Premier livre des Chroniques 20

JERUSALEM	CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN
1 Au retour de l'année, au temps où les rois se mettent en campagne, Joab emmena les troupeset ravagea le pays des Ammonites. Puis il vint mettre le siège devant Rabba, tandis que David restait àJérusalem. Joab abattit Rabba et la démantela.	1 Now it happened that, after the course of a year, in the time when kings usually go forth to war, Joab gathered an army with experienced soldiers, and he laid waste to the land of the sons of Ammon. And he continued on and besieged Rabbah. But David was staying in Jerusalem when Joab struck Rabbah and destroyed it.
2 David ôta de la tête de Milkom la couronne qui s'y trouvait. Il constata qu'elle pesait un talentd'or et qu'elle enchâssait une pierre précieuse. David la mit sur sa tête. Il emporta le butin de la ville en énormequantité.	2 Then David took the crown of Milcom from his head, and he found in it the weight of one talent of gold, and very precious gems. And he made for himself a diadem from it. Also, he took the best spoils of the city, which were very many.
3 Quant à sa population, il la fit sortir, la mit à manier la scie, les pics de fer ou les haches.Ainsi agit-il envers toutes les villes des Ammonites. Puis David et toute l'armée revinrent à Jérusalem.	3 Then he led away the people who were in it. And he caused plows, and sleds, and iron chariots to go over them, so much so that they were cut apart and crushed. So did David treat all the cities of the sons of Ammon. And he returned with all his people to Jerusalem.
4 Après cela, la guerre se poursuivit avec les Philistins à Gézer. C'est alors que Sibbekaï deHusha tua Sippaï, un descendant des Rephaïm. Les Philistins furent abaissés.	4 After these things, a war was begun at Gezer against the Philistines, in which Sibbecai the Hushathite struck Sippai from the race of the Rephaim, and he humbled them.
5 La bataille reprit encore avec les Philistins. Elhanân, fils de Yaïr, tua Lahmi, frère de Goliathde Gat; le bois de sa lance était comme un liais de tisserand.	5 Also, another war was undertaken against the Philistines, in which Adeodatus, a son of the forest, a Bethlehemite, struck the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the wood of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam.
6 Il y eut encore un combat à Gat et il se trouva là un homme de grande taille qui avait 24doigts, six à chaque extrémité. Il était, lui aussi, descendant du Rephaïte.	6 Then too, another war occurred in Gath, in which there was a very tall man, having six digits, that is, all together twenty-four. This man too was born from the stock of the Rephaim.
7 Comme il défiait Israël, Yehonatân, fils de Shiméa frère de David, le tua.	7 He blasphemed Israel. And Jonathan, the son of Shimea, the brother of David, struck him down. These were the sons of the Rephaim in Gath, who fell by the hand of David and his servants.
8 Ces hommes étaient issus de Rapha à Gat et ils succombèrent sous la main de David et de sesgardes.