1A opät zahorel hnev Hospodinov na Izraela. Lebo satan naviedol Dávida na nich povediac: Idi, spočítaj Izraela i Júdu!
1Again the anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them, saying, “Go, number Israel and Judah.”
2Preto povedal kráľ Joábovi, veliteľovi vojska, ktorý bol u neho: Nože pochoď po všetkých pokoleniach Izraelových od Dána až po Béršebu a spočítajte ľud, aby som vedel počet ľudu.
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.”
3A Joáb povedal kráľovi: Ale nech pridá Hospodin, tvoj Bôh, k ľudu sto ráz toľko, koľko len koľvek ho je, a oči môjho pána kráľa nech to vidia. Ale prečo má môj pán kráľ záľubu v tejto veci?
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?”
4Avšak slovo kráľovo bolo pevné voči Joábovi i proti iným veliteľom vojska. A tak vyšiel Joáb i velitelia vojska zpred kráľa, aby spočítali ľud, Izraela.
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.
5A prepraviac sa cez Jordán položili sa táborom v Aroere po pravej strane mesta, ktoré leží prostred doliny potoka Gádovho a pri Jazere.
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:
6Potom prišli do Gileáda a do zeme Tachtím-chodší, odkiaľ prišli do Dánjaana a naokolo k Sidonu.
6then they came to Gilead, and to the land of Tahtim Hodshi; and they came to Dan Jaan, and around to Sidon,
7A prišli k pevnosti Týru a do všetkých miest Hevejov a Kananejov a odtiaľ vyšli na juh do zeme Júdovej, do Bér-šeby.
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.
8A tak pochodili celú zem a prišli po deviatich mesiacoch a po dvadsiatich dňoch do Jeruzalema.
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.
9A Joáb oddal počet sčítania ľudu kráľovi. A bolo Izraela osemsto tisíc silných mužov, súcich tasiť mečom, a mužov Júdových bolo päťsto tisíc mužov.
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.
10Ale potom, keď už bol spočítal ľud, bilo srdce Dávidovo jeho, Dávida. A Dávid povedal Hospodinovi: Zhrešil som veľmi, že som to urobil. A tak teraz, ó, Hospodine, prosím, odním neprávosť svojho služobníka, lebo som urobil veľmi bláznivo.
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.”
11A keď vstal Dávid ráno, stalo sa slovo Hospodinovo k prorokovi Gádovi, vidiacemu Dávidovmu, povediac:
11When David rose up in the morning, the word of Yahweh came to the prophet Gad, David’s seer, saying,
12Iď a budeš hovoriť Dávidovi: Takto hovorí Hospodin: Troje ukladám na teba. Vyvoľ si jedno z nich, aby som ti ho učinil.
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.”’”
13A tak prišiel Gád ku Dávidovi a oznámil mu a riekol mu: Či ti má prijsť sedem rokov hladu vo tvojej zemi, alebo či chceš za tri mesiace utekať pred svojimi protivníkmi, a on, protivník, aby ťa honil, a či aby bol za tri dni mor v tvojej zemi? Teraz si rozmysli a vidz, čo mám odpovedať tomu, ktorý ma poslal.
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.”
14A Dávid povedal Gádovi: Úzko mi je veľmi. Nech upadneme, prosím, do ruky Hospodinovej, lebo jeho milosrdenstvo je mnohé a veľké, ale nech neupadnem do ruky človeka.
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.”
15A tak dal Hospodin mor na Izraela od rána až do uloženého času. A zomrelo z ľudu od Dána až po Bér-šebu sedemdesiat tisíc mužov.
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.
16A keď vystrel anjel svoju ruku na Jeruzalem, aby ho hubil, ľutoval Hospodin toho zlého a riekol anjelovi, ktorý hubil medzi ľudom: Dosť je! Teraz už spusti svoju ruku. A anjel Hospodinov bol pri humne Aravnu Jebuzejského.
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.
17A Dávid povedal Hospodinovi, keď uvidel anjela, ktorý bil medzi ľudom, a riekol: Hľa, ja som zhrešil a ja som sa dopustil neprávosti, ale tieto ovce, čo že tie urobily?! Nech je, prosím, tvoja ruka proti mne a proti domu môjho otca.
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.”
18A Gád prišiel k Dávidovi toho dňa a riekol mu: Iď hore a postav Hospodinovi oltár na humne Aravnu Jebuzejského.
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.”
19A tak odišiel Dávid hore podľa slova Gádovho, tak, ako prikázal Hospodin.
19David went up according to the saying of Gad, as Yahweh commanded.
20A Aravna hľadiac z domu videl kráľa a jeho služobníkov, že idú k nemu, a preto vyšiel Aravna a poklonil sa kráľovi svojou tvárou k zemi.
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.
21Aravna povedal: Prečo prišiel môj pán kráľ k svojmu služobníkovi? A Dávid riekol: Kúpiť od teba humno a postaviť na ňom Hospodinovi oltár, aby bola zastavená rana a sňatá s ľudu.
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.”
22A Aravna povedal Dávidovi: Nech vezme a nech obetuje môj pán kráľ to, čo sa mu vidí za dobré. Vidz, tu voly na zápalnú obeť a mlatidlá a správa pre voly na drevo.
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:
23To všetko dával kráľ Aravna kráľovi. A Aravna povedal kráľovi: Hospodin, tvoj Bôh, nech si ťa obľúbi!
23all this, king, does Araunah give to the king.” Araunah said to the king, “May Yahweh your God accept you.”
24Ale kráľ riekol Aravnovi: Nie, ale iba kúpim od teba a zaplatím a nebudem obetovať Hospodinovi, svojmu Bohu, zápalných obetí, daných darom. A tak kúpil Dávid humno i voly za päťdesiat šeklov striebra.
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.
25A Dávid tam postavil Hospodinovi oltár a obetoval zápalné obeti i pokojné obeti. A Hospodin sa dal uprosiť zemi, a zastavená bola rana a sňatá s Izraela.
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.