1 Chroniques 18
1 Il advint, après cela, que David battit les Philistins et qu'il les mit en fuite; et il leur enleva Geth avec ses bourgs.
And it came about after this that David made an attack on the Philistines and overcame them, and took Gath with its daughter-towns out of the hands of the Philistines.
2 Il vainquit Moab, et les fils de Moab lui furent asservis; et ils lui payèrent un tribut.
And he overcame Moab, and the Moabites became his servants and gave him offerings.
3 David vainquit aussi, dans le pays d'Hémath, Adraazar, roi de Suba, qui s'était mis en campagne pour se rendre maître des rives de l'Euphrate.
Then David overcame Hadadezer, king of Zobah, near Hamath, when he was going to make his power seen by the river Euphrates.
4 Et David prit aux vaincus mille chars, sept mille chevaux et vingt mille piétons; puis, il énerva les attelages de tous les chars, et n'en garda que cent.
And David took from him a thousand war-carriages and seven thousand horsemen and twenty thousand footmen: and he had the leg-muscles of all the horses cut, keeping only enough of them for a hundred war-carriages.
5 Et le Syrien de Damas marcha au secours d'Adraazar, roi de Suba, et David tua au Syrien vingt-deux mille hommes.
And when the Aramaeans of Damascus came to the help of Hadadezer, king of Zobah, David put to the sword twenty-two thousand Aramaeans.
6 Et David mit une garnison dans la Syrie de Damas, et les Syriens lui furent asservis; ils lui payèrent un tribut. Et le Seigneur protégea David partout où il porta ses armes.
Then David put armed forces in Damascus, and the Aramaeans became his servants and gave him offerings. And the Lord made David overcome wherever he went.
7 Et David prit les colliers d'or que portaient les serviteurs d'Adraazar, et il les consacra dans Jérusalem.
And the gold body-covers of the servants of Hadadezer, David took to Jerusalem.
8 Et David recueillit à Mathabeth (Métébac), et dans les principales villes d'Adraazar, une prodigieuse quantité d'airain, dont Salomon se servit pour fabriquer la mer d'airain, et les colonnes et tous les vases d'airain.
And from Tibhath and from Cun, towns of Hadadezer, David took a great store of brass, of which Solomon made the great brass water-vessel and the brass pillars and vessels.
9 Cependant Thoa (Thu), roi d'Hémath, apprit que David avait taillé en pièces toute l'armée d'Adraazar.
Now when Tou, king of Hamath, had news that David had overcome all the army of Hadadezer, king of Zobah,
10 Et il envoya vers David son fils Aduram (Jedduram), pour lui demander la paix et le bénir à cause de sa victoire sur Adraazar; car Thoa était ennemi d'Adraazar. Et tous les vases d'or, d'argent et d'airain,
He sent his son Hadoram to King David, to give him words of peace and blessing, because he had overcome Hadadezer in the fight, for Hadadezer had been at war with Tou; and he gave him all sorts of vessels of gold and silver and brass.
11 Le roi David les consacra au Seigneur de même que l'argent et l'or qu'il avait pris à toutes les nations: à l'Idumée, à Moab, aux fils d'Ammon, aux Philistins et aux fils d'Amalec.
These King David made holy to the Lord, together with the silver and gold he had taken from all nations; from Edom and Moab and from the children of Ammon and from the Philistines and from Amalek.
12 Et Abessa, fils de Sarvia, tailla en pièces quatre-vingt mille Philistins dans le val d'Aïlon.
And when he came back from putting to the sword eighteen thousand of the Edomites in the Valley of Salt,
13 Et il mit dans la vallée une garnison, et tous les Iduméens furent asservis à David, et le Seigneur protégea David partout où il porta ses armes.
David put armed forces in all the towns of Edom; and all the Edomites became servants to David. The Lord made David overcome wherever he went.
14 Ainsi, David régna sur tout Israël, et il jugea tout son peuple selon l'équité.
So David was king over all Israel, judging and giving right decisions for all his people.
15 Joab, fils de Sarvia, commandait l'armée; Josaphat, fils d'Achilud, recueillait les actes publics.
And Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief of the army; and Jehoshaphat, son of Ahilud, was keeper of the records.
16 Sadoc, fils d'Achitob, et Achimélech, fils d'Abiathar, étaient prêtres, et Susa (Sasa), scribe.
And Zadok, the son of Ahitub; and Ahimelech, the son of Abiathar, were priests; and Shavsha was the scribe;
17 Et Banaïas, fils de Joad, commandait Chéléthi et Phéléthi, et les fils de David étaient les premiers lieutenants du roi.
And Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and the sons of David were chief of those whose places were at the king's side.
