2 Samuel 24

1 and to add: again face: anger LORD to/for to be incensed in/on/with Israel and to incite [obj] David in/on/with them to/for to say to go: went to count [obj] Israel and [obj] Judah

Again the anger of Yahweh was ignited against Israel, and he moved David against them saying, “Go, count Israel and Judah.”

2 and to say [the] king to(wards) Joab ruler [the] strength: soldiers which with him to rove please in/on/with all tribe Israel from Dan and till Beersheba Beersheba and to reckon: list [obj] [the] people and to know [obj] number [the] people

The king said to Joab the commander of the army, who was with him, “Go throughout all the tribes of Israel, from Dan to Beersheba, and count all the people, so that I may know the total number of men fit for battle.”

3 and to say Joab to(wards) [the] king and to add LORD God your to(wards) [the] people like/as them and like/as them hundred beat and eye lord my [the] king to see: see and lord my [the] king to/for what? to delight in in/on/with word: thing [the] this

Joab said to the king, “May Yahweh your God multiply the number of people a hundred times, and may the eyes of my master the king see it take place. But why does my master the king want this?”

4 and to strengthen: prevail over word [the] king to(wards) Joab and upon ruler [the] strength: soldiers and to come out: come Joab and ruler [the] strength: soldiers to/for face: before [the] king to/for to reckon: list [obj] [the] people [obj] Israel

Nevertheless, the king's word was final against Joab and against the commanders of the army. So Joab and the commanders went out from the king's presence to count the people of Israel.

5 and to pass [obj] [the] Jordan and to camp in/on/with Aroer right: south [the] city which in/on/with midst [the] torrent: valley [the] Gad and to(wards) Jazer

They crossed over the Jordan and encamped near Aroer, south of the city in the valley. Then they traveled on through Gad to Jazer.

6 and to come (in): come [the] Gilead [to] and to(wards) land: country/planet Kadesh Kadesh and to come (in): come Dan [to] Jaan and around to(wards) Sidon

They came to Gilead and to the land of Tahtim Hodshi, then on to Dan Jaan and around toward Sidon.

7 and to come (in): come fortification Tyre and all city [the] Hivite and [the] Canaanite and to come out: come to(wards) Negeb Judah Beersheba Beersheba

They reached the stronghold of Tyre and all the cities of the Hivites and the Canaanites. Then they went out to the Negev in Judah at Beersheba.

8 and to rove in/on/with all [the] land: country/planet and to come (in): come from end nine month and twenty day Jerusalem

When they had gone throughout all the land, they came back to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.

9 and to give: give Joab [obj] number appointment [the] people to(wards) [the] king and to be Israel eight hundred thousand man strength to draw sword and man Judah five hundred thousand man

Then Joab reported the total of the count of the fighting men to the king. There were in Israel 800,000 brave men who drew the sword, and the men of Judah were 500,000 men.

10 and to smite heart David [obj] him after so to recount [obj] [the] people and to say David to(wards) LORD to sin much which to make: do and now LORD to pass: bring please [obj] iniquity: crime servant/slave your for be foolish much

Then David's heart afflicted him after he had counted the men. So he said to Yahweh, “I have greatly sinned by doing this. Now, Yahweh, take away your servant's guilt, for I have acted very foolishly.”

11 and to arise: rise David in/on/with morning and word LORD to be to(wards) Gad [the] prophet seer David to/for to say

When David rose up in the morning, the word of Yahweh came to the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying,

12 to go: went and to speak: speak to(wards) David thus to say LORD three I to lift upon you to choose to/for you one from them and to make: do to/for you

“Go say to David: 'This is what Yahweh says: “I am giving you three choices. Choose one of them.”'”

13 and to come (in): come Gad to(wards) David and to tell to/for him and to say to/for him to come (in): come to/for you seven year famine in/on/with land: country/planet your if: surely no three month to flee you to/for face: before enemy your and he/she/it to pursue you and if: surely no to be three day pestilence in/on/with land: country/planet your now to know and to see: select what? to return: return to send: depart me word: speaking

So Gad went to David and said to him, “Will three years of famine come to you in your land? Or will you flee three months from your enemies while they pursue you? Or will there be three days of plague in your land? Now decide what answer I should return to him who sent me.”

14 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 *Q(K)*) and in/on/with hand: power man not to fall: fall

Then David said to Gad, “I am in deep trouble. Let us fall into Yahweh's hands rather than into the hand of man, for his merciful actions are very great.”

15 and to give: give LORD pestilence in/on/with Israel from [the] morning and till time meeting: time appointed and to die from [the] people from Dan and till Beersheba Beersheba seventy thousand man

So Yahweh sent a plague on Israel from the morning to a fixed time, and seventy thousand people died from Dan to Beersheba.

16 and to send: reach hand his [the] messenger: angel Jerusalem to/for to ruin her and to be sorry: relent LORD to(wards) [the] distress: harm and to say to/for messenger: angel [the] to ruin in/on/with people many now to slacken hand your and messenger: angel LORD to be with threshing floor ([the] Araunah *Q(K)*) [the] Jebusite

When the angel reached out with his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, Yahweh changed his mind because of the harm it would cause, and he said to the angel who was destroying people, “Enough! Now draw back your hand.” At that time the angel of Yahweh was standing at the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

17 and to say David to(wards) LORD in/on/with to see: see he [obj] [the] messenger: angel [the] to smite in/on/with people and to say behold I ([the] to pasture *X*) to sin and I to pervert and these [the] flock what? to make: do to be please hand your in/on/with me and in/on/with house: household father my

Then David spoke to Yahweh when he saw the angel who had attacked the people, and said, “I have sinned, and I have acted perversely. But these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand punish me and my father's family!”

18 and to come (in): come Gad to(wards) David in/on/with day [the] he/she/it and to say to/for him to ascend: rise to arise: raise to/for LORD altar in/on/with threshing floor (Araunah *Q(K)*) [the] Jebusite

Then Gad came that day to David and said to him, “Go up and build an altar for Yahweh at the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.”

19 and to ascend: rise David like/as word Gad like/as as which to command LORD

So David went up as Gad instructed him to do, as Yahweh had commanded.

20 and to look Araunah and to see: see [obj] [the] king and [obj] servant/slave his to pass upon him and to come out: come Araunah and to bow to/for king face his land: soil [to]

Araunah looked out and saw the king and his servants approaching. So Araunah went out and bowed to the king with his face to the ground.

21 and to say Araunah why? to come (in): come lord my [the] king to(wards) servant/slave his and to say David to/for to buy from from with you [obj] [the] threshing floor to/for to build altar to/for LORD and to restrain [the] plague from upon [the] people

Then Araunah said, “Why has my master the king come to me, his servant?” David replied, “To buy your threshing floor, so I can build an altar for Yahweh, so that the plague may be removed from the people.”

22 and to say Araunah to(wards) David to take: take and to ascend: offer up lord my [the] king [the] pleasant (in/on/with eye: appearance his *Q(K)*) to see: behold! [the] cattle to/for burnt offering and [the] threshing sled and article/utensil [the] cattle to/for tree: wood

Araunah said to David, “Take it as your own, my master the king. Do with it what is good in your sight. Look, here are oxen for the burnt offering and threshing sledges and ox yokes for the wood.

23 [the] all to give: give Araunah [the] king to/for king and to say Araunah to(wards) [the] king LORD God your to accept you

All this, my king, I, Araunah, will give to you.” Then he said to the king, “May Yahweh your God accept you.”

24 and to say [the] king to(wards) Araunah not for to buy to buy from [obj] you in/on/with price and not to ascend: offer up to/for LORD God my burnt offering for nothing and to buy David [obj] [the] threshing floor and [obj] [the] cattle in/on/with silver: money shekel fifty

The king said to Araunah, “No, I insist on buying it at a price. I will not offer as a burnt offering to Yahweh anything that costs me nothing.” So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.

25 and to build there David altar to/for LORD and to ascend: offer up burnt offering and peace offering and to pray LORD to/for land: country/planet and to restrain [the] plague from upon Israel

David built an altar for Yahweh there and offered on it burnt offerings and fellowship offerings. So Yahweh answered the prayer on behalf of the land, and the plague on Israel was confined.