1وعاد فحمي غضب الرب على اسرائيل فاهاج عليهم داود قائلا امض واحص اسرائيل ويهوذا.
1Again the anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them, saying, “Go, number Israel and Judah.”
2فقال الملك ليوآب رئيس الجيش الذي عنده طف في جميع اسباط اسرائيل من دان الى بئر سبع وعدّوا الشعب فاعلم عدد الشعب.
2The king said to Joab the captain of the army, who was with him, “Now go back and forth through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beersheba, and number the people, that I may know the sum of the people.”
3فقال يوآب للملك ليزد الرب الهك الشعب امثالهم مئة ضعف وعينا سيدي الملك ناظرتان. ولكن لماذا يسر سيدي الملك بهذا الأمر.
3Joab said to the king, “Now may Yahweh your God add to the people, however many they may be, one hundred times; and may the eyes of my lord the king see it. But why does my lord the king delight in this thing?”
4فاشتدّ كلام الملك على يوآب وعلى رؤساء الجيش فخرج يوآب ورؤساء الجيش من عند الملك ليعدّوا الشعب اي اسرائيل.
4Notwithstanding, the king’s word prevailed against Joab, and against the captains of the army. Joab and the captains of the army went out from the presence of the king, to number the people of Israel.
5فعبروا الاردن ونزلوا في عروعير عن يمين المدينة التي في وسط وادي جاد وتجاه يعزير
5They passed over the Jordan, and encamped in Aroer, on the right side of the city that is in the middle of the valley of Gad, and to Jazer:
6وأتوا الى جلعاد والى ارض تحتيم الى حدشي ثم أتوا الى دان يعن واستداروا الى صيدون
6then they came to Gilead, and to the land of Tahtim Hodshi; and they came to Dan Jaan, and around to Sidon,
7ثم أتوا الى حصن صور وجميع مدن الحوّيين والكنعانيين ثم خرجوا الى جنوبي يهوذا الى بئر سبع
7and came to the stronghold of Tyre, and to all the cities of the Hivites, and of the Canaanites; and they went out to the south of Judah, at Beersheba.
8وطافوا كل الارض وجاءوا في نهاية تسعة اشهر وعشرين يوما الى اورشليم.
8So when they had gone back and forth through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.
9فدفع يوآب جملة عدد الشعب الى الملك فكان اسرائيل ثمان مئة الف رجل ذي بأس مستل السيف ورجال يهوذا خمس مئة الف رجل
9Joab gave up the sum of the numbering of the people to the king: and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men who drew the sword; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men.
10وضرب داود قلبه بعدما عدّ الشعب. فقال داود للرب لقد اخطأت جدا في ما فعلت والآن يا رب ازل اثم عبدك لاني انحمقت جدا.
10David’s heart struck him after that he had numbered the people. David said to Yahweh, “I have sinned greatly in that which I have done. But now, Yahweh, put away, I beg you, the iniquity of your servant; for I have done very foolishly.”
11ولما قام داود صباحا كان كلام الرب الى جاد النبي رائي داود قائلا
11When David rose up in the morning, the word of Yahweh came to the prophet Gad, David’s seer, saying,
12اذهب وقل لداود هكذا قال الرب. ثلاثة انا عارض عليك فاختر لنفسك واحدا منها فافعله بك.
12“Go and speak to David, ‘Thus says Yahweh, “I offer you three things. Choose one of them, that I may do it to you.”’”
13فأتى جاد الى داود واخبره وقال له أتاتي عليك سبع سني جوع في ارضك ام تهرب ثلاثة اشهر امام اعدائك وهم يتبعونك ام يكون ثلاثة ايام وبأ في ارضك. فالآن اعرف وانظر ماذا ارد جوابا على مرسلي.
13So Gad came to David, and told him, and said to him, “Shall seven years of famine come to you in your land? Or will you flee three months before your foes while they pursue you? Or shall there be three days’ pestilence in your land? Now answer, and consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me.”
14فقال داود لجاد قد ضاق بي الأمر جدا. فلنسقط في يد الرب لان مراحمه كثيرة ولا اسقط في يد انسان.
14David said to Gad, “I am in distress. Let us fall now into the hand of Yahweh; for his mercies are great. Let me not fall into the hand of man.”
15فجعل الرب وبأ في اسرائيل من الصباح الى الميعاد فمات من الشعب من دان الى بئر سبع سبعون الف رجل.
15So Yahweh sent a pestilence on Israel from the morning even to the appointed time; and there died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba seventy thousand men.
16وبسط الملاك يده على اورشليم ليهلكها فندم الرب عن الشر وقال للملاك المهلك الشعب كفى. الآن رد يدك. وكان ملاك الرب عند بيدر ارونة اليبوسي.
16When the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, Yahweh relented of the disaster, and said to the angel who destroyed the people, “It is enough. Now stay your hand.” The angel of Yahweh was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
17فكلم داود الرب عندما رأى الملاك الضارب الشعب وقال ها انا اخطأت وانا اذنبت واما هؤلاء الخراف فماذا فعلوا. فلتكن يدك عليّ وعلى بيت ابي
17David spoke to Yahweh when he saw the angel who struck the people, and said, “Behold, I have sinned, and I have done perversely; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand be against me, and against my father’s house.”
18فجاء جاد في ذلك اليوم الى داود وقال له اصعد واقم للرب مذبحا في بيدر ارونة اليبوسي.
18Gad came that day to David, and said to him, “Go up, build an altar to Yahweh on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.”
19فصعد داود حسب كلام جاد كما امر الرب.
19David went up according to the saying of Gad, as Yahweh commanded.
20فتطلع ارونة ورأى الملك وعبيده يقبلون اليه فخرج ارونة وسجد للملك على وجهه الى الارض.
20Araunah looked out, and saw the king and his servants coming on toward him. Then Araunah went out, and bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground.
21وقال ارونة لماذا جاء سيدي الملك الى عبده. فقال داود لاشتري منك البيدر لكي ابني مذبحا للرب فتكفّ الضربة عن الشعب.
21Araunah said, “Why has my lord the king come to his servant?” David said, “To buy your threshing floor, to build an altar to Yahweh, that the plague may be stopped from afflicting the people.”
22فقال ارونة لداود فلياخذه سيدي الملك ويصعد ما يحسن في عينيه. انظر. البقر للمحرقة والنوارج وادوات البقر حطبا.
22Araunah said to David, “Let my lord the king take and offer up what seems good to him. Behold, the cattle for the burnt offering, and the threshing instruments and the yokes of the oxen for the wood:
23الكل دفعه ارونة المالك الى الملك. وقال ارونة للملك الرب الهك يرضى عنك.
23all this, king, does Araunah give to the king.” Araunah said to the king, “May Yahweh your God accept you.”
24فقال الملك لارونة لا بل اشتري منك بثمن ولا اصعد للرب الهي محرقات مجانية. فاشترى داود البيدر والبقر بخمسين شاقلا من الفضة.
24The king said to Araunah, “No; but I will most certainly buy it from you for a price. I will not offer burnt offerings to Yahweh my God which cost me nothing.” So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.
25وبنى داود هناك مذبحا للرب واصعد محرقات وذبائح سلامة واستجاب الرب من اجل الارض فكفت الضربة عن اسرائيل
25David built an altar to Yahweh there, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So Yahweh was entreated for the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel.