1 Samuel 17
1 Et les Philistins rassemblèrent leur armée pour combattre; ils se réunirent vers Socchoth en Juda; ils campèrent entre Socchoth et Azéca- Ephermen.
Now the Philistines gathered their armies for battle. They were gathered at Sokoh, which belongs to Judah. They had encamped between Sokoh and Azekah, in Ephes Dammim.
2 Et Saül et les hommes d'Israël se réunirent; ils campèrent dans la vallée, et ils se rangèrent en bataille devant les Philistins.
Saul and the men of Israel gathered and encamped in the Valley of Elah, and drew up their battle line to meet the Philistines.
3 Les étrangers se tenaient sur une montagne, et Israël était sur la montagne opposée: une vallée les séparait.
The Philistines stood on a mountain on one side, and Israel stood on a mountain on the other side with a valley between them.
4 Or, un homme d'une grande force sortit des rangs des Philistins; il était de Geth, et il se nommait Goliath; il avait quatre coudées et une spithame.
A strong man came out of the Philistines' camp, a man named Goliath of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.
5 Il portait sur la tête un casque, et sur la poitrine une cotte de mailles; cette armure pesait cinq mille sicles d'airain ou de fer.
He had a helmet of bronze on his head, and he was armed with a coat of chainmail. The coat weighed five thousand shekels of bronze.
6 Sur ses jambes étaient des cnémides d'airain, et entre ses deux épaules était un bouclier d'airain.
He had bronze armor on his legs and a javelin of bronze between his shoulders.
7 La hampe de sa javeline était semblable à un mât de tisserand; la pointe pesait six cents sicles de fer; et celui qui portait ses armes le précédait.
The staff of his spear was large, with a loop of cord for throwing it like the cord on a weaver's beam. His spear's head weighed six hundred shekels of iron. His shield bearer went before him.
8 Il s'avança en criant vers les rangs d'Israël, et il dit: Pourquoi êtes- vous venus vous mettre en bataille devant nous? Ne suis-je pas un Philistin; n'êtes-vous pas les Hébreux de Saül? Choisissez parmi vous un homme, et qu'il descende près de moi.
He stood and shouted to the ranks of Israel, “Why have you come out to draw up for battle? Am not I a Philistine, and are you not servants of Saul? Choose a man for yourselves and let him come down to me.
9 S'il est capable de me combattre, s'il triomphe de moi, nous serons vos esclaves; si c'est moi qui l'emporte, et si je le tue, vous serez nos esclaves et vous nous servirez.
If he is able to fight with me and kill me, then will we be your servants. But if I defeat him and kill him, then you will be our servants and serve us.”
10 Le Philistin ajouta: Voyez, j'ai défié aujourd'hui l'armée d'Israël; donnez-moi donc un homme, et que nous combattions seul à seul.
Again the Philistine said, “I challenge the ranks of Israel today. Give me a man so we may fight together.”
11 Saül et tout Israël entendirent ces paroles du Philistin; ils en furent hors d'eux-mêmes, et ils eurent grande crainte.
When Saul and all Israel heard what the Philistine said, they were discouraged and greatly afraid.
Now David was the son of the Ephrathite of Bethlehem in Judah, whose name was Jesse. He had eight sons. Jesse was an old man in the days of Saul, very old among men.
The three oldest sons of Jesse had followed Saul to the battle. The names of his three sons who went to the battle were Eliab the firstborn, second to him Abinadab, and the third Shammah.
David was the youngest. The three oldest followed Saul.
Now David went back and forth between Saul's army and his father's sheep at Bethlehem, in order to feed them.
For forty days the Philistine strong man came near morning and evening to present himself for battle.
Then Jesse said to his son David, “Take to your brothers an ephah of this roasted grain and these ten loaves, and carry them quickly to the camp for your brothers.
Also bring these ten cheeses to the captain of their thousand. See how your brothers are doing and bring back some proof that they are doing well.
Your brothers are with Saul and all the men of Israel in the Valley of Elah, fighting the Philistines.”
David got up early in the morning and left the flock in the care of a shepherd. He took the supplies and left, as Jesse commanded him. He came to the camp as the army was going out to the battlefield shouting the war cry.
Then Israel and the Philistines lined up for battle, army against army.
David left his belongings with the keeper of supplies, ran to the army, and greeted his brothers.
As he talked with them, the strong man, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, and he came out of the ranks of the Philistines, and said the same words as before, and David heard them.
When all the men of Israel saw the man, they fled from him and were very afraid.
The men of Israel said, “Have you seen this man who has come up? He has come to challenge Israel. The king will give great riches to the man who kills him, and he will give his daughter to him in marriage, and will make his father's house free from taxation in Israel.”
David said to the men who stood by him, “What will be done for the man who kills this Philistine and takes away the disgrace from Israel? Who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should defy the armies of the living God?”
Then the people repeated what they had been saying and told him, “So it will be done for the man who kills him.”
Eliab his oldest brother heard when he spoke to the men. Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said, “Why did you come down here? With whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride, and the mischief in your heart; for you have come down here so that you might see the battle.”
David said, “What have I done now? Was it not just a question?”
He turned away from him toward another, and spoke in the same way. The people answered the same thing as before.
When the words that David said were heard, soldiers repeated them to Saul, and he sent for David.
32 Alors, David dit à Saül: Que le cœur de mon maître ne soit pas abattu; ton serviteur marchera, et il combattra ce Philistin.
Then David said to Saul, “Let no man's heart fail because of that Philistine; your servant will go and fight with this Philistine.”
33 Mais Saül dit à David: Tu n'es point capable de combattre ce Philistin; tu n'es qu'un enfant, et il est homme de guerre depuis sa jeunesse.
Saul said to David, “You are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him; for you are only a youth, and he a man of war from his youth.”
34 Et David dit à Saül: Ton serviteur était berger chez son père, il gardait les troupeaux, et quand venait un lion ou un ours, quand ils prenaient tour à tour une tête du troupeau,
But David said to Saul, “Your servant used to keep his father's sheep. When a lion or a bear came and took a lamb out of the flock,
35 Je courais après le ravisseur, je le frappais, je lui arrachais sa proie de la gueule; puis, comme il s'élançait sur moi, je le saisissais à la gorge, je venais à bout de lui, et je le tuais.
I chased after him and attacked him, and rescued it out of his mouth. When he rose up against me, I caught him by his beard, struck him, and killed him.
36 Ton serviteur a tué le lion et l'ours, il en sera de même de cet incirconcis; pourquoi donc n'irai-je pas le tuer, et effacer aujourd'hui l'outrage qu'il fait à Israël? Car, quel est cet incirconcis qui a défié l'armée du Dieu vivant?
Your servant has killed both a lion and a bear. This uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, since he has challenged the armies of the living God.”
37 Le Seigneur, qui m'a tiré des griffes du lion et de celles de l'ours, me retirera de la main de cet incirconcis. Et Saül dit à David: Marche, le Seigneur sera avec toi.
David said, “Yahweh rescued me from the paw of the lion and from the paw of the bear. He will rescue me from the hand of this Philistine.” Then Saul said to David, “Go, and may Yahweh be with you.”
38 Saül alors revêtit David d'une cuirasse; il lui mit sur la tête son propre casque d'airain.
Saul clothed David with his armor. He put a helmet of bronze upon his head, and he clothed him with a coat of chainmail.
39 Par-dessus la cuirasse, David ceignit son épée, et il essaya une fois et deux fois de marcher ainsi; mais il se fatigua, et dit à Saül: Je ne pourrai marcher avec ces armes, je n'y suis point accoutumé. Et on les lui ôta.
David strapped his sword on his armor. But he was not able to walk, because he had not trained with them. Then David said to Saul, “I cannot go out to fight with these, for I have not trained with them.” So David put them off.
40 Et il prit à la main sa houlette; il choisit cinq cailloux polis par le torrent il les mit tous dans la panetière de berger qu'il portait sur lui; enfin, il s'arma de sa fronde; et il marcha contre le Philistin.
He took his staff in his hand and chose five smooth stones out of the brook; he put them in his shepherd's pouch. His sling was in his hand as he approached the Philistine.
41 Et il prit à la main sa houlette; il choisit cinq cailloux polis par le torrent il les mit tous dans la panetière de berger qu'il portait sur lui; enfin, il s'arma de sa fronde; et il marcha contre le Philistin.
The Philistine came and approached David, with his shield bearer in front of him.
42 Goliath vit David, et il le méprisa, parce que c'était un jeune garçon, qu'il était roux et qu'il avait de beaux yeux.
When the Philistine looked around and saw David, he despised him, for he was only a boy, and ruddy, with a handsome appearance.
43 Et le Philistin dit à David: Me prends-tu pour un chien, toi qui viens à moi avec une houlette et des pierres? Et David reprit: Nullement, mais pour moins qu'un chien. Et le Philistin maudit David en invoquant tous ses dieux.
Then the Philistine said to David, “Am I a dog, that you come to me with sticks?,” and the Philistine cursed David by his gods.
44 Et le Philistin dit à David: Viens, approche, que je donne ta chair aux oiseaux du ciel et aux bêtes fauves des champs.
The Philistine said to David, “Come to me, and I will give your flesh to the birds of the heavens and to the beasts of the field.”
45 Mais, David dit au Philistin: Tu marches contre moi avec le glaive, la javeline, le bouclier; moi je marche contre toi, au nom du Seigneur Dieu sabaoth, Dieu de l'armée d'Israël que tu as insultée.
David replied to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword, a spear, and a javelin. But I come to you in the name of Yahweh of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.
46 Le Seigneur aujourd'hui t'enfermera dans ma main; je te tuerai, je te trancherai la tête; aujourd'hui je donnerai les lambeaux et les lambeaux de l'armée des Philistins aux oiseaux du ciel et aux bêtes fauves de la terre. Toute la terre alors reconnaîtra que Dieu est avec Israël.
Today Yahweh will give me victory over you, and I will kill you and remove your head from your body. Today I will give the dead bodies of the Philistine army to the birds of the heavens and to the wild beasts of the earth, so that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel,
47 Toute cette Église connaîtra que le Seigneur ne sauve point avec le glaive et la javeline; car cette guerre est du Seigneur, et il vous livrera à nos mains.
and that all this gathering may know that Yahweh does not give victory with sword or spear. For the battle is Yahweh's, and he will give you into our hand.”
48 A ces mots, le Philistin s'ébranla, et il marcha à la rencontre de David.
When the Philistine rose and approached David, then David ran quickly toward the enemy army to meet him.
49 De son côté, David porta sa main à sa panetière; il y prit un caillou; il le lança avec la fronde, et il atteignit le Philistin au front; la pierre, à travers le casque, pénétra dans le crâne, et Goliath tomba la face contre terre.
David put his hand in his bag, took a stone from it, slung it, and hit the Philistine in the forehead. The stone sank into the Philistine's forehead, and he fell on his face to the ground.
50 De son côté, David porta sa main à sa panetière; il y prit un caillou; il le lança avec la fronde, et il atteignit le Philistin au front; la pierre, à travers le casque, pénétra dans le crâne, et Goliath tomba la face contre terre.
David defeated the Philistine with a sling and with a stone. He hit the Philistine and killed him. There was no sword in David's hand.
51 Et David courut, s'arrêta sur lui, prit son glaive, le tua et lui trancha la tête. Les Philistins virent que leur homme fort était tué, et ils prirent la fuite.
Then David ran and stood over the Philistine and took his sword, drew it out of the sheath, killed him, and cut off his head with it. When the Philistines saw that their strong man was dead, they fled.
52 Alors, les hommes d'Israël et de Juda se levèrent, poussant de grands cris de joie, et poursuivirent les fuyards jusqu'à l'entrée de Geth et jusqu'aux portes d'Ascalon. Une multitude de Philistins tomba sur les chemins de ces villes, et sur celui d'Accaron.
Then the men of Israel and of Judah rose with a shout, and chased after the Philistines as far as the valley and the gates of Ekron. The dead Philistines lay along the way to Shaaraim, all the way to Gath and Ekron.
53 Et les hommes d'Israël s'en retournèrent après avoir poursuivi les Philistins, et détruisirent leur camp.
The people of Israel returned from chasing the Philistines, and they plundered their camp.
54 Et David prit la tête du Philistin et il l'emporta à Jérusalem, et il plaça en sa demeure les armes de Goliath.
David took the head of the Philistine and brought it to Jerusalem, but he put his armor in his tent.
When Saul saw David go out against the Philistine, he said to Abner, the captain of the army, “Abner, whose son is this youth?” Abner said, “As you live, king, I do not know.”
The king said, “Ask those who might know, whose son the boy is.”
When David returned from killing the Philistine, Abner took him, and brought him before Saul with the head of the Philistine in his hand.
Saul said to him, “Whose son are you, young man?” David answered, “I am the son of your servant Jesse the Bethlehemite.”
