2 Kings 25
1 On January 15 of the ninth year that Zedekiah had been ruling, King Nebuchadnezzar arrived with his whole army, and they surrounded Jerusalem. They built ramps [made of dirt against the walls of the city], so that they could climb up the ramps and attack the city.
Et la neuvième année de son règne, au dixième mois, le dixième jour du mois, survint Nebucadnetsar, roi de Babel, lui et toute son armée, devant Jérusalem; et ils en firent le siège, et ils élevèrent à l'entour une circonvallation.
2 They did that for two years.
Et la ville soutint le siège jusqu'à la onzième année du roi Sédécias.
3 After Zedekiah had been ruling for eleven years, the (famine/shortage of food) had become very bad. All their food was gone.
Le neuvième jour du [quatrième] mois la famine était extrême dans la ville et il n'y avait point de pain pour le peuple du pays.
4 On July 18 of that year, the Babylonian soldiers broke through part of the city wall, [and that enabled them to enter the city]. All the soldiers of Judah [wanted to escape]. But the Babylonian soldiers surrounded the city, so the [king and] the soldiers of Judah waited until it was nighttime. Then they fled through the gate that was between the two walls near the king’s park. They ran across the fields and started to go down to the Jordan [River] Valley.
Et la brèche était faite à la ville, et tous les gens de guerre [s'enfuirent] la nuit par la porte entre les deux murs à côté du jardin du roi, tandis que les Chaldéens cernaient la ville; et l'on prit le chemin de la Plaine.
5 But the Babylonian soldiers chased/ran after them. They caught the king when he was by himself in the valley near the Jordan River. He was by himself because all his soldiers had abandoned him.
Mais l'armée des Chaldéens poursuivit le roi et l'atteignit dans les plaines de Jéricho, et toute son armée le quittant se débanda.
6 The Babylonian soldiers took King Zedekiah to Riblah [city] in Babylon. There the king of Babylon decided what they would do to punish him.
Et le roi fut pris et conduit vers le roi de Babel à Ribla; et on lui fit son procès.
7 There the king of Babylon forced Zedekiah to watch as the Babylonian soldiers killed all of Zedekiah’s sons. Then they gouged out Zedekiah’s eyes. They put bronze chains on [his hands and feet] and then they took him to Babylon.
Et ils égorgèrent les fils de Sédécias sous ses yeux, et on creva les yeux à Sédécias, et on le lia de chaînes et le mena à Babel.
8 On August 14 of that year, after Nebuchadnezzar had been ruling for 19 years, Nebuzaradan arrived in Jerusalem. He was one of king Nebuchadnezzar’s officials and captain of the men that guarded the king.
Et le cinquième mois, le septième jour du mois, c'était la dix-neuvième année du règne de Nebucadnetsar, roi de Babel, arriva Nebuzaradan, chef des satellites, serviteur du roi de Babel, à Jérusalem,
9 He [commanded his soldiers to] burn down the temple of Yahweh, the king’s palace, and all the houses in Jerusalem. So they burned down all the important buildings in the city.
et il incendia le temple de l'Éternel et le palais royal et toutes les maisons de Jérusalem, il livra aux flammes tous les grands édifices.
10 Then Nebuzaradan supervised all the soldiers of the Babylonian army as they tore down the walls of Jerusalem.
Et toute l'armée des Chaldéens, qui accompagnait le chef des satellites, démolit les murs de Jérusalem dans leur pourtour.
11 Then he and his soldiers took to Babylon the people who were still living in the city, the other people [who lived in that area], and the soldiers who had previously surrendered to the Babylonian army.
Quant au résidu du peuple, à ceux qui étaient restés dans la ville, et aux transfuges qui étaient passés au roi de Babel, et au reste de la foule, Nebuzaradan, chef des satellites, les emmena captifs.
12 But Nebuzaradan allowed some of the very poor people to stay in Judah to take care of the vineyards and [to plant crops in] the fields.
Cependant le chef des satellites laissa dans le pays du petit peuple comme laboureurs et vignerons.
13 The Babylonian soldiers broke into pieces the bronze pillars, the bronze carts with wheels, and the huge bronze basin, all of which were in the temple courtyard, and they took all the bronze to Babylon.
Et les Chaldéens brisèrent les colonnes d'airain qui étaient dans le temple de l'Éternel, et les porte-aiguière et la Mer d'airain qui étaient dans le temple de l'Éternel et en emportèrent l'airain à Babel.
14 They also took the pots, the shovels, the instruments for (snuffing out/extinguishing) [the wicks of] the lamps, the dishes, and all the other bronze items that the Israeli priests had used for offering sacrifices at the temple.
Et ils enlevèrent les chaudières et les pelles et les couteaux et les coupes et toute la vaisselle d'airain employée pour le service;
15 The soldiers also took away the (firepans/trays for carrying burning coals), the basins, and [all the other] items made of pure gold or pure silver.
et le chef des satellites enleva les réchauds et les jattes, et ce qui était d'or, l'orfèvrerie, et ce qui était d'argent, l'argenterie.
16 The bronze from the two pillars, the carts with wheels, and the huge basin were very heavy; they could not be weighed. (Those things had been made/A man named Hiram had made these things) for the temple when Solomon [was the king of Israel].
Les deux colonnes, la mer unique, les porte-aiguière qu'avait faits Salomon pour le temple de l'Éternel: le poids de l'airain de tout ce mobilier était incalculable.
17 Each of the pillars was (27 feet/8 meters) tall. The bronze capital/top of each pillar was (7-1/2 feet/2.3 meters) high. They were each decorated all around with something that looked like a net made of bronze chains connecting bronze pomegranates.
Chaque colonne avait dix-huit coudées de hauteur, portant un chapiteau d'airain et dont la hauteur était de trois coudées, et le chapiteau était enveloppé d'un treillis et de grenades, le tout d'airain; et il en était de même pour l'autre colonne avec le treillis.
18 Nebuzaradan took with him to Babylon Seraiah the Supreme Priest, Zephaniah his assistant, and the three men who guarded the entrance [to the temple].
Et le chef des satellites prit Seraïa, Grand-Prêtre, et Sophonie, Prêtre en second, et les trois portiers,
19 And they found people who were still hiding in Jerusalem. From those people he took one officer from the Judean army, five of the king’s advisors, the chief secretary of the army commander who was in charge of recruiting men to join the army, and 60 other important Judean men.
et de la cité il prit un eunuque, qui était préposé sur les hommes de guerre et cinq hommes d'entre les conseillers intimes du roi, qui furent trouvés dans la ville, et le Secrétaire, Général de l'armée, qui levait la troupe pour le pays, et soixante hommes de la milice du pays, qui furent trouvés dans la ville,
20 Nebuzaradan took them all to the king of Babylon at Riblah [city].
tels sont ceux que prit Nebuzaradan, chef des satellites, et il les mena vers le roi de Babel à Ribla.
21 There at Riblah, in Hamath province, the king of Babylon commanded that they all be executed. That is what happened when the people of Judah were (taken forcefully/exiled) from their land [to Babylon].
Et le roi de Babel les exécuta et les fit mourir à Ribla, canton de Hamath. C'est ainsi que Juda fut déporté loin de son pays.
22 Then King Nebuchadnezzar appointed Gedaliah, who was the son of Ahikam and grandson of Shaphan, to be the governor of the people who were still living in Judah.
Quant au peuple resté dans le pays de Juda, que Nebucadnetsar, roi de Babel, avait laissé, il préposa sur lui Gedalia, fils d'Achikam, fils de Schaphan.
23 When all the army captains of Judah and their soldiers who had not surrendered to Nebuchadnezzar found out that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah to be the governor, they met with him at Mizpah [town]. These army captains were Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, Johanan the son of Kareah, Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth from Netophah [town], and Jaazaniah from the Maacah region.
Et lorsque tous les chefs des troupes, eux et leur monde, apprirent que le roi de Babel avait préposé Gedalia, ils vinrent auprès de Gedalia à Mitspa, savoir Ismaël, fils de Nethania, et Jochanan, fils de Caréah, et Seraïa, fils de Tanchumeth, de Netopha, et Jaazania, fils du Maachatite, eux et leurs gens.
24 Gedaliah solemnly promised them [that the officials from Babylon were not planning to harm them]. He said, “You may live in this land [without being afraid] and serve the king of Babylon, and [if you do], everything will go well for you.”
Et Gedalia s'engagea par serment envers eux et leur monde, et leur dit: Ne craignez point les serviteurs des Chaldéens, restez dans le pays, et soyez soumis au roi de Babel, et vous serez bien.
25 But in October of that year, Ishmael, whose grandfather Elishama was one of the relatives of the descendants of King David, went to Mizpah along with ten other men and assassinated/killed Gedaliah and all the men who were with him. There were also men from Judah and men from Babylon whom they assassinated.
Mais au septième mois parut Ismaël, fils de Nethania, fils d'Elisama, de la race royale, accompagné de dix hommes, et ils firent main basse sur Gedalia, qui mourut, ainsi que sur les Juifs et les Chaldéens qui étaient avec lui à Mitspa.
26 Then many [HYP] of the people from Judah, important people and unimportant ones, and the army captains, were very afraid of [what] the Babylonians [would do to them], so they fled to Egypt.
Alors il y eut levée de tout le peuple, petits et grands, et des généraux d'armée, et ils gagnèrent l'Egypte, parce qu'ils avaient peur des Chaldéens.
27 Thirty-seven years after King Jehoiachin of Judah was taken to Babylon, [Nebuchadnezzar’s son] Evil-Merodach became the king of Babylon. He was kind to Jehoiachin, and on April 2 of that year, he released/freed Jehoiachin from prison.
Et trente-sept ans après la déportation de Jojachin, roi de Juda, au douzième mois, le vingt-septième jour du mois, Evil-Mérodach, roi de Babel, l'année de son avènement, fit relever la tête à Jojachin, roi de Juda, en le tirant de la prison;
28 He always spoke kindly to Jehoiachin and honored him more than the other kings who had been taken/exiled to Babylon.
et il lui parla avec bonté, plaça son trône au-dessus du trône des rois qui étaient avec lui à Babel,
29 He gave Jehoiachin new clothes to replace the clothes that he had been wearing in prison, and he allowed Jehoiachin to eat at the king’s table every day for the rest of his life.
et il lui fit quitter ses habits de prison; et il mangea constamment devant lui toute sa vie durant,
30 The king of Babylon also gave him money every day, so that he could buy the things that he needed. The king continued to do that until Jehoiachin died.
et son approvisionnement, son approvisionnement perpétuel lui fut fourni par le roi, au jour le jour, toute sa vie durant.
