1 Chronicles 21
1 Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to take a census of Israel.
| وَتَآمَرَ الشَّيْطَانُ ضِدَّ إِسْرَائِيلَ، فَأَغْرَى دَاوُدَ بِإِحْصَاءِ الشَّعْبِ. | ١ |
2 David said to Joab and to the princes of the people, “Go, count Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; and bring me word, that I may know how many there are.”
| فَأَمَرَ دَاوُدُ يُوآبَ وَرُؤَسَاءَ إِسْرَائِيلَ قَائِلاً: «اذْهَبُوا وَعِدُّوا الشَّعْبَ، مِنْ بِئْرِ سَبْعٍ إِلَى دَانَ، وَارْفَعُوا إِلَيَّ تَقْرِيرَكُمْ فَأَعْلَمَ كَمْ عَدَدُهُ». | ٢ |
3 Joab said, “May the LORD make his people a hundred times as many as they are. But, my lord the king, aren’t they all my lord’s servants? Why does my lord require this thing? Why will he be a cause of guilt to Israel?”
| فَأَجَابَ يُوآبُ مُعْتَرِضاً: «لِيَزِدِ الرَّبُّ شَعْبَهُ مِئَةَ ضِعْفٍ! أَلَيْسُوا جَمِيعاً رَعِيَّةَ سَيِّدِي الْمَلِكِ؟ لِمَاذَا يَطْلُبُ سَيِّدِي هَذَا؟ وَلِمَاذَا يَجْلِبُ إِثْماً عَلَى إِسْرَائِيلَ؟» | ٣ |
4 Nevertheless the king’s word prevailed against Joab. Therefore Joab departed and went throughout all Israel, then came to Jerusalem.
| وَلَكِنَّ كَلِمَةَ الْمَلِكِ غَلَبَتْ عَلَى اعْتِرَاضِ يُوآبَ، فَانْطَلَقَ يُوآبُ يَطُوفُ أَرْجَاءَ إِسْرَائِيلَ ثُمَّ رَجَعَ إِلَى أُورُشَلِيمَ. | ٤ |
5 Joab gave the sum of the census of the people to David. All those of Israel were one million one hundred thousand men who drew a sword; and in Judah were four hundred seventy thousand men who drew a sword.
| فَرَفَعَ يُوآبُ تَقْرِيرَ إِحْصَاءِ الشَّعْبِ إِلَى دَاوُدَ. فَكَانَتْ جُمْلَةُ عَدَدِ الصَّالِحِينَ لِلتَّجْنِيدِ فِي إِسْرَائِيلَ مِلْيُوناً وَمِئَةَ أَلْفٍ، وَفِي يَهُوذَا أَرْبَعَ مِئَةٍ وَسَبْعِينَ أَلَفاً وَجَمِيعُهُمْ مِنْ حَمَلَةِ السُّيُوفِ. | ٥ |
6 But he didn’t count Levi and Benjamin among them, for the king’s word was abominable to Joab.
| وَلَمْ يُحْصِ يُوآبُ سِبْطَيْ لاوِي وَبَنْيَامِينَ لأَنَّ طَلَبَ الْمَلِكِ لَمْ يَكُنْ يَحْظَى بِرِضَاهُ. | ٦ |
7 God was displeased with this thing; therefore he struck Israel.
| وَإِذْ كَانَ إِجْرَاءُ هَذَا الإِحْصَاءِ مَمْقُوتاً فِي عَيْنَيِ اللهِ، عَاقَبَ اللهُ الإِسْرَائِيلِيِّينَ. | ٧ |
8 David said to God, “I have sinned greatly, in that I have done this thing. But now put away, I beg you, the iniquity of your servant, for I have done very foolishly.”
| فَقَالَ دَاوُدُ لِلهِ: «لَقَدِ ارْتَكَبْتُ إِثْماً عَظِيماً حِينَ أَقْدَمْتُ عَلَى هَذَا الْعَمَلِ، فَامْحُ الآنَ إِثْمَ عَبْدِكَ لأَنَّنِي حَمِقْتُ جِدّاً». | ٨ |
9 The LORD spoke to Gad, David’s seer, saying,
| فَقَالَ الرَّبُّ لِجَادَ رَائِي دَاوُدَ: | ٩ |
10 “Go and speak to David, saying, ‘The LORD says, “I offer you three things. Choose one of them, that I may do it to you.”’”
| «اذْهَبْ وَقُلْ لِدَاوُدَ: هَذَا مَا يَقُولُهُ الرَّبُّ: هَا أَنَا أَعْرِضُ عَلَيْكَ ثَلاثَةَ أُمُورٍ، اخْتَرْ وَاحِداً مِنْهَا فَأُجْرِيَهُ عَلَيْكَ». | ١٠ |
11 So Gad came to David and said to him, “The LORD says, ‘Take your choice:
| فَمَثَلَ جَادٌ أَمَامَ دَاوُدَ وَخَاطَبَهُ: «هَذَا مَا يَقُولُهُ الرَّبُّ: هَيَّا اخْتَرْ. | ١١ |
12 either three years of famine; or three months to be consumed before your foes, while the sword of your enemies overtakes you; or else three days of the sword of the LORD, even pestilence in the land, and the LORD’s angel destroying throughout all the borders of Israel. Now therefore consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me.’”
| إِمَّا ثَلاثَ سِنِينَ مَجَاعَةٌ، أَوْ ثَلاثَةَ أَشْهُرٍ يُطَارِدُكَ فِيهَا أَعْدَاؤُكَ، وَسَيْفُ أَعْدَائِكَ يُدْرِكُكَ وَإِمَّا ثَلاثَةَ أَيَّامٍ يَتَسَلَّطُ فِيهَا عَلَيْكَ سَيْفُ الرَّبِّ فَيَتَفَشَّى الْوَبَأُ فِي الأَرْضِ، إِذْ يَجُولُ مَلاكُ الرَّبِّ يُدَمِّرُ فِي جَمِيعِ أَرْجَاءِ إِسْرَائِيلَ. فَكِّرْ مَلِيًّا فيِ الأَمْرِ لأَرُدَّ جَوَاباً عَلَى مَنْ أَرْسَلَنِي». | ١٢ |
13 David said to Gad, “I am in distress. Let me fall, I pray, into the LORD’s hand, for his mercies are very great. Don’t let me fall into man’s hand.”
| فَأَجَابَ دَاوُدُ جَاداً: «إِنَّنِي وَاقِعٌ فِي كَرْبٍ عَظِيمٍ، وَلَكِنْ خَيْرٌ لِي أَنْ أَسْتَسْلِمَ لِقَبْضَةِ الرَّبِّ، لأَنَّهُ وَاسِعُ الرَّحْمَةِ، مِنْ أَنْ أَقَعَ تَحْتَ رَحْمَةِ إِنْسَانٍ». | ١٣ |
14 So the LORD sent a pestilence on Israel, and seventy thousand men of Israel fell.
| فَأَرْسَلَ الرَّبُّ وَبَأً تَفَشَّى فِي أَرْضِ إِسْرَائِيلَ، مَاتَ فِيهِ سَبْعُونَ أَلْفَ رَجُلٍ. | ١٤ |
15 God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it. As he was about to destroy, the LORD saw, and he relented of the disaster, and said to the destroying angel, “It is enough. Now withdraw your hand.” the LORD’s angel was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
| وَأَمَرَ الرَّبُّ مَلاكَهُ بِإِهْلاكِ أُورُشَلِيمَ. وَفِيمَا هُوَ يَقُومُ بِالْقَضَاءِ عَلَيْهَا رَأَى الرَّبُّ مَا يُصِيبُهَا، فَأَشْفَقَ عَلَيْهَا بِسَبَبِ مَا حَلَّ بِها مِنْ شَرٍّ، وَقَالَ لِلْمَلاكِ الْمُهْلِكِ: «كُفَّ يَدَكَ عَنْهَا». وَكَانَ مَلاكُ الرَّبِّ وَاقِفاً آنَئِذٍ عِنْدَ بَيْدَرِ أُرْنَانَ الْيَبُوسِيِّ. | ١٥ |
16 David lifted up his eyes, and saw the LORD’s angel standing between earth and the sky, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell on their faces.
| وَتَلَفَّتَ دَاوُدُ حَوْلَهُ فَرَأَى مَلاكَ الرَّبِّ مُنْتَصِباً بَيْنَ الأَرْضِ وَالسَّمَاءِ، وَقَدْ شَهَرَ سَيْفَهُ بِيَدِهِ وَمَدَّهُ نَحْوَ أُورُشَلِيمَ. فارْتَدَى هُوَ وَالشُّيُوخُ الْمُسُوحَ وَسَجَدُوا بِوُجُوهِهِمْ إِلَى الأَرْضِ. | ١٦ |
17 David said to God, “Isn’t it I who commanded the people to be counted? It is even I who have sinned and done very wickedly; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand, O LORD my God, be against me and against my father’s house; but not against your people, that they should be plagued.”
| وَقَالَ دَاوُدُ لِلهِ: «أَلَسْتُ أَنَا الَّذِي أَمَرَ بِإِحْصَاءِ الرِّجَالِ الصَّالِحِينَ لِلتَّجْنِيدِ؟ إِنَّنِي أَنَا الَّذِي أَخْطَأَ وَأَسَاءَ، أَمَّا الرَّعِيَّةُ فَأَيَّ ذَنْبٍ جَنَتْ؟ أَيُّهَا الرَّبُّ إِلَهِي عَاقِبْنِي وَعَاقِبْ بَيْتَ أَبِي وَاعْفُ عَنْ شَعْبِكَ». | ١٧ |
18 Then the LORD’s angel commanded Gad to tell David that David should go up and raise an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
| فَأَوْعَزَ مَلاكُ الرَّبِّ لِجَادٍ أَنْ يَطْلُبَ مِنْ دَاوُدَ أَنْ يَصْعَدَ لِيَبْنِيَ مَذْبَحاً لِلرَّبِّ فِي بَيْدَرِ أُرْنَانَ الْيَبُوسِيِّ. | ١٨ |
19 David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spoke in the LORD’s name.
| فَانْطَلَقَ دَاوُدُ يُنَفِّذُ مَا نَطَقَ بِهِ جَادٌ النَّبِيُّ بِاسْمِ الرَّبِّ. | ١٩ |
20 Ornan turned back and saw the angel; and his four sons who were with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.
| وَكَانَ أُرْنَانُ وَبَنُوهُ الأَرْبَعَةُ يَدْرُسُونَ الْقَمْحَ عِنْدَمَا شَاهَدُوا مَلاكَ الرَّبِّ، فَأَسْرَعُوا يَخْتَبِئُونَ. | ٢٠ |
21 As David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out of the threshing floor, and bowed himself to David with his face to the ground.
| وَلَكِنْ حِينَ جَاءَ دَاوُدُ إِلَى أُرْنَانَ خَرَجَ مِنْ مَخْبَئِهِ فِي الْبَيْدَرِ وَسَجَدَ بِوَجْهِهِ إِلَى الأَرْضِ. | ٢١ |
22 Then David said to Ornan, “Sell me the place of this threshing floor, that I may build an altar to the LORD on it. You shall sell it to me for the full price, that the plague may be stopped from afflicting the people.”
| فَقَالَ دَاوُدُ لأُرْنَانَ: «بِعْنِي مَوْقِعَ الْبَيْدَرِ لأَبْنِيَ فِيهِ مَذْبَحاً لِلرَّبِّ، وَأَدْفَعَ لَكَ فِضَّةً ثَمَناً لَهُ، فَتَكُفَّ الضَّرْبَةُ عَنِ الشَّعْبِ». | ٢٢ |
23 Ornan said to David, “Take it for yourself, and let my lord the king do that which is good in his eyes. Behold, I give the oxen for burnt offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat for the meal offering. I give it all.”
| فَقَالَ أُرْنَانُ لِدَاوُدَ: «خُذْهُ لَكَ، وَلْيَصْنَعْ سَيِّدِي الْمَلِكُ مَا يَحْلُو لَهُ. وَهَا أَنَا أُقَدِّمُ الْبَقَرَ لِتَكُونَ مُحْرَقَاتٍ، وَالنَّوَارِجَ لِلْوَقُودِ، وَالْحِنْطَةَ لِتَكُونَ قُرْبَانَ التَّقْدِمَةِ. إِنَّنِي أَتَبَرَّعُ بِها جَمِيعِهَا». | ٢٣ |
24 King David said to Ornan, “No, but I will most certainly buy it for the full price. For I will not take that which is yours for the LORD, nor offer a burnt offering that costs me nothing.”
| فَقَالَ الْمَلِكُ: «لا! بَلْ أَشْتَرِي ذَلِكَ بِفِضَّةٍ، إِذْ لَا يُمْكِنُ أَنْ آخُذَ مَالَكَ فَأُقَدِّمَ لِلرَّبِّ مُحْرَقَةً مَجَّانِيَّةً». | ٢٤ |
25 So David gave to Ornan six hundred shekels of gold by weight for the place.
| وَدَفَعَ دَاوُدُ لأُرْنَانَ ثَمَناً لِمَوْقِعِ الْبَيْدَرِ سِتَّ مِئَةِ شَاقِلٍ (نَحْوَ سَبْعَةِ آلافٍ وَمِئَتَيْ جِرَامٍ) مِنَ الذَّهَبِ. | ٢٥ |
26 David built an altar to the LORD there, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called on the LORD; and he answered him from the sky by fire on the altar of burnt offering.
| وَبَنَى هُنَاكَ مَذْبَحاً لِلرَّبِّ أَصْعَدَ عَلَيْهِ مُحْرَقَاتٍ وَذَبَائِحَ سَلامٍ، وَدَعَا الرَّبَّ فَاسْتَجَابَ لَهُ بِإِنْزَالِ نَارٍ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ عَلَى مَذْبَحِ الْمُحْرَقَةِ. | ٢٦ |
27 Then the LORD commanded the angel, and he put his sword back into its sheath.
| وَأَمَرَ الرَّبُّ الْمَلاكَ فَأَعَادَ السَّيْفَ إِلَى غِمْدِهِ. | ٢٧ |
28 At that time, when David saw that the LORD had answered him in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there.
| وَعِنْدَمَا رَأَى دَاوُدُ أَنَّ الرَّبَّ قَدْ تَقَبَّلَ تَضَرُّعَهُ فِي بَيْدَرِ أُرْنَانَ الْيَبُوسِيِّ، قَدَّمَ ذَبَائِحَ هُنَاكَ. | ٢٨ |
29 For the LORD’s tabernacle, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of burnt offering, were at that time in the high place at Gibeon.
| وَكَانَ مَسْكَنُ الرَّبِّ آنَئِذٍ وَمَذْبَحُ الْمُحْرَقَةِ، اللَّذَانِ صَنَعَهُمَا مُوسَى فِي الْبَرِّيَّةِ، فِي مُرْتَفَعَةِ جِبْعُونَ. | ٢٩ |
30 But David couldn’t go before it to inquire of God, for he was afraid because of the sword of the LORD’s angel.
| وَلَمْ يَسْتَطِعْ دَاوُدُ أَنْ يَتَوَجَّهَ إِلَى هُنَاكَ لِيَسْتَشِيرَ الرَّبَّ لأَنَّهُ خَافَ مِنْ سَيْفِ مَلاكِ الرَّبِّ. | ٣٠ |
