Juges 8
1 Et les hommes d’Éphraïm lui dirent: Que nous as-tu fait, de ne pas nous avoir appelés lorsque tu es allé faire la guerre contre Madian? Et ils contestèrent fortement avec lui.
And the men of Ephraim came and said to him, Why did you not send for us when you went to war against Midian? And they said sharp and angry words to him.
2 Et il leur dit: Qu’ai-je fait maintenant en comparaison de vous? Les grappillages d’Éphraïm ne sont-ils pas meilleurs que la vendange d’Abiézer?
And he said to them, What have I done in comparison with you? Is not that which Ephraim took up after the grape-cutting better than all the grapes which Abiezer got in from the grape-cutting?
3 Dieu a livré en votre main les princes de Madian, Oreb et Zeëb; et qu’ai-je pu faire en comparaison de vous? Alors leur esprit s’apaisa envers lui, quand il [leur] eut dit cette parole.
God has given into your hands the chiefs of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb; what have I been able to do in comparison with you? And when he said this, their feeling about him became kinder.
4 Et Gédéon vint au Jourdain, [et] le passa, lui et les 300 hommes qui étaient avec lui, fatigués, mais poursuivant toujours.
Then Gideon came to Jordan and went over it with his three hundred, overcome with weariness and in need of food.
5 Et il dit aux hommes de Succoth: Donnez, je vous prie, des pains au peuple qui me suit, car ils sont fatigués; et je poursuis Zébakh et Tsalmunna, rois de Madian.
And he said to the men of Succoth, Give bread cakes to my people, for they are overcome with weariness, and I am going on after Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.
6 Et les principaux de Succoth dirent: La paume de Zébakh et celle de Tsalmunna sont-elles déjà en ta main, que nous donnions du pain à ton armée?
But the chiefs of Succoth said, Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna even now in your hand that we are to give bread to your army?
7 Et Gédéon dit: À cause de cela, dès que l’Éternel aura livré Zébakh et Tsalmunna en ma main, je broierai votre chair avec des épines du désert et avec des chardons.
Then Gideon said, Because of this, when the Lord has given Zebah and Zalmunna into my hands, I will have you stretched on a bed of thorns of the waste land and on sharp stems, and have you crushed as grain is crushed on a grain-floor.
8 Et de là il monta à Penuel, et leur parla de la même manière. Et les hommes de Penuel lui répondirent comme les hommes de Succoth avaient répondu.
So he went up from there to Penuel and made the same request to the men of Penuel; but they gave him the same answer as the men of Succoth had given.
9 Et il parla de même aux hommes de Penuel, en disant: Quand je reviendrai en paix, je démolirai cette tour.
So he said to the men of Penuel, When I come back in peace, I will have this tower broken down.
10 Et Zébakh et Tsalmunna étaient à Karkor, et leurs camps avec eux, environ 15 000 [hommes], tous ceux qui restaient de tout le camp des fils de l’orient; car il en était tombé 120 000 hommes tirant l’épée.
Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor and their armies with them, about fifteen thousand men, those of all the army of the children of the east who were still living; for a hundred and twenty thousand of their swordsmen had been put to death.
11 Et Gédéon monta par le chemin de ceux qui habitent dans les tentes, à l’orient de Nobakh et de Jogbeha, et il frappa le camp; et le camp était en sécurité.
And Gideon went up by the way used by the people living in tents on the east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and made an attack on the army when they had no thought of danger.
12 Et Zébakh et Tsalmunna s’enfuirent, et il les poursuivit, et prit les deux rois de Madian, Zébakh et Tsalmunna, et mit tout leur camp en déroute.
And Zebah and Zalmunna went in flight; and he went after them, and took the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and put all the army to the curse.
13 Et Gédéon, fils de Joas, revint de la bataille, de la montée de Hérès.
Then Gideon, the son of Joash, went back from the fight:
14 Et il saisit un jeune garçon d’entre les hommes de Succoth, et l’interrogea; et le [garçon] lui mit par écrit les principaux de Succoth et ses anciens, 77 hommes.
And taking prisoner a young man of the people of Succoth, he got from him, in answer to his questions, a list of the chiefs of Succoth and the responsible men, seventy-seven men.
15 Et il vint vers les hommes de Succoth, et dit: Voici Zébakh et Tsalmunna, au sujet desquels vous m’avez insulté, disant: La paume de Zébakh et celle de Tsalmunna sont-elles déjà en ta main, que nous donnions du pain à tes hommes fatigués?
So he came to the men of Succoth and said, Here are Zebah and Zalmunna, on account of whom you made sport of me, saying, Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna even now in your hand, that we are to give bread to your army who are overcome with weariness?
16 Et il prit les anciens de la ville, et des épines du désert et des chardons, et enseigna par eux les hommes de Succoth.
Then he took the responsible men of the town and had them crushed on a bed of thorns and sharp stems.
17 Et il démolit la tour de Penuel, et tua les hommes de la ville.
And he had the tower of Penuel broken down and the men of the town put to death.
18 Et il dit à Zébakh et à Tsalmunna: Comment étaient les hommes que vous avez tués à Thabor? Et ils dirent: Comme toi, tels ils étaient; chacun d’eux comme la figure d’un fils de roi.
Then he said to Zebah and Zalmunna, Where are the men whom you put to death at Tabor? And they gave answer, As you are, so were they; every one of them was like a king's son.
19 Et il dit: C’étaient mes frères, fils de ma mère. L’Éternel est vivant, si vous les aviez laissés vivre, je ne vous tuerais pas!
And he said, They were my brothers, my mother's sons: by the life of the Lord, if you had kept them safe, I would not put you to death.
20 Et il dit à Jéther, son premier-né: Lève-toi, tue-les. Mais le jeune garçon ne tirait pas son épée, parce qu’il avait peur, car il était encore un jeune garçon.
Then he said to Jether, his oldest son, Up! Put them to death. But the boy did not take out his sword, fearing because he was still a boy.
21 Et Zébakh et Tsalmunna dirent: Lève-toi, toi-même, et jette-toi sur nous; car tel qu’est l’homme, telle est sa force. Et Gédéon se leva et tua Zébakh et Tsalmunna, et prit les petites lunes qui étaient aux cous de leurs chameaux.
Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, Up! Put an end to us yourself: for you have a man's strength. Then Gideon got up and put Zebah and Zalmunna to death and took the ornaments which were on their camels' necks.
22 Et les hommes d’Israël dirent à Gédéon: Domine sur nous, et toi et ton fils, et le fils de ton fils; car tu nous as sauvés de la main de Madian.
Then the men of Israel said to Gideon, Be our ruler, you and your son and your son's son after him; for you have been our saviour from the hands of Midian.
23 Et Gédéon leur dit: Je ne dominerai point sur vous, et mon fils ne dominera point sur vous; l’Éternel dominera sur vous.
But Gideon said to them, I will not be a ruler over you, and my son will not be a ruler over you: it is the Lord who will be ruler over you.
24 Et Gédéon leur dit: Je vous ferai une demande: Donnez-moi chacun de vous les anneaux de son butin. Car [les Madianites] avaient des anneaux d’or, parce qu’ils étaient Ismaélites.
Then Gideon said to them, I have a request to make to you; let every man give me the ear-rings he has taken. (For they had gold ear-rings, because they were Ishmaelites.)
25 Et ils dirent: Nous les donnerons volontiers. Et ils étendirent un manteau, et y jetèrent chacun les anneaux de son butin.
And they gave answer, We will gladly give them. So they put down a robe, every man dropping into it the ear-rings he had taken.
26 Et le poids des anneaux d’or qu’il avait demandés fut de 1 700 [sicles] d’or, sans les petites lunes, et les pendants d’oreille, et les vêtements de pourpre dont étaient couverts les rois de Madian, et sans les colliers qui étaient aux cous de leurs chameaux.
The weight of the gold ear-rings which he got from them was one thousand, seven hundred shekels of gold; in addition to the moon-ornaments and jewels and the purple robes which were on the kings of Midian, and the chains on their camels' necks.
27 Et Gédéon en fit un éphod, et le mit dans sa ville, dans Ophra; et tout Israël se prostitua là après celui-ci; et cela devint un piège pour Gédéon et pour sa maison.
And Gideon made an ephod from them and put it up in his town Ophrah; and all Israel went after it there and were false to the Lord; and it became a cause of sin to Gideon and his house.
28 Et Madian fut humilié devant les fils d’Israël; et il ne leva plus sa tête. Et le pays fut en repos 40 ans, aux jours de Gédéon.
So Midian was broken before the children of Israel and the Midianites never got back their strength. And the land had peace for forty years, in the days of Gideon.
29 Et Jerubbaal, fils de Joas, s’en alla, et habita dans sa maison.
And Jerubbaal, the son of Joash, went back to his house and was living there.
30 Et Gédéon eut 70 fils, issus de ses reins, car il eut beaucoup de femmes.
Gideon had seventy sons, the offspring of his body; for he had a number of wives.
31 Et sa concubine qui était à Sichem, elle aussi, lui enfanta un fils; et il lui donna le nom d’Abimélec.
And the servant-wife he had in Shechem had a son by him, to whom he gave the name Abimelech.
32 Et Gédéon, fils de Joas, mourut dans une bonne vieillesse, et fut enterré dans le sépulcre de Joas, son père, à Ophra des Abiézerites.
And Gideon, the son of Joash, came to his end when he was very old, and his body was put in the resting-place of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
33 Et quand Gédéon fut mort, il arriva que les fils d’Israël retournèrent et se prostituèrent après les Baals, et ils s’établirent Baal-Berith pour dieu.
And after the death of Gideon, the children of Israel again went after the gods of Canaan and were false to the Lord, and made Baal-berith their god.
34 Et les fils d’Israël ne se souvinrent pas de l’Éternel, leur Dieu, qui les avait délivrés de la main de tous leurs ennemis tout à l’entour;
And the children of Israel did not keep in their minds the Lord their God, who had been their saviour from all their haters on every side;
35 et ils n’usèrent pas de bonté envers la maison de Jerubbaal, [qui est] Gédéon, selon tout le bien qu’il avait fait à Israël.
And they were not kind to the house of Jerubbaal, that is, Gideon, in reward for all the good he had done to Israel.
