2 Rois 23

1 Et ils rapportèrent au roi ce qu’elle avait dit. Et le roi envoya, et tous les anciens de Juda et de Jérusalem s’assemblèrent près de lui.

Then the king summoned all the elders of Jerusalem and [of the other places in] Judah.

2 Et le roi monta dans le temple du Seigneur, ainsi que tous les hommes de Juda et tous ceux qui habitaient dans Jérusalem avec lui, les prêtres, les prophètes et tout le peuple, depuis le petit jusqu’au grand, et il lut, tous l’écoutant, toutes les paroles du livre de l’alliance, qui avait été trouvé dans la maison du Seigneur.

They went together to the temple, along with the priests and the prophets, and many other [HYP] people, from the most important people to the least important people. And while they listened, the king read to them all of the laws that Moses had written. He read from the scroll that had been found in the temple.

3 Et le roi se tint debout dans la tribune, et fit l’alliance devant le Seigneur, afin qu’ils marchassent à la suite du Seigneur, qu’ils observassent ses préceptes, ses lois et ses cérémonies en tout leur cœur et en toute leur âme, et qu’ils rétablissent toutes les paroles de l’alliance qui étaient écrites dans ce livre; et le peuple acquiesça à l’alliance.

Then the king stood next to the pillar [where the kings stood when they made important announcements], and while Yahweh was listening, he repeated his promise to sincerely obey [DOU] all of Yahweh’s commands and regulations [DOU]. He also promised to (fulfill the conditions of/do what was written in) the agreement he made with Yahweh. And all the people also promised to obey the agreement.

4 Alors le roi ordonna à Helcias, le pontife, aux prêtres du second ordre, et aux portiers, de jeter hors du temple du Seigneur tous les vases qui avaient appartenu à Baal, au bois sacré et à toute l’armée du ciel, et il les brûla hors de Jérusalem, dans la vallée de Cédron, et il en emporta la poussière à Béthel.

Then the king commanded Hilkiah the Supreme Priest and all the other priests who assisted him and the men who guarded the entrance to the temple to bring out from the temple all the items that people had been using to worship Baal, the goddess Asherah, and the stars. [After they carried them out, ] they burned all those things outside the city near the Kidron Valley. Then they took all the ashes to Bethel, [because that city was already considered to be desecrated/unholy].

5 Et il détruisit les aruspices qu’avaient établis les rois de Juda pour sacrifier sur les hauts lieux, dans les villes de Juda et autour de Jérusalem, et ceux qui brûlaient de l’encens à Baal, au Soleil, à la Lune, aux douze signes et à toute la milice du ciel.

There were many pagan priests that the previous kings of Judah had appointed to burn incense on the altars on the tops of hills in Judah. They had been offering sacrifices to Baal, to the sun, the moon, the planets, and the stars. The king stopped them from doing those things.

6 Et il fit emporter le bois sacré de la maison du Seigneur hors de Jérusalem, dans la vallée de Cédron, où il le brûla et le réduisit en poussière qu’il jeta sur les sépulcres du petit peuple.

He [commanded that] the statue of the goddess Asherah [be] taken out of the temple. Then they took it outside Jerusalem, down to the Kidron Brook, and burned it. Then they pounded the ashes to powder and scattered that over the graves in the public cemetery.

7 Il détruisit aussi les petites maisons des efféminés, lesquelles étaient dans la maison du Seigneur, et dans lesquelles les femmes tissaient comme des tentes pour le bois sacré.

He also destroyed the rooms in the temple where the temple male prostitutes lived. That was where women wove robes that were used to worship the goddess Asherah.

8 Et il assembla tous les prêtres des villes de Juda, et il profana les hauts lieux où sacrifiaient les prêtres, depuis Gabaa jusqu’à Bersabée, et il détruisit les autels des portes, à l’entrée de la porte de Josué, prince de la ville, laquelle était à la gauche de la porte de la ville.

Josiah also brought [to Jerusalem] all the priests who were offering sacrifices in the other cities in Judah. He also desecrated the places on the tops of hills where the priests had burned incense [to honor idols], from Geba [in the north] to Beersheba [in the south]. Those priests were not allowed to offer sacrifices in the temple, but they [were allowed to] eat the unleavened bread that the priests [who worked in the temple] ate. He also [commanded that] the altars that were dedicated to the goat demons near the gate built by Joshua, the mayor of Jerusalem, [be] destroyed. Those altars were at the left of the main gate into the city.

9 Cependant les prêtres des hauts lieux ne montaient point à l’autel du Seigneur dans Jérusalem; mais seulement ils mangeaient des azymes au milieu de leurs frères.

10 Le roi profana aussi Topheth, qui est dans la vallée du fils d’Ennom, afin que personne ne consacrât son fils ou sa fille par le feu à Moloch.

Josiah also desecrated the place named Topheth, in the Hinnom Valley, in order that no one could offer his son or daughter there to be completely burned for a sacrifice to [the god] Molech.

11 Il enleva aussi les chevaux qu’avaient donnés les rois de Juda au Soleil, à l’entrée du temple du Seigneur, près de la salle de Nathanmélech, l’eunuque, qui était à Pharurim; mais les chariots du Soleil, il les brûla au feu.

He also removed the horses that the [previous] kings of Judah had dedicated to worshiping the sun, and he burned the chariots that were used in that worship. Those horses and chariots were kept in the courtyard outside the temple, near the entrance to the temple, and near the room where [one of Josiah’s] officials, whose name was Nathan-Melech, lived.

12 Les autels mêmes qui étaient sur le toit de la chambre d’Achaz, qu’avaient faits les rois de Juda, et les autels qu’avait faits Manassé dans les deux parvis du temple du Seigneur, le roi les détruisit, et il répandit les cendres dans le torrent de Cédron.

Josiah also commanded his servants to tear down the altars that the previous kings of Judah had built on the roof of the palace, above the room where King Ahaz had stayed. They also tore down the altars that had been built by King Manasseh in the two courtyards outside the temple. He commanded that they be smashed to pieces and thrown down into the Kidron Valley.

13 Le roi profana aussi les hauts lieux qui étaient à Jérusalem, du côté droit de la montagne du Scandale, que Salomon, roi d’Israël, avait bâtis à Astaroth, idole des Sidoniens, à Chamos, le scandale de Moab, et à Melchom, l’abomination des enfants d’Ammon.

He also commanded that the altars that King Solomon had built east of Jerusalem, south of Olive Tree Hill, be desecrated. Solomon had built them for the worship of the disgusting idols—the [statue of the goddess] Astarte [worshiped by the people in] Sidon [city], Chemosh the god of the Moab people-group, and Molech the god of the Ammon people-group.

14 Et il brisa les statues et coupa les bois sacrés, et il remplit ces lieux-là d’os de morts.

They also broke into pieces the stone pillars that the Israeli people worshiped, and cut down the [pillars that honored the goddess] Asherah, and they scattered the ground there with human bones [to desecrate it].

15 En outre, quant à l’autel même qui était à Béthel, et le haut lieu qu’avait bâti Jéroboam, fils de Nabath, qui fit pécher Israël, il détruisit et cet autel et ce haut lieu; il les brûla et les réduisit en poussière, et il mit aussi le feu au bois sacré.

Furthermore, he commanded them to tear down the place of worship at Bethel which had been built by King Jeroboam, the king who persuaded the people of Israel to sin. They tore down the altar. Then they broke its stones into pieces and pounded them to become powder. They also burned the statue [of the goddess] Asherah.

16 Et, se tournant, Josias vit là les sépulcres qui étaient sur la montagne, et il envoya et il prit les os de ces sépulcres, et les brûla sur l’autel, et il le profana, selon la parole du Seigneur, qu’avait dite l’homme de Dieu qui avait prédit ces choses.

Then Josiah looked around and saw some tombs there on the hill. He commanded his men to take the bones out of those tombs and burn them on the altar. By doing that, he desecrated the altar. That was what a prophet had predicted many years before when Jeroboam was standing close to that altar at a festival. Then Josiah looked up and saw the tomb of the prophet who had predicted that.

17 Et il demanda: Quel est ce tombeau que je vois? Et les citoyens de cette ville lui dirent: C’est le sépulcre de l’homme de Dieu qui vint de Juda, et qui prédit ce que vous avez fait sur l’autel de Béthel.

Josiah asked, “Whose tomb is that?” The people of Bethel replied, “It is the tomb of the prophet who came from Judah and predicted that these things that you have just now done to this altar would happen.”

18 Et il dit: Laissez-le, que personne ne remue ses os. Et ses os demeurèrent intacts, avec les os du prophète qui était venu de Samarie.

Josiah replied, “Allow his tomb to remain as it is. Do not remove the prophet’s bones from the tomb.” So the people did not remove those bones, or the bones of the other prophet, the one who had come from Samaria.

19 De plus, tous les temples mêmes des hauts lieux qui étaient dans les villes de Samarie, qu’avaient faits les rois d’Israël pour irriter le Seigneur, Josias les détruisit; et il leur fit selon tout ce qu’il avait fait à Béthel.

In every city in Israel, at Josiah’s command, they tore down the shrines that had been built by the previous kings of Israel, which had caused Yahweh to become very angry. He did to all those shrines/altars the same thing that he had done to the altars at Bethel.

20 Et il tua tous les prêtres des hauts lieux qui étaient là préposés aux autels, et il brûla des ossements humains sur ces autels, et il retourna à Jérusalem.

He ordered that all the priests who offered sacrifices on the altars on the tops of hills must be killed on those altars. Then he burned human bones on every one of those altars [to desecrate them]. Then he returned to Jerusalem.

21 Et il ordonna à tout le peuple, disant: Faites une Pâque du Seigneur votre Dieu, selon ce qui est écrit dans le livre de cette alliance;

Then the king commanded all the people to celebrate the Passover Festival to honor Yahweh their God, which was written in the law of Moses that they should do [every year].

22 Car il n’a été fait aucune Pâque depuis les jours des juges qui jugèrent Israël, et pendant tous les jours des rois d’Israël et des rois de Juda,

During all the years that leaders ruled Israel and during all the years that kings had ruled Israel and Judah, they had not celebrated that festival.

23 Comme à la dix-huitième année du roi Josias a été faite cette Pâque du Seigneur dans Jérusalem.

But now, after Josiah had been ruling for almost 18 years, to [honor] Yahweh they celebrated the Passover Festival in Jerusalem.

24 Mais aussi ceux qui avaient un esprit de python, les devins et les figures des idoles, les impuretés et les abominations qui avaient été dans la terre de Juda et de Jérusalem, Josias les fit disparaître pour accomplir les paroles de la loi qui sont écrites dans le livre que trouva Helcias, le prêtre, dans le temple du Seigneur.

Furthermore, Josiah got rid of all the people in Jerusalem and other places in Judah who practiced sorcery and those who requested the spirits of dead people [to tell them what they should do]. He also removed from Jerusalem and from the other places in Judah all the household idols and all the other idols and abominable things. He did those things in order to obey what had been written in the scroll that Hilkiah had found in the temple.

25 Il n’y a point eu avant Josias de roi semblable, qui soit retourné comme lui au Seigneur en tout son cœur, en toute son âme, et en toute sa force, selon toute la loi de Moïse, et après lui, il n’y en a pas eu de semblable à lui.

Josiah was totally devoted to Yahweh. There had never been [in Judah or Israel] a king like him. He obeyed all the laws of Moses. And there has never since then been a king like Josiah.

26 Cependant le Seigneur ne revint point de la colère de sa grande fureur, dont fut irritée sa fureur contre Juda, à cause des sujets d’irritation qu’avait provoqués en lui Manassé.

But Yahweh had become extremely angry with the people of Judah because of all the things that [King] Manasseh had done to infuriate him, and he continued to be very angry.

27 C’est pourquoi le Seigneur dit: Juda aussi, je l’ôterai de devant ma face, comme j’en ai ôté Israël, et je rejetterai cette ville, que j’ai choisie, Jérusalem et cette maison dont j’ai dit: Mon nom sera là.

He said, “I will do to Judah what I have done to Israel. I will banish the people of Judah, with the result that they will never enter my presence again. And I will reject Jerusalem, the city that I chose [to belong to me], and I will abandon the temple, the place where I said that I [MTY] should be worshiped.”

28 Mais le reste des actions de Josias, et tout ce qu’il a fait, n’est-ce pas écrit dans le Livre des actions des jours des rois de Juda?

[If you want to know more about] [RHQ] all the other things that Josiah did, they are written in the scroll called ‘The History of the Kings of Judah’.

29 Aux jours de Josias, Pharaon Néchao, roi d’Egypte, monta contre le roi des Assyriens, vers le fleuve d’Euphrate, et Josias, le roi, alla à sa rencontre; et il fut tué à Mageddo, lorsqu’il l’eut vu.

While Josiah was the king of Judah, King Neco of Egypt led his army north to the Euphrates River to help the king of Assyria. King Josiah tried to stop the army of Egypt at Megiddo [city], but Josiah was killed in a battle there.

30 Et ses serviteurs l’enlevèrent mort de Mageddo, le portèrent à Jérusalem et l’ensevelirent dans son sépulcre. Alors le peuple du pays prit Joachaz, fils de Josias; et ils l’oignirent, et l’établirent en la place de son père.

His officials placed his corpse in a chariot and took it back to Jerusalem, where it was buried in his own tomb, a tomb where the other previous kings had not been buried. Then the people of Judah poured [olive] oil on [the head of] Josiah’s son Joahaz, to appoint him to be the new king.

31 Joachaz avait vingt-trois ans lorsqu’il commença à régner, et il régna trois mois à Jérusalem: le nom de sa mère était Amital, fille de Jérémie de Lobna,

Joahaz was 23 years old when he became the king [of Judah], but he ruled from Jerusalem for [only] three months. His mother was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah from Libnah [city].

32 Et il fit le mal devant le Seigneur, selon tout ce que ses pères avaient fait.

Joahaz did many things that Yahweh said were evil, just like many of his ancestors had done.

33 Et Pharaon Néchao l’enchaîna à Rébla, qui est dans la terre d’Emath, afin qu’il ne régnât point à Jérusalem, et il imposa une amende au pays de cent talents d’argent et un talent d’or.

King Neco’s [army came from Egypt and captured him and] tied him up with chains and took him as a prisoner to Riblah [town] in Hamath [district], to prevent him from continuing to rule in Jerusalem. Neco forced the people of Judah to pay to him (7,500 pounds/3,400 kg.) of silver and (75 pounds/34 kg.) of gold.

34 Et Pharaon Néchao établit roi Eliacim, fils de Josias, en la place de Josias, son père, et il changea son nom en Joakim: or il prit Joachaz et le conduisit en Egypte, et il y mourut.

King Neco appointed another son of Josiah, Eliakim, to be the new king, and he changed Eliakim’s name to Jehoiakim. Then he took Joahaz to Egypt, and later Joahaz died there in Egypt.

35 Joakim donna à Pharaon l’argent et l’or, puisqu’il avait taxé le pays par tête, afin qu’ils fussent apportés ensemble selon l’ordre de Pharaon; et il exigea de chacun, selon ses moyens, tant l’argent que l’or du peuple du pays, pour donner à Pharaon Néchao.

King Jehoiakim collected a tax from the people [of Judah]. He collected more from the rich people and less from the poor people. He collected silver and gold from them, in order to pay to the king of Egypt what he commanded them to give.

36 Joakim avait vingt-cinq ans lorsqu’il commença à régner, et il régna onze ans à Jérusalem: le nom de sa mère était Zébida, fille de Phadaïa de Ruma.

Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became the king [of Judah], and he ruled from Jerusalem for eleven years. His mother was Zebidah, the daughter of Pedaiah from Rumah [town].

37 Et il fit le mal devant le Seigneur, selon tout ce qu’avaient fait ses pères.

He did many things that Yahweh says are evil, like his ancestors had done.