2 Chroniques 8
1 Au bout de vingt ans, pendant lesquels Salomon bâtit la maison de l’Éternel et sa propre maison,
Solomon’s [workers] worked for 20 years to build the temple and the king’s palace.
2 il reconstruisit les villes que lui donna Huram et y établit des 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 Salomon marcha contre Hamath, vers Tsoba, et s’en empara.
Solomon’s [army] then went to Hamath-Zobah [town] and captured it.
4 Il bâtit Thadmor au désert, et toutes les villes servant de magasins en Hamath.
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 bâtit Beth-Horon la haute et Beth-Horon la basse, villes fortes, ayant des murs, des portes et des barres;
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 Baalath, et toutes les villes servant de magasins et lui appartenant, toutes les villes pour les chars, les villes pour la cavalerie, et tout ce qu’il plut à Salomon de bâtir à Jérusalem, au Liban, et dans tout le pays dont il était le souverain.
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 Tout le peuple qui était resté des Héthiens, des Amoréens, des Phéréziens, des Héviens et des Jébusiens, ne faisant point partie 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 leurs descendants qui étaient restés après eux dans le pays et que les enfants d’Israël n’avaient pas détruits, Salomon les leva comme gens de corvée, ce qu’ils ont été 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 Salomon n’employa comme esclave pour ses travaux aucun des enfants d’Israël; car ils étaient des hommes de guerre, ses chefs, ses officiers, les commandants de ses chars 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 Les chefs placés par le roi Salomon à la tête du peuple, et chargés de le surveiller, étaient au nombre de deux cent cinquante.
They were also King Solomon’s chief officials. There were 250 of them, and they supervised the workers.
11 Salomon fit monter la fille de Pharaon de la cité de David dans la maison qu’il lui avait bâtie; car il dit: Ma femme n’habitera pas dans la maison de David, roi d’Israël, parce que les lieux où est entrée l’arche de l’Éternel sont saints.
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 à l’Éternel sur l’autel de l’Éternel, 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 Il offrait ce qui était prescrit par Moïse pour chaque jour, pour les sabbats, pour les nouvelles lunes, et pour les fêtes, trois fois l’année, à la fête des pains sans levain, à la fête des semaines, et à la fête 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 Il établit dans leurs fonctions, telles que les avait réglées David, son père, les classes des sacrificateurs selon leur office, les Lévites selon leur charge, consistant à célébrer l’Éternel et à faire jour par jour le service en présence des sacrificateurs, et les portiers distribués à chaque porte d’après leurs classes; car ainsi l’avait ordonné David, 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 On ne s’écarta point de l’ordre du roi pour les sacrificateurs et les Lévites, ni pour aucune chose, ni pour ce qui concernait les trésors.
The priests and other descendants of Levi obeyed completely everything that the king commanded, including [taking care of] the storerooms.
16 Ainsi fut dirigée toute l’œuvre de Salomon, jusqu’au jour où la maison de l’Éternel fut fondée et jusqu’à celui où elle fut terminée. La maison de l’Éternel fut donc achevée.
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 Salomon partit alors pour Étsjon-Guéber et pour Éloth, sur les bords de la mer, dans le pays d’Édom.
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 Et Huram lui envoya par ses serviteurs des navires et des serviteurs connaissant la mer. Ils allèrent avec les serviteurs de Salomon à Ophir, et ils y prirent quatre cent cinquante talents d’or, qu’ils apportèrent 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.
