Første Krønikebog 21
1 Satan trådte op mod Israel og æggede David til at holde Mandtal over Israel.
Now Satan, designing evil against Israel, put into David's mind the impulse to take the number of Israel.
2 David sagde da til Joab og Hærførerne: "Drag ud og tæl Israel fra Be'ersjeba til Dan og bring mig Efterretning, for at jeg kan få Tallet på dem at vide!"
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 Men Joab svarede: "Måtte HERREN forøge sit Folk hundredfold! Er de ikke, Herre Konge, min Herres Trælle alle sammen? Hvorfor vil min Herre det? Hvorfor skal det blive Israel til Skyld?"
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 Men Joab måtte bøje sig for Kongens Ord, og Joab begav sig derfor bort, drog hele Israel rundt og kom tilbage til Jerusalem.
But the king's word was stronger than Joab's. So Joab went out and went through all Israel and came to Jerusalem.
5 Joab opgav derpå David Tallet, der var fundet ved Folketællingen, og hele Israel talte 1.100.000 kraftige Mænd, Juda 470.000.
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 Men Levi og Benjamin havde han ikke talt med, thi Kongens Ord var Joab en Gru.
But Levi and Benjamin were not numbered among them, for Joab was disgusted with the king's order.
7 Dette var ondt i Guds Øjne, og han slog Israel.
And God was not pleased with this thing; so he sent punishment on Israel.
8 Da sagde David til Gud: "Jeg har syndet svarlig i, hvad jeg har gjort. Men tilgiv nu din Tjeners Brøde, thi jeg har handlet som en stor Dåre!"
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 Men HERREN talede således til Gad, Davids Seer:
Then the word of the Lord came to Gad, David's seer, saying,
10 "Gå hen og sig således til David: Så siger HERREN: Jeg forelægger dig tre Ting; vælg selv, hvilken jeg skal lade times dig!"
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 Gad kom da til David og sagde til ham: "Så siger HERREN: Vælg!
So Gad came to David and said to him, The Lord says, Take whichever you will:
12 Vælger du tre Hungersnødsår, eller vil du i tre Måneder flygte for dine Fjender og dine Avindsmænds Sværd, eller skal der komme tre Dage med HERRENs Sværd og Pest i Landet, i hvilke HERRENs Engel spreder Ødelæggelse i hele Israels Område? Se nu til, hvad jeg skal svare ham, der har sendt mig!"
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 svarede Gad: "Jeg er i såre stor Vånde - lad mig så falde i HERRENs Hånd, thi hans Barmhjertighed er såre stor; i Menneskehånd vil jeg ikke falde!"
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 Så sendte HERREN Pest over Israel, og af Israel døde 70.000 Mennesker.
So the Lord sent disease on Israel, causing the death of seventy thousand men.
15 Og Gud sendte en Engel til Jerusalem for at ødelægge det. Men lige som han skulde til at ødelægge Byen, så HERREN til og angrede det onde; og han sagde til Engelen, som var ved at ødelægge: "Nu er det nok, drag din Hånd tilbage!" HERRENs Engel stod da ved Jebusiten Ornans Tærskeplads.
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 Da David løftede sit Blik og så HERRENs Engel stå mellem Himmel og Jord med draget Sværd i Hånd, rettet mod Jerusalem, faldt han og de Ældste, der var klædt i Sæk, på deres Ansigt;
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 og David sagde til Gud: "Var det ikke mig, der sagde, at Folket skulde tælles? Det er mig, der har syndet, og såre ilde har jeg handlet; men Fårene der, hvad har de gjort? HERRE min Gud, lad din Hånd dog ramme mig og mit Fædrenehus, men lad Plagen ikke ramme dit Folk!"
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 Da sagde HERRENs Engel til Gad, at han skulde byde David gå op og rejse HERREN et Alter på Jebusiten Ornans Tærskeplads.
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 Og David gik derop, efter det Ord Gad havde talt i HERRENs Navn.
And David went up, as Gad had said in the name of the Lord.
20 Da Ornan vendte sig om, så han Kongen og hans fire Sønner, der var hos ham, komme gående. Ornan var ved at tærske Hvede.
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 Og David nåede hen til Ornan, og da Ornan så op og fik Øje på David, forlodhanTærskepladsen og kastede sig på sit Ansigt til Jorden for ham.
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 Da sagde David til Oroan: "Overlad mig din Tærskeplads, for at jeg der kan bygge HERREN et Alter! For fuld betaling skal du overlade mig den, at Folkett må blive friet fra Plagen!"
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 Da sagde Ornan til David: "Min Herre Kongen tage den og gøre, hvad ham tykkes ret; se, jeg giver Okserne til Brændofre, Tærskeslæderne til Brændsel og Hveden til Afgrødeoffer; jeg giver det hele!"
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 - Men Kong David svarede Ornan: "Nej, jeg vil købe det for fuld Betaling, thi til HERREN vil jeg ikke tage, hvad dit er, eller bringe et Brændoffer, som intet koster mig!"
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 Så gav David Ornan Guld til en Vægt af 600 Sekel for Pladsen;
So David gave Ornan six hundred shekels of gold by weight for the place.
26 og David byggede HERREN et Alter der og ofrede Brændofre og Takofre; og da han råbte til HERREN, svarede HERREN ham ved at lade Ild falde ned fra Himmelen på Brændofferalteret,
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 Og på HERRENs Bud stak Engelen sit Sværd i Balgen igen.
Then the Lord gave orders to the angel, and he put back his sword into its cover.
28 På den Tid ofrede David på Jebusiten Ornans Tærskeplads, fordi han havde set, at HERREN havde svaret ham der;
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 men HERRENs Bolig, som Moses havde rejst i Ørkenen, og Brændofferalteret stod på den Tid på Offerhøjen i Gibeon.
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 Men David kunde ikke gå hen og søge Gud foran Alteret, thi han var rædselsslagen over HERRENs Engels Sværd.
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.
