1 Chronicles 21
1 Now Satan, designing evil against Israel, put into David's mind the impulse to take the number of Israel.
इस्राएलको विरुद्ध एउटा दुश्मन खडा भयो र आफ्ना मानिसहरूको सङ्ख्या गन्नलाई दाऊदलाई सुर्यायो ।
2 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.
दाऊदले योआब र आफ्ना फौजका कमान्डरहरूलाई भने, “जाओ, बेर्शेबादेखि दानसम्मका इस्राएलका मानिसहरूको सङ्खया गन्ती गर र मलाई बताओ, ताकि म तिनीहरूको संख्या जान्न सकूँ ।”
3 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?
योआबले भने, “परमप्रभुले आफ्ना फौजलाई सय गुणा बढाउनुभएको होस् । तर हे मेरा मालिक राजा, के तिनीहरूले मेरा मालिकको सेवा गर्दैनन् र? इस्राएलमाथि किन दोष ल्याउनुहुन्छ?”
4 But the king's word was stronger than Joab's. So Joab went out and went through all Israel and came to Jerusalem.
तर राजाको वचन योआबको विरुद्धमा लागू भयो । त्यसैले योआब त्यहाँबाट हिंडे र सारा इस्राएलभरी गए । तब तिनी यरूशलेममा फर्केर आए ।
5 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.
त्यसपछि योआबले दाऊदलाई योद्धाहरूको जम्मा संख्या बताए । इस्राएलमा तरवार चलाउन सक्नेहरू इस्राएलमा ११ लाख थिए । यहूदामा मात्र ४ लाख ७० हजार सेना थिए ।
6 But Levi and Benjamin were not numbered among them, for Joab was disgusted with the king's order.
तर लेवी र बेन्यामीनलाई तिनीहरूसँग गन्ती गरिएन, किनकि राजाको हुकुमले योआबलाई साह्रै खिन्न पारेको थियो ।
7 And God was not pleased with this thing; so he sent punishment on Israel.
यो कामबाट परमेश्वर अप्रसन्न हुनुभयो, अनि उहाँले इस्राएललाई आक्रमण गर्नुभयो ।
8 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.
दाऊदले परमेश्वरलाई भने, “मैले यसो गरेर ठुलो पाप गरेको छु । अब आफ्नो दासको दोषलाई हटाउनुहोस्, किनकि मैले धेरै मूर्खतापूर्ण काम गरेको छु ।”
9 Then the word of the Lord came to Gad, David's seer, saying,
परमप्रभुले दाऊदका अगमवक्ता गादलाई भन्नुभयो,
10 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.
“गएर दाऊदलाई भन्, ‘परमप्रभु यसो भन्नुहुन्छः तँलाई म तिनवटा कुरा रोज्न दिन्छु । तिमध्ये एउटा रोज ।’”
11 So Gad came to David and said to him, The Lord says, Take whichever you will:
यसैले गाद दाऊदकहाँ गए र तिनलाई भने, “परमप्रभु यही भन्नुहुन्छ, ‘यिमध्ये एउटा रोज:
12 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.
तिन वर्षसम्मको अनिकालको कुरा, वा तेरा शत्रुहरूले तीन महिनासम्म खेद्ने र उनीहरूका तरवारले मारिने कुरा, वा तिन दिनको लागि परमप्रभुको तरवार, अर्थात् परमप्रभुका दूतले इस्राएलका सम्पूर्ण ठाउँमा विनाश ल्याउने एउटा विपत्तिको कुरा ।’ त्यसो हो भने, मलाई पठाउनुहुनेकहाँ मैले के जवाफ लानुपर्ने हो सो अब निर्णय गर्नुहोस् ।”
13 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.
तब दाऊदले गादलाई भने, “म साह्रै सङ्कष्टमा परेको छु! मानिसको हातमा पर्नुभन्दा मलाई परमप्रभुको हातमा नै पर्न देऊ, किनकि उहाँका करुणामय कामहरू धेरै महान् छन् ।”
14 So the Lord sent disease on Israel, causing the death of seventy thousand men.
त्यसैले परमप्रभुले इस्राएलमा एउटा विपत्ति पठाउनुभयो, र सत्तरी हजार मानिसहरू मरे ।
15 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.
परमेश्वरले यरूशलेम विनाश गर्न एउटा स्वर्गदूत पठाउनुभयो । तिनले त्यो नाश गर्न लाग्दा परमप्रभुले त्यो देखेर त्यस सर्वनाशदेखि मन बदल्नुभयो । ती नाश गर्ने स्वर्गदूतलाई उहाँले भन्नुभयो, “अब भयो! तिम्रो हात थाम ।” त्यस बेला ती स्वर्गदूत यबूसी अरौनाका खलाको छेउमा उभिरहेका थिए ।
16 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.
दाऊदले मास्तिर हेरे र परमप्रभुका स्वर्गदूतले आफ्नो हातमा नाङ्गो तरवार लिएर यरूशलेममाथि ताकेर आकाश र पृथ्वीका बीचमा खडा भएको देखे । तब भाङ्ग्रा लागाएका दाऊद र धर्म-गुरुहरू भूइँमा घोप्टो परे ।
17 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.
दाऊदले परमेश्वरलाई भने, “सेनाको गन्ती गर् भनेर हुकुम दिने म होइनँ र? मैले यो दुष्ट काम गरें । तर बिचरा यी भेडाहरूले के नै पो गरेका छन् र? हे परमप्रभु मेरा परमेश्वर!, तपाईंको हातले म र मेरो घरानालाई प्रहार गरोस्, तर तर यो विपत्ति तपाईंका मानिसहरूमाथि नरहोस् ।”
18 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.
यसैले दाऊदलाई यबूसी अरौनाको खलामा गएर परमप्रभुको निम्ति एउटा वेदी बनाउन भन् भनी परमप्रभुका स्वर्गदूतले गादलाई भने ।
19 And David went up, as Gad had said in the name of the Lord.
यसैले परमप्रभुको नाउँमा गादले हुकुम गरेझैं गर्नलाइ दाऊद त्यहाँ उक्लेर गए ।
20 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.
अरौनाले आफ्नो गहूँ चुट्दै गरेका समयमा, तिनी पछि फर्के, र स्वर्गदूतलाई देखे । तिनी र तिनका चार जना छोराहरू आफूलाई लुकाए ।
21 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.
दाऊद अरौनाकहाँ आउँदा, अरौनाले हेरे र दाऊदलाई देखे । तिनी खलाबाट बाहिर आए र आफ्नो अनुहार भुइँमा घोप्टो पारेर दाऊदको अघि घुँडा टेके ।
22 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.
तब दाऊदले अरौनालाई भने, “मलाई यो खला बेच ताकि यहाँ म परमप्रभुको निम्ति एउटा वेदी बनाउन सकूँ । म पुरै दाम तिर्नेछु, ताकि मानिसहरूबाट यो विपत्ति हटिजाओस् ।”
23 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.
अरौनाले दाऊदलाई भने, “त्यो तपाईंको आफ्नै ठानेर लिनुहोस्, मेरा मालिक महाराजा । हजुरो नजरमा जस्तो असल लाग्छ सो त्यहाँ गर्नुहोस् । हेर्नुहोस्, म तपाईंलाई होमबलिको निम्ति गोरुहरू, दाउराको निम्ति काठहरू र अन्नबलिको निम्ति गहूँ दिन्छु । यो सबै थोक म तपाईंलाई दिनेछु ।”
24 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.
दाऊद राजाले औरानलाई भने, “होइन, पुरै दाम तिरेर नै म यसलाई किन्छु । तिम्रो जे छ त्यो लिने अनि मेरो दाम नपरी त्यो सित्तैंमा परमप्रभुलाई होमबलीको रूपमा चढाउने काम म गर्दिन ।”
25 So David gave Ornan six hundred shekels of gold by weight for the place.
यसैले त्यस जग्गाको निम्ति दाऊदले अरौनालाई छ सय सुनका सिक्का तिरे ।
26 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.
दाऊदले त्यहाँ परमप्रभुको निम्ति एउटा वेदी बनाए र त्यसमाथि होमबलि र मेलबलि चढाए । तिनले परमप्रभुमा पुकारा गरे, जसले तिनलाई स्वर्गबाट होमबलिको वेदीमा आगो बर्साएर जवाफ दिनुभयो ।
27 Then the Lord gave orders to the angel, and he put back his sword into its cover.
तब परमप्रभुले त्यो स्वर्गदूतलाई आज्ञा दिनुभयो र स्वर्गदूतले आफ्नो तरवारलाई त्यसको म्यानमा राखे ।
28 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.
जब दाऊदले यबूसी अरौनाको खलामा परमप्रभुले जवाफ दिनुभएको देखे, तब तिनले त्यही बेला बलिदानहरू चढाए ।
29 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.
त्यस बेला, मोशाले उजाड-स्थानमा बनाएको परमप्रभुको पवित्र वासस्थान र होमबलिको वेदी गिबोनको डाँडाको उच्च स्थानमा नै थिए ।
30 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.
तापनि परमप्रभुको अगुवाइ माग्न दाऊद त्यहाँ जान सकेनन्, किनकि ती स्वर्गदूतको तरवारसँग तिनी साह्रै डराएका थिए ।
