem, devant le tabernacle d’alliance, et il régna sur Israël.
Then Solomon [and the people who were with him all] left from being in front of he Sacred Tent [on the hill in Gibeon], and they returned to Jerusalem. From there he ruled the Israeli people.
14 Et il rassembla des chars et des cavaliers; on lui disposa mille quatre cents chariots et douze mille cavaliers, et il les fit mettre dans les villes des quadriges, et près du roi à Jérusalem.
Solomon acquired 1,400 chariots and 12,000 men who rode [on horses]. He put some of the chariots and horses in Jerusalem, and put some of them in various other cities.
15 Et le roi rendit l’or et l’argent communs comme les pierres dans Jérusalem, et les cèdres comme les sycomores qui croissent dans les plaines en grande quantité.
During the years that Solomon was king, silver and gold were as common in Jerusalem as stones, and [lumber from] cedar trees were as plentiful as [lumber from] ordinary sycamore trees in the foothills.
16 Mais les chevaux lui étaient amenés d’Égypte et de Coa par les marchands du roi, qui y allaient et les achetaient,
Solomon’s horses were imported/brought from Egypt and from [the] Kue [region in Turkey].
17 Un attelage de quatre chevaux, six cents sicles d’argent, et un cheval, cent cinquante; et c’est ainsi que dans tous les royaumes des Héthéens, et par tous les rois de Syrie, la vente se pratiquait.
In Egypt his men paid 15 pounds of silver for each chariot and 3-3/4 pounds of silver for each horse. They also exported/sold many of them to the kings of the Heth and Aram people-groups.
