2 Rois 23
1 Alors le roi donna commission et réunit vers lui tous les Anciens de Juda et de Jérusalem.
Then the king summoned all the elders of Jerusalem and [of the other places in] Judah.
2 Et le roi monta au temple de l'Éternel et avec lui tous les hommes de Juda et tous les habitants de Jérusalem et les Prêtres et les prophètes et toute la population, petits et grands, et il lut à leurs oreilles toutes les paroles du livre de l'alliance trouvé dans le temple de l'Éternel.
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 debout sur l'estrade solennisa l'alliance devant l'Éternel, à l'effet de suivre l'Éternel et de garder ses commandements et ses témoignages et ses statuts du cœur tout entier et de l'âme tout entière et d'accomplir les articles de cette alliance, consignés dans le présent livre. Et tout le peuple adhéra 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 Et le roi ordonna au Grand-Prêtre Hilkia et aux Prêtres du second rang et aux portiers de sortir du temple de l'Éternel tous les meubles faits pour Baal et Astarté et toute l'armée des cieux et il les brûla en dehors de Jérusalem dans les champs du Cédron, et en transporta la cendre 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 destitua les prêtres idolâtres qu'avaient établis les rois de Juda, qui offraient de l'encens sur les tertres dans les villes de Juda et aux alentours de Jérusalem, et ceux qui encensaient Baal, le soleil, et la lune et le Zodiaque, et toute l'armée des cieux.
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 du temple de l'Éternel il transporta l'Astarté hors de Jérusalem vers le torrent du Cédron, et il la brûla dans le ravin du Cédron, et il la réduisit en poudre, et en jeta la poudre sur les tombeaux des fils du 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 Et il démolit les maisons des garçons infâmes qui étaient dans le temple de l'Éternel où les femmes tissaient des tentes pour Astarté.
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 fit arriver tous les Prêtres des villes de Juda, et il souilla les tertres où encensaient les prêtres depuis Gèba à Béerséba, et il démolit les tertres des portes, [celui] qui se trouve aux abords de la porte de Josué, préfet de la ville, et [celui] qui était à gauche dans 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 Pourtant les prêtres des tertres ne sacrifiaient pas sur l'autel de l'Éternel dans Jérusalem, mais ils mangeaient des azymes parmi leurs frères.
10 Et il souilla Topheth située dans la vallée des fils de Hinnom, pour que personne ne fit plus passer son fils et 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 Et il se défit des chevaux que les rois de Juda avaient dédiés au soleil près du temple de l'Éternel vers le logis de Nethanmelech, l'eunuque, lequel est dans le portique ouvert, et il brûla au feu les chars du soleil.
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 Et le roi démolit les autels qui étaient sur la terrasse de l'appartement supérieur d'Achaz qu'avaient bâtis les rois de Juda, et les autels qu'avait bâtis Manassé dans les deux parvis de la Maison de l'Éternel, et il s'éloigna de là en hâte, et en jeta la poussière dans le torrent du 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 Et les tertres qui étaient devant Jérusalem à droite du Mont de la perdition, que Salomon, roi d'Israël, avait élevés à Astarté, l'odieuse idole des Sidoniens, et à Camos, l'odieuse idole de Moab, et à Milcom, l'abominable divinité des fils d'Ammon, le roi les souilla.
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 colonnes, extirpa les Aschères et remplit leur emplacement d'ossements humains.
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 Et de même l'autel qui était à Béthel, le tertre élevé par Jéroboam, fils de Nebat, qui avait entraîné Israël à pécher, cet autel-là aussi et le tertre il les démolit et il brûla le tertre et le réduisit en poudre, et il brûla l'Astarté.
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 en se tournant, Josias aperçut les tombeaux qui étaient là sur la montagne; puis il envoya enlever les ossements des tombeaux, et il les brûla sur l'autel qu'il souilla, selon la parole de l'Éternel prononcée par l'homme de Dieu qui proclama 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 dit: Qu'est-ce que ce cippe que j'aperçois? Et les gens de la ville lui dirent: C'est le tombeau de l'homme de Dieu, qui est venu de Juda, et a proclamé ces choses que tu as exécutées 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 en repos! que nul ne touche à ses os! ils sauvèrent donc ces os ainsi que les os du prophète venu de la 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 Et de même tous les temples des tertres dans les villes de la Samarie, qu'avaient élevés les rois d'Israël en provocation, Josias les fit disparaître et les traita tout comme il avait procédé 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 immola tous les prêtres des tertres qui étaient présents, sur les autels, sur lesquels il brûla des ossements humains. Là-dessus il regagna 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 le roi donna un ordre à tout le peuple en ces termes: Faites une Pâque à l'Éternel, votre Dieu, aux termes de ce qui est écrit dans le présent livre de l'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 pareille Pâque n'avait pas été célébrée depuis l'époque des Juges qui jugeaient Israël et durant toute la période 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 Mais la dix-huitième année du roi Josias cette Pâque fut célébrée en l'honneur de l'Éternel à Jérusalem.
But now, after Josiah had been ruling for almost 18 years, to [honor] Yahweh they celebrated the Passover Festival in Jerusalem.
24 Et Josias fit aussi disparaître les évocateurs et les pronostiqueurs et les Théraphim et les idoles et les horribles simulacres qui se voyaient dans le pays de Juda et dans Jérusalem, afin de mettre à effet les paroles de la Loi consignées dans le volume trouvé par le prêtre Hilkia au temple de l'Éternel.
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 Avant lui il n'y avait pas eu de roi pareil à lui, qui fût revenu à l'Éternel de tout son cœur et de toute son âme et de toute son énergie conformément à la totalité de la Loi de Moïse, et après lui il n'en parut point de pareil.
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 Néanmoins l'Éternel ne revint pas de sa grande et ardente colère dont Il était enflammé contre Juda à cause de toutes les provocations dont Manassé l'avait provoqué.
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 Et l'Éternel dit: Même Juda, je le bannirai de ma présence ainsi que j'en ai banni Israël, et je répudie cette ville que j'avais choisie, Jérusalem, et le temple duquel j'ai dit: Mon Nom y résidera.
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 Le reste des actes de Josias, et toutes ses entreprises, sont d'ailleurs consignés dans le livre des annales 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 De son temps Pharaon Nécho, roi d'Egypte, s'avança contre le roi d'Assyrie sur le fleuve de l'Euphrate, et le roi Josias se porta à sa rencontre, et reçut de lui la mort à Megiddo, dès qu'il fut en vue de lui.
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 sur un char l'emmenèrent mort de Megiddo et le conduisirent à Jérusalem et lui donnèrent la sépulture dans son tombeau. Et le peuple du pays prit Joachaz, fils de Josias, et ils l'oignirent et le firent roi 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 à son avènement et il régna trois mois à Jérusalem. Or, le nom de sa mère était Hamutal, fille de Jérémie de Libna.
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 ce qui est mal aux yeux de l'Éternel en tout comme ses pères avaient fait.
Joahaz did many things that Yahweh said were evil, just like many of his ancestors had done.
33 Et Pharaon Nécho l'enchaîna à Ribla dans la contrée de Hamath pour qu'il ne régnât plus à Jérusalem, et il imposa le pays d'une amende de cent talents d'argent et d'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 Nécho fit roi Eliakim, fils de Josias, en la place de Josias, son père, et changea son nom en celui de Jojakim; quant à Joachaz, il le fit prisonnier; et Joachaz vint 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 Et Jojakim donna à Pharaon l'argent et l'or; mais il taxa le pays pour payer l'argent exigé par Pharaon, et par une contribution forcée il leva sur le peuple du pays, sur chacun selon son estimation, l'argent a délivrer à Pharaon Nécho.
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 Jojakim avait vingt-cinq ans à son avènement et il régna onze ans à Jérusalem. Or le nom de sa mère était Zébida, fille de Pedaïa 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 ce qui est mal aux yeux de l'Éternel en tout point comme avaient fait ses pères.
He did many things that Yahweh says are evil, like his ancestors had done.
