1 Samuel 31
1 Cependant les Philistins livraient bataille aux Israélites. Ceux-ci s’enfuirent devant eux et laissèrent des morts sur la montagne de Ghelboé.
Meanwhile the Philistines had attacked Israel, and the Israelite army ran away from them, and many were killed on Mount Gilboa.
2 Les Philistins atteignirent Saül et ses fils, et tuèrent Jonathan, Abinadab et Malkichoua, fils de Saül.
The Philistines chased down Saul and his sons, killing Saul's sons Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchishua.
3 L’Attaque s’acharna contre Saül; il fut surpris par les archers, qui lui causèrent une grande frayeur.
The fighting became very intense around Saul, and the arrows of the Philistine archers found their target, wounding Saul very badly.
4 Saül dit alors à son écuyer: "Tire ton épée et me transperce, pour que je ne sois pas en butte aux coups de ces incirconcis et à leurs outrages." Mais l’écuyer, saisi de peur, n’osa. Alors Saül prit l’épée et se jeta dessus.
Saul said to his armor-bearer, “Take your sword and kill me, or these heathen men will come and kill and torture me!” But the armor-bearer didn't want to do it because he was too afraid. So Saul took his own sword and fell on it.
5 L’Écuyer de Saül, le voyant mort, se jeta, lui aussi, sur son épée et mourut à ses côtés.
When his armor-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he also fell on his own sword and died with him.
6 Ainsi périrent Saül, ses trois fils, son écuyer et tous ses gens avec lui, ce même jour.
Saul, his three sons, his armor-bearer, and all the men with him, died the same day.
7 Les Israélites de ce côté de la vallée et ceux d’en deçà du Jourdain, voyant que les troupes d’Israël avaient lâché pied, que Saül et ses fils étaient morts, abandonnèrent leurs villes et se sauvèrent; les Philistins y pénétrèrent et s’y établirent.
When the Israelites who lived along the valley and those on the other side of the Jordan realized that the Israelite army had run away, and that Saul and his sons had died, they abandoned their cities and they also ran away. So the Philistines came and took them over.
8 Le lendemain, les Philistins vinrent dépouiller les cadavres; ils trouvèrent ceux de Saül et de ses trois fils gisant sur le mont Ghelboé.
The next day, when the Philistines went to strip the dead, they found Saul and his three sons lying on Mount Gilboa.
9 Ils lui tranchèrent la tête, et le dépouillèrent de ses armes, qu’ils envoyèrent dans le pays des Philistins à la ronde, pour répandre la nouvelle dans les temples de leurs idoles et parmi le peuple.
They cut off Saul's head, stripped him of his armor, and sent messengers throughout the country of the Philistines to announce the news in the temples of their idols and to their people.
10 Ils déposèrent ses armes dans le temple d’Astarot et attachèrent son corps à la muraille de Beth-Chân.
They placed his armor in the temple of the Ashtoreths, and nailed his body to the town wall of Beth-shan.
11 Les habitants de Jabès-Galaad ayant appris alors ce que les Philistins avaient fait à Saül,
However, when the people of Jabesh-gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul,
12 les plus résolus se levèrent, marchèrent toute la nuit et enlevèrent le corps de Saül et ceux de ses fils de la muraille de Beth-Chân; rentrés à Jabès, ils les y brûlèrent.
all their strong warriors set out, traveled all night, and took down the bodies of Saul and his sons from the wall of Beth-shan. When they got back to Jabesh, they burned the bodies there.
13 Puis ils prirent les ossements, qu’ils enterrèrent sous le tamarisc de Jabès, et l’on jeûna durant sept jours.
Then they took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and fasted for seven days.
