¹In Satan se je vzdignil zoper Izraela in izpodbodel Davida, da naj sešteje Izraela.

¹And there standeth up an adversary against Israel, and persuadeth David to number Israel,

²In David veli Joabu in poglavarjem ljudstva: Pojdite, seštejte Izraelce od Bersebe do Dana, in prinesite mi poročilo, da vem njih število!

²And David saith unto Joab, and unto the heads of the people, `Go, number Israel from Beer-Sheba even unto Dan, and bring unto me, and I know their number.`

³In Joab reče: GOSPOD pridaj k ljudstvu svojemu stokrat toliko, kolikor jih je! Ali, GOSPOD moj, kralj, niso li vsi GOSPODA mojega hlapci? Čemu zahteva to gospod moj? Zakaj se naj to šteje v pregreho Izraelu?

³And Joab saith, `Jehovah doth add to His people as they are a hundred times; are they not, my lord, O king, all of them to my lord for servants? why doth my lord seek this? why is he for a cause of guilt to Israel?`

⁴Vendar pa je obveljala beseda kraljeva zoper Joaba. Zatorej odide Joab in prehodi vse Izraelovo in se vrne v Jeruzalem.

⁴And the word of the king [is] severe against Joab, and Joab goeth out, and goeth up and down in all Israel, and cometh in to Jerusalem.

⁵In dal je Joab število preštetega ljudstva Davidu; in bilo je vsega Izraela tisočkrat tisoč in sto tisoč mož, ki so izdirali meč; iz Jude pa štiristo in sedemdeset tisoč mož, ki so izdirali meč.

⁵And Joab giveth the account of the numbering of the people unto David, and all Israel is a thousand thousand and a hundred thousand, each drawing sword, and Judah [is] four hundred and seventy thousand, each drawing sword.

⁶A Levija in Benjamina ni štel ž njimi vred, kajti beseda kraljeva se je mrzila Joabu.

⁶And Levi and Benjamin he hath not numbered in their midst, for the word of the king was abominable with Joab.

⁷To povelje pa se je hudo videlo v očeh Božjih, in udaril je Izraela.

⁷And it is evil in the eyes of God concerning this thing, and He smiteth Israel,

⁸In David reče Bogu: Hudo sem grešil, da sem storil to; a sedaj, prosim, odpravi krivico hlapca svojega, kajti ravnal sem zelo nespametno!

⁸and David saith unto God, `I have sinned exceedingly, in that I have done this thing; and now, cause to pass away, I pray Thee, the iniquity of Thy servant, for I have acted very foolishly.`

⁹In GOSPOD je govoril Gadu, Davidovemu vidcu, rekoč:

⁹And Jehovah speaketh unto Gad, seer of David, saying:

¹⁰Pojdi in govóri Davidu in reci: Tako pravi GOSPOD: Troje ti ponujam, izberi si eno, da naj ti storim.

¹⁰`Go, and thou hast spoken unto David, saying, Thus said Jehovah, Three — I am stretching out unto thee; choose for thee one of these, and I do [it] to thee.`

¹¹Pride torej Gad k Davidu in mu reče: Tako pravi GOSPOD: Izberi si:

¹¹And Gad cometh in unto David, and saith to him, `Thus said Jehovah, Take for thee —

¹²bodisi tri leta lakote, ali da tri mesece bežiš pred nasprotniki svojimi, ko te dohiteva meč sovražnikov tvojih, ali pa tri dni meč GOSPODOV in kugo v deželi in angela GOSPODOVEGA, ki bo pogubljal po vseh mejah Izraelovih. Sedaj pa premisli, kakšen odgovor naj dam njemu, ki me je poslal.

¹²either for three years — famine, or three months to be consumed from the face of thine adversaries, even the sword of thine enemies to overtake, or three days the sword of Jehovah, even pestilence in the land, and a messenger of Jehovah destroying in all the border of Israel; and now, see; what word do I return to Him who is sending me?`

¹³In David reče Gadu: V stiski sem veliki! Rajši padem, prosim, v roko GOSPODOVO, kajti veliko je usmiljenje njegovo; le nikar naj ne padem v roko človeško!

¹³And David saith unto Gad, `I am greatly distressed, let me fall, I pray thee, into the hand of Jehovah, for very many [are] His mercies, and into the hand of man let me not fall.`

¹⁴Poslal je torej GOSPOD kugo nad Izraela, in pomrlo je iz Izraela sedemdeset tisoč mož.

¹⁴And Jehovah giveth a pestilence in Israel, and there fall of Israel seventy thousand men,

¹⁵In Bog pošlje angela proti Jeruzalemu, da ga pogubi; in ko je pogubljal, je pogledal GOSPOD in žal mu je bilo hudega; in veli angelu, ki je pokončeval: Dosti je, odtegni zdaj roko svojo! In angel GOSPODOV je stal pri gumnu Ornana Jebusejca.

¹⁵and God sendeth a messenger to Jerusalem to destroy it, and as he is destroying Jehovah hath seen, and is comforted concerning the evil, and saith to the messenger who [is] destroying, `Enough, now, cease thy hand.` And the messenger of Jehovah is standing by the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite,

¹⁶David pa povzdigne oči in vidi angela GOSPODOVEGA stoječega med zemljo in nebom in v roki njegovi potegnjen meč, naperjen proti Jeruzalemu. Tedaj padejo David in starejšine, oblečeni v raševino, na obraze svoje.

¹⁶and David lifteth up his eyes, and seeth the messenger of Jehovah standing between the earth and the heavens, and his sword drawn in his hand, stretched out over Jerusalem, and David falleth, and the elders, covered with sackcloth, on their faces.

¹⁷In David reče Bogu: Nisem li jaz velel, naj se sešteje ljudstvo? Jaz sem tisti, ki sem grešil in zelo krivično ravnal, te ovce pa, kaj so storili? Roka tvoja, prosim, o GOSPOD, Bog moj, bodi zoper mene in zoper očeta mojega hišo, nikar zoper tvoje ljudstvo, da ga tepe!

¹⁷And David saith unto God, `Did not I — I say to number the people? Yea, I it [is] who have sinned, and done great evil: and these, the flock, what did they? O Jehovah, my God, let, I pray Thee, Thy hand be on me, and on the house of my father, and not on Thy people — to be plagued.`

¹⁸Tedaj zapove angel GOSPODOV Gadu, da veli Davidu, naj gre gori in zgradi oltar GOSPODU na gumnu Ornana Jebusejca.

¹⁸And the messenger of Jehovah spake unto Gad, saying for David, `Surely David doth go up to raise an altar to Jehovah in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.`

¹⁹In David je šel gori po besedi Gadovi, ki jo je govoril v imenu GOSPODOVEM.

¹⁹And David goeth up by the word of Gad, that he spake in the name of Jehovah.

²⁰Ornan pa se ozre in zagleda angela, in štirje sinovi njegovi, ki so bili pri njem, se skrijejo; Ornan je namreč mlatil pšenico.

²⁰And Ornan turneth back, and seeth the messenger, and his four sons [are] with him, hiding themselves, and Ornan is threshing wheat.

²¹In ko David pride do Ornana, se ta ozre in zagleda Davida in gre z gumna ter se Davidu prikloni z obrazom do tal.

²¹And David cometh in unto Ornan, and Ornan looketh attentively, and seeth David, and goeth out from the threshing-floor, and boweth himself to David — face to the earth.

²²Tedaj reče David Ornanu: Prepústi mi kraj tega gumna, da na njem zgradim oltar GOSPODU, prepústi mi ga za polno ceno, da bi nehala kuga med ljudstvom.

²²And David saith unto Ornan, `Give to me the place of the threshing-floor, and I build in it an altar to Jehovah; for full silver give it to me, and the plague is restrained from the people.`

²³Ornan pa reče Davidu: Vzemi si ga, in stori naj ž njim gospod moj, kralj, kar se mu dobro vidi; glej, dam ti voli v žgalno daritev in mlatilnice za drva in pšenico v jedilno daritev: vse dam rad.

²³And Ornan saith unto David, `Take to thee — and my lord the king doth that which is good in his eyes: see, I have given the oxen for burnt-offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat for a present; the whole I have given.`

²⁴A kralj David reče Ornanu: Nikar, ampak res hočem to kupiti od tebe za polno ceno, ker ne vzamem, kar je tvojega, za GOSPODA, in ne bom daroval žgalne daritve brez stroškov.

²⁴And king David saith to Ornan, `Nay, for I surely buy for full silver; for I do not lift up that which is thine to Jehovah, so as to offer a burnt-offering without cost.`

²⁵Dal je torej David Ornanu za tisti kraj šeststo zlatih seklov po teži.

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

²⁶In David je zgradil ondi oltar GOSPODU in je daroval žgalne in mirovne daritve in klical GOSPODA; on pa mu je odgovoril iz nebes po ognju na oltarju žgalnih daritev.

²⁶and David buildeth there an altar to Jehovah, and offereth burnt-offerings and peace-offerings, and calleth unto Jehovah, and He answereth him with fire from the heavens on the altar of the burnt-offering.

²⁷In GOSPOD ukaže angelu, in angel vtakne meč zopet v nožnico svojo.

²⁷And Jehovah saith to the messenger, and he turneth back his sword unto its sheath.

²⁸V tistem času, ko je David videl, da mu je GOSPOD odgovoril na gumnu Ornana Jebusejca, je daroval ondi.

²⁸At that time when David seeth that Jehovah hath answered him in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificeth there;

²⁹Kajti šator GOSPODOV, ki ga je naredil Mojzes v puščavi, in oltar žgalnih daritev, sta bila tisti čas na višavi v Gibeonu.A David ni mogel predenj tja hoditi, da bi iskal Boga, tako je bil prestrašen zaradi meča angela GOSPODOVEGA.

²⁹and the tabernacle of Jehovah that Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of the burnt-offering, [are] at that time in a high place, in Gibeon;

³⁰A David ni mogel predenj tja hoditi, da bi iskal Boga, tako je bil prestrašen zaradi meča angela GOSPODOVEGA.

³⁰and David is not able to go before it to seek God, for he hath been afraid because of the sword of the messenger of Jehovah.