1 Chroniques 21
1 Et Satan se leva contre Israël, et incita David à dénombrer 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, faites le dénombrement d’Israël depuis Beër-Shéba jusqu’à Dan; et rapportez-le-moi, afin que j’en sache le 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 Et Joab dit: Que l’Éternel ajoute à son peuple 100 fois autant qu’il y en a! Ô roi, mon seigneur, ne sont-ils pas tous serviteurs de mon seigneur? Pourquoi mon seigneur cherche-t-il cela? Pourquoi la culpabilité en viendrait-elle 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 sur Joab; et Joab sortit, et alla par tout Israël, et 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 donna à David le chiffre du recensement du peuple; et il y avait, de tout Israël, 1 100 000 hommes tirant l’épée, et, de Juda, 470 000 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 mais Lévi et Benjamin, il ne les dénombra pas au milieu d’eux; car la parole du roi était une abomination pour 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 Et cette chose fut mauvaise aux yeux de Dieu; 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 grandement péché en ce que j’ai fait cette chose; et maintenant, fais passer, je te prie, l’iniquité de ton serviteur, car j’ai agi très follement.
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 Et l’Éternel parla à Gad, le voyant de David, disant:
Then Yahweh said to Gad, David’s prophet,
10 Va, et parle à David, en disant: Ainsi dit l’Éternel: Je te propose 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 Et Gad vint vers David, et lui dit: Ainsi dit l’Éternel: Prends pour toi,
So Gad went to David and said to him, “This is what Yahweh says: ‘You can choose one of these [punishments]:
12 ou trois ans de famine, ou d’être pourchassé trois mois devant tes adversaires et d’être atteint par l’épée de tes ennemis, ou pendant trois jours l’épée de l’Éternel et la peste dans le pays, et l’ange de l’Éternel détruisant dans tous les confins d’Israël. Et maintenant, vois quelle parole je rapporterai à celui qui m’a envoyé.
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 Et David dit à Gad: Je suis dans une grande détresse. Que je tombe, je te prie, dans les mains de l’Éternel, car ses compassions sont très grandes; et que je ne tombe point dans la main 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 l’Éternel envoya la peste en Israël; et il tomba d’Israël 70 000 hommes.
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 comme il détruisait, l’Éternel [le] vit et se repentit de ce mal, et dit à l’ange qui détruisait: Assez! Retire maintenant ta main. Or l’ange de l’Éternel se tenait près de l’aire d’Ornan, le Jébusien.
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 Et David leva ses yeux, et vit l’ange de l’Éternel se tenant entre la terre et les cieux, ayant en sa main son épée nue étendue sur Jérusalem. Et David et les anciens, couverts de sacs, tombèrent sur leurs faces.
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 commandé de dénombrer le peuple? C’est moi qui ai péché et qui ai mal agi; mais ces brebis, qu’ont-elles fait? Éternel, mon Dieu, je te prie, que ta main soit sur moi et sur la maison de mon père, mais qu’elle ne soit pas sur ton peuple pour le frapper.
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 Et l’ange de l’Éternel commanda à Gad de dire à David, que David monte pour dresser un autel à l’Éternel dans l’aire d’Ornan, le Jébusien.
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 Et David monta, selon la parole de Gad, qu’il avait dite au nom de l’Éternel.
So [after Gad told] David, [he] obeyed the message that Yahweh [MTY] had given to Gad, [and he went up there].
20 Et Ornan se retourna et vit l’ange; et ses quatre fils se cachèrent avec lui: et Ornan foulait 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 Et David vint à Ornan; et Ornan regarda, et vit David, et sortit de l’aire, et 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 Et David dit à Ornan: Donne-moi la place de l’aire, et j’y bâtirai un autel à l’Éternel; donne-la-moi pour son plein [prix] en argent, afin que la plaie soit arrêtée 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 Et Ornan dit à David: Prends-la pour toi, et que le roi, mon seigneur, fasse ce qui est bon à ses yeux. Vois, je donne les bœufs pour l’holocauste, et les traîneaux à fouler pour le bois, et le froment pour le gâteau: je donne tout.
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 Et le roi David dit à Ornan: Non, car certainement je l’ achèterai pour son plein [prix] en argent; car je ne prendrai pas pour l’Éternel ce qui est à toi, pour offrir un holocauste qui ne 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 Et David donna à Ornan pour la place, en sicles d’or, le poids de 600 [sicles].
So David paid Araunah 600 pieces of gold for the whole area.
26 Et David bâtit là un autel à l’Éternel, et offrit des holocaustes et des sacrifices de prospérités, et invoqua l’Éternel; et il lui répondit par le feu des cieux 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 l’Éternel parla à l’ange, et il remit son épée dans son 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 l’Éternel lui avait répondu dans l’aire d’Ornan, le Jébusien, y sacrifia.
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 Et le tabernacle de l’Éternel, que Moïse avait fait dans le désert, et l’autel de l’holocauste, 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 et David ne put point aller devant cet [autel] pour rechercher Dieu, car il était épouvanté à cause de l’épée de l’ange de l’Éternel.
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.
