2 Samuel 11
1 Le cours de l'année ramena le temps où les rois se mettent en campagne, et David fit partir Joab, ses serviteurs et tout Israël; ils ravagèrent la contrée des fils d'Ammon, et ils assiégèrent Rhabbath; cependant, David était resté à Jérusalem.
[In that region], kings usually went [with their armies] to fight [their enemies] in the springtime. But the following year, in the springtime, David [did not do that. Instead, he] stayed in Jerusalem, and he sent [his commander] Joab [to lead the army]. So Joab went with the other officers and the rest of the Israeli army. They [crossed the Jordan River and] defeated the army of the Ammon people-group. Then they surrounded [their capital city, ] Rabbah.
2 Et ceci advint: sur le soir, David se leva de sa couche, et il se promena sur la plate-forme de la maison royale; et, de sa plate-forme, il vit une femme qui se baignait; or, la femme était extrêmement belle de visage.
Late one afternoon, after David got up from taking a nap, he walked around on the [flat] roof of his palace. He saw a woman who was bathing [in the courtyard of her house]. The woman was very beautiful.
3 Et David envoya, et il s'informa de la femme, et on lui dit: N'est-ce point Bersabée, fille d'Eliab, femme d'Urie l'Hettéen?
David sent a messenger to find out who she was. [The messenger returned] and said, “She is [RHQ] Bathsheba. She is the daughter of Eliam, and her husband is Uriah, from the Heth people-group.”
4 Aussitôt, David, dépêchant des messagers, la fit prendre, s'approcha d'elle, et dormit avec elle; puis, lorsqu'elle se fut purifiée de son impureté, elle retourna en sa maison.
Then David sent more messengers to get her. They brought her to David, and he (slept/had sex) [EUP] with her. (She had just finished performing the rituals to make herself pure [after her monthly menstrual period].) Then Bathsheba went back home.
5 La femme conçut; elle le fit savoir à David, et elle dit: Je suis enceinte.
[After some time], she realized that she was pregnant. So she sent a messenger to tell David [that she was pregnant].
6 Et David fit dire à Joab: Envoie près de moi Urie l'Hettéen, et Joab envoya Urie près de David.
Then David sent a message to Joab. He said, “Send Uriah, from the Heth people-group, to me.” So Joab did that. He sent Uriah to David.
7 Urie arriva, et il entra chez le roi, et David lui demanda comment allaient Joab, et l'armée, et la guerre.
When he arrived, David asked if Joab was well, and if other soldiers were well, and how the war was progressing.
8 Et David dit à Urie: Va à ta maison, et lave-toi les pieds. Urie sortit donc de la demeure royale, et, derrière lui, on porta un mets de la table du roi.
Then David, [hoping that Uriah would go home and sleep with his wife, ] said to Uriah, “Okay, go home and relax for a while. [IDM]” So Uriah left, and David gave someone a gift [of some food] to take to Uriah’s house.
9 Mais Urie dormit devant la porte du roi, parmi les serviteurs de son maître, et il n'alla pas jusqu'à sa maison.
But Uriah did not go home. Instead, he slept at the palace entrance with the king’s palace guards.
10 On l'alla dire à David; il sut qu'Urie n'était pas allé jusqu'à sa maison, et David dit à Urie: Ne viens-tu pas de faire un voyage? Pourquoi n'es-tu pas entré en ta demeure?
When someone told David that Uriah did not go to his house [that night], David [summoned him again and] said to him, “Why didn’t you go home [to be with your wife last night], after having been away for a long time?” [RHQ]
11 Et Urie répondit à David: L'arche, Israël et Juda demeurent sous des tentes; mon maître Joab et les serviteurs de mon maître sont campés eu plein air, et moi j'entrerais en ma maison pour manger et boire, et dormir avec ma femme! Comment ferais-je pareille chose? Vive ton âme! je ne la ferai jamais.
Uriah replied, “The soldiers of Judah and Israel are camping in the open fields, and even our commander Joab is sleeping in a tent, and the sacred chest is with them. (How could I/It would not be right for me to) go home, eat and drink, and sleep with my wife [RHQ]. I solemnly declare [IDM] that I will never do such a thing!”
12 Et David dit à Urie: Demeure encore avec nous aujourd'hui; demain, je te congédierai. Urie passa donc à Jérusalem cette journée là et le lendemain.
Then David said to Uriah, “Stay here today. I will let you return [to the battle] tomorrow.” So Uriah stayed in Jerusalem that day and that night.
13 Ensuite, David l'invita; il mangea, il but, il s'enivra, et il sortit sur le soir pour dormir où il s'était déjà couché, parmi les serviteurs de son maître; mais il n'entra point en sa maison.
The next day, David invited him [to a meal]. So Uriah had a meal with David, and David made him drink a lot of wine so that he would get drunk, [hoping that if he was drunk, he would sleep with his wife]. But that night, Uriah again did not go home. Instead, he slept on his cot with the king’s servants.
14 Le jour parut, et David écrivit une lettre à Joab, et il la remit à Urie.
[Someone reported that to] David, [so] the next morning he wrote a letter to Joab, and gave it to Uriah to take to Joab.
15 Voici ce qu'en sa lettre il disait: Conduis Urie au fort du péril, et laisse-le là seul; qu'il soit frappé et qu'il meure.
In the letter, he wrote, “Put Uriah in the front line, where the fighting is the (worst/most severe). Then command the soldiers to pull back from him, in order that he will be killed [by our enemies].”
16 Et, pendant que Joab plaçait des gardes autour de la ville, il donna à Urie un poste où il savait qu'il se trouvait des hommes vaillants.
[So after] Joab [got the letter], as his army was surrounding the city, he sent Uriah to a place where he knew that their enemies’ strongest and best soldiers would be fighting.
17 Ces hommes, en effet, firent une sortie; ils combattirent Joab; plusieurs hommes de l'armée, serviteurs de David, tombèrent, et Urie l'Hettéen fut au nombre des morts.
The men from the city came out and fought with Joab’s soldiers. They killed some of David’s officers, including Uriah.
18 Et Joab envoya rapporter à David tout ce qui venait de se passer dans ce combat.
Then Joab sent a messenger to David to tell him about the fighting.
19 Et il donna ses instructions au messager, disant: Lorsque tu auras fini de rapporter à David tout ce qui s'est passé dans le combat,
He said to the messenger, “Tell David the news about the battle. After you finish telling that to him,
20 Peut-être le roi se mettra-t-il en colère, et te dira-t-il: Pourquoi donc combattre si près de la ville? Ne saviez-vous pas que du haut des remparts on vous atteindrait?
if David is angry [because so many officers were killed], he may ask you, ‘Why did your soldiers go so close to the city to fight [RHQ]? Did you not know that they would shoot [arrows at you while they were standing on top] of the city wall [RHQ]?
21 Qui donc a renversé Abimélech, fils de Jérobaal, fils de Ner? N'est-ce pas une femme qui lui a lancé, de la muraille, un éclat de meule dont il est mort à Thamasi? Pourquoi donc vous êtes-vous approchés du rempart? Alors, tu répondras: Urie l'Hettéen, ton serviteur, est du nombre des morts.
Do you not remember how Abimelech, the son of Gideon, was killed? A woman [who lived] in Thebez threw a huge (millstone/stone for grinding grain) on him from [the top of] tower, and he died. So why did your troops go near to the city wall?’ If the king asks this, then tell him, ‘Your officer Uriah also was killed.’”
22 Le messager de Joab se rendit à Jérusalem, et, selon l'ordre de Joab, il fit au roi le rapport de tout ce qui était arrivé à la guerre.
So the messenger went and told David everything that Joab told him to say.
23 Le messager répondit à David: Parce que ceux de la ville ont prévalu sur nous; ils ont fait une sortie dans la campagne; puis, nous les avons repoussés jusqu'aux portes de la ville.
The messenger said to David, “Our enemies were very brave, and came out of the city to fight us in the fields. [They were defeating us] but we forced them back to the city gate.
24 Alors, des archers ont tiré du haut des remparts sur tes serviteurs; plusieurs des serviteurs du roi ont péri; ton serviteur Urie l'Hettéen est du nombre des morts.
Then their archers shot arrows at us from [the top of] the city wall. They killed some of your officers. They killed your officer Uriah, too.”
25 Et David dit au messager: Voici ce que tu diras à Joab: Ne t'afflige pas de cet événement; le glaive dévore tantôt celui-ci, tantôt celui-là; fortifie tes postes autour de la ville, enlève-la, et t'en rends maître.
David said to the messenger, “Go back to Joab and say to him, ‘Do not be distressed [about what happened], because no one ever knows who will be killed in a battle.’ Tell him that the next time his troops should attack the city more strongly, and capture it.”
26 Et la femme d'Urie apprit que son mari était mort, et elle pleura sur son mari.
When Uriah’s wife [Bathsheba] heard that her husband had died, she mourned for him.
27 Le temps du deuil écoulé, David envoya près d'elle, la fit venir en sa demeure, et la prit pour femme; elle lui enfanta un fils. Mais l'action que David avait commise était mauvaise aux yeux du Seigneur.
When her time of mourning was ended, David sent messengers to bring her to the palace. Thus, she became David’s wife. She later gave birth to a son. But Yahweh was very displeased with what David had done.
