< Chronicles I 21 >

1 And the devil stood up against Israel, and moved David to number Israel.
Satan loh Israel a thoh thil tih Israel tae hamla David a vueh.
2 And king David said to Joab and to the captains of the forces, Go, number Israel from Bersabee even to Dan, and bring me [the account], and I shall know their number.
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.
3 And Joab said, May the Lord add to his people, a hundred-fold as many as they [are], and [let] the eyes of my lord the king see [it]: all [are] the servants of my lord. Why does my lord seek this thing? [do it not], lest it become a sin to Israel.
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.
4 Nevertheless the king's word prevailed against Joab; and Joab went out and passed through all Israel, and came to Jerusalem.
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.
5 And Joab gave the number of the mustering of the people to David: and all Israel was a million and a hundred thousand men that drew sword: and the sons of Juda [were] four hundred and seventy thousand men that drew sword.
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.
6 But he numbered not Levi and Benjamin among them; for the word of the king was painful to Joab.
Tedae manghai ol loh Joab te a tuei dongah Levi neh Benjamin tah amih lakli ah nuen sak pawh.
7 And [there was] evil in the sight of the Lord respecting this thing; and he smote Israel.
He ol he Pathen mik ah a lolh dongah Israel te a ngawn.
8 And David said to God, I have sinned exceedingly, in that I have done this thing: and now, I pray thee, remove the sin of thy servant; for I have been exceedingly foolish.
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.
9 And the Lord spoke to Gad the seer, saying,
Te vaengah BOEIPA loh David kah khohmu Gad te a voek tih,
10 Go and speak to David, saying, Thus saith the Lord, I bring three things upon thee: choose one of them for thyself, and I will do it to thee.
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.
11 And Gad came to David, and said to him, Thus saith the Lord, Choose for thyself,
Te phoeiah Gad te David taengla pawk tih amah te, “BOEIPA loh a thui he namah ham doe laeh.
12 either three years of famine, or that thou shouldest flee three months from the face of thine enemies, and the sword of thine enemies [shall be employed] to destroy thee, or that the sword of the Lord and pestilence [should be] three days in the land, and the angel of the Lord [shall be] destroying in all the inheritance of Israel. And now consider what I shall answer to him that sent the message.
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.
13 And David said to Gad, They are very hard for me, even [all] the three: let me fall now into the hands of the Lord, for his mercies [are] very abundant, and let me not fall by any means into the hands of man.
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.
14 So the Lord brought pestilence upon Israel: and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.
Te dongah BOEIPA loh Israel soah duektahaw a paek tih Israel hlang thawng sawmrhih cungku.
15 And God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was destroying, the Lord saw, and repented for the evil, and said to the angel that was destroying, Let it suffice thee; withhold thine hand. And the angel of the Lord stood by the threshing-floor of Orna the Jebusite.
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.
16 And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of the Lord, standing between the earth and the heaven, and his sword drawn in his hand, stretched out over Jerusalem: and David and the elders clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces.
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.
17 And David said to God, [Was it] not I [that] gave orders to number the people? and I am the guilty one; I have greatly sinned: but these sheep, what have they done? O Lord God, let thy hand be upon me, and upon my father's house, and not on thy people for destruction, O Lord!
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.
18 And the angel of the Lord told Gad to tell David, that he should go up to erect and altar to the Lord, in the threshing-floor of Orna the Jebusite.
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.
19 And David went up according to the word of Gad, which he spoke in the name of the Lord.
Te dongah David khaw BOEIPA ming neh a thui Gad ol bangla cet.
20 And Orna turned and saw the king; and he hid himself and his four sons with him. Now Orna was threshing wheat.
Ornan a mael vaengah puencawn te a hmuh. Te vaengah a taengkah a capa pali tah thuh uh dae Ornan tah cang a til.
21 And David came to Orna; and Orna came forth from the threshing-floor, and did obeisance to David with his face to the ground.
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.
22 And David said to Orna, Give me thy place of the threshing-floor, and I will build upon it an altar to the Lord: give it me for its worth in money, and the plague shall cease from [among] the people.
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.
23 And Orna said to David, Take it to thyself, and let my lord the king do what is right in his eyes: see, I have given the calves for a whole-burnt-offering, and the plough for wood, and the corn for a meat-offering; I have given all.
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.
24 And king David said to Orna, Nay; for I will surely buy it for its worth in money: for I will not take thy property for the Lord, to offer a whole-burnt-offering to the Lord without cost [to myself].
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.
25 And David gave to Orna for his place six hundred shekels of gold [by] weight.
Te dongah David loh Ornan te a hmuen phu la sui shekel a khiing ya rhuk a paek.
26 And David built there an altar to the Lord, and offered up whole-burnt-offerings and peace-offerings: and he cried to the Lord, and he answered him by fire out of heaven on the altar of whole-burnt-offerings, and [it] consumed the whole-burnt-offering.
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.
27 And the Lord spoke to the angel; and he put up the sword into its sheath.
Te daengah BOEIPA loh puencawn te a voek tih a cunghang te tuengim khuila a sang.
28 At that time when David saw that the Lord answered him in the threshing-floor of Orna the Jebusite, he also sacrificed there.
Te vaeng tue kah Jebusi Ornan cangtilhmuen ah BOEIPA loh anih a doo te David loh a hmuh van neh pahoi a nawn.
29 And the tabernacle of the Lord which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of whole-burnt-offerings, [were] at that time in the high place at Gabaon.
Moses loh khosoek kah a saii BOEIPA kah dungtlungim neh te vaeng tue kah hmueihhlutnah hmueihtuk tah Gibeon hmuensang ah om pueng.
30 And David could not go before it to enquire of God; for he hasted not because of the sword of the angel of the Lord.
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.

< Chronicles I 21 >