2 Samuel 24
1 Again the LORD’s anger burnt against Israel, and he moved David against them, saying, “Go, count Israel and Judah.”
Bio, Awurade abufuo baa Israel so enti, ɔhyɛɛ Dawid sɛ ɔmfa nnipakan so nha wɔn a wɔwɔ Israel ne Yuda nyinaa. Awurade see Dawid sɛ, “Kɔ na kɔkan Israelfoɔ ne Yudafoɔ nyinaa.”
2 The king said to Joab the captain of the army, who was with him, “Now go back and forth through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beersheba, and count the people, that I may know the sum of the people.”
Enti, ɔhene no ka kyerɛɛ ne sahene Yoab sɛ, “Kan nnipa a wɔwɔ asase yi so nyinaa, ɛfiri Dan a ɛwɔ atifi fam, de bɛsi Beer-Seba a ɛwɔ anafoɔ fam, na ama mahunu nnipa dodoɔ a wɔwɔ ha.”
3 Joab said to the king, “Now may the LORD your God add to the people, however many they may be, one hundred times; and may the eyes of my lord the king see it. But why does my lord the king delight in this thing?”
Na Yoab buaa ɔhene no sɛ, “Awurade mma wo ntena ase kɔsi sɛ nnipa a wɔwɔ wʼahennie yi mu ase bɛtrɛ mmɔho ɔha. Na adɛn enti na wopɛ sɛ woyɛ yei?”
4 Notwithstanding, the king’s word prevailed against Joab and against the captains of the army. Joab and the captains of the army went out from the presence of the king to count the people of Israel.
Na ɔhene no hyɛɛ no ketee sɛ, wɔnkan nnipa enti, Yoab ne nʼadwumayɛfoɔ kɔkanee nnipa a wɔwɔ Israel.
5 They passed over the Jordan and encamped in Aroer, on the right side of the city that is in the middle of the valley of Gad, and to Jazer;
Deɛ ɛdi ɛkan no, wɔtwaa Yordan kɔtenaa Aroer, kuro a ɛwɔ bɔnhwa no anafoɔ a ɛkyerɛ Gad no. Afei, wɔkɔɔ Yaser,
6 then they came to Gilead and to the land of Tahtim Hodshi; and they came to Dan Jaan and around to Sidon,
toaa so kɔduruu Gilead a ɛwɔ Tatim-hodsi, toaa so kɔɔ Dan Yaan ne Sidon fa mu.
7 and came to the stronghold of Tyre, and to all the cities of the Hivites and of the Canaanites; and they went out to the south of Judah, at Beersheba.
Afei, wɔbaa Tiro aban mu ne Hewifoɔ ne Kanaanfoɔ nkuropɔn nyinaa mu. Wɔkɔɔ Yuda anafoɔ, kɔduruu Beer-Seba de wieeɛ.
8 So when they had gone back and forth through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.
Wɔwurawuraa asase no nyinaa so, de abosome nkron ne nnafua aduonu wiee nnipakan no, sane kɔɔ Yerusalem.
9 Joab gave up the sum of the counting of the people to the king; and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men who drew the sword, and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men.
Yoab de ne nnipa dodoɔ a wɔnyaeɛ brɛɛ ɔhene no. Na mmarima a wɔaduru sraadie mfeɛ so wɔ Israel no dodoɔ yɛ mpem aha nwɔtwe, na mpem ahanum nso wɔ Yuda.
10 David’s heart struck him after he had counted the people. David said to the LORD, “I have sinned greatly in that which I have done. But now, the LORD, put away, I beg you, the iniquity of your servant; for I have done very foolishly.”
Dawid kan nnipa no nyinaa wieeɛ no, nʼatiboa buu no fɔ, enti ɔka kyerɛɛ Awurade sɛ, “Deɛ meyɛeɛ yi enti, mayɛ bɔne kɛseɛ. Enti, Awurade, mesrɛ wo, yi saa afɔbuo yi firi wo ɔsomfoɔ so. Mayɛ nkwaseadeɛ.”
11 When David rose up in the morning, the LORD’s word came to the prophet Gad, David’s seer, saying,
Adeɛ kyeeɛ no, Awurade asɛm baa odiyifoɔ Gad a ɔyɛ Dawid ɔdehunufoɔ nkyɛn sɛ:
12 “Go and speak to David, ‘The LORD says, “I offer you three things. Choose one of them, that I may do it to you.”’”
“Kɔka kyerɛ Dawid sɛ, Sɛdeɛ Awurade seɛ nie: ‘Mede nsɛm mmiɛnsa reto wʼanim. Yi mu baako na mɛyɛ.’”
13 So Gad came to David, and told him, saying, “Shall seven years of famine come to you in your land? Or will you flee three months before your foes while they pursue you? Or shall there be three days’ pestilence in your land? Now answer, and consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me.”
Enti, Gad kɔɔ Dawid nkyɛn kɔbisaa no sɛ, “Ɔkɔm mmra wʼasase yi so mfeɛ mmiɛnsa anaa? Anaa, atamfoɔ a wɔgu wo so no wobɛdwane wɔn abosome mmiɛnsa? Anaa, ɔyaredɔm mmra wo ɔman yi mu nnansa? Enti afei, dwene ho yie, na ma menhunu mmuaeɛ a memfa nkɔma Awurade.”
14 David said to Gad, “I am in distress. Let us fall now into the LORD’s hand, for his mercies are great. Let me not fall into man’s hand.”
Dawid ka kyerɛɛ Gad sɛ, “Yɛwɔ ahohiahia mu. Momma yɛmfa yɛn ho nhyɛ Awurade nsa, ɛfiri sɛ, nʼadɔeɛ dɔɔso; nanso, mma me nkɔtɔ nnipa nsam.”
15 So the LORD sent a pestilence on Israel from the morning even to the appointed time; and seventy thousand men died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba.
Enti, Awurade too ɔyaredɔm guu Israel so anɔpa no ma ɛdii nnansa. Na nnipa ɔpeduɔson firii Dan kɔsi Beer-Seba wuwuiɛ.
16 When the angel stretched out his hand towards Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD relented of the disaster, and said to the angel who destroyed the people, “It is enough. Now withdraw your hand.” The LORD’s angel was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
Ɛberɛ a ɔbɔfoɔ no reyɛ ahoboa akɔsɛe Yerusalem no, Awurade nuu ne ho wɔ asɛm no ho, na ɔka kyerɛɛ no sɛ, “Ɛyɛ! Gyae.” Saa ɛberɛ no na Awurade ɔbɔfoɔ no aduru Yebusini Arauna ayuporobea hɔ.
17 David spoke to the LORD when he saw the angel who struck the people, and said, “Behold, I have sinned, and I have done perversely; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand be against me, and against my father’s house.”
Ɛberɛ a Dawid hunuu ɔbɔfoɔ no, ɔka kyerɛɛ Awurade sɛ, “Me na mayɛ bɔne. Yeinom deɛ wɔnnim ho hwee, ɛdeɛn na wɔayɛ? Ma wo ɔbɔfoɔ nsɛe me ne me fiefoɔ.”
18 Gad came that day to David and said to him, “Go up, build an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.”
Ɛda no, Gad kɔɔ Dawid nkyɛn kɔka kyerɛɛ no sɛ, “Kɔ na kɔsi afɔrebukyia ma Awurade wɔ Yebusini Arauna ayuporobea hɔ.”
19 David went up according to the saying of Gad, as the LORD commanded.
Na Dawid kɔyɛɛ deɛ Awurade hyɛɛ no sɛ ɔnyɛ no.
20 Araunah looked out, and saw the king and his servants coming on towards him. Then Araunah went out and bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground.
Ɛberɛ a Arauna hunuu sɛ ɔhene ne ne mmarima reba no, ɔpueeɛ, bɛkotoo ɔhene, de nʼanim butuu fam.
21 Araunah said, “Why has my lord the king come to his servant?” David said, “To buy your threshing floor, to build an altar to the LORD, that the plague may be stopped from afflicting the people.”
Arauna bisaa sɛ, “Adɛn enti na woaba, me wura?” Dawid buaa sɛ, “Merebɛtɔ ayuporobea hɔ, na masi afɔrebukyia wɔ hɔ ama Awurade, sɛdeɛ Awurade bɛma ɔyaredɔm no agyae.”
22 Araunah said to David, “Let my lord the king take and offer up what seems good to him. Behold, the cattle for the burnt offering, and the threshing sledges and the yokes of the oxen for the wood.
Arauna ka kyerɛɛ Dawid sɛ, “Me wura fa na fayɛ deɛ wopɛ. Nantwie a wɔde bɛbɔ ɔhyeɛ afɔdeɛ nie. Wobɛtumi de ayuporeeɛ nnua ne nantwie mpamho nnua no ayɛ anyina wɔ afɔrebukyia no so.
23 All this, O king, does Araunah give to the king.” Araunah said to the king, “May the LORD your God accept you.”
Mede ne nyinaa bɛma wo, na mesrɛ sɛ, Awurade, wo Onyankopɔn nnye afɔdeɛ yi.”
24 The king said to Araunah, “No, but I will most certainly buy it from you for a price. I will not offer burnt offerings to the LORD my God which cost me nothing.” So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.
Na ɔhene no buaa Arauna sɛ, “Dabi, mepɛ sɛ mɛtɔ, na merentumi mmɔ ɔhyeɛ afɔdeɛ mma Awurade, me Onyankopɔn, a mammɔ ho ka biara.” Enti, Dawid tuaa dwetɛ bɛyɛ gram ahanum aduɔson enum de tɔɔ ayuporobea ne nantwie no.
25 David built an altar to the LORD there, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So the LORD was entreated for the land, and the plague was removed from Israel.
Dawid sii afɔrebukyia wɔ hɔ maa Awurade, na ɔbɔɔ ɔhyeɛ afɔdeɛ ne asomdwoeɛ afɔdeɛ hɔ. Na Awurade tiee ne mpaeɛbɔ maa ɔyaredɔm no gyaee.
