< 2 Samuel 21 >
1 Et il y eut, du temps de David, une famine de trois ans, année après année. Et David rechercha la face de l’Éternel, et l’Éternel dit: C’est à cause de Saül et de sa maison de sang, parce qu’il a fait mourir les Gabaonites.
During the time that David [ruled], there was a famine [in Israel] for three years. David prayed to Yahweh about it. And Yahweh said, “[In order for the famine to end], Saul’s family needs to be punished [MTY] because Saul killed many people from Gibeon [city].”
2 Et le roi appela les Gabaonites et leur parla. (Or les Gabaonites n’étaient pas des fils d’Israël, mais du reste des Amoréens, et les fils d’Israël s’étaient obligés envers eux par serment; et Saül, dans son zèle pour les fils d’Israël et de Juda, avait cherché à les frapper.)
The people of Gibeon were not Israelis; they were a small group of the Amor people-group whom the Israelis had solemnly promised to protect. But Saul had tried to kill all of them because he (was very zealous/wanted very much) to enable the people of Judah and Israel [to be the only ones living in that land]. So the king summoned the leaders of Gibeon
3 Et David dit aux Gabaonites: Que ferai-je pour vous, et avec quoi ferai-je expiation, de sorte que vous bénissiez l’héritage de l’Éternel?
and said to them, “What shall I do for you? How can I make amends/up for what was done to your people, in order that you will bless us who belong to Yahweh?”
4 Et les Gabaonites lui dirent: Il ne s’agit pas pour nous d’argent ou d’or à l’égard de Saül et de sa maison, ni qu’on fasse mourir personne en Israël. Et il dit: Ce que vous direz, je le ferai pour vous.
They replied, “You cannot settle our quarrel with Saul and his family by giving us silver or gold. And we do not have the right to kill any Israelis.” So David asked, “Then/So what do you say that I should do for you?”
5 Et ils dirent au roi: L’homme qui nous a consumés et qui a formé un plan contre nous afin de nous détruire, pour que nous ne puissions subsister dans tous les confins d’Israël…:
They replied, “Saul [wanted to] get rid of us. He wanted to annihilate/kill all of us, in order that none of us would live anywhere in Israel.
6 qu’on nous livre sept hommes de ses fils, et nous les pendrons devant l’Éternel à Guibha de Saül, l’élu de l’Éternel. Et le roi dit: Je les livrerai.
Hand over to us seven of Saul’s descendants. We will hang them where Yahweh is worshiped in Gibeon, our town, the town where Saul, whom Yahweh previously chose to be king, lived.” The king replied, “Okay, I will hand them over to you.”
7 Et le roi épargna Mephibosheth, fils de Jonathan, fils de Saül, à cause du serment de l’Éternel, qui était entre eux, entre David et Jonathan, fils de Saül.
The king did not hand over to them Saul’s grandson Mephibosheth, because of what he and [Mephibosheth’s father] Jonathan had solemnly promised to each other.
8 Et le roi prit les deux fils de Ritspa, fille d’Aïa, qu’elle avait enfantés à Saül, Armoni et Mephibosheth, et les cinq fils de Mical, fille de Saül, qu’elle avait enfantés à Adriel, fils de Barzillaï, le Meholathite,
Instead, he took Armoni and another man named Mephibosheth, the two sons that Saul’s slave wife Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah, had given birth to, and the five sons that Saul’s daughter Merab had given birth to. Merab’s husband was Adriel, the son of a man named Barzillai from Meholah [town].
9 et il les livra aux mains des Gabaonites, qui les pendirent sur la montagne, devant l’Éternel; et les sept tombèrent ensemble, et on les fit mourir aux premiers jours de la moisson, au commencement de la moisson des orges.
David handed those men over to the men from Gibeon. Then they hanged those seven men on a hill where they worshiped Yahweh. They were all killed during the time of the year that the people started to harvest the barley.
10 Et Ritspa, fille d’Aïa, prit un sac et l’étendit sur le rocher, depuis le commencement de la moisson jusqu’à ce qu’il tombe de l’eau des cieux sur eux; et elle ne permit pas aux oiseaux des cieux de se poser sur eux le jour, ni aux bêtes des champs la nuit.
Then Rizpah took coarse cloth made from goats’ hair, and spread it on the rock [where the corpses lay]. She stayed there from the time that people started to harvest the barley until the rains started. She did not allow any birds to come near the corpses during the day, and she did not allow any animals to come near during the night.
11 Et ce que Ritspa, fille d’Aïa, concubine de Saül, avait fait fut rapporté à David.
When someone told David what Rizpah had done,
12 Et David alla et prit les os de Saül et les os de Jonathan, son fils, de chez les habitants de Jabès de Galaad, qui les avaient dérobés de la place de Beth-Shan, où les Philistins les avaient suspendus le jour où les Philistins avaient frappé Saül à Guilboa.
he went with some of his servants to Jabesh in [the] Gilead [region] and got the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan. The people of Jabesh had stolen their bones from the (plaza/public square) in Beth-Shan [city], where the men from Philistia had hanged them previously, on the day that they had killed Saul and Jonathan on Gilboa [Mountain].
13 Et il emporta de là les os de Saül et les os de Jonathan, son fils; et on recueillit les os de ceux qui avaient été pendus,
David and his men took the bones of Saul and Jonathan, and they also took the bones of the seven men [from Gibeon] whom the men from Philistia had hanged.
14 et on les enterra avec les os de Saül et de Jonathan, son fils, dans le pays de Benjamin, à Tséla, dans le sépulcre de Kis, son père. Et on fit tout ce que le roi avait commandé: et après cela, Dieu fut propice au pays.
They buried the bones of Saul and Jonathan in Zela [town] in the land of [the tribe of] Benjamin. Doing all that the king commanded, they buried their bones in the tomb where Saul’s father Kish [was buried]. After that, [because] God [saw that Saul’s family had been punished to pay for Saul’s murder of many people from Gibeon, he] answered the Israelis’ prayers for their land, and caused the famine to end.
15 Et il y eut encore une guerre des Philistins contre Israël; et David descendit, et ses serviteurs avec lui, et ils se battirent avec les Philistins; et David était fatigué.
The army of Philistia again started to fight against the army of Israel. And David and his soldiers went to fight the Philistines. During the battle, David became weary.
16 Et Jishbi-Benob, qui était des enfants du géant (le poids de sa lance était de 300 sicles d’airain, et il était ceint d’une [armure] neuve), pensa frapper David.
One of the Philistia men thought that he could kill David. His name was Ishbi-Benob. He was a descendant of [a group of] giants. He carried a bronze spear that weighed about (7-1/2 pounds/3-1/2 kg.), and he also had a new sword.
17 Et Abishaï, fils de Tseruïa, le secourut, et frappa le Philistin et le tua. Alors les hommes de David lui jurèrent, disant: Tu ne sortiras plus avec nous pour la guerre, et tu n’éteindras pas la lampe d’Israël.
But Abishai came to help David, and attacked the giant and killed him. Then David’s soldiers forced him to promise that he would not go with them into a battle again. They said to him, “[If you die, and none of your descendants become king, that would be like] [MET] extinguishing the last light in Israel.”
18 Et il arriva, après cela, qu’il y eut encore un combat, à Gob, avec les Philistins. Alors Sibbecaï, le Hushathite, frappa Saph, qui était un des enfants du géant.
Some time after that, there was a battle with the army of Philistia near Gob [village]. During the battle, Sibbecai, from [the] Hushah [clan], killed Saph, one of the descendants of the Rapha giants.
19 Et il y eut encore un combat, à Gob, avec les Philistins: et Elkhanan, fils de Jaaré-Oreguim, le Bethléhémite, frappa Goliath, le Guitthien; et le bois de sa lance était comme l’ensouple des tisserands.
[Later] there was another battle with the army of Philistia at Gob. During that battle, Elhanan, the son of Jaare-Oregim from Bethlehem, killed [the brother of] Goliath from Gath [city]; Goliath’s spear shaft/handle was (very thick, like the bar on a weaver’s loom/over two inches thick).
20 Et il y eut encore un combat, à Gath: et il y avait [là] un homme de haute stature qui avait six doigts aux mains et six orteils aux pieds, en tout 24; et lui aussi était né au géant.
Later there was another battle near Gath. There was a (huge man/giant) there who liked to fight [in battles]. He had six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot. He was descended from [the] Rapha [giants].
21 Et il outragea Israël; mais Jonathan, fils de Shimha, frère de David, le frappa.
But when he (made fun of/ridiculed) the men in the Israeli [army], Jonathan, the son of David’s [older] brother Shimeah, killed him.
22 Ces quatre étaient nés au géant, à Gath, et tombèrent par la main de David et par la main de ses serviteurs.
Those four men were some of the descendants of the Rapha giants who had lived in Gath, who were killed [MTY] by David and his soldiers.