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 the number of them to me, that I may know it.

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 add to his people, how many soever they be, a hundredfold: are they not all, my lord O king, my lord's servants? why does my lord require this thing? why should he become a trespass to Israel?

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

⁴But the king's word prevailed against Joab; and Joab departed, and went through all Israel, and came [again] 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 the sum of the number of the people to David. And all they of Israel were eleven hundred thousand men that drew sword; and of Judah, four hundred and seventy thousand men that drew sword.

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

⁶But Levi and Benjamin he did not count 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 on account of this thing, and 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 to God, I have sinned greatly, in that I have done this thing; and now, I beseech thee, put away the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly.

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

⁹And Jehovah spoke to 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 to David saying, Thus saith Jehovah: I offer thee three [things]; choose one of them, that I may do it unto thee.

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

¹¹And Gad came to David, and said to him, Thus saith Jehovah:

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.

¹²Choose thee, either three years of famine, or three months to be destroyed before thine adversaries while that the sword of thine enemies overtaketh thee, or three days the sword of Jehovah and the pestilence in the land, and the angel of Jehovah destroying through all the borders of Israel. And now consider what word I shall bring again 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 to Gad, I am in a great strait: let me fall, I pray thee, into the hand of Jehovah, for his mercies are very great; but let me not fall into the hand of man.

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

¹⁴And 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 to Jerusalem to destroy it; and as he was destroying, Jehovah beheld, and he repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed, It is enough; withdraw now thine hand. And the angel of Jehovah stood 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 stand between the earth and the heavens, and his sword drawn in his hand, stretched out over Jerusalem. And David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell on 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 to God, Is it not I that commanded the people to be numbered? It is I that have sinned and done evil; but these sheep, what have they done? Let thy hand, I pray thee, Jehovah my God, be on me and on my father's house; but not on thy people, that they should be smitten.

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

¹⁸And the angel of Jehovah commanded Gad to say to David, that David should go up and rear an altar to 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 had spoken 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 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 David came to Ornan, and 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.

²²And David said to Ornan, Grant me the place of the threshing-floor, that I may build an altar in it to Jehovah: grant it to me for the full money, 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 to David, Take it to thee, and let my lord the king do that which is good in his sight: see, I give the oxen for the burnt-offering, and the threshing-sledges for wood, and the wheat for the oblation; 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, No; but I will in any case buy [them] for the full money; for I will not take that which is thine for Jehovah, to offer up a burnt-offering without cost.

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

²⁵And David gave to Ornan for the place in shekels of gold the weight of six hundred [shekels].

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 to Jehovah, and offered up burnt-offerings and peace-offerings, and called upon Jehovah; and he answered him from the heavens by fire upon the altar of burnt-offering.

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

²⁷And Jehovah spoke to the angel; and he put up his sword again into its sheath.

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.

²⁹And the tabernacle of Jehovah, which Moses had 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.