1Again the anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them, saying, “Go, number Israel and Judah.”
1大卫数点人口（代上21:1-6）
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.”
2王就对约押和跟随他的军官说：“你们走遍以色列各支派，从但到别是巴，数点人民，我好知道人民的数目。”
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?”
3约押回答王：“无论人民有多少，愿耶和华你的 神再增加一百倍，又愿我主我王亲眼看见。不过，我主我王为什么喜欢这事呢？”
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.
4但是王的命令约押和众军官不敢不从。于是约押和众军官从王面前出去，数点以色列的人民。
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:
5他们过了约旦河，就在谷中那座亚罗珥城的右边安营。后来他们经过迦得，直到雅谢，
6then they came to Gilead, and to the land of Tahtim Hodshi; and they came to Dan Jaan, and around to Sidon,
6然后又到了基列和他停．合示地，再到了但．雅安，并绕过了西顿，
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.
7来到推罗的堡垒，以及希未人和迦南人所有的城市。最后，他们出到犹大的南端别是巴去了。
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.
8以后，他们走遍了全地，过了九个月又二十天，就回到耶路撒冷。
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.
9约押把数点人民的数目向王呈报：在以色列中能拔刀的勇士共有八十万人；犹大共有五十万人。
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.”
10耶和华降罚（代上21:7-17）大卫数点了人民以后，良心一直不安，于是对耶和华说：“我作了这事，犯了大罪。耶和华啊！现在求你除去你仆人的罪孽，因为我作了非常糊涂的事！”
11When David rose up in the morning, the word of Yahweh came to the prophet Gad, David’s seer, saying,
11大卫早晨起来；耶和华的话临到迦得先知，就是大卫的先见，说：
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.”’”
12“你去告诉大卫说：‘耶和华这样说：我给你三个选择，你要选择一个，我好向你施行。’”
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.”
13于是迦得来见大卫，问他说：“你要国中七年的饥荒呢？或是要在你敌人面前逃跑，被追赶三个月呢？或是要国中有三天的瘟疫呢？现在你要想想，决定我该用什么话回复那差我来的。”
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.”
14大卫对迦得说：“我非常为难，我们情愿落在耶和华的手里，因为他有丰盛的怜悯。不要让我落在人的手里。”
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.
15于是耶和华降瘟疫在以色列地，从早晨直到所定的时间；从但到别是巴，众民中死了七万人。
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.
16当天使向耶路撒冷伸手，要毁灭耶路撒冷的时候，耶和华就后悔降这灾祸，就对那毁灭众民的天使说：“够了，现在住手吧！”那时，耶和华的天使在耶布斯人亚劳拿的打禾场那里。
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.”
17大卫看见那击杀人民的天使，就对耶和华说：“犯了罪的是我，行了恶的是我，这群羊又作了什么呢？求你的手攻击我和我的父家吧！”
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.”
18大卫筑坛献祭（代上21:18-27）那一天，迦得来见大卫，对他说：“你上去，在耶布斯人亚劳拿的打禾场那里，为耶和华立一座祭坛。”
19David went up according to the saying of Gad, as Yahweh commanded.
19大卫就照着迦得的话，正如耶和华所吩咐的，上去了。
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.
20亚劳拿往下观看，看见王和他的臣仆正朝着他这边走过来，就出去迎接，脸伏于地向王叩拜。
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.”
21亚劳拿问：“我主我王为什么来到你仆人这里呢？”大卫回答：“是要向你买这打禾场，好为耶和华筑一座祭坛，使民间的瘟疫可以止住。”
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:
22亚劳拿对大卫说：“我主我王看什么好，就拿去献上吧！看哪，这里有牛可以作燔祭，打禾的器具和套牛的轭可以当柴烧。
23all this, king, does Araunah give to the king.” Araunah said to the king, “May Yahweh your God accept you.”
23王啊，这一切亚劳拿都奉给你。”亚劳拿又对王说：“愿耶和华你的 神悦纳你！”
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.
24王回答亚劳拿：“不！我一定要按价钱向你买，我不要用白白得来的作燔祭献给耶和华我的 神。”于是大卫用五百七十克银子，买下了那打禾场和牛。
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.
25于是大卫在那里为耶和华筑了一座坛，献上燔祭和平安祭。这样耶和华垂听了人们为那地的祷告，瘟疫就在以色列人中止住了。