2 Rois 25
1 Dans la neuvième année de son règne, le dixième mois, le roi Nabuchodonosor arriva de Babylone avec toute son armée contre Jérusalem; il campa autour de ses remparts, et il les enveloppa d'une muraille qu'il bâtit.
Now in the ninth year of his rule, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came against Jerusalem with all his army and took up his position before it, building earthworks all round the town.
2 Et la ville fut investie jusqu'au neuvième mois de la onzième année du règne de Sédécias.
And the town was shut in by their forces till the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.
3 La famine prévalait dans la cité, et il n'y avait pas de pains pour le peuple de la terre.
Now on the ninth day of the fourth month, the store of food in the town was almost gone, so that there was no food for the people of the land.
4 Une brèche fut faite aux murailles, et à la nuit les hommes de guerre sortirent par le chemin de la porte qui est entre les remparts, la porte même du jardin du roi; cependant, les Chaldéens entouraient le reste de la ville. Alors, le roi prit la route de la plaine.
So an opening was made in the wall of the town, and all the men of war went in flight by night through the doorway between the two walls which was by the king's garden; (now the Chaldaeans were stationed round the town: ) and the king went by the way of the Arabah.
5 Et l'armée des Chaldéens les poursuivit; Sédécias fut pris en Araboth-Jéricho, et toute sa troupe se dispersa tout alentour.
But the Chaldaean army went after the king, and overtook him in the lowlands of Jericho, and all his army went in flight from him in every direction.
6 Les Chaldéens firent donc le roi captif; ils le menèrent au roi de Babylone à Reblatha, et Nabuchodonosor prononça contre lui son arrêt.
And they made the king a prisoner and took him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah to be judged.
7 Il égorgea tous ses fils sous ses yeux, qu'ensuite il arracha; puis, après l'avoir chargé de chaînes et d'entraves, il l'emmena à Babylone.
And they put the sons of Zedekiah to death before his eyes, and then they put out his eyes, and chaining him with iron bands, took him to Babylon.
8 Le septième jour du cinquième mois de la dix-neuvième année du règne de Nabuchodonosor, Nabuzardan son général en chef, celui qui se tenait devant lui, marcha sur Jérusalem.
Now in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, a servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem;
9 Et il livra aux flammes le temple du Seigneur, le palais du roi et toutes les maisons de Jérusalem;
And he had the house of the Lord and the king's house and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burned with fire;
10 Le général en chef [brûla tout].
And the walls round Jerusalem were broken down by the Chaldaean army which was with the captain.
11 Et Nabuzardan enleva tout ce qui survivait du peuple demeuré dans la ville, et ceux qui étaient tombés dans les mains du roi de Babylone, et tout le reste de la multitude.
And the rest of the people who were still in the town, and all those who had given themselves up to the king of Babylon, and all the rest of the workmen, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, took away as prisoners;
12 Il ne laissa pour être vignerons et laboureurs que la plus infinie populace.
But he let the poorest of the land go on living there, to take care of the vines and the fields.
13 Et les Chaldéens brisèrent les colonnes d'airain, les bassins et la mer d'airain du temple; et ils emportèrent le métal à Babylone.
And the brass pillars in the house of the Lord, and the wheeled bases, and the great brass water-vessel in the house of the Lord, were broken up by the Chaldaeans, who took the brass to Babylon.
14 Ils prirent aussi les chaudières, les fourchettes, les coupes, les encensoirs et les vases d'airain employés dans le temple.
And the pots and the spades and the scissors for the lights and the spoons, and all the brass vessels used in the Lord's house, they took away.
15 Le général en chef prit les portes, les coupes d'or et d'argent,
And the fire-trays and the basins; the gold of the gold vessels and the silver of the silver vessels, were all taken away by the captain of the armed men.
16 Les deux colonnes, la mer et les bassins que Salomon avait placés dans le temple; on ne sut pas le poids de tous les ornements d'airain.
The two pillars, the great water-vessel and the wheeled bases, which Solomon had made for the house of the Lord: the brass of all these vessels was without weight.
17 Chaque colonne avait dix-huit coudées de haut; elle était surmontée d'un chapiteau d'airain, haut de trois coudées, avec un filet entouré de grenades; elles étaient toutes les deux pareilles.
One of the pillars was eighteen cubits high, with a crown of brass on it; the crown was three cubits high, circled with a network and apples all of brass; and the second pillar had the same.
18 Le général en chef fit aussi captifs Saraïas le grand prêtre, Sophonie prêtre du second rang, et les trois gardiens des portes.
And the captain of the armed men took Seraiah, the chief priest, and Zephaniah, the second priest, and the three door-keepers;
19 On prit en outre: hors de la ville, un eunuque commandant les hommes de guerre; dans la ville, cinq de ceux qui voyaient la face du roi, et le scribe du chef de l'armée qui rangeait les troupes en bataille, et soixante hommes de la campagne alors à Jérusalem.
And from the town he took the unsexed servant who was over the men of war, and five of the king's near friends who were in the town, and the scribe of the captain of the army, who was responsible for getting the people of the land together in military order, and sixty men of the people of the land who were in the town.
20 Nabuzardan conduisit les captifs au roi de Babylone, à Reblatha.
These Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, took with him to the king of Babylon at Riblah.
21 Et Nabuchodonosor les frappa, et les fit mettre à mort à Reblatha dans la terre d'Emath; puis, il emmena Juda loin de sa terre.
And the king of Babylon put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was taken away prisoner from his land.
22 Et à la tête du peuple qui resta sur le territoire de Juda, le roi mit Godolias, fils d'Achiman, fils de Saphan.
As for the people who were still living in the land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, did not take away, he made Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, ruler over them.
23 Et tous les chefs de l'armée, eux et leurs hommes, apprirent que le roi avait choisi Godolias; alors, Ismaël, fils de Nathanie; Jonas, fils de Careth; Saraïas, fils de Thanamath le Nephthalite, et Jézonias, fils de Machathi, l'allèrent trouver avec leurs hommes à Maspha,
Now the captains of the armed forces, hearing that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah ruler, came with their men to Gedaliah at Mizpah; Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan, the son of Kareah, and Seraiah, the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah, the son of the Maacathite, came with all their men.
24 Et Godolias prêta serment à eux et à leurs hommes, disant: Ne craignez plus d'invasion des Chaldéens, demeurez en votre terre, servez le roi de Babylone, et tout ira bien pour vous.
Then Gedaliah gave his oath to them and their men, saying, Have no fear because of the servants of the Chaldaeans; go on living in the land under the rule of the king of Babylon, and all will be well.
25 Et le septième mois, Ismaël, fils de Nathanie, de la race royale, et dix de ses hommes allèrent à Maspha; là, ils attaquèrent Godolias, et ils le tuèrent ainsi que les Chaldéens qui s'y trouvaient avec lui.
But in the seventh month, Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the king's seed, came with ten men and made an attack on Gedaliah, causing his death and the death of the Jews and the Chaldaeans who were with him at Mizpah.
26 Et tout le peuple, du petit au grand, et les chefs de l'armée se levèrent, et ils s'en allèrent en Égypte, car ils craignaient les Chaldéens.
Then all the people, small and great, and the captains of the forces, got up and went away to Egypt, for fear of the Chaldaeans.
27 En la trente-septième année de la captivité de Joachim, roi de Juda, le vingt-septième jour du douzième mois, Evilmerodach, roi de Babylone, dès la première année de son règne, releva la tête de Joachim, roi de Juda, et le fit sortir de prison.
And in the thirty-seventh year after Jehoiachin, king of Judah, had been taken prisoner, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, Evil-merodach, king of Babylon, in the first year of his rule, took Jehoiachin, king of Judah, out of prison;
28 Et il lui parla avec douceur, et il lui donna un trône plus élevé que les trônes des autres rois qui l'entouraient à Babylone.
And said kind words to him, and put his seat higher than the seats of the other kings who were with him in Babylon.
29 Il lui ôta ses vêtements de prisonnier, et il le fit manger, en sa présence, tous les jours de sa vie.
And his prison clothing was changed, and he was a guest at the king's table every day for the rest of his life.
30 Et sa portion, portion perpétuelle, lui fut donnée de la maison du roi; il en fut ainsi tous les jours de sa vie.
And for his food, the king gave him a regular amount every day for the rest of his life.
