1 Samuel 31
1 Et les Philistins livrèrent bataille à Israël, et les hommes d'Israël prirent la fuite devant eux; ils furent taillés en pièces dans la montagne de Gelboé.
Later, the Philistines again fought against the Israelis. The Israelis ran away from them, and (many Israelis were killed/the Philistines killed many Israelis) on Gilboa Mountain.
2 Les Philistins entourèrent Saül et ses trois fils; ils tuèrent Jonathan, Aminadab et Melchisa, fils de Saül.
The Philistines caught up with Saul and his three sons, and they killed [all three of] his sons, Jonathan and Abinadab and Malchishua.
3 Et le poids de la guerre tomba sur Saül; des archers l'atteignirent, et il fut blessé au flanc.
The fighting was very fierce around Saul. When the Philistine (archers/men with bows and arrows) caught up with Saul, they wounded him badly [with their arrows].
4 Alors, Saül dit au serviteur qui portait ses armes: Tire ton épée, et perce-moi, de peur que ces incirconcis ne m'approchent, ne me percent et ne m'outragent. Le serviteur, qui portait ses armes, ne le voulut pas, car il avait grande crainte; mais Saül prit l'épée et se jeta sur la pointe.
Saul said to the man who was carrying his weapons, “Take out your sword and kill me with it, in order that these heathen Philistines will not be able to thrust their swords into me and make fun of me [while I am dying].” But the man who was carrying Saul’s weapons was terrified, and refused to do that. So Saul took his own sword and fell on it. [The sword pierced his body and he died].
5 Le serviteur, qui portait ses armes, vit que Saül était mort; lui-même se jeta sur son épée, et il mourut avec son maître.
When the man carrying his weapons saw that Saul was dead, he also threw himself on his own sword and died.
6 Ainsi Saül, ses trois fils et le serviteur qui portait ses armes, périrent ensemble ce jour-là.
So Saul, three of his sons, and the man who carried Saul’s weapons, all died on that same day.
7 Les hommes d'Israël qui étaient de l'autre côté de cette vallée, ceux des rives du Jourdain virent que l'armée était en fuite, et que Saül et ses fils étaient morts; alors ils abandonnèrent leurs villes et se cachèrent; et les Philistins survinrent, et ils prirent possession de leurs demeures.
When the Israeli people on the north side of the [Jezreel] Valley and on the east side of the Jordan [River] heard that the Israeli army had run away and that Saul and his sons had died, they left their towns and ran away. Then the Philistines came and occupied their towns.
8 Et, le lendemain, les vainqueurs dépouillèrent les morts; ils trouvèrent Saül et ses trois fils gisant dans les montagnes de Gelboé.
The next day, when the Philistines came to take away the weapons of the dead [Israeli soldiers], they found the bodies of Saul and his three sons on Gilboa Mountain.
9 Ils défigurèrent le roi; ils lui ôtèrent ses armes, et ils les envoyèrent aux villes d'alentour en la terre des Philistins, annonçant ces nouvelles à leurs idoles et au peuple.
They cut off Saul’s head and took his weapons. Then they sent messengers throughout their land, to proclaim the news, in the temple where they kept their idols, and to the other people, [that their army had killed Saul].
10 Ils déposèrent les armes dans le temple d'Astarté, et ils clouèrent le corps au mur de Bethsam.
They put Saul’s weapons in the temple of [their goddess] Astarte. They also fastened the bodies of Saul [and his sons] to the wall [that surrounded] Beth-Shan [city].
11 Or, ceux de Jabès-Galaad apprirent comment les Philistins avaient traité Saül.
When the people who lived in Jabesh in [the] Gilead [region] heard what the Philistines had done to Saul’s corpse,
12 Et tous les hommes vaillants se levèrent; ils marchèrent toute la nuit, enlevèrent des murs de Bethsam les corps de Saül et de Jonathan, et les transportèrent à Jabès, où ils les brûlèrent.
all their bravest soldiers walked all night to Beth-Shan. They took the corpses of Saul and his sons down from the city wall, and they took them back to Jabesh and burned the corpses there.
13 Enfin, ils recueillirent leurs ossements; ils les inhumèrent en un champ de Jabès, et ils jeûnèrent sept jours.
They took the bones and buried them under a [big] tamarisk tree. Then they (fasted/abstained from eating food) for seven days.
