Deuxième livre des Chroniques 33

JERUSALEM	CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN
1 Manassé avait douze ans à son avènement et il régna 55 ans à Jérusalem.	1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he had begun to reign, and he reigned for fifty-five years in Jerusalem.
2 Il fit ce qui déplaît à Yahvé, imitant les abominations des nations que Yahvé avait chasséesdevant les Israélites.	2 But he did evil before the Lord, in accord with all the abominations of the nations which the Lord overturned before the sons of Israel.
3 Il rebâtit les hauts lieux qu'avaient détruits Ezéchias son père, il éleva des autels aux Baals etfabriqua des pieux sacrés, il se prosterna devant toute l'armée du ciel et lui rendit un culte.	3 And turning away, he repaired the high places, which had been demolished by his father, Hezekiah. And he constructed altars to the Baals, and made sacred groves. And he adored the entire army of heaven, and he served them.
4 Il construisit des autels dans le Temple de Yahvé, dont Yahvé avait dit: "C'est à Jérusalemque mon Nom sera à jamais."	4 Also, he built altars in the house of the Lord, about which the Lord had said, “My name shall be in Jerusalem forever.”
5 Il construisit des autels à toute l'armée du ciel dans les deux cours du Temple de Yahvé.	5 But he built these for the entire army of heaven, in the two courts of the house of the Lord.
6 C'est lui qui fit passer ses enfants par le feu dans la vallée des fils de Hinnom. Il pratiqua lesincantations, la divination et la magie, installa des nécromants et des devins, et multiplia les actions que Yahvéregarde comme mauvaises, provoquant ainsi sa colère.	6 And he caused his sons to pass through fire in the Valley of the son of Hinnom. He observed dreams, followed divinations, served the occult arts, had with him magicians and enchanters, and worked many evils before the Lord, so that he provoked him.
7 Il plaça l'idole, qu'il avait fait sculpter, dans le Temple de Dieu, dont Dieu avait dit à David età son fils Salomon: "Dans ce Temple et dans Jérusalem, la ville que j'ai choisie entre toutes les tribus d'Israël, jeplacerai mon Nom à jamais.	7 Also, he set up a graven image and molten statue in the house of God, about which God said to David, and to his son Solomon: “In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel, I will place my name forever.
8 Je ne détournerai plus les pas des Israélites de la terre où j'ai établi vos pères, pourvu qu'ilsveillent à pratiquer tout ce que je leur ai commandé selon toute la Loi, les prescriptions et les coutumestransmises par Moïse."	8 And I will not cause the foot of Israel to be moved from the land which I delivered to their fathers. Yet this is so, only if they will take care to do what I have instructed them, by the hand of Moses, with the entire law and the ceremonies and the judgments.”
9 Mais Manassé égara les Judéens et les habitants de Jérusalem, au point qu'ils agirent encoreplus mal que les nations que Yahvé avait exterminées devant les Israélites.	9 And so Manasseh seduced Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that they did evil, more so than all the nations which the Lord had overturned before the face of the sons of Israel.
10 Yahvé parla à Manassé et à son peuple, mais ils ne prêtèrent pas l'oreille.	10 And the Lord spoke to him and to his people, but they were not willing to pay attention.
11 Alors Yahvé fit venir contre eux les généraux du roi d'Assyrie qui capturèrent Manassé avecdes crocs, le mirent aux fers et l'emmenèrent à Babylone.	11 Therefore, he led over them the leaders of the army of the king of the Assyrians. And they captured Manasseh, and they led him, bound with chains and fetters, to Babylon.
12 A l'occasion de cette épreuve, il chercha à apaiser Yahvé, son Dieu, il s'humiliaprofondément devant le Dieu de ses pères;	12 And after this, being in great anguish, he prayed to the Lord his God. And he did penance greatly before the God of his fathers.
13 il le pria et lui se laissa fléchir. Il entendit sa supplication et le réintégra dans sa royauté, àJérusalem. Manassé reconnut que c'est Yahvé qui est Dieu.	13 And he petitioned and begged him intently. And he heeded his prayer, and led him back to Jerusalem, into his kingdom. And Manasseh realized that the Lord himself was God.
14 Après quoi, il restaura la muraille extérieure de la Cité de David, à l'ouest du Gihôn situédans le ravin, jusqu'à la porte des Poissons; elle entoura l'Ophel et il la suréleva beaucoup. Il mit des générauxdans toutes les villes fortifiées de Juda.	14 After these things, he built a wall outside the City of David, to the west of Gihon, at the steep valley, from the entrance to the fish gate, circling around as far as Ophel. And he raised it up greatly. And he appointed leaders of the army in all the fortified cities of Judah.
15 Il écarta alors du Temple de Yahvé les dieux de l'étranger et la statue, ainsi que tous lesautels qu'il avait construits sur la montagne du Temple et dans Jérusalem; il les jeta hors de la ville.	15 And he took away the foreign gods, and the idol from the house of the Lord, and also the altars which he had made on the mount of the house of the Lord and in Jerusalem. And he cast all these things outside the city.
16 Il rétablit l'autel de Yahvé, y offrit des sacrifices de communion et de louange et ordonnaaux Judéens de servir Yahvé, Dieu d'Israël;	16 Then he repaired the altar of the Lord, and he immolated upon it victims, and peace offerings, with praise. And he instructed Judah to serve the Lord, the God of Israel.
17 mais le peuple continuait de sacrifier sur les hauts lieux, bien qu'à Yahvé son Dieu.	17 Yet still the people were immolating on the high places, to the Lord their God.
18 Le reste de l'histoire de Manassé, la prière qu'il fit à son Dieu et les paroles des voyants quis'adressèrent à lui au nom de Yahvé, Dieu d'Israël, se trouvent dans les Actes des rois d'Israël.	18 But the rest of the deeds of Manasseh, and his prayer to his God, and also the words of the seers who were speaking to him in the name of the Lord, the God of Israel, are contained in the words of the kings of Israel.
19 Sa prière et son exaucement, tous ses péchés et son impiété, les endroits où il avait construitdes hauts lieux et dressé des pieux sacrés et des idoles avant de s'être humilié, sont consignés dans l'histoire deHozaï.	19 Also, his prayer and its heeding, and all his sins and contempt, and the sites on which he built high places and made sacred groves and statues, before he repented, have been written in the words of Hozai.
20 Manassé se coucha avec ses pères et on l'enterra dans le jardin de son palais. Son fils Amonrégna à sa place.	20 Then Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house. And his son, Amon, reigned in his place.
21 Amon avait 22 ans à son avènement et il régna deux ans à Jérusalem.	21 Amon was twenty-two years old when he had begun to reign, and he reigned for two years in Jerusalem.
22 Il fit ce qui déplaît à Yahvé, comme avait fait son père Manassé. Amon sacrifia et rendit unculte à toutes les idoles qu'avait faites son père Manassé.	22 And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, just as his father Manasseh had done. And he immolated to all the idols that Manasseh had fabricated, and he served them.
23 Il ne s'humilia pas devant Yahvé comme s'était humilié son père Manassé; au contraire, lui,Amon, se rendit gravement coupable.	23 But he did not turn his face to the Lord, as his father Manasseh had turned himself. And he sinned much more grievously.
24 Ses serviteurs complotèrent contre lui et il le tuèrent dans son palais;	24 And when his servants had conspired against him, they killed him in his own house.
25 mais le peuple du pays frappa tous ceux qui avaient conspiré contre Amon et proclama roi àsa place son fils Josias.	25 But the rest of the multitude of the people, having slain those who had struck down Amon, appointed his son, Josiah, as king in his place.