1 Chroniques 21
1 Satan se tint contre Israël, et il excita David à faire le dénombrement d'Israël.
Satan decided to cause the Israeli people to have trouble. So he incited David to find out how many men in Israel [were able to be in the army].
2 Et David dit à Joab et aux chefs du peuple: " Allez, comptez Israël depuis Bersabée jusqu'à Dan, et faites-moi un rapport, afin que je sache leur nombre. "
So David commanded Joab and the other army commanders, “Count all the men in Israel [who are able to be in the army]. Start at Beersheba [town in the south] and go all the way to Dan [city in the north]. Then come back and report to me, in order that I may know how many men there are.”
3 Joab répondit: " Que Yahweh ajoute à son peuple cent fois ce qu'il y en a! O roi, monseigneur, ne sont-ils pas tous esclaves de mon seigneur? Pourquoi donc mon seigneur demande-t-il cela? Pourquoi faire venir le péché sur Israël? "
But Joab replied, “Your majesty, even if Yahweh allowed us to have 100 times as many soldiers as we have now, you would [RHQ] still rule all of them. So why do you want us to do this? You will surely [RHQ] cause [all the people of] Israel to be guilty of sinning.”
4 Mais la parole du roi prévalut contre Joab. Joab partit et parcourut tout Israël, et il revint à Jérusalem.
But David would not change his mind. So Joab [and his soldiers] went everywhere in Israel and in Judah, and counted the people. Then they returned to Jerusalem,
5 Et Joab remit à David le rôle du dénombrement du peuple: il y avait dans tout Israël onze cent mille hommes tirant l'épée, et en Juda quatre cent soixante-dix mille hommes tirant l'épée.
and they reported to David that there were 1,100,000 men in Israel who could be in the army, and 470,000 in Judah.
6 Il ne fit pas le dénombrement de Lévi et de Benjamin au milieu d'eux, car l'ordre du roi répugnait à Joab.
Joab did not count the men from the tribes of Levi and Benjamin, because he was disgusted with what the king had commanded.
7 Dieu vit de mauvais œil cette affaire, et il frappa Israël.
David’s command to count the people caused God to become angry, so he [told David that he had decided to] punish [the people of] Israel.
8 Et David dit à Dieu: " J'ai commis un grand péché en faisant cela. Maintenant, ôtez, je vous prie, l'iniquité de votre serviteur, car j'ai tout à fait agi en insensé. "
Then David prayed, saying, “Yahweh, what I did was very foolish. I have sinned greatly by what I have done. So now I plead with you, please forgive me.”
9 Yahweh parla à Gad, le voyant de David, en ces termes:
Then Yahweh said to Gad, David’s prophet,
10 " Va et parle à David en ces termes: Ainsi parle Yahweh: Je pose devant toi trois choses; choisis-en une, et je te la ferai. "
“Go and tell this to David: I am allowing you to choose one of three things [to punish you]. I will do whichever one you choose.”
11 Gad vint vers David et lui dit: " Ainsi parle Yahweh: Choisis,
So Gad went to David and said to him, “This is what Yahweh says: ‘You can choose one of these [punishments]:
12 ou trois années de famine, ou trois mois durant lesquels tu seras emporté devant tes adversaires et atteint par le glaive de tes ennemis, ou trois jours durant lesquels le glaive de Yahweh et la peste seront dans le pays, et l'ange de Yahweh opérera la destruction dans tout le territoire d'Israël. Maintenant, vois ce que je dois répondre à celui qui m'envoie. "
three years of famine [in Israel], or three months during which your armies will run away from their enemies [who will attack them with] swords, or three days during which I will send my angel to cause many people in the country to die because of a (plague/very serious illness).’ So, you must decide what I will say to answer [Yahweh, ] the one who sent me.”
13 David dit à Gad: " Je suis dans une cruelle angoisse. Ah! que je tombe entre les mains de Yahweh, car ses miséricordes sont très grandes, et que je ne tombe pas entre les mains des hommes! "
David replied to Gad, “I am very distressed. But allow Yahweh to punish [MTY] me, because he is very merciful. Do not allow humans to punish me, [because they will not be merciful].”
14 Et Yahweh envoya une peste en Israël, et il tomba soixante-dix mille hommes en Israël.
So Yahweh sent a plague on [the people of] Israel, and 70,000 of them died because of it.
15 Et Dieu envoya un ange à Jérusalem pour la détruire; et pendant qu'il détruisait, Yahweh vit et se repentit de ce mal, et il dit à l'ange qui détruisait: " Assez! retire maintenant ta main. " L'ange de Yahweh se tenait près de l'aire d'Ornan, le Jésubéen.
And God sent an angel to destroy the people in Jerusalem by the plague. But when the angel was standing at the ground where Araunah, from the Jebus people-group, threshed grain, Yahweh saw all the suffering that the people had endured, and he was grieved. So he said to the angel, “Stop what you are doing [IDM]! That is enough [IDM]!”
16 David, ayant levé les yeux, vit l'ange de Yahweh se tenant entre la terre et le ciel, et ayant à la main son épée nue, tournée contre Jérusalem. Alors David et les anciens, couverts de sacs, tombèrent sur leur visage.
David looked up and saw the angel whom Yahweh had sent, standing between the sky and the ground. The angel had a sword in his hand that was pointed toward Jerusalem. Then David and the elders [of the city], who were wearing clothes made of rough sackcloth, prostrated themselves on the ground.
17 Et David dit à Dieu: " N'est-ce pas moi qui ai dit de faire le dénombrement du peuple? C'est moi qui ai péché et qui ai fait le mal; mais celles-là, ces brebis, qu'ont-elles fait? Yahweh, mon Dieu, que votre main soit donc sur moi et sur la maison de mon père, mais non sur votre peuple pour sa ruine. "
David said to God, “I am [RHQ] the one who ordered the men who could be in the army to be counted. I am the one who has sinned and done what is very wrong, but these people are [as innocent as] [MET] sheep. They have certainly not [RHQ] done anything [that is wrong]. So Yahweh my God, punish [IDM] me and my family, but do not allow this plague to continue to [cause] your people [to become sick and die].”
18 L'ange de Yahweh ordonna à Gad de dire à David de monter pour élever un autel à Yahweh sur l'aire d'Ornan, le Jébuséen.
Then the angel who was sent by Yahweh told Gad to go up to the place where Araunah threshed grain and tell David to build an altar to [worship] Yahweh there.
19 David monta, selon la parole de Gad qu'il avait dite au nom de Yahweh.
So [after Gad told] David, [he] obeyed the message that Yahweh [MTY] had given to Gad, [and he went up there].
20 Ornan, s'étant retourné, vit l'ange, et il se cacha, lui et ses quatre fils: Ornan battait alors du froment.
While Araunah was threshing some wheat, he turned and saw the angel. His four sons who were with him [also saw the angel, and they] hid themselves.
21 Lorsque David arriva auprès d'Ornan, Ornan regarda et il aperçut David; sortant aussitôt de l'aire, il se prosterna devant David, le visage contre terre.
Then David approached. When Araunah saw him, he left the place where he was threshing grain and prostrated himself, with his face touching the ground.
22 David dit à Ornan: " Cède-moi l'emplacement de l'aire, et j'y bâtirai un autel à Yahweh; cède-le-moi pour sa pleine valeur en argent, pour que la plaie se retire de dessus le peuple. "
David said to him, “Please sell me your threshing place in order that I can build an altar here to [worship] Yahweh. Then he will stop this plague. I will pay the full price.”
23 Ornan dit à David: " Prends-le, et que mon seigneur le roi fasse ce qu'il trouvera bon. Vois, je donne les bœufs pour l'holocauste, les traîneaux pour le bois, et le froment pour l'oblation; je donne tout cela. "
Araunah replied, “Take it! Your majesty, do whatever you want to. I will give you the oxen [that thresh the grain] for an offering to be completely burned [on the altar]. And I will give you the threshing boards to use as wood [on the altar], and I will give you grain for a grain offering. I will give all those things to you.”
24 Mais le roi David dit à Ornan: " Non! Mais je veux l'acheter contre sa pleine valeur en argent, car je ne prendrai pas ce qui est à toi pour Yahweh, et je n'offrirai pas un holocauste qui ne me coûte rien. "
But the king said to Araunah, “No, [I will not take these things as a gift]. I will pay you the full price for it. I will not take things that belong to you, things that have cost me nothing and offer them as sacrifices to Yahweh to be completely burned on the altar.”
25 David donna à Ornan un poids de six cents sicles d'or pour l'emplacement.
So David paid Araunah 600 pieces of gold for the whole area.
26 Et David bâtit là un autel à Yahweh, et offrit des holocaustes et des sacrifices pacifiques. Il cria vers Yahweh, et Yahweh lui répondit par le feu qui descendit du ciel sur l'autel de l'holocauste.
David built an altar to [worship] Yahweh there, and he offered sacrifices to be completely burned [on the altar] and sacrifices to restore fellowship [with Yahweh]. David prayed to Yahweh, and Yahweh answered by sending a fire from heaven [to burn up the offerings] on the altar.
27 Et Yahweh parla à l'ange, et celui-ci remit son épée dans le fourreau.
Then Yahweh spoke to the angel, and told him to put his sword back into its sheath. [So the angel did that].
28 En ce temps-là, David, voyant que Yahweh l'avait exaucé dans l'aire d'Ornan, le Jébuséen, y offrait des sacrifices.
And when David saw that Yahweh had answered him there at the place where Araunah threshed grain [and had ended the plague], he offered sacrifices there.
29 Le tabernacle de Yahweh, que Moïse avait construit au désert, et l'autel des holocaustes étaient en ce temps-là sur le haut lieu de Gabaon.
Yahweh’s Sacred Tent, which Moses had commanded to be set up in the desert, and the altar for burning sacrifices completely, were at that time on a hill at Gibeon [city].
30 Mais David ne pouvait pas aller devant cet autel pour honorer Dieu, parce qu'il avait été terrifié par l'épée de l'ange de Yahweh.
But David did not want to go there to request God to tell him what he wanted [him to do], because he was afraid that the angel sent from Yahweh [might strike him with] his sword.
