1ووقف الشيطان ضد اسرائيل واغوى داود ليحصي اسرائيل.
1Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to number Israel.
2فقال داود ليوآب ولرؤساء الشعب اذهبوا عدّوا اسرائيل من بئر سبع الى دان وأتوا اليّ فاعلم عددهم.
2David said to Joab and to the princes of the people, “Go, number Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; and bring me word, that I may know the sum of them.”
3فقال يوآب ليزد الرب على شعبه امثالهم مئة ضعف. أليسوا جميعا يا سيدي الملك عبيدا لسيدي. لماذا يطلب هذا سيدي. لماذا يكون سبب اثم لاسرائيل.
3Joab said, “May Yahweh make his people a hundred times as many as they are. But, my lord the king, aren’t they all my lord’s servants? Why does my lord require this thing? Why will he be a cause of guilt to Israel?”
4فاشتدّ كلام الملك على يوآب. فخرج يوآب وطاف في كل اسرائيل ثم جاء الى اورشليم.
4Nevertheless the king’s word prevailed against Joab. Therefore Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, and came to Jerusalem.
5فدفع يوآب جملة عدد الشعب الى داود فكان كل اسرائيل الف الف ومئة الف رجل مستلّي السيف ويهوذا اربع مئة وسبعين الف رجل مستلّي السيف
5Joab gave up the sum of the numbering of the people to David. All those of Israel were one million one hundred thousand men who drew sword: and in Judah were four hundred seventy thousand men who drew sword.
6واما لاوي وبنيامين فلم يعدّهم معهم لان كلام الملك كان مكروها لدى يوآب.
6But he didn’t count Levi and Benjamin among them; for the king’s word was abominable to Joab.
7وقبح في عيني الله هذا الامر فضرب اسرائيل.
7God was displeased with this thing; therefore he struck Israel.
8فقال داود لله لقد اخطأت جدا حيث عملت هذا الامر والآن أزل اثم عبدك لاني سفهت جدا
8David said to God, “I have sinned greatly, in that I have done this thing. But now, put away, I beg you, the iniquity of your servant; for I have done very foolishly.”
9فكلم الرب جاد رائي داود وقال
9Yahweh spoke to Gad, David’s seer, saying,
10اذهب وكلم داود قائلا هكذا قال الرب ثلاثة انا عارض عليك فاختر لنفسك واحدا منها فافعله بك.
10“Go and speak to David, saying, ‘Thus says Yahweh, “I offer you three things. Choose one of them, that I may do it to you.”’”
11فجاء جاد الى داود وقال له هكذا قال الرب اقبل لنفسك
11So Gad came to David, and said to him, “Thus says Yahweh, ‘Take your choice:
12اما ثلاث سنين جوع او ثلاثة اشهر هلاك امام مضايقيك وسيف اعدائك يدركك او ثلاثة ايام يكون فيها سيف الرب ووبأ في الارض وملاك الرب يعثو في كل تخوم اسرائيل. فانظر الآن ماذا ارد جوابا لمرسلي.
12either three years of famine; or three months to be consumed before your foes, while the sword of your enemies overtakes you; or else three days the sword of Yahweh, even pestilence in the land, and the angel of Yahweh destroying throughout all the borders of Israel. Now therefore consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me.’”
13فقال داود لجاد قد ضاق بي الأمر جدا. دعني اسقط في يد الرب لان مراحمه كثيرة ولا اسقط في يد انسان.
13David said to Gad, “I am in distress. Let me fall, I pray, into the hand of Yahweh; for his mercies are very great. Let me not fall into the hand of man.”
14فجعل الرب وبأ في اسرائيل فسقط من اسرائيل سبعون الف رجل.
14So Yahweh sent a pestilence on Israel; and seventy thousand men of Israel fell.
15وارسل الله ملاكا على اورشليم لاهلاكها وفيما هو يهلك رأى الرب فندم على الشر وقال للملاك المهلك كفى الآن رد يدك. وكان ملاك الرب واقفا عند بيدر أرنان اليبوسي
15God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it. As he was about to destroy, Yahweh saw, and he relented of the disaster, and said to the destroying angel, “It is enough; now stay your hand.” The angel of Yahweh was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
16ورفع داود عينيه فرأى ملاك الرب واقفا بين الارض والسماء وسيفه مسلول بيده وممدود على اورشليم فسقط داود والشيوخ على وجوههم مكتسين بالمسوح.
16David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of Yahweh standing between earth and the sky, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell on their faces.
17وقال داود لله ألست انا هو الذي امر باحصاء الشعب. وانا هو الذي اخطأ وأساء واما هؤلاء الخراف فماذا عملوا. فأيها الرب الهي لتكن يدك عليّ وعلى بيت ابي لا على شعبك لضربهم.
17David said to God, “Isn’t it I who commanded the people to be numbered? It is even I who have sinned and done very wickedly; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand, O Yahweh my God, be against me, and against my father’s house; but not against your people, that they should be plagued.”
18فكلم ملاك الرب جاد ان يقول لداود ان يصعد داود ليقيم مذبحا للرب في بيدر أرنان اليبوسي.
18Then the angel of Yahweh commanded Gad to tell David that David should go up, and raise an altar to Yahweh in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
19فصعد داود حسب كلام جاد الذي تكلم به باسم الرب.
19David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spoke in the name of Yahweh.
20فالتفت أرنان فرأى الملاك. وبنوه الاربعة معه اختبأوا. وكان ارنان يدرس حنطة.
20Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons who were with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.
21وجاء داود الى ارنان وتطلّع ارنان فرأى داود وخرج من البيدر وسجد لداود على وجهه الى الارض.
21As David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out of the threshing floor, and bowed himself to David with his face to the ground.
22فقال داود لأرنان اعطني مكان البيدر فابني فيه مذبحا للرب. بفضة كاملة اعطني اياه فتكفّ الضربة عن الشعب.
22Then David said to Ornan, “Give me the place of this threshing floor, that I may build thereon an altar to Yahweh. You shall sell it to me for the full price, that the plague may be stopped from afflicting the people.”
23فقال ارنان لداود خذه لنفسك وليفعل سيدي الملك ما يحسن في عينيه. انظر قد اعطيت البقر للمحرقة والنوارج للوقود والحنطة للتقدمة. الجميع اعطيت.
23Ornan said to David, “Take it for yourself, and let my lord the king do that which is good in his eyes. Behold, I give the oxen for burnt offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat for the meal offering. I give it all.”
24فقال الملك داود لأرنان لا. بل شراء اشتريه بفضة كاملة لاني لا آخذ مالك للرب فاصعد محرقة مجّانيّة.
24King David said to Ornan, “No; but I will most certainly buy it for the full price. For I will not take that which is yours for Yahweh, nor offer a burnt offering without cost.”
25ودفع داود لأرنان عن المكان ذهبا وزنه ست مئة شاقل.
25So David gave to Ornan six hundred shekels of gold by weight for the place.
26وبنى داود هناك مذبحا للرب واصعد محرقات وذبائح سلامة ودعا الرب فاجابه بنار من السماء على مذبح المحرقة
26David built an altar to Yahweh there, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called on Yahweh; and he answered him from the sky by fire on the altar of burnt offering.
27وأمر الرب الملاك فرد سيفه الى غمده.
27Yahweh commanded the angel; and he put up his sword again into its sheath.
28في ذلك الوقت لما رأى داود ان الرب قد اجابه في بيدر ارنان اليبوسي ذبح هناك.
28At that time, when David saw that Yahweh had answered him in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there.
29ومسكن الرب الذي عمله موسى في البرية ومذبح المحرقة كانا في ذلك الوقت في المرتفعة في جبعون.
29For the tabernacle of Yahweh, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of burnt offering, were at that time in the high place at Gibeon.
30ولم يستطع داود ان يذهب الى امامه ليسأل الله لانه خاف من جهة سيف ملاك الرب
30But David couldn’t go before it to inquire of God; for he was afraid because of the sword of the angel of Yahweh.