1 Samuel 31
1 Or les Philistins combattirent contre Israël, et ceux d'Israël s'enfuirent de devant les Philistins, et furent tués en la montagne de Guilboah.
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 Et les Philistins atteignirent Saül et ses fils, et tuèrent Jonathan, Abinadab et Malki-suah, 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 combat se renforça contre Saül, et les archers tirant de l'arc le trouvèrent; et il eut fort grande peur de ces archers.
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 à son écuyer: Tire ton épée, et m'en transperce, de peur que ces incirconcis ne viennent, ne me transpercent, et ne se jouent de moi; mais son écuyer ne le voulut point faire, parce qu'il était fort effrayé. Saül donc prit l'épée, et se jeta dessus.
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 Alors l'écuyer de Saül ayant vu que Saül était mort, se jeta aussi sur son épée, et mourut avec lui.
When the man carrying his weapons saw that Saul was dead, he also threw himself on his own sword and died.
6 Ainsi mourut en ce jour-là Saül et ses trois fils, son écuyer, et tous ses gens.
So Saul, three of his sons, and the man who carried Saul’s weapons, all died on that same day.
7 Et ceux d'Israël qui étaient au deçà de la vallée, et au deçà du Jourdain, ayant vu que les Israëlites s'en étaient fuis, et que Saül et ses fils étaient morts, abandonnèrent les villes, et s'enfuirent, de sorte que les Philistins y entrèrent, et y habitèrent.
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 Or il arriva que dès le lendemain les Philistins vinrent pour dépouiller les morts, et ils trouvèrent Saül et ses trois fils étendus sur la montagne de Guilboah.
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 Et ils coupèrent la tête de Saül, et le dépouillèrent de ses armes, qu'ils envoyèrent au pays des Philistins, dans tous les environs, pour en faire savoir les nouvelles dans les temples de leurs faux dieux, et parmi le 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 Et ils mirent ses armes au temple de Hastaroth, et attachèrent son corps à la muraille de Bethsan.
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 les habitants de Jabés de Galaad apprirent ce que les Philistins avaient fait à 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 vaillants hommes [d'entr'eux], se levèrent et marchèrent toute la nuit, et enlevèrent le corps de Saül, et les corps de ses fils, de la muraille de Bethsan, et revinrent à Jabés, 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 Puis ils prirent leurs os, les ensevelirent sous un chêne près de Jabés, 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.
