1 Chronicles 21
1 and to stand: stand Satan upon Israel and to incite [obj] David to/for to count [obj] Israel
Satan decided to cause the Israeli people to have trouble. So he incited David to find out how many men in Israel [were able to be in the army].
2 and to say David to(wards) Joab and to(wards) ruler [the] people: soldiers to go: went to recount [obj] Israel from Beersheba Beersheba and till Dan and to come (in): bring to(wards) me and to know [obj] number their
So David commanded Joab and the other army commanders, “Count all the men in Israel [who are able to be in the army]. Start at Beersheba [town in the south] and go all the way to Dan [city in the north]. Then come back and report to me, in order that I may know how many men there are.”
3 and to say Joab to add LORD upon people his like/as them hundred beat not lord my [the] king all their to/for lord my to/for servant/slave to/for what? to seek this lord my to/for what? to be to/for guiltiness to/for Israel
But Joab replied, “Your majesty, even if Yahweh allowed us to have 100 times as many soldiers as we have now, you would [RHQ] still rule all of them. So why do you want us to do this? You will surely [RHQ] cause [all the people of] Israel to be guilty of sinning.”
4 and word [the] king to strengthen: prevail over upon Joab and to come out: come Joab and to go: went in/on/with all Israel and to come (in): come Jerusalem
But David would not change his mind. So Joab [and his soldiers] went everywhere in Israel and in Judah, and counted the people. Then they returned to Jerusalem,
5 and to give: give Joab [obj] number appointment [the] people to(wards) David and to be all Israel thousand thousand and hundred thousand man to draw sword and Judah four hundred and seventy thousand man to draw sword
and they reported to David that there were 1,100,000 men in Israel who could be in the army, and 470,000 in Judah.
6 and Levi and Benjamin not to reckon: list in/on/with midst their for to abhor word [the] king with Joab
Joab did not count the men from the tribes of Levi and Benjamin, because he was disgusted with what the king had commanded.
7 and be evil in/on/with eye: appearance [the] God upon [the] word: thing [the] this and to smite [obj] Israel
David’s command to count the people caused God to become angry, so he [told David that he had decided to] punish [the people of] Israel.
8 and to say David to(wards) [the] God to sin much which to make: do [obj] [the] word: thing [the] this and now to pass please [obj] iniquity: crime servant/slave your for be foolish much
Then David prayed, saying, “Yahweh, what I did was very foolish. I have sinned greatly by what I have done. So now I plead with you, please forgive me.”
9 and to speak: speak LORD to(wards) Gad seer David to/for to say
Then Yahweh said to Gad, David’s prophet,
10 to go: went and to speak: speak to(wards) David to/for to say thus to say LORD three I to stretch upon you to choose to/for you one from them and to make: do to/for you
“Go and tell this to David: I am allowing you to choose one of three things [to punish you]. I will do whichever one you choose.”
11 and to come (in): come Gad to(wards) David and to say to/for him thus to say LORD to receive to/for you
So Gad went to David and said to him, “This is what Yahweh says: ‘You can choose one of these [punishments]:
12 if three year famine and if three month to snatch from face: before enemy your and sword enemy your to/for to overtake and if three day sword LORD and pestilence in/on/with land: country/planet and messenger: angel LORD to ruin in/on/with all border: area Israel and now to see: select what? to return: return [obj] to send: depart me word: speaking
three years of famine [in Israel], or three months during which your armies will run away from their enemies [who will attack them with] swords, or three days during which I will send my angel to cause many people in the country to die because of a (plague/very serious illness).’ So, you must decide what I will say to answer [Yahweh, ] the one who sent me.”
13 and to say David to(wards) Gad distress to/for me much to fall: fall please in/on/with hand: power LORD for many compassion his much and in/on/with hand: power man not to fall: fall
David replied to Gad, “I am very distressed. But allow Yahweh to punish [MTY] me, because he is very merciful. Do not allow humans to punish me, [because they will not be merciful].”
14 and to give: give LORD pestilence in/on/with Israel and to fall: kill from Israel seventy thousand man
So Yahweh sent a plague on [the people of] Israel, and 70,000 of them died because of it.
15 and to send: depart [the] God messenger: angel to/for Jerusalem to/for to ruin her and like/as to ruin to see: see LORD and to be sorry: relent upon [the] distress: harm and to say to/for messenger: angel [the] to ruin many now to slacken hand: power your and messenger: angel LORD to stand: stand with threshing floor Ornan [the] Jebusite
And God sent an angel to destroy the people in Jerusalem by the plague. But when the angel was standing at the ground where Araunah, from the Jebus people-group, threshed grain, Yahweh saw all the suffering that the people had endured, and he was grieved. So he said to the angel, “Stop what you are doing [IDM]! That is enough [IDM]!”
16 and to lift: look David [obj] eye his and to see: see [obj] messenger: angel LORD to stand: stand between [the] land: country/planet and between [the] heaven and sword his to draw in/on/with hand his to stretch upon Jerusalem and to fall: fall David and [the] old: elder to cover in/on/with sackcloth upon face their
David looked up and saw the angel whom Yahweh had sent, standing between the sky and the ground. The angel had a sword in his hand that was pointed toward Jerusalem. Then David and the elders [of the city], who were wearing clothes made of rough sackcloth, prostrated themselves on the ground.
17 and to say David to(wards) [the] God not I to say to/for to count in/on/with people and I he/she/it ([the] to pasture *X*) which to sin and be evil be evil and these [the] flock what? to make: do LORD God my to be please hand: power your in/on/with me and in/on/with house: household father my and in/on/with people your not to/for plague
David said to God, “I am [RHQ] the one who ordered the men who could be in the army to be counted. I am the one who has sinned and done what is very wrong, but these people are [as innocent as] [MET] sheep. They have certainly not [RHQ] done anything [that is wrong]. So Yahweh my God, punish [IDM] me and my family, but do not allow this plague to continue to [cause] your people [to become sick and die].”
18 and messenger: angel LORD to say to(wards) Gad to/for to say to/for David for to ascend: rise David to/for to arise: raise altar to/for LORD in/on/with threshing floor Ornan [the] Jebusite
Then the angel who was sent by Yahweh told Gad to go up to the place where Araunah threshed grain and tell David to build an altar to [worship] Yahweh there.
19 and to ascend: rise David in/on/with word Gad which to speak: speak in/on/with name LORD
So [after Gad told] David, [he] obeyed the message that Yahweh [MTY] had given to Gad, [and he went up there].
20 and to return: return Ornan and to see: see [obj] [the] messenger: angel and four son: child his with him to hide and Ornan to tread wheat
While Araunah was threshing some wheat, he turned and saw the angel. His four sons who were with him [also saw the angel, and they] hid themselves.
21 and to come (in): come David till Ornan and to look Ornan and to see: see [obj] David and to come out: come from [the] threshing floor and to bow to/for David face land: soil [to]
Then David approached. When Araunah saw him, he left the place where he was threshing grain and prostrated himself, with his face touching the ground.
22 and to say David to(wards) Ornan to give: give [emph?] to/for me place [the] threshing floor and to build in/on/with him altar to/for LORD in/on/with silver: price full to give: give him to/for me and to restrain [the] plague from upon [the] people
David said to him, “Please sell me your threshing place in order that I can build an altar here to [worship] Yahweh. Then he will stop this plague. I will pay the full price.”
23 and to say Ornan to(wards) David to take: take to/for you and to make: do lord my [the] king [the] pleasant in/on/with eye: appearance his to see: behold! to give: give [the] cattle to/for burnt offering and [the] threshing sled to/for tree: wood and [the] wheat to/for offering [the] all to give: give
Araunah replied, “Take it! Your majesty, do whatever you want to. I will give you the oxen [that thresh the grain] for an offering to be completely burned [on the altar]. And I will give you the threshing boards to use as wood [on the altar], and I will give you grain for a grain offering. I will give all those things to you.”
24 and to say [the] king David to/for Ornan not for to buy to buy in/on/with silver: price full for not to lift: raise which to/for you to/for LORD and to ascend: offer up burnt offering for nothing
But the king said to Araunah, “No, [I will not take these things as a gift]. I will pay you the full price for it. I will not take things that belong to you, things that have cost me nothing and offer them as sacrifices to Yahweh to be completely burned on the altar.”
25 and to give: pay David to/for Ornan in/on/with place shekel gold weight six hundred
So David paid Araunah 600 pieces of gold for the whole area.
26 and to build there David altar to/for LORD and to ascend: offer up burnt offering and peace offering and to call: call to to(wards) LORD and to answer him in/on/with fire from [the] heaven upon altar [the] burnt offering
David built an altar to [worship] Yahweh there, and he offered sacrifices to be completely burned [on the altar] and sacrifices to restore fellowship [with Yahweh]. David prayed to Yahweh, and Yahweh answered by sending a fire from heaven [to burn up the offerings] on the altar.
27 and to say LORD to/for messenger: angel and to return: return sword his to(wards) sheath her
Then Yahweh spoke to the angel, and told him to put his sword back into its sheath. [So the angel did that].
28 in/on/with time [the] he/she/it in/on/with to see: see David for to answer him LORD in/on/with threshing floor Ornan [the] Jebusite and to sacrifice there
And when David saw that Yahweh had answered him there at the place where Araunah threshed grain [and had ended the plague], he offered sacrifices there.
29 and tabernacle LORD which to make Moses in/on/with wilderness and altar [the] burnt offering in/on/with time [the] he/she/it in/on/with high place in/on/with Gibeon
Yahweh’s Sacred Tent, which Moses had commanded to be set up in the desert, and the altar for burning sacrifices completely, were at that time on a hill at Gibeon [city].
30 and not be able David to/for to go: went to/for face: before his to/for to seek God for to terrify from face of sword messenger: angel LORD
But David did not want to go there to request God to tell him what he wanted [him to do], because he was afraid that the angel sent from Yahweh [might strike him with] his sword.
