1 Khokhuen 21
1 Satan loh Israel a thoh thil tih Israel tae hamla David a vueh.
Now Satan, designing evil against Israel, put into David's mind the impulse to take the number of Israel.
2 Te dongah David loh Joab taeng neh pilnam mangpa rhoek taengah, “Cet uh lamtah Israel he Beersheba lamloh Dan duela tae uh. Te phoeiah kai taengla ha puen uh lamtah a hlangmi te ka ming van eh,” a ti nah.
And David said to Joab and the captains of the people, Now let all Israel, from Beer-sheba to Dan, be numbered; and give me word so that I may be certain of their number.
3 Tedae Joab loh, “BOEIPA loh a pilnam te a pueh yakhat la a thap bitko. Ka boei manghai aw, amih boeih te ka boei taengah sal la a om uh moenih a? Ka boeipa loh balae tih he he a hue. Balae tih Israel soah dumlai la a om eh?” a ti.
And Joab said, May the Lord make his people a hundred times more in number than they are; but, my lord king, are they not all my lord's servants? why would my lord have this done? why will he become a cause of sin to Israel?
4 Tedae manghai kah ol loh Joab te a khum a la. Te dongah Joab te nong tih Israel tom te a pha phoeiah Jerusalem la pawk.
But the king's word was stronger than Joab's. So Joab went out and went through all Israel and came to Jerusalem.
5 Te phoeiah Joab loh pilnam hlangboel hlangmi te David taengla a paek. Te vaengah Israel boeih te cunghang aka pom thai hlang thawng thawng khat neh thawng yakhat om. Judah kah cunghang aka pom hlang he thawng ya li neh thawng sawmrhih lo.
And Joab gave David the number of all the people; all the men of Israel, able to take up arms, were one million, one hundred thousand men; and those of Judah were four hundred and seventy thousand men, able to take up arms.
6 Tedae manghai ol loh Joab te a tuei dongah Levi neh Benjamin tah amih lakli ah nuen sak pawh.
But Levi and Benjamin were not numbered among them, for Joab was disgusted with the king's order.
7 He ol he Pathen mik ah a lolh dongah Israel te a ngawn.
And God was not pleased with this thing; so he sent punishment on Israel.
8 David loh Pathen taengah, “He kah hno ka saii he bahoeng ka tholh coeng. Na sal kathaesainah he khuen mai laeh, ka pavai tangkik dongah ni,” a ti nah.
Then David said to God, Great has been my sin in doing this; but now, be pleased to take away the sin of your servant, for I have done very foolishly.
9 Te vaengah BOEIPA loh David kah khohmu Gad te a voek tih,
Then the word of the Lord came to Gad, David's seer, saying,
10 Cet lamtah David te thui pah. BOEIPA loh he ni a thui. Kai loh nang te pathum kan doe tih te khuikah pakhat te namah ham tuek lamtah nang taengah kan saii eh?,’ ti nah,” a ti nah.
Go and say to David, The Lord says, Three things are offered to you: say which of them you will have, so that I may do it to you.
11 Te phoeiah Gad te David taengla pawk tih amah te, “BOEIPA loh a thui he namah ham doe laeh.
So Gad came to David and said to him, The Lord says, Take whichever you will:
12 Khokha kum thum nim, na rhal mikhmuh lamloh hla thum na khoengvoep uh tih na thunkha kah cunghang loh n'kae te nim? Hnin thum khuiah BOEIPA kah cunghang neh diklai ah duektahaw la BOEIPA puencawn loh Israel kah khorhi tom ah a phae te nim? Mebang khaw hmu lamtah kai taengla ol ham mael laeh,” a ti nah.
Three years when there will not be enough food; or three months of war, when you will go in flight before your haters, being in great danger of the sword; or three days of the sword of the Lord, disease in the land, and the angel of the Lord taking destruction through all the land of Israel. Now give thought to the answer I am to take back to him who sent me.
13 David loh Gad taengah kai he puen ka cak tangkik coeng. A haidamnah he a len tangkik dongah BOEIPA kut ah ka tla mai eh. Tedae hlang kut ah tah ka tla boel eh?,” a ti nah.
And David said to Gad, This is a hard decision for me to make: let me come into the hands of the Lord, for great are his mercies: let me not come into the hands of men.
14 Te dongah BOEIPA loh Israel soah duektahaw a paek tih Israel hlang thawng sawmrhih cungku.
So the Lord sent disease on Israel, causing the death of seventy thousand men.
15 Te phoeiah Pathen loh Jerusalem phae hamla puencawn a tueih. Tedae a phae te BOEIPA loh a hmuh tanglang vaengah tah boethae khaw damti. Te dongah khopuei aka phae puencawn te, “Temah laeh saeh, na kut yuek laeh,” a ti nah. Te vaengah BOEIPA kah puencawn te Jebusi Ornan kah cangtilhmuen ah pai.
And God sent an angel to Jerusalem for its destruction: and when he was about to do so, the Lord saw, and had regret for the evil, and said to the angel of destruction, It is enough; do no more. Now the angel of the Lord was by the grain-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
16 David loh a mik a huel vaengah diklai laklo neh vaan laklo ah aka pai BOEIPA puencawn te a hmuh. Te long te a kut dongah a cunghang a muk tih Jerusalem te a nuen. Te dongah David neh a ham rhoek tah a maelhmai ah tlamhni neh a khuk uh tih bakop uh.
And David, lifting up his eyes, saw the angel of the Lord there between earth and heaven, with an uncovered sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the responsible men, clothed in haircloth, went down on their faces.
17 David loh Pathen taengah, “Pilnam tae ham aka thui te kai moenih a? Anih te kai ka tholh sak dongah ka thae tah ka thae coeng. Tedae he boiva rhoek loh balae a saii uh? Ka Pathen BOEIPA aw, na kut te kamah so neh a pa kah imkhui soah tla mai saeh. Tedae na pilnam te lucik neh ben boel mai,” a ti nah.
And David said to God, Was it not I who gave the order for the people to be numbered? It is I who have done the sin and the great wrong; but these are only sheep; what have they done? let your hand, O Lord God, be lifted up against me and against my family, but not against your people to send disease on them.
18 Te daengah BOEIPA kah puencawn loh Gad te, “David te thui pah, David te BOEIPA kah hmueihtuk suem hamla Jebusi Ornan kah cangtilhmuen ah cet saeh,” a ti nah.
Then the angel of the Lord gave orders to Gad to say to David that he was to go and put up an altar to the Lord on the grain-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
19 Te dongah David khaw BOEIPA ming neh a thui Gad ol bangla cet.
And David went up, as Gad had said in the name of the Lord.
20 Ornan a mael vaengah puencawn te a hmuh. Te vaengah a taengkah a capa pali tah thuh uh dae Ornan tah cang a til.
And Ornan, turning back, saw the angel, and his four sons who were with him went to a secret place. Now Ornan was crushing his grain.
21 David te Ornan taengla pawk tih Ornan loh a paelki vaengah David te a hmuh. Te dongah cangtilhmuen lamloh thoeih tih David taengah a maelhmai te diklai la buluk.
And when David came, Ornan, looking, saw him, and came out from the grain-floor and went down on his face to the earth before him.
22 David loh Ornan te, “Cangtil hmuen he kai taengah m'pae mai lamtah a soah BOEIPA kah hmueihtuk ka suem mai eh. Te te tangka nen khaw kai he boeih m'pae mai. Te daengah ni lucik he pilnam dong lamloh a cing eh?,” a ti nah.
Then David said to Ornan, Give me the place where this grain-floor is, so that I may put up an altar here to the Lord: let me have it for its full price; so that this disease may be stopped among the people.
23 Ornan loh David taengah, “Namah ham lo lamtah ka boei manghai a mikhmuh ah a then la saii saeh. So lah he, Hmueihhlutnah ham vaito neh thing hamla tloep kam paek bitni. Cang he khaw khocang la boeih kam paek bitni,” a ti nah.
And Ornan said to David, Take it, and let my lord the king do what seems right to him. See, I give you the oxen for burned offerings and the grain-cleaning instruments for fire-wood, and the grain for the meal offering; I give it all.
24 Tedae manghai David loh Ornan te, “Moenih, tangka la boeih a lai la kan lai eh. Nang taengkah te BOEIPA ham akhaw, hmueihhlutnah nawn ham akhaw a yoe la ka lo mahpawh,” a ti nah.
And King David said to Ornan, No; I will certainly give you the full price for it, because I will not take for the Lord what is yours, or give a burned offering without payment.
25 Te dongah David loh Ornan te a hmuen phu la sui shekel a khiing ya rhuk a paek.
So David gave Ornan six hundred shekels of gold by weight for the place.
26 Te phoeiah David loh BOEIPA ham hmueihtuk pahoi a suem tih hmueihhlutnah neh rhoepnah te a nawn. BOEIPA a khue vaengah anih te hmueihtuk sokah hmueihhlutnah dongah vaan lamkah hmai neh a voek.
And David put up an altar there to the Lord, offering burned offerings and peace-offerings with prayers to the Lord; and he gave him an answer from heaven, sending fire on the altar of burned offering.
27 Te daengah BOEIPA loh puencawn te a voek tih a cunghang te tuengim khuila a sang.
Then the Lord gave orders to the angel, and he put back his sword into its cover.
28 Te vaeng tue kah Jebusi Ornan cangtilhmuen ah BOEIPA loh anih a doo te David loh a hmuh van neh pahoi a nawn.
At that time, when David saw that the Lord had given him an answer on the grain-floor of Ornan the Jebusite, he made an offering there.
29 Moses loh khosoek kah a saii BOEIPA kah dungtlungim neh te vaeng tue kah hmueihhlutnah hmueihtuk tah Gibeon hmuensang ah om pueng.
For the House of the Lord, which Moses had made in the waste land, and the altar of burned offerings, were at that time in the high place at Gibeon.
30 Tedae BOEIPA puencawn kah cunghang ha loh a let sak coeng dongah David loh a mikhmuh la a caeh ham khaw, Pathen a toem ham coeng thai pawh.
But David was not able to go before it to get directions from the Lord, so great was his fear of the sword of the angel of the Lord.
