1 Chronicles 21
1 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].
| شیطان خواست اسرائیل را دچار مصیبت نماید، پس داوود را اغوا کرد تا اسرائیل را سرشماری کند. |
2 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.”
| داوود به یوآب و سایر رهبران اسرائیل چنین دستور داد: «به سراسر اسرائیل، از دان تا بئرشبع، بروید و مردان جنگی را سرشماری کنید و نتیجه را به من گزارش دهید.» |
3 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.”
| یوآب جواب داد: «خداوند لشکر خود را صد برابر افزایش دهد. همهٔ این سربازان مال پادشاه هستند، پس چرا آقایم می‌خواهد دست به سرشماری بزند و اسرائیل را گناهکار سازد؟» |
4 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,
| اما پادشاه نظرش را عوض نکرد. پس یوآب مطابق آن دستور، سراسر خاک اسرائیل را زیر پا گذاشت و پس از سرشماری به اورشلیم بازگشت. |
5 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.
| او گزارش کار را تقدیم داوود کرد. تعداد مردان جنگی در تمام اسرائیل یک میلیون و صد هزار نفر بود که از این عده چهارصد و هفتاد هزار نفر از یهودا بودند. |
6 Joab did not count the men from the tribes of Levi and Benjamin, because he was disgusted with what the king had commanded.
| ولی یوآب از قبیله‌های لاوی و بنیامین سرشماری نکرد، زیرا با دستور پادشاه مخالف بود. |
7 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.
| این کار داوود در نظر خدا گناه محسوب می‌شد، پس او اسرائیل را به سبب آن تنبیه نمود. |
8 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.”
| آنگاه داوود به خدا عرض کرد: «با این کاری که کردم گناه بزرگی مرتکب شدم. التماس می‌کنم این حماقت مرا ببخش.» |
9 Then Yahweh said to Gad, David’s prophet,
| خداوند به جاد، نبی داوود فرمود: |
10 “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.”
| «برو و به داوود بگو که من سه چیز پیش او می‌گذارم و او می‌تواند یکی را انتخاب کند.» |
11 So Gad went to David and said to him, “This is what Yahweh says: ‘You can choose one of these [punishments]:
| جاد پیش داوود آمد و پیغام خداوند را به او رسانده، گفت: «بین این سه، یکی را انتخاب کن: |
12 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.”
| سه سال قحطی، یا سه ماه فرار از دست دشمن، یا سه روز مرض مهلک و کشتار به‌وسیلۀ فرشتهٔ خداوند. در این باره فکر کن و به من بگو که به خدا چه جوابی بدهم.» |
13 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].”
| داوود جواب داد: «در تنگنا هستم. بهتر است به دست خداوند بیفتم تا به دست انسان، زیرا رحمت خداوند بسیار عظیم است.» |
14 So Yahweh sent a plague on [the people of] Israel, and 70,000 of them died because of it.
| پس خداوند مرض مهلکی بر اسرائیل فرستاد و هفتاد هزار نفر مردند. |
15 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]!”
| سپس فرشته‌ای فرستاد تا اورشلیم را نابود کند. اما خداوند از این کار متأسف شد و به فرشتهٔ مرگ چنین دستور داد: «کافی است! دست نگه دار!» در این هنگام فرشتهٔ خداوند در زمین خرمنکوبی شخصی به نام ارونهٔ یبوسی ایستاده بود. |
16 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.
| داوود فرشتهٔ خداوند را دید که بین زمین و آسمان ایستاده و شمشیرش را به طرف اورشلیم دراز کرده است. پس داوود و بزرگان اورشلیم پلاس پوشیدند و در حضور خداوند به خاک افتادند. |
17 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].”
| داوود به خدا گفت: «من مقصر و گناهکار هستم، زیرا من بودم که دستور سرشماری دادم. اما این مردم بیچاره چه کرده‌اند؟ ای خداوند، من و خاندان مرا مجازات کن ولی قوم خود را از بین نبر.» |
18 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.
| فرشتهٔ خداوند به جاد دستور داد به داوود بگوید که در زمین خرمنکوبی ارونهٔ یبوسی، مذبحی برای خداوند بسازد. |
19 So [after Gad told] David, [he] obeyed the message that Yahweh [MTY] had given to Gad, [and he went up there].
| پس داوود رفت تا به دستور خداوند عمل کند. |
20 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.
| ارونه که مشغول کوبیدن خرمن گندم بود وقتی روی خود را برگرداند فرشتهٔ خداوند را دید. چهار پسر او از ترس دویدند و خود را پنهان کردند. |
21 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.
| ارونه، داوود پادشاه را دید که به طرف او می‌آید. پس فوری دست از کوبیدن خرمن کشید و در حضور پادشاه به خاک افتاد. |
22 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.”
| داوود به ارونه گفت: «زمین خرمنکوبی خود را به من بفروش؛ قیمت آن هر چه باشد به تو می‌دهم. می‌خواهم در اینجا برای خداوند مذبحی بسازم تا این بلا رفع شود.» |
23 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.”
| ارونه به پادشاه گفت: «آن را پیشکش می‌کنم. همه چیز در اختیار شماست گاو برای قربانی، خرمنکوب برای روشن کردن آتش قربانی و گندم برای هدیهٔ آردی. همه را به پادشاه تقدیم می‌کنم.» |
24 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.”
| داوودِ پادشاه جواب داد: «نه، من تمام قیمت آن را می‌پردازم، چون نمی‌توانم مال تو را بگیرم و به خداوند هدیه کنم. نمی‌خواهم چیزی که برای من مفت تمام شده، به حضور خداوند تقدیم کنم.» |
25 So David paid Araunah 600 pieces of gold for the whole area.
| پس داوود ششصد مثقال طلا به ارونه پرداخت، |
26 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.
| و در آنجا برای خداوند یک مذبح ساخت و روی آن قربانیهای سوختنی و سلامتی تقدیم کرد. سپس نزد خداوند دعا کرد و خداوند هم با فرستادن آتش از آسمان و سوزانیدن قربانیهای روی مذبح، او را مستجاب فرمود. |
27 Then Yahweh spoke to the angel, and told him to put his sword back into its sheath. [So the angel did that].
| آنگاه خداوند به فرشته دستور داد که شمشیرش را غلاف کند. |
28 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.
| داوود چون دید که خداوند جواب دعایش را داده است، در آنجا قربانی به او تقدیم کرد. |
29 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].
| در آن هنگام خیمهٔ عبادت که موسی در بیابان آن را درست کرده بود، و نیز مذبح، در بالای تپه جبعون قرار داشت، |
30 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.
| ولی داوود نمی‌توانست برای دعا به آنجا برود، زیرا از شمشیر فرشتهٔ خداوند می‌ترسید. |
