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 together their armies to battle; and they were gathered together at Socoh, which belongs to Judah, and encamped between Socoh and Azekah in Ephesdammim.
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 were gathered together, and encamped in the valley of Elah, and set the battle in array against 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 the mountain on the one side, and Israel stood on the mountain on the other side: and there was 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 champion out of the camp of the Philistines named Goliath of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span went out.
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 wore a coat of mail; and the weight of the coat was 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 shin armour on his legs and a bronze javelin 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 like a weaver’s beam; and 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 cried to the armies of Israel, and said to them, “Why have you come out to set your battle in array? Am I not a Philistine, and you servants to 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 prevail against 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.
The Philistine said, “I defy the armies of Israel today! Give me a man, that 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 those words of the Philistine, they were dismayed and greatly afraid.
Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Bethlehem Judah, whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons. The man was an elderly old man in the days of Saul.
The three oldest sons of Jesse had gone after Saul to the battle; and the names of his three sons who went to the battle were Eliab the firstborn, and next to him Abinadab, and the third Shammah.
David was the youngest; and the three oldest followed Saul.
Now David went back and forth from Saul to feed his father’s sheep at Bethlehem.
The Philistine came near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days.
Jesse said to David his son, “Now take for your brothers an ephah of this parched grain and these ten loaves, and carry them quickly to the camp to your brothers;
and bring these ten cheeses to the captain of their thousand; and see how your brothers are doing, and bring back news.”
Now Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel were in the valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.
David rose up early in the morning and left the sheep with a keeper, and took the provisions and went, as Jesse had commanded him. He came to the place of the wagons as the army which was going out to the fight shouted for the battle.
Israel and the Philistines put the battle in array, army against army.
David left his baggage in the hand of the keeper of the baggage and ran to the army, and came and greeted his brothers.
As he talked with them, behold, the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, came up out of the ranks of the Philistines, and said the same words; and David heard them.
All the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him and were terrified.
The men of Israel said, “Have you seen this man who has come up? He has surely come up to defy Israel. The king will give great riches to the man who kills him, and will give him his daughter, and will make his father’s house tax-free in Israel.”
David spoke to the men who stood by him, saying, “What shall be done to the man who kills this Philistine and takes away the reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?”
The people answered him in this way, saying, “So shall it be done to the man who kills him.”
Eliab his oldest brother heard when he spoke to the men; and Eliab’s anger burnt against David, and he said, “Why have you come down? With whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride and the evil of your heart; for you have come down that you might see the battle.”
David said, “What have I now done? Is there not a cause?”
He turned away from him towards another, and spoke like that again; and the people answered him again the same way.
When the words were heard which David spoke, they rehearsed them before Saul; and he sent for him.
32 Alors, David dit à Saül: Que le cœur de mon maître ne soit pas abattu; ton serviteur marchera, et il combattra ce Philistin.
David said to Saul, “Let no man’s heart fail because of him. 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 but 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,
David said to Saul, “Your servant was keeping his father’s sheep; and 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 went out after him, struck him, and rescued it out of his mouth. When he arose 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 struck both the lion and the bear. This uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, since he has defied 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, “The LORD, who delivered me out of the paw of the lion and out of the paw of the bear, will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine.” Saul said to David, “Go! The LORD will be with you.”
38 Saül alors revêtit David d'une cuirasse; il lui mit sur la tête son propre casque d'airain.
Saul dressed David with his clothing. He put a helmet of bronze on his head, and he clad him with a coat of mail.
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 clothing and he tried to move, for he had not tested it. David said to Saul, “I can’t go with these, for I have not tested them.” Then David took 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 for himself five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in the pouch of his shepherd’s bag which he had. His sling was in his hand; and he came near to 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 walked and came near to David; and the man who bore the shield went before 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 disdained him; for he was but a youth, and ruddy, and had a good looking face.
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.
The Philistine said to David, “Am I a dog, that you come to me with sticks?” 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 sky and to the animals 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.
Then David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword, with a spear, and with a javelin; but I come to you in the name of the LORD of Armies, 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, the LORD will deliver you into my hand. I will strike you and take your head from off you. I will give the dead bodies of the army of the Philistines today to the birds of the sky and to the wild animals of the earth, 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 assembly may know that the LORD doesn’t save with sword and spear; for the battle is the LORD’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 arose, and walked and came near to meet David, David hurried and ran towards the army to meet the Philistine.
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 and slung it, and struck the Philistine in his forehead. The stone sank into his forehead, and he fell on his face to the earth.
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.
So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and struck the Philistine and killed him; but 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, stood over the Philistine, took his sword, drew it out of its sheath, killed him, and cut off his head with it. When the Philistines saw that their champion 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.
The men of Israel and of Judah arose and shouted, and pursued the Philistines as far as Gai and to the gates of Ekron. The wounded of the Philistines fell down by the way to Shaaraim, even to Gath and to Ekron.
53 Et les hommes d'Israël s'en retournèrent après avoir poursuivi les Philistins, et détruisirent leur camp.
The children of Israel returned from chasing after 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 armour 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 your soul lives, O king, I can’t tell.”
The king said, “Enquire whose son the young man is!”
As David returned from the slaughter of 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, you young man?” David answered, “I am the son of your servant Jesse the Bethlehemite.”
