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1 Samuel 6
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1 Samuel 6
Segond 21
Retour de l'arche de l'alliance en Israël
6 L'arche de l'Eternel resta sept mois dans le pays des Philistins. 2 Les Philistins appelèrent les prêtres et les devins et dirent: «Que pouvons-nous faire de l'arche de l'Eternel? Faites-nous connaître de quelle manière nous devons la renvoyer chez elle.» 3 Les hommes consultés répondirent: «Si vous renvoyez l'arche du Dieu d'Israël, ne la renvoyez pas sans rien, mais faites à Dieu un sacrifice de culpabilité. Alors vous guérirez et vous saurez pourquoi sa main ne s'est pas retirée de vous.» 4 Les Philistins dirent: «Quelle offrande lui ferons-nous?» Ils répondirent: «Nous offrirons 5 tumeurs en or et 5 souris en or, d'après le nombre des princes des Philistins, car le même fléau vous a tous atteints, vous et vos princes. 5 Faites des représentations de vos tumeurs, ainsi que des souris qui ravagent le pays, et rendez gloire au Dieu d'Israël. Peut-être cessera-t-il de faire lourdement peser sa main contre vous, contre vos dieux et contre votre pays. 6 Pourquoi rendriez-vous votre cœur insensible comme les Egyptiens et le pharaon l’ont fait? Dieu est intervenu contre eux et ils ont alors dû laisser partir les Israélites. 7 Maintenant, fabriquez un char tout neuf et prenez deux vaches qui allaitent et n'ont jamais porté de joug[a]. Attelez ces vaches au char et ramenez leurs petits à l’étable afin qu’ils ne soient plus derrière elles. 8 Vous prendrez l'arche de l'Eternel et vous la mettrez sur le char. Vous placerez à côté d'elle, dans un coffre, les objets d'or que vous donnez à l'Eternel en sacrifice de culpabilité, puis vous la renverrez et elle partira. 9 Suivez-la du regard: si elle monte par le chemin de sa frontière vers Beth-Shémesh, cela signifie que c'est l'Eternel qui nous a fait ce grand mal; sinon, nous saurons que ce n'est pas sa main qui nous a frappés, mais que cela nous est arrivé par hasard.»
10 C’est ce que firent ces hommes. Ils prirent deux vaches qui allaitaient et les attelèrent au char, et ils enfermèrent les petits dans l’étable. 11 Ils mirent sur le char l'arche de l'Eternel ainsi que le coffre avec les souris en or et les représentations de leurs tumeurs. 12 Les vaches prirent directement le chemin de Beth-Shémesh; elles suivirent toujours la même route en mugissant, sans s’écarter à droite ou à gauche. Les princes des Philistins les suivirent jusqu'à la frontière de Beth-Shémesh.
13 Les habitants de Beth-Shémesh moissonnaient les blés dans la vallée; ils levèrent les yeux, aperçurent l'arche et se réjouirent en la voyant. 14 Le char arriva dans le champ de Josué, un habitant de Beth-Shémesh, et s'y arrêta. Il y avait là une grande pierre. On fendit le bois du char et l'on offrit les vaches en holocauste à l'Eternel. 15 Les Lévites descendirent l'arche de l'Eternel ainsi que le coffre qui se trouvait à côté d'elle et qui contenait les objets en or, et ils posèrent le tout sur la grande pierre. Les habitants de Beth-Shémesh offrirent ce jour-là des holocaustes et des sacrifices à l'Eternel. 16 Après avoir vu cela, les cinq princes des Philistins retournèrent à Ekron le jour même.
17 Voici les tumeurs en or que les Philistins donnèrent à l'Eternel en sacrifice de culpabilité: une pour Asdod, une pour Gaza, une pour Askalon, une pour Gath, une pour Ekron. 18 Il y avait aussi le nombre de souris en or correspondant au nombre de villes philistines qui appartenaient aux cinq chefs, aussi bien des villes fortifiées que des villages sans murailles. C'est ce qu'atteste la grande pierre sur laquelle on déposa l'arche de l'Eternel et qui se trouve aujourd'hui encore dans le champ de Josué de Beth-Shémesh.
19 L'Eternel frappa les habitants de Beth-Shémesh, lorsqu'ils regardèrent l'arche de l'Eternel. Il frappa 50'070 hommes parmi le peuple, et le peuple fut dans le deuil parce que l'Eternel l'avait frappé d'un grand fléau. 20 Les habitants de Beth-Shémesh dirent: «Qui peut se tenir en présence de l'Eternel, de ce Dieu saint? Et vers qui l'arche doit-elle monter en s'éloignant de nous?» 21 Ils envoyèrent des messagers aux habitants de Kirjath-Jearim pour leur dire: «Les Philistins ont ramené l'arche de l'Eternel. Descendez donc et faites-la monter vers vous.»
Footnotes
- 1 Samuel 6:7 Joug: barre en bois posée sur la nuque des bêtes pour les atteler ensemble.
1 Samuel 6
International Children’s Bible
1 Samuel 6
International Children’s Bible
The Ark of the Covenant of God Is Sent Home
6 The Philistines kept the Ark of the Covenant of God in their land seven months. 2 Then they called for their priests and magicians. They said, “What should we do with the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord? Tell us how to send it back home!”
3 The priests and magicians answered them. They said, “If you send back the Ark of the Covenant of the God of Israel, don’t send it away empty. You must offer a penalty offering so the God of Israel will forgive your sins. Then you will be healed. When God has forgiven you, he will stop punishing you.”
4 The Philistines asked, “What kind of penalty offering should we send to Israel’s God?”
The priests and magicians answered, “Make five gold models of the growths on your skin. Also make five gold models of rats. The number of models must be the same as the number of Philistine kings. This is because the same sickness has come on you and your kings. 5 Make models of the growths and the rats that are ruining the country. Give them to Israel’s God and honor him. Then maybe Israel’s God will stop punishing you, your gods and your land. 6 Don’t be stubborn like the king of Egypt and the Egyptians. God punished them terribly. That is why the Egyptians let the Israelites leave Egypt.
7 “You must build a new cart. And get two cows that have just had calves. These must be cows that have never had yokes on their necks. Then hitch the cows to the cart. Take the calves home. Don’t let them follow their mothers. 8 Put the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord on the cart. And put the gold models in a box beside the Ark of the Covenant. They are your penalty offerings for God to forgive your sins. Send the cart straight on its way. 9 Watch the cart. It may go toward Beth Shemesh in Israel’s own land. If so, the Lord has given us this great sickness. But it may not go toward Beth Shemesh. Then we will know that Israel’s God has not punished us. We will know that our sickness just happened by chance.”
10 The Philistines did what the priests and magicians said. They took two cows that had just had calves. They hitched them to the cart. But they kept their calves at home. 11 They put the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord on the cart. And they put the box with the gold rats and models of growths on the cart. 12 Then the cows went straight toward Beth Shemesh. They stayed on the road, mooing all the way. They did not turn right or left. The Philistine kings followed the cows as far as the border of Beth Shemesh.
13 Now the people of Beth Shemesh were harvesting their wheat in the valley. They looked up and saw the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord. They were very happy to see it again. 14 The cart came to the field belonging to Joshua of Beth Shemesh. The cart stopped in this field near a large rock. The people of Beth Shemesh chopped up the wood of the cart. Then they killed the cows and sacrificed them to the Lord. 15 The Levites took down the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord. They also took down the box that had the gold models. They put both on the large rock. That day the people of Beth Shemesh offered whole burnt offerings and made sacrifices to the Lord. 16 The five Philistine kings watched them do all these things. Then they went back to Ekron the same day.
17 The Philistines sent these gold models of the growths. They were penalty offerings to the Lord for their sins. They sent one model for each Philistine town. These towns were Ashdod, Gaza, Ashkelon, Gath and Ekron. 18 And the Philistines also sent gold models of rats. The number of rats was the same as the number of towns belonging to the Philistine kings. These towns included strong, walled cities and country villages. The large rock on which they put the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord is still there. It is in the field of Joshua of Beth Shemesh.
19 But some of the men of Beth Shemesh looked into the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord. So God killed 70 of them. The people of Beth Shemesh cried because the Lord had punished them so terribly. 20 They said, “Who can stand before the Lord, this holy God? Where can the Ark of the Covenant go from here?”
21 Then they sent messengers to the people of Kiriath Jearim. The messengers said, “The Philistines have brought back the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord. Come down and take it to your city.”
1 Samuel 6
King James Version
1 Samuel 6
King James Version
6 And the ark of the Lord was in the country of the Philistines seven months.
2 And the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners, saying, What shall we do to the ark of the Lord? tell us wherewith we shall send it to his place.
3 And they said, If ye send away the ark of the God of Israel, send it not empty; but in any wise return him a trespass offering: then ye shall be healed, and it shall be known to you why his hand is not removed from you.
4 Then said they, What shall be the trespass offering which we shall return to him? They answered, Five golden emerods, and five golden mice, according to the number of the lords of the Philistines: for one plague was on you all, and on your lords.
5 Wherefore ye shall make images of your emerods, and images of your mice that mar the land; and ye shall give glory unto the God of Israel: peradventure he will lighten his hand from off you, and from off your gods, and from off your land.
6 Wherefore then do ye harden your hearts, as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? when he had wrought wonderfully among them, did they not let the people go, and they departed?
7 Now therefore make a new cart, and take two milch kine, on which there hath come no yoke, and tie the kine to the cart, and bring their calves home from them:
8 And take the ark of the Lord, and lay it upon the cart; and put the jewels of gold, which ye return him for a trespass offering, in a coffer by the side thereof; and send it away, that it may go.
9 And see, if it goeth up by the way of his own coast to Bethshemesh, then he hath done us this great evil: but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that smote us: it was a chance that happened to us.
10 And the men did so; and took two milch kine, and tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home:
11 And they laid the ark of the Lord upon the cart, and the coffer with the mice of gold and the images of their emerods.
12 And the kine took the straight way to the way of Bethshemesh, and went along the highway, lowing as they went, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left; and the lords of the Philistines went after them unto the border of Bethshemesh.
13 And they of Bethshemesh were reaping their wheat harvest in the valley: and they lifted up their eyes, and saw the ark, and rejoiced to see it.
14 And the cart came into the field of Joshua, a Bethshemite, and stood there, where there was a great stone: and they clave the wood of the cart, and offered the kine a burnt offering unto the Lord.
15 And the Levites took down the ark of the Lord, and the coffer that was with it, wherein the jewels of gold were, and put them on the great stone: and the men of Bethshemesh offered burnt offerings and sacrificed sacrifices the same day unto the Lord.
16 And when the five lords of the Philistines had seen it, they returned to Ekron the same day.
17 And these are the golden emerods which the Philistines returned for a trespass offering unto the Lord; for Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for Askelon one, for Gath one, for Ekron one;
18 And the golden mice, according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, both of fenced cities, and of country villages, even unto the great stone of Abel, whereon they set down the ark of the Lord: which stone remaineth unto this day in the field of Joshua, the Bethshemite.
19 And he smote the men of Bethshemesh, because they had looked into the ark of the Lord, even he smote of the people fifty thousand and threescore and ten men: and the people lamented, because the Lord had smitten many of the people with a great slaughter.
20 And the men of Bethshemesh said, Who is able to stand before this holy Lord God? and to whom shall he go up from us?
21 And they sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kirjathjearim, saying, The Philistines have brought again the ark of the Lord; come ye down, and fetch it up to you.
1 Samuel 6
New International Version
1 Samuel 6
New International Version
The Ark Returned to Israel
6 When the ark of the Lord had been in Philistine territory seven months, 2 the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners(A) and said, “What shall we do with the ark of the Lord? Tell us how we should send it back to its place.”
3 They answered, “If you return the ark of the god of Israel, do not send it back to him without a gift;(B) by all means send a guilt offering(C) to him. Then you will be healed, and you will know why his hand(D) has not been lifted from you.”
4 The Philistines asked, “What guilt offering should we send to him?”
They replied, “Five gold tumors and five gold rats, according to the number(E) of the Philistine rulers, because the same plague(F) has struck both you and your rulers. 5 Make models of the tumors(G) and of the rats that are destroying the country, and give glory(H) to Israel’s god. Perhaps he will lift his hand from you and your gods and your land. 6 Why do you harden(I) your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh did? When Israel’s god dealt harshly with them,(J) did they(K) not send the Israelites out so they could go on their way?
7 “Now then, get a new cart(L) ready, with two cows that have calved and have never been yoked.(M) Hitch the cows to the cart, but take their calves away and pen them up. 8 Take the ark of the Lord and put it on the cart, and in a chest beside it put the gold objects you are sending back to him as a guilt offering. Send it on its way, 9 but keep watching it. If it goes up to its own territory, toward Beth Shemesh,(N) then the Lord has brought this great disaster on us. But if it does not, then we will know that it was not his hand that struck us but that it happened to us by chance.”
10 So they did this. They took two such cows and hitched them to the cart and penned up their calves. 11 They placed the ark of the Lord on the cart and along with it the chest containing the gold rats and the models of the tumors. 12 Then the cows went straight up toward Beth Shemesh, keeping on the road and lowing all the way; they did not turn to the right or to the left. The rulers of the Philistines followed them as far as the border of Beth Shemesh.
13 Now the people of Beth Shemesh were harvesting their wheat(O) in the valley, and when they looked up and saw the ark, they rejoiced at the sight. 14 The cart came to the field of Joshua of Beth Shemesh, and there it stopped beside a large rock. The people chopped up the wood of the cart and sacrificed the cows as a burnt offering(P) to the Lord. 15 The Levites(Q) took down the ark of the Lord, together with the chest containing the gold objects, and placed them on the large rock.(R) On that day the people of Beth Shemesh(S) offered burnt offerings and made sacrifices to the Lord. 16 The five rulers of the Philistines saw all this and then returned that same day to Ekron.
17 These are the gold tumors the Philistines sent as a guilt offering to the Lord—one each(T) for Ashdod, Gaza, Ashkelon, Gath and Ekron. 18 And the number of the gold rats was according to the number of Philistine towns belonging to the five rulers—the fortified towns with their country villages. The large rock on which the Levites set the ark of the Lord is a witness to this day in the field of Joshua of Beth Shemesh.
19 But God struck down(U) some of the inhabitants of Beth Shemesh, putting seventy[a] of them to death because they looked(V) into the ark of the Lord. The people mourned because of the heavy blow the Lord had dealt them. 20 And the people of Beth Shemesh asked, “Who can stand(W) in the presence of the Lord, this holy(X) God? To whom will the ark go up from here?”
21 Then they sent messengers to the people of Kiriath Jearim,(Y) saying, “The Philistines have returned the ark of the Lord. Come down and take it up to your town.”
Footnotes
- 1 Samuel 6:19 A few Hebrew manuscripts; most Hebrew manuscripts and Septuagint 50,070
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