Premier livre des Chroniques 20

BIBLES DES PEUPLES	CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN
1 Au printemps, lorsque les rois repartent en campagne, Joab partit avec l’armée pour envahir le pays des Ammonites et mettre le siège devant Rabba; David resta à Jérusalem. Joab attaqua Rabba et la détruisit.	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 enleva la couronne qui était sur la tête de Milkom; il se trouva qu’elle pesait un talent d’or et qu’une pierre précieuse y était fixée; David la mit sur sa tête. De Rabba, David emporta une énorme quantité de butin.	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 Il emmena la population et la condamna à travailler à la scie, à la pioche et à la hache. David traita toutes les villes ammonites de la même façon, puis il revint avec tout le peuple 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 reprit avec les Philistins à Guézer. C’est alors que Sibékaï de Houcha tua Sippaï, un descendant des Réphaïm. Les Philistins furent vaincus.	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 guerre reprit encore avec les Philistins, et Elhanan fils de Yaïr tua Lahmi, le frère de Goliath de Gat, dont le bois de lance était aussi épais qu’une navette 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 Dans une autre bataille à Gat, il y avait un géant avec 6 doigts à chaque main et 6 orteils à chaque pied, ce qui fait un total de 24. Lui aussi était un descendant de Rafa.	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 Il lança un défi à Israël, mais Yonathan, le fils de Chiméa, 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 des descendants de Rafa de Gat, et ils furent tués par David et ses gardes.