1. De son temps, Nebucadnetsar, roi de Babylone, se mit en campagne. Jojakim lui fut assujetti pendant trois ans; mais il se révolta de nouveau contre lui.
2. Alors l'Eternel envoya contre Jojakim des troupes de Chaldéens, des troupes de Syriens, des troupes de Moabites et des troupes d'Ammonites; il les envoya contre Juda pour le détruire, selon la parole que l'Eternel avait prononcée par ses serviteurs les prophètes.
3. Cela arriva uniquement sur l'ordre de l'Eternel, qui voulait ôter Juda de devant sa face, à cause de tous les péchés commis par Manassé,
4. et à cause du sang innocent qu'avait répandu Manassé et dont il avait rempli Jérusalem. Aussi l'Eternel ne voulut-il point pardonner.
5. Le reste des actions de Jojakim, et tout ce qu'il a fait, cela n'est-il pas écrit dans le livre des Chroniques des rois de Juda?
6. Jojakim se coucha avec ses pères. Et Jojakin, son fils, régna à sa place.
7. Le roi d'Egypte ne sortit plus de son pays, car le roi de Babylone avait pris tout ce qui était au roi d'Egypte depuis le torrent d'Egypte jusqu'au fleuve de l'Euphrate.
8. Jojakin avait dix-huit ans lorsqu'il devint roi, et il régna trois mois à Jérusalem. Sa mère s'appelait Nehuschtha, fille d'Elnathan, de Jérusalem.
9. Il fit ce qui est mal aux yeux de l'Eternel, entièrement comme avait fait son père.
10. En ce temps-là, les serviteurs de Nebucadnetsar, roi de Babylone, montèrent contre Jérusalem, et la ville fut assiégée.
11. Nebucadnetsar, roi de Babylone, arriva devant la ville pendant que ses serviteurs l'assiégeaient.
12. Alors Jojakin, roi de Juda, se rendit auprès du roi de Babylone, avec sa mère, ses serviteurs, ses chefs et ses eunuques. Et le roi de Babylone le fit prisonnier, la huitième année de son règne.
13. Il tira de là tous les trésors de la maison de l'Eternel et les trésors de la maison du roi; et il brisa tous les ustensiles d'or que Salomon, roi d'Israël, avait faits dans le temple de l'Eternel, comme l'Eternel l'avait prononcé.
14. Il emmena en captivité tout Jérusalem, tous les chefs et tous les hommes vaillants, au nombre de dix mille exilés, avec tous les charpentiers et les serruriers: il ne resta que le peuple pauvre du pays.
15. Il transporta Jojakin à Babylone; et il emmena captifs de Jérusalem à Babylone la mère du roi, les femmes du roi et ses eunuques, et les grands du pays,
16. tous les guerriers au nombre de sept mille, et les charpentiers et les serruriers au nombre de mille, tous hommes vaillants et propres à la guerre. Le roi de Babylone les emmena captifs à Babylone.
17. Et le roi de Babylone établit roi, à la place de Jojakin, Matthania, son oncle, dont il changea le nom en celui de Sédécias.
18. Sédécias avait vingt et un ans lorsqu'il devint roi, et il régna onze ans à Jérusalem. Sa mère s'appelait Hamuthal, fille de Jérémie, de Libna.
19. Il fit ce qui est mal aux yeux de l'Eternel, entièrement comme avait fait Jojakim.
20. Et cela arriva à cause de la colère de l'Eternel contre Jérusalem et contre Juda, qu'il voulait rejeter de devant sa face. Et Sédécias se révolta contre le roi de Babylone.
1. In his days, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came up and Jehoiakim was his servant for three years; then he took up arms against him.
2. And the Lord sent against him bands of the Chaldaeans and of the Edomites and of the Moabites and of the children of Ammon; sending them against Judah for its destruction, as he had said by his servants the prophets.
3. Only by the word of the Lord did this fate come on Judah, to take them away from before his face; because of the sins of Manasseh and all the evil he did;
4. And because of the death of those who had done no wrong, for he made Jerusalem full of the blood of the upright; and the Lord had no forgiveness for it.
5. Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and all he did, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah?
6. So Jehoiakim went to rest with his fathers; and Jehoiachin his son became king in his place.
7. And the king of Egypt did not come out of his land again, for the king of Babylon had taken all his country, from the stream of Egypt to the river Euphrates.
8. Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, he was ruling in Jerusalem for three months, and his mother's name was Nehushta, the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.
9. He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as his father had done.
10. At that time the armies of Nebuchadnezzar came up to Jerusalem and the town was shut in on every side.
11. And Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came there, while his servants were shutting in the town;
12. Then Jehoiachin, king of Judah, went out to the king of Babylon, with his mother and his servants and his chiefs and his unsexed servants; and in the eighth year of his rule the king of Babylon took him.
13. And he took away all the stored wealth of the Lord's house, and the goods from the king's store-house, cutting up all the gold vessels which Solomon, king of Israel, had made in the house of the Lord, as the Lord had said.
14. And he took away all the people of Jerusalem and all the chiefs and all the men of war, ten thousand prisoners; and all the expert workmen and the metal-workers; only the poorest sort of the people of the land were not taken away.
15. He took Jehoiachin a prisoner to Babylon, with his mother and his wives and his unsexed servants and the great men of the land; he took them all as prisoners from Jerusalem to Babylon.
16. And all the men of war, seven thousand of them, and a thousand expert workmen and metal-workers, all of them strong and able to take up arms, the king of Babylon took away as prisoners into Babylon.
17. And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah, his father's brother, king in place of Jehoiachin, changing his name to Zedekiah.
18. Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he was king in Jerusalem for eleven years; his mother's name was Hamutal, daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
19. He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as Jehoiakim had done.
20. And because of the wrath of the Lord, this came about in Jerusalem and Judah, till he had sent them all away from before him: and Zedekiah took up arms against the king of Babylon.
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