¹And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.

¹[Ny nanisana ny vahoaka, sy ny aretina nanjo ny olona noho izany, ary ny fifonana nataon'i Davida] Ary Satana nitsangana hampidi-doza tamin'ny Isiraely ka nanome saina an'i Davida hanisa ny Isiraely.

²And David said to Joab and to the rulers of the people, Go, number Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; and bring the number of them to me, that I may know it.

²Dia hoy Davida tamin'i Joaba sy tamin'ireo lehiben'ny vahoaka: Mandehana, isao ny Isiraely hatrany Beri-sheba ka hatrany Dana; ary ento atỳ amiko ny isany mba ho fantatro.

³And Joab answered, The LORD make his people an hundred times so many more as they be: but, my lord the king, are they not all my lord's servants? why then doth my lord require this thing? why will he be a cause of trespass to Israel?

³Fa hoy Joaba: Jehovah anie hampitombo ny olony ho injato toy izao na firy na firy izy; fa moa tsy mpanompon'ny tompoko izy rehetra, ry mpanjaka tompoko? Koa inona indray no itadiavan'ny tompoko izany zavatra izany? Nahoana no dia hampahadiso ny Isiraely?

⁴Nevertheless the king's word prevailed against Joab. Wherefore Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, and came to Jerusalem.

⁴Nefa tsy azon'i Joaba nolavina ny tenin'ny mpanjaka; ka dia niainga izy ka nitety ny Isiraely rehetra; dia tonga tany Jerosalema indray izy.

⁵And Joab gave the sum of the number of the people unto David. And all they of Israel were a thousand thousand and an hundred thousand men that drew sword: and Judah was four hundred threescore and ten thousand men that drew sword.

⁵Ary natolotr'i Joaba an'i Davida ny isan'ny olona voalamina, ka nisy iray hetsy sy iray tapitrisa ny lehilahy mahatan-tsabatra teo amin'ny Isiraely; ary fito alina sy efatra hetsy ny lehilahy mahatan-tsabatra teo amin'ny Joda.

⁶But Levi and Benjamin counted he not among them: for the king's word was abominable to Joab.

⁶Fa ny Levy sy ny Benjamina tsy mba nalaminy, satria fahavetavetana tamin'i Joaba ny tenin'ny mpanjaka.

⁷And God was displeased with this thing; therefore he smote Israel.

⁷Ary tsy sitrak'Andriamanitra izany zavatra izany; ka dia namely ny Isiraely Izy.

⁸And David said unto God, I have sinned greatly, because I have done this thing: but now, I beseech thee, do away the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly.

⁸Ary hoy Davida tamin'Andriamanitra; Efa nanota indrindra aho tamin'izao nataoko izao; koa ankehitriny, mifona aminao aho, esory ny heloky ny mpanomponao, fa efa nanao fahadalana lehibe tokoa aho.

⁹And the LORD spake unto Gad, David's seer, saying,

⁹Ary hoy Jehovah tamin'i Gada mpahitan'i Davida:

¹⁰Go and tell David, saying, Thus saith the LORD, I offer thee three things: choose thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee.

¹⁰Mandehana, ka lazao amin'i Davida hoe: Izao no lazain'i Jehovah: Zavatra telo loha no apetrako eto anoloanao, koa fidio izay iray hataoko aminao.

¹¹So Gad came to David, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Choose thee

¹¹Ary Gada nankany amin'i Davida ka nanao taminy hoe: Izao no lazain'i Jehovah: Mifidia:

¹²Either three years' famine; or three months to be destroyed before thy foes, while that the sword of thine enemies overtaketh thee; or else three days the sword of the LORD, even the pestilence, in the land, and the angel of the LORD destroying throughout all the coasts of Israel. Now therefore advise thyself what word I shall bring again to him that sent me.

¹²Mosary telo taona va? Sa fandringanana eo alohan'ny fahavalonao telo volana, raha tratry ny sabatry ny fahavalonao ianao? Sa ny sabatr'i Jehovah, dia areti-mandringana, no hamely ny tany hateloana, ka Ilay Anjelin'i Jehovah handringana eran'ny tanin'ny Isiraely rehetra? Koa hevero tsara izay valiny ho entiko miverina any amin'Izay naniraka ahy.

¹³And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let me fall now into the hand of the LORD; for very great are his mercies: but let me not fall into the hand of man.

¹³Ary hoy Davida tamin'i Gada: Indrisy! poritra loatra aho! nefa aleoko ho azon'ny tànan'i Jehovah, fa lehibe ny famindram-pony toy izay ho azon'izay tànan'olona.

¹⁴So the LORD sent pestilence upon Israel: and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.

¹⁴Dia nasian'i Jehovah areti-mandringana ny Isiraely ka nahafatesana fito alina izy.

¹⁵And God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was destroying, the LORD beheld, and he repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed, It is enough, stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD stood by the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.

¹⁵Ary Andriamanitra naniraka Anjely hankany Jerosalema handrava azy; ary raha ilay mbola nandrava iny Izy, dia nijery Jehovah ka nanenina ny amin'ny loza ka nanao tamin'Ilay Anjely nandrava hoe: Aoka izay! Atsaharo ny tananao ankehitriny. Ary Ilay Anjelin'i Jehovah nitsangana teo anilan'ny famoloan'i Araona Jebosita.

¹⁶And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of the LORD stand between the earth and the heaven, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders of Israel, who were clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces.

¹⁶Ary Davida nanopy ny masony ka nahita Ilay Anjelin'i Jehovah nitsangana teo anelanelan'ny tany sy ny lanitra sady nitana sabatra voatsoaka teny an-tanany, izay natondrony manandrify an'i Jerosalema. Dia niankohoka Davida sy ny loholon'ny Isiraely, izay efa samy nitafy lamba fisaonana.[Heb. lamba malailay]

¹⁷And David said unto God, Is it not I that commanded the people to be numbered? even I it is that have sinned and done evil indeed; but as for these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, O LORD my God, be on me, and on my father's house; but not on thy people, that they should be plagued.

¹⁷Ary hoy Davida tamin'Andriamanitra: Tsy izaho va no nandidy hanisa ny vahoaka? Izaho no nanota sy nanao ratsy tokoa; fa ireo ondry ireo kosa, inona moa no mba nataony? Eny, Jehovah Andriamanitro ô, mifona aminao re aho, aoka ny tananao hamely ahy sy ny mpianakavin'ny raiko, fa aza ny olonao no asianao amin'ny areti-mandringana.

¹⁸Then the angel of the LORD commanded Gad to say to David, that David should go up, and set up an altar unto the LORD in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.

¹⁸Ary Gada nasain'Ilay Anjelin'i Jehovah hilaza amin'i Davida mba hiakatra hanangana alitara ho an'i Jehovah ao amin'ny famoloan'i Araona Jebosita.

¹⁹And David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spake in the name of the LORD.

¹⁹Koa dia niakatra Davida araka ny tenin'i Gada, izay nolazainy tamin'ny anaran'i Jehovah.

²⁰And Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.

²⁰Ary Araona niherika ka nahita Ilay Anjely; ary ny zanany efa-dahy izay teo aminy dia niery. Ary Araona nively vary tao tamin'izay.

²¹And as David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out of the threshingfloor, and bowed himself to David with his face to the ground.

²¹Ary nony tonga teo amin'i Araona Davida, dia nijery Araona ka nahita an'i Davida, ary dia niala avy teo amin'ny famoloana izy ka niankohoka tamin'ny tany teo anatrehan'i Davida.

²²Then David said to Ornan, Grant me the place of this threshingfloor, that I may build an altar therein unto the LORD: thou shalt grant it me for the full price: that the plague may be stayed from the people.

²²Ary hoy Davida tamin'i Araona: Mba omeo ahy amin'izay tokom-bidiny ity famoloana ity hanorenako alitara ho an'i Jehovah; omeo ahy izy, mba hitsaharan'ny areti-mandringana tsy hamely ny vahoaka.

²³And Ornan said unto David, Take it to thee, and let my lord the king do that which is good in his eyes: lo, I give thee the oxen also for burnt offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat for the meat offering; I give it all.

²³Fa hoy Araona tamin'i Davida: Ento ary ho anao, ary aoka ny mpanjaka tompoko hanao izay sitrany; indro, omeko koa ny omby ho fanatitra dorana ary ny fivelezam-bary ho kitay ary ny vary tritika ho fanatitra hohanina; foiko avokoa izy rehetra.

²⁴And king David said to Ornan, Nay; but I will verily buy it for the full price: for I will not take that which is thine for the LORD, nor offer burnt offerings without cost.

²⁴Fa hoy Davida mpanjaka tamin'i Araona: Tsia, fa hovidiko mihitsy araka izay tokom-bidiny; fa tsy haka izay anao ho an'i Jehovah aho ary tsy hanatitra fanatitra dorana amin'izay azoko fotsiny.

²⁵So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight.

²⁵Dia nomen'i Davida sekely volamena lanjan'enin-jato Araona ho vidin'ny tany.

²⁶And David built there an altar unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called upon the LORD; and he answered him from heaven by fire upon the altar of burnt offering.

²⁶Ary Davida nanorina alitara teo ho an'i Jehovah ka nanatitra fanatitra dorana sy fanati-pihavanana; dia niantso an'i Jehovah izy ka novaliany tamin'ny afo avy tany an-danitra, izay latsaka teo amin'ny alitara fandoroana ny fanatitra dorana.

²⁷And the LORD commanded the angel; and he put up his sword again into the sheath thereof.

²⁷Ary Jehovah nandidy Ilay Anjely, ka dia nampidiriny tamin'ny tranony ny sabany.

²⁸At that time when David saw that the LORD had answered him in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there.

²⁸Tamin'izany andro izany, nony hitan'i Davida fa novalian'i Jehovah teo amin'ny famoloan'i Araona Jebosita izy, dia namono zavatra hatao fanatitra teo izy.

²⁹For the tabernacle of the LORD, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of the burnt offering, were at that season in the high place at Gibeon.

²⁹Fa ny tabernakelin'i Jehovah izay nataon'i Mosesy tany an-efitra sy ny alitara fandoroana ny fanatitra dorana kosa dia teo amin'ny fitoerana avo tao Gibeona fahizay;nefa Davida tsy nahazo nankeo anoloan'izany hanontany amin'Andriamanitra; fa raiki-tahotra izy noho ny sabatr'Ilay Anjelin'i Jehovah.

³⁰But David could not go before it to enquire of God: for he was afraid because of the sword of the angel of the LORD.

³⁰nefa Davida tsy nahazo nankeo anoloan'izany hanontany amin'Andriamanitra; fa raiki-tahotra izy noho ny sabatr'Ilay Anjelin'i Jehovah.