1 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 And he overcame Moab, and the Moabites became his servants and gave him offerings.
3 Then David overcame Hadadezer, king of Zobah, near Hamath, when he was going to make his power seen by the river Euphrates.
4 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 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 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 And the gold body-covers of the servants of Hadadezer, David took to Jerusalem.
8 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 Now when Tou, king of Hamath, had news that David had overcome all the army of Hadadezer, king of Zobah,
10 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 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 And when he came back from putting to the sword eighteen thousand of the Edomites in the Valley of Salt,
13 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 So David was king over all Israel, judging and giving right decisions for all his people.
15 And Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief of the army; and Jehoshaphat, son of Ahilud, was keeper of the records.
16 And Zadok, the son of Ahitub; and Ahimelech, the son of Abiathar, were priests; and Shavsha was the scribe;
17 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.
1 Il arriva, après cela, que David battit les Philistins et les humilia; et il prit Gath et les villes de son ressort, d'entre les mains des Philistins.
2 Il battit aussi les Moabites; et les Moabites furent assujettis à David, lui payant un tribut.
3 David battit aussi Hadarézer, roi de Tsoba, vers Hamath, lorsqu'il alla établir sa domination sur le fleuve d'Euphrate.
4 David lui prit mille chars, sept mille cavaliers, et vingt mille hommes de pied; il coupa les jarrets des chevaux de tous les chars; mais il en réserva cent chars.
5 Or les Syriens de Damas vinrent au secours de Hadarézer, roi de Tsoba, et David battit vingt-deux mille Syriens.
6 Puis David mit garnison dans la Syrie de Damas; et les Syriens furent assujettis à David, lui payant un tribut. Et l'Éternel gardait David partout où il allait.
7 Et David prit les boucliers d'or qui étaient aux serviteurs de Hadarézer, et les apporta à Jérusalem.
8 Il emporta aussi de Tibechath et de Cun, villes de Hadarézer, une grande quantité d'airain; Salomon en fit la mer d'airain, les colonnes et les ustensiles d'airain.
9 Or, Thohu, roi de Hamath, apprit que David avait défait toute l'armée de Hadarézer, roi de Tsoba;
10 Et il envoya Hadoram, son fils, vers le roi David, pour le saluer et le féliciter de ce qu'il avait combattu Hadarézer, et l'avait défait; car Hadarézer était dans une guerre continuelle avec Thohu. Il envoya aussi toutes sortes de vases d'or, d'argent et d'airain.
11 Le roi David les consacra aussi à l'Éternel, avec l'argent et l'or qu'il avait emporté de toutes les nations, des Iduméens, des Moabites, des enfants d'Ammon, des Philistins et des Amalécites.
12 Abishaï, fils de Tséruja, battit aussi dix-huit mille Iduméens dans la vallée du Sel.
13 Il mit des garnisons dans l'Idumée, et tous les Iduméens furent assujettis à David; et l'Éternel gardait David partout où il allait.
14 Et David régna sur tout Israël, rendant la justice et le droit à tout son peuple.
15 Joab, fils de Tséruja, commandait l'armée; Joshaphat, fils d'Achilud, était archiviste;
16 Tsadok, fils d'Achitub, et Abimélec, fils d'Abiathar, étaient sacrificateurs, et Shavsha était secrétaire;
17 Bénaja, fils de Jéhojada, était chef des Kéréthiens et des Péléthiens; et les fils de David étaient les premiers auprès du roi.