2 Chroniques 33

1 Manassé avait douze ans en montant sur le trône, et il régna cinquante-cinq ans à Jérusalem.

Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.

2 Il fit le mal aux yeux de l’Eternel, imitant les abominations des peuples que l’Eternel avait dépossédés au profit des enfants d’Israël.

He did that which was evil in the LORD’s sight, after the abominations of the nations whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.

3 Il rétablit de nouveau les hauts lieux qu’Ezéchias, son père, avait détruits, érigea des autels aux Bealim, dressa des Achêra, se prosterna devant toute la milice céleste et l’adora.

For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down; and he raised up altars for the Baals, made Asheroth, and worshipped all the army of the sky, and served them.

4 Il construisit des autels dans le temple du Seigneur, malgré cette parole de l’Eternel: "C’Est à Jérusalem que sera mon nom à jamais."

He built altars in the LORD’s house, of which the LORD said, “My name shall be in Jerusalem forever.”

5 Or, c’est en l’honneur de toute la milice céleste qu’il érigea des autels dans les deux parvis du temple.

He built altars for all the army of the sky in the two courts of the LORD’s house.

6 Il fit passer ses fils par le feu dans la vallée de Ben-Hinnôm, s’adonna aux augures, aux sortilèges, aux sorcelleries, et pratiqua les évocations et les divinations. Immense fut le mal qu’il fit aux yeux de l’Eternel pour l’irriter.

He also made his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom. He practised sorcery, divination, and witchcraft, and dealt with those who had familiar spirits and with wizards. He did much evil in the LORD’s sight, to provoke him to anger.

7 La statue de l’idole qu’il avait fabriquée, il la plaça dans le temple de Dieu, dont Dieu avait dit à David et à son fils Salomon: "C’Est dans ce temple, à Jérusalem, la ville élue entre toutes les tribus d’Israël, que je ferai résider à jamais mon nom.

He set the engraved image of the idol, which he had made, in God’s house, of which God said to David and to Solomon his son, “In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever.

8 Je n’éloignerai plus les pas d’Israël du pays que j’ai assigné à vos pères, pourvu qu’ils accomplissent scrupuleusement ce que je leur ai prescrit, toute la loi, les statuts et les préceptes transmis par Moïse."

I will not any more remove the foot of Israel from off the land which I have appointed for your fathers, if only they will observe to do all that I have commanded them, even all the law, the statutes, and the ordinances given by Moses.”

9 Mais Manassé induisit Juda et les habitants de Jérusalem à agir plus mal que les peuples exterminés par l’Eternel au profit des enfants d’Israël.

Manasseh seduced Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that they did more evil than did the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the children of Israel.

10 L’Eternel parla à Manassé et à son peuple, mais ils n’écoutèrent point.

The LORD spoke to Manasseh and to his people, but they didn’t listen.

11 Alors l’Eternel amena contre eux les chefs de l’armée du roi d’Assyrie; ils se saisirent de Manassé, qu’ils mirent aux fers, le lièrent avec des chaînes et l’emmenèrent à Babylone.

Therefore the LORD brought on them the captains of the army of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh in chains, bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.

12 Mais, dans sa détresse, il supplia l’Eternel, son Dieu, et s’humilia profondément devant le Dieu de ses pères.

When he was in distress, he begged the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.

13 Il l’implora, et Dieu l’exauça, entendit sa supplication, le ramena à Jérusalem sur son trône, et Manassé reconnut que le Seigneur est Dieu.

He prayed to him; and he was entreated by him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD was God.

14 Après cela, il bâtit un mur extérieur à la Cité de David, à l’ouest, vers le Ghihôn, dans la vallée, jusqu’à la porte des Poissons; il le fit contourner l’Ophel et lui donna une grande hauteur; il établit aussi des chefs militaires dans toutes les villes fortes de Juda.

Now after this, he built an outer wall to David’s city on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entrance at the fish gate. He encircled Ophel with it, and raised it up to a very great height; and he put valiant captains in all the fortified cities of Judah.

15 Il retira les dieux étrangers et l’idole du temple de l’Eternel, et tous les autels qu’il avait bâtis sur la montagne du temple de l’Eternel et à Jérusalem, et les jeta hors de la ville.

He took away the foreign gods and the idol out of the LORD’s house, and all the altars that he had built in the mountain of the LORD’s house and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city.

16 Il restaura l’autel de l’Eternel, y offrit des sacrifices de rémunération et de reconnaissance, et ordonna à Juda de servir l’Eternel, Dieu d’Israël.

He built up the LORD’s altar, and offered sacrifices of peace offerings and of thanksgiving on it, and commanded Judah to serve the LORD, the God of Israel.

17 Mais le peuple continua à sacrifier sur les hauts lieux, toutefois, seulement à l’Eternel, leur Dieu.

Nevertheless the people still sacrificed in the high places, but only to the LORD their God.

18 Le reste de l’histoire de Manassé, la prière qu’il adressa à son Dieu, les oracles des Voyants qui lui parlèrent au nom de l’Eternel, Dieu d’Israël, tout cela est consigné dans l’histoire des rois d’Israël.

Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer to his God, and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of the LORD, the God of Israel, behold, they are written amongst the acts of the kings of Israel.

19 Et sa prière, la façon dont Dieu l’exauça, tous ses péchés et son infidélité, les endroits où il bâtit des hauts lieux et dressa des Achêra et des idoles avant qu’il s’humiliât, tout cela se trouve consigné dans les paroles des Voyants.

His prayer also, and how God listened to his request, and all his sin and his trespass, and the places in which he built high places and set up the Asherah poles and the engraved images before he humbled himself: behold, they are written in the history of Hozai.

20 Manassé s’endormit avec ses pères et fut enseveli dans sa maison. Son fils Amon lui succéda.

So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house; and Amon his son reigned in his place.

21 Amon avait vingt-deux ans en montant sur le trône, et il régna deux ans à Jérusalem.

Amon was twenty-two years old when he began to reign; and he reigned two years in Jerusalem.

22 Il fit le mal aux yeux de l’Eternel, à l’exemple de Manassé, son père. Toutes les idoles qu’avait fabriquées Manassé son père, Amon leur offrit des sacrifices et il les adora.

He did that which was evil in the LORD’s sight, as did Manasseh his father; and Amon sacrificed to all the engraved images which Manasseh his father had made, and served them.

23 Il ne s’humilia point devant l’Eternel comme s’était humilié Manassé, son père, car lui, Amon, accumula les fautes.

He didn’t humble himself before the LORD, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself; but this same Amon trespassed more and more.

24 Ses officiers conspirèrent contre lui et le mirent à mort dans son palais.

His servants conspired against him, and put him to death in his own house.

25 La population du pays massacra tous ceux qui s’étaient conjurés contre le roi Amon et proclama roi à sa place son fils Josias.

But the people of the land killed all those who had conspired against King Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his place.