2 Chroniques 21

1Josaphat se coucha avec ses pères, et il fut enterré avec ses pères dans la ville de David ; Joram, son fils, régna à sa place.

2Joram avait des frères, fils de Josaphat : Azarias, Jahiel, Zacharias, Azarias, Michaël et Saphatias ; ils étaient tous fils de Josaphat, roi de Juda.

3Leur père leur avait donné des présents considérables en or et en argent, et en objets de prix, avec des villes fortes en Juda ; mais il laissa le royaume à Joram, parce qu’il était le premier-né.

4Joram s’établit sur le royaume de son père et, lorsqu’il se fut affermi, il fit mourir par l’épée tous ses frères, et aussi quelques-uns des chefs d’Israël.

5Joram avait trente-deux ans lorsqu’il devint roi, et il régna huit ans à Jérusalem.

6Il marcha dans la voie des rois d’Israël, comme avait fait la maison d’Achab, car il avait pour femme une fille d’Achab, et il fit ce qui est mal aux yeux de Yahweh.

7Mais Yahweh ne voulut pas détruire la maison de David, à cause de l’alliance qu’il avait contractée avec David, et parce qu’il lui avait dit qu’il lui donnerait toujours une lampe, à lui et à ses fils.

8De son temps, Édom se révolta contre la domination de Juda et se donna un roi.

9Joram se mit en marche avec ses chefs et tous ses chars ; s’étant levé de nuit, il battit les Édomites qui l’entouraient et les chefs des chars.

10Edom s’affranchit de la domination de Juda, jusqu’à ce jour. Lobna s’affranchit aussi dans le même temps de sa domination, parce qu’il avait abandonné Yahweh, le Dieu de ses pères.

11Joram fit même des hauts lieux dans les montagnes de Juda ; il poussa à la prostitution les habitants de Jérusalem, et il séduisit Juda.

12Il lui vint un écrit de la part du prophète Élie, disant : « Ainsi dit Yahweh, le Dieu de David, ton père : Parce que tu n’as pas marché dans les voies de Josaphat, ton père, et dans les voies d’Asa, roi de Juda,

13mais que tu as marché dans la voie des rois d’Israël ; parce que tu as poussé à la prostitution Juda et les habitants de Jérusalem, comme la maison d’Achab poussait Israël à la prostitution, et parce que tu as fait mourir tes frères, meilleurs que toi, la maison même de ton père :

14voici que Yahweh frappera d’une grande plaie ton peuple, tes fils, tes femmes et tout ce qui t’appartient ;

15et toi, tu seras frappé de graves maladies, d’une maladie d’entrailles, telle que tes entrailles sortiront par la violence du mal, pendant de nombreux jours ».

16Et Yahweh excita contre Joram l’esprit des Philistins et des Arabes voisins des Ethiopiens.

17Etant montés en Juda, ils s’y répandirent, pillèrent toutes les richesses qui se trouvaient dans la maison du roi, et emmenèrent aussi ses fils et ses femmes, de sorte qu’il ne lui resta plus d’autre fils que Joachaz, le plus jeune de ses fils.

18Après tout cela, Yahweh le frappa dans ses entrailles d’une maladie sans remède.

19Les jours s’écoulant, sur la fin de la seconde année, les entrailles de Joram sortirent par la violence de son mal. Il mourut dans de grandes souffrances, et son peuple ne brûla pas de parfums en son honneur, comme il en avait brûlé pour ses pères.

20Joram avait trente-deux ans lorsqu’il devint roi, et il régna huit ans à Jérusalem. Il s’en alla sans être regretté, et on l’enterra dans la ville de David, mais non dans les sépulcres des rois.

1Dormivit autem Josaphat cum patribus suis, et sepultus est cum eis in civitate David: regnavitque Joram filius ejus pro eo.

2Qui habuit fratres filios Josaphat, Azariam, et Jahiel, et Zachariam, et Azariam, et Michaël, et Saphatiam: omnes hi filii Josaphat regis Juda.

3Deditque eis pater suus multa munera argenti et auri, et pensitationes, cum civitatibus munitissimis in Juda: regnum autem tradidit Joram, eo quod esset primogenitus.

4Surrexit ergo Joram super regnum patris sui: cumque se confirmasset, occidit omnes fratres suos gladio, et quosdam de principibus Israël.

5Triginta duorum annorum erat Joram cum regnare cœpisset, et octo annis regnavit in Jerusalem.

6Ambulavitque in viis regum Israël, sicut egerat domus Achab: filia quippe Achab erat uxor ejus: et fecit malum in conspectu Domini.

7Noluit autem Dominus disperdere domum David propter pactum quod inierat cum eo: et quia promiserat ut daret ei lucernam, et filiis ejus omni tempore.

8In diebus illis rebellavit Edom, ne esset subditus Judæ, et constituit sibi regem.

9Cumque transisset Joram cum principibus suis, et cuncto equitatu qui erat secum, surrexit nocte, et percussit Edom, qui se circumdederat, et omnes duces equitatus ejus.

10Attamen rebellavit Edom, ne esset sub ditione Juda usque ad hanc diem: eo tempore et Lobna recessit ne esset sub manu illius. Dereliquerat enim Dominum Deum patrum suorum:

11insuper et excelsa fabricatus est in urbibus Juda, et fornicari fecit habitatores Jerusalem, et prævaricari Judam.

12Allatæ sunt autem ei litteræ ab Elia propheta, in quibus scriptum erat: Hæc dicit Dominus Deus David patris tui: Quoniam non ambulasti in viis Josaphat patris tui, et in viis Asa regis Juda,

13sed incessisti per iter regum Israël, et fornicari fecisti Judam et habitatores Jerusalem, imitatus fornicationem domus Achab, insuper et fratres tuos, domum patris tui, meliores te, occidisti:

14ecce Dominus percutiet te plaga magna cum populo tuo, et filiis, et uxoribus tuis, universaque substantia tua.

15Tu autem ægrotabis pessimo languore uteri tui, donec egrediantur vitalia tua paulatim per singulos dies.

16Suscitavit ergo Dominus contra Joram spiritum Philisthinorum, et Arabum qui confines sunt Æthiopibus:

17et ascenderunt in terram Juda, et vastaverunt eam, diripueruntque cunctam substantiam quæ inventa est in domo regis, insuper et filios ejus, et uxores: nec remansit ei filius, nisi Joachaz, qui minimus natu erat.

18Et super hæc omnia percussit eum Dominus alvi languore insanabili.

19Cumque diei succederet dies, et temporum spatia volverentur, duorum annorum expletus est circulus: et sic longa consumptus tabe, ita ut egereret etiam viscera sua, languore pariter, et vita caruit. Mortuusque est in infirmitate pessima, et non fecit ei populus secundum morem combustionis exequias, sicut fecerat majoribus ejus.

20Triginta duorum annorum fuit cum regnare cœpisset, et octo annis regnavit in Jerusalem. Ambulavitque non recte, et sepelierunt eum in civitate David, verumtamen non in sepulchro regum.

1And Josaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with them in the city of David: and Joram his son reigned in his stead.

2And he had brethren the sons of Josaphat, Azarias, and Jahiel, and Zacharias, and Azaria, and Michael, and Saphatias, all these were the sons of Josaphat king of Juda.

3And their father gave them great gifts of silver, and of gold, and pensions, with strong cities in Juda: but the kingdom he gave to Joram, because he was the eldest.

4So Joram rose up over the kingdom of his father: and when he had established himself, he slew all his brethren with the sword, and some of the princes of Israel.

5Joram was two and thirty years old when he began to reign: and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.

6And he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, as the house of Achab had done: for his wife was a daughter of Achab, and he did evil in the sight of the Lord.

7But the Lord would not destroy the house of David: because of the covenant which he had made with him: and because he had promised to give a lamp to him, and to his sons for ever.

8In those days Edom revolted, from being subject to Juda, and made themselves a king.

9And Joram went over with his princes, and all his cavalry with him, and rose in the night, and defeated the Edomites who had surrounded him, and all the captains of his cavalry.

10However Edom revolted, from being under the dominion of Juda unto this day: at that time Lobna also revolted, from being under his hand. For he had forsaken the Lord the God of his fathers:

11Moreover he built also high places in the cities of Juda, and he made the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication, and Juda to transgress.

12And there was a letter brought him from Elias the prophet, in which it was written: Thus saith the Lord the God of David thy father: Because thou hast not walked in the ways of Josaphat thy father nor in the ways of Asa king of Juda,

13But hast walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and hast made Juda and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication, imitating the fornication of the house of Achab, moreover also thou hast killed thy brethren, the house of thy father, better men than thyself,

14Behold the Lord will strike thee with a great plague, with all thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy substance.

15And thou shalt be sick of a very grievous disease of thy bowels, till thy vital parts come out by little and little every day.

16And the Lord stirred up against Joram the spirit of the Philistines, and of the Arabians, who border on the Ethiopians.

17And they came up into the land of Juda, and wasted it, and they carried away all the substance that was found in the king’s house, his sons also, and his wives: so that there was no son left him but Joachaz, who was the youngest.

18And besides all this the Lord struck him with an incurable disease in his bowels.

19And as day came after day, and time rolled on, two whole years passed: then after being wasted with a long consumption, so as to void his very bowels, his disease ended with his life. And he died of a most wretched illness, and the people did not make a funeral for him according to the manner of burning, as they had done for his ancestors.

20He was two and thirty years old when he began his reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. And he walked not rightly, and they buried him in the city of David: but not in the sepulchres of the kings.