1 Samuel 31
1 Les Philistins firent la guerre à Israël; les hommes d'Israël s'enfuirent devant les Philistins, et tombèrent morts sur la montagne de Guilboa.
Later, the Philistines again fought against the Israelis. The Israelis ran away from them, and (many Israelis were killed/the Philistines killed many Israelis) on Gilboa Mountain.
2 Les Philistins atteignirent Saül et ses fils, et ils tuèrent Jonathan, Abinadab et Malkischua, fils de Saül.
The Philistines caught up with Saul and his three sons, and they killed [all three of] his sons, Jonathan and Abinadab and Malchishua.
3 La bataille s'acharna sur Saül, et les archers l'atteignirent; il fut très éprouvé à cause des archers.
The fighting was very fierce around Saul. When the Philistine (archers/men with bows and arrows) caught up with Saul, they wounded him badly [with their arrows].
4 Alors Saül dit à son porteur d'armes: « Tire ton épée, et transperce-moi avec, de peur que ces incirconcis ne viennent me transpercer et me maltraiter! ». Mais son porteur d'armure ne voulut pas, car il était terrifié. Saül prit donc son épée et se laissa tomber dessus.
Saul said to the man who was carrying his weapons, “Take out your sword and kill me with it, in order that these heathen Philistines will not be able to thrust their swords into me and make fun of me [while I am dying].” But the man who was carrying Saul’s weapons was terrified, and refused to do that. So Saul took his own sword and fell on it. [The sword pierced his body and he died].
5 Lorsque le porteur de la cuirasse vit que Saül était mort, il se jeta aussi sur son épée et mourut avec lui.
When the man carrying his weapons saw that Saul was dead, he also threw himself on his own sword and died.
6 Saül mourut donc avec ses trois fils, son porteur d'armes et tous ses hommes, ce même jour.
So Saul, three of his sons, and the man who carried Saul’s weapons, all died on that same day.
7 Lorsque les hommes d'Israël qui étaient de l'autre côté de la vallée et ceux qui étaient au-delà du Jourdain virent que les hommes d'Israël s'enfuyaient et que Saül et ses fils étaient morts, ils abandonnèrent les villes et s'enfuirent; et les Philistins vinrent s'y installer.
When the Israeli people on the north side of the [Jezreel] Valley and on the east side of the Jordan [River] heard that the Israeli army had run away and that Saul and his sons had died, they left their towns and ran away. Then the Philistines came and occupied their towns.
8 Le lendemain, lorsque les Philistins vinrent dépouiller les morts, ils trouvèrent Saül et ses trois fils tombés sur la montagne de Gilboa.
The next day, when the Philistines came to take away the weapons of the dead [Israeli soldiers], they found the bodies of Saul and his three sons on Gilboa Mountain.
9 Ils lui coupèrent la tête, lui enlevèrent son armure et l'envoyèrent dans le pays des Philistins tout autour, pour porter la nouvelle dans la maison de leurs idoles et au peuple.
They cut off Saul’s head and took his weapons. Then they sent messengers throughout their land, to proclaim the news, in the temple where they kept their idols, and to the other people, [that their army had killed Saul].
10 Ils mirent son armure dans la maison d'Ashtaroth, et ils attachèrent son corps à la muraille de Beth Shan.
They put Saul’s weapons in the temple of [their goddess] Astarte. They also fastened the bodies of Saul [and his sons] to the wall [that surrounded] Beth-Shan [city].
11 Lorsque les habitants de Jabesh Galaad apprirent ce que les Philistins avaient fait à Saül,
When the people who lived in Jabesh in [the] Gilead [region] heard what the Philistines had done to Saul’s corpse,
12 tous les vaillants hommes se levèrent, marchèrent toute la nuit et prirent le corps de Saül et les corps de ses fils sur la muraille de Beth Shan; ils vinrent à Jabesh et les brûlèrent là.
all their bravest soldiers walked all night to Beth-Shan. They took the corpses of Saul and his sons down from the city wall, and they took them back to Jabesh and burned the corpses there.
13 Ils prirent leurs os et les enterrèrent sous le tamaris de Jabesh, et ils jeûnèrent sept jours.
They took the bones and buried them under a [big] tamarisk tree. Then they (fasted/abstained from eating food) for seven days.
