¹Ale satan povstal proti Izraelovi a naviedol Dávida, aby spočítal Izraela.

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

²A Dávid povedal Joábovi a kniežatám ľudu: Iďte, spočítajte Izraela od Bér-šeby až po Dán a doneste ku mne, aby som vedel ich počet.

²And David said to Joab and to the princes of the people, Go, number Israel from Beer-sheba even to Dan; and bring me word, that I may know the sum of them.

³Ale Joáb riekol: Nech pridá Hospodin k svojmu ľudu sto ráz toľko, koľko ho je! Či azda, môj pán kráľ, nie sú všetci môjmu pánovi za služobníkov? Prečo to vyhľadáva môj pán? Prečo má byť na previnenie sa Izraelovi?!

³And Joab said, Jehovah make his people a hundred times as many as they are: but, my lord the king, are they not all my lord's servants? why doth my lord require this thing? why will he be a cause of guilt unto Israel?

⁴Ale slovo kráľovo bolo pevné proti Joábovi. A tak vyšiel Joáb a pochodiac po celom Izraelovi prišiel do Jeruzalema.

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

⁵A Joáb oddal Dávidovi počet spočítania ľudu. A bolo všetkého Izraela tisíc tisícov a sto tisíc mužov, súcich vytasiť meč, a Júdu bolo štyristo sedemdesiat tisíc mužov, súcich vytasiť meč.

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

⁶Léviho a Benjamina nepočítal medzi nich, lebo ošklivé bolo slovo kráľovo u Joába.

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

⁷A, pravda, neľúbil sa kráľ pre tú vec Bohu, a preto bil Izraela.

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

⁸Vtedy povedal Dávid Bohu: Zhrešil som veľmi, že som vykonal tú vec! A tak teraz prosím, ó, Hospodine, odním neprávosť svojho služobníka, lebo som urobil veľmi bláznivo.

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

⁹A Hospodin hovoril Gádovi, vidiacemu Dávidovmu, a riekol:

⁹And Jehovah spake unto Gad, David's seer, saying,

¹⁰Iď a hovor Dávidovi a povieš: Takto hovorí Hospodin: Troje ukladám na teba. Vyvoľ si jedno z nich, aby som ti ho učinil.

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

¹¹A tak prišiel Gád ku Dávidovi a riekol mu: Takto hovorí Hospodin: Vyber si:

¹¹So Gad came to David, and said unto him, Thus saith Jehovah, Take which thou wilt:

¹²či chceš tri roky hladu, či tri mesiace byť hubený od svojich protivníkov, a aby ťa stíhal meč tvojich nepriateľov, a či tri dni meč Hospodinov a mor v zemi, kým anjel Hospodinov bude hubiť po všetkých krajoch Izraelových? A tak teraz vidz, čo mám odpovedať tomu, ktorý ma poslal.

¹²either three years of famine; or three months to be consumed before thy foes, while the sword of thine enemies overtaketh thee; or else three days the sword of Jehovah, even pestilence in the land, and the angel of Jehovah destroying throughout all the borders of Israel. Now therefore consider what answer I shall return to him that sent me.

¹³Vtedy povedal Dávid Gádovi: Je mi veľmi úzko. Nech, prosím, padnem do ruky Hospodinovej, lebo jeho milosrdenstvo je veľmi mnohé a veľké; ale nech nepadnem do ruky človeka.

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

¹⁴A tak dal Hospodin mor na Izraela, a padlo z Izraela sedemdesiat tisíc mužov.

¹⁴So Jehovah sent a pestilence upon Israel; and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.

¹⁵Potom poslal Bôh anjela do Jeruzalema, aby ho hubil. A keď už hubil, pohliadol Hospodin, a bolo mu ľúto nad tým zlým, a preto riekol anjelovi, ktorý hubil: Už je dosť! Spusti svoju ruku! A anjel Hospodinov stál pri humne Ornána Jebuzejského.

¹⁵And God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was about to destroy, Jehovah beheld, and he repented him of the evil, and said to the destroying angel, It is enough; now stay thy hand. And the angel of Jehovah was standing by the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

¹⁶A Dávid pozdvihol svoje oči a videl anjela Hospodinovho, ktorý stál medzi zemou a medzi nebom, a jeho vytasený meč v jeho ruke, vystretej na Jeruzalem. A Dávid padol i starší, odiati v smútočných vrecovinách, padli na svoju tvár.

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

¹⁷A Dávid povedal Bohu: Či nie som to ja, ktorý som rozkázal spočítať ľud? A tedy ja som ten, ktorý som zhrešil a ktorý som preveľmi zle urobil, ale tieto ovce, čože tie urobily? Hospodine, môj Bože, nech je, prosím, tvoja ruka proti mne a proti domu môjho otca, ale nie proti tvojmu ľudu, aby bol bitý ranou.

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 very wickedly; but these sheep, what have they done? let thy hand, I pray thee, O Jehovah my God, be against me, and against my father's house; but not against thy people, that they should be plagued.

¹⁸Vtedy riekol anjel Hospodinov Gádovi, aby povedal Dávidovi, aby vyšiel hore Dávid postaviť oltár Hospodinovi na humne Ornána Jebuzejského.

¹⁸Then the angel of Jehovah commanded Gad to say to David, that David should go up, and rear an altar unto Jehovah in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

¹⁹A tak vyšiel Dávid hore na slovo Gádovo, ktoré hovoril v mene Hospodinovom.

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

²⁰A keď sa obrátil Ornán, videl anjela, a jeho štyria synovia, ktorí boli s ním sa skryli. A Ornán mlátil pšenicu.

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

²¹A Dávid prišiel až k Ornánovi. A keď pozrel Ornán a uvidel Dávida, vyšiel z humna a poklonil sa Dávidovi tvárou k zemi.

²¹And as 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.

²²Vtedy riekol Dávid Ornánovi: Daj mi miesto tohoto humna, aby som vystavil na ňom oltár Hospodinovi. Daj mi ho za toľko peňazí, koľko je hodno, aby bola zastavená rana zponad ľudu.

²²Then David said to Ornan, Give me the place of this threshing-floor, that I may build thereon an altar unto Jehovah: for the full price shalt thou give it me, that the plague may be stayed from the people.

²³Na to povedal Ornán Dávidovi: Vezmi si, a nech učiní môj pán kráľ to, čo je dobré v jeho očiach. Vidz, dávam voly na zápalnú obeť a mlatidlá na drevo a pšenicu na obilný dar obetný; to všetko dávam.

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 for burnt-offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat for the meal-offering; I give it all.

²⁴Ale kráľ Dávid riekol Ornánovi: Nie tak, ale iba kúpim za toľko peňazí, koľko je to hodno. Lebo veď azda nevezmem toho, čo je tvoje, pre Hospodina, ani nebudem obetovať zápalnej obeti, ktorú by som dostal zadarmo!

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 Jehovah, nor offer a burnt-offering without cost.

²⁵A tedy dal Dávid Ornánovi za miesto zlatých šeklov váhy šesťsto.

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

²⁶A Dávid tam postavil oltár Hospodinovi a obetoval zápalné obeti a pokojné obeti a volal na Hospodina, ktorý sa mu ohlásil ohňom z neba, soslaným na oltár zápalu.

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

²⁷A Hospodin riekol anjelovi, a ten dal svoj meč zpäť do pošvy.

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

²⁸Toho času, keď videl Dávid, že sa mu ohlásil Hospodin na humne Ornána Jebuzejského, obetoval tam bitné obeti.

²⁸At that time, when David saw that Jehovah had answered him in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there.

²⁹A svätopríbytok Hospodinov, ktorý bol učinil Mojžiš na púšti, aj oltár na zápaly bol toho času na výšine v Gibeone.

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

³⁰A Dávid nemohol ísť predeň hľadať Boha, lebo sa desil pred mečom anjela Hospodinovho.

³⁰But David could not go before it to inquire of God; for he was afraid because of the sword of the angel of Jehovah.