2 Samuel 24

1 Again the LORD’s anger burnt against Israel, and he moved David against them, saying, “Go, count Israel and Judah.”

١ ثُمَّ عَادَ فَاحْتَدَمَ غَضَبُ الرَّبِّ عَلَى إِسْرَائِيلَ، فَأَثَارَ دَاوُدَ عَلَيْهِمْ قَائِلاً: «هَيَّا قُمْ بِإِحْصَاءِ إِسْرَائِيلَ وَيهُوذَا».

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.”

٢ فَقَالَ الْمَلِكُ لِيُوآبَ رَئِيسِ جَيْشِهِ: «تَجَوَّلْ بَيْنَ أَسْبَاطِ إِسْرَائِيلَ مِنْ دَانَ إِلَى بِئْرِ سَبْعٍ، وَقُمْ بِإِحْصَاءِ الشَّعْبِ، فَأَعْرِفَ جُمْلَةَ عَدَدِهِمْ»

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?”

٣ فَأَجَابَ يُوآبُ: «لِيُضَاعِفِ الرَّبُّ الشَّعْبَ مِئَةَ مِثْلٍ وَأَنْتَ تَتَمَتَّعُ بِطُولِ الْعُمْرِ، وَلَكِنْ لِمَاذَا يَرْغَبُ سَيِّدِي الْمَلِكُ فِي مِثْلِ هَذَا الأَمْرِ؟»

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.

٤ وَلَكِنَّ أَمْرَ الْمَلِكِ غَلَبَ عَلَى رَأْيِ يُوآبَ وَعَلَى رُؤَسَاءِ الْجَيْشِ، فَانْصَرَفَ يُوآبُ وَكِبَارُ ضُبَّاطِهِ مِنْ عِنْدِ الْمَلِكِ لإِحْصَاءِ شَعْبِ إِسْرَائِيلَ.

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;

٥ فَاجْتَازُوا نَهْرَ الأُرْدُنِّ وَأَقَامُوا جَنُوبِيَّ مَدِينَةِ عَرُوعِيرَ الوَاقِعَةِ وَسَطَ وَادِي جَادٍ مُقَابِلَ يَعْزِيرَ.

6 then they came to Gilead and to the land of Tahtim Hodshi; and they came to Dan Jaan and around to Sidon,

٦ وَقَدِمُوا إِلَى جِلْعَادَ إِلَى أَرْضِ تَحْتِيمَ فِي حُدْشِي، ثُمَّ تَوَجَّهُوا نَحْوَ دَانِ يَعَنَ، وَاسْتَدَارُوا إِلَى صِيدُونَ.

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.

٧ ثُمَّ انْطَلَقُوا إِلَى حِصْنِ صُورٍ وَسَائِرِ مُدُنِ الْحِوِّيِّينَ وَالْكَنْعَانِيِّينَ، وَمِنْ هُنَاكَ مَضَوْا إِلَى جَنُوبِيِّ يَهُوذَا إِلَى بِئْرِ سَبْعٍ.

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.

٨ وَبعْدَ أَنْ طَافُوا فِي جَمِيعِ أَرْجَاءِ أَرْضِ إِسْرَائِيلَ، رَجَعُوا فِي نِهَايَةِ تِسْعَةِ أَشْهُرٍ وَعِشْرِينَ يَوْماً إِلَى أُورُشَلِيمَ.

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.

٩ وَرَفَعَ يُوآبُ تَقْرِيرَهُ الْمُتَضَمِّنَ جُمْلَةَ إِحْصَاءِ الشَّعْبِ إِلَى الْمَلِكِ، فَكَانَ عَدَدُ الإِسْرَائِيلِيِّينَ الْقَادِرِينَ عَلَى حَمْلِ السِّلاحِ ثَمَانِي مِئَةِ أَلْفٍ مِنْ إِسْرَائِيلَ، وَخَمْسَ مِئَةِ أَلْفٍ مِنْ يَهُوذَا.

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.”

١٠ وَبَعْدَ أَنْ تَمَّ إِحْصَاءُ الشَّعْبِ اعْتَرَى النَّدَمُ قَلْبَ دَاوُدَ، فَتَضَرَّعَ إِلَى الرَّبِّ قَائِلاً: «أَخْطَأْتُ جِدّاً بِمَا ارْتَكَبْتُهُ، فَأَرْجُوكَ يَا رَبُّ أَنْ تُزِيلَ إِثْمَ عَبْدِكَ لأَنَّنِي تَصَرَّفْتُ تَصَرُّفاً أَحْمَقَ».

11 When David rose up in the morning, the LORD’s word came to the prophet Gad, David’s seer, saying,

١١ وَقَبْلَ أَنْ يَنْهَضَ دَاوُدُ مِنْ نَوْمِهِ صَبَاحاً، قَالَ الرَّبُّ لِجَادٍ النَّبِيِّ، رَائِي دَاوُدَ:

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.”’”

١٢ «اذْهَبْ وَقُلْ لِدَاوُدَ: هَذَا مَا يَقُولُهُ الرَّبُّ، أَنَا أَعْرِضُ عَلَيْكَ ثَلاثَةَ أُمُورٍ، فَاخْتَرْ لِنَفْسِكَ وَاحِداً مِنْهَا فَأُجْرِيَهُ عَلَيْكَ».

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.”

١٣ فَمَثَلَ جَادٌ أَمَامَ دَاوُدَ وَقَالَ: «اخْتَرْ إِمَّا أَنْ تَجْتَاحَ الْبِلادَ سَبْعُ سِنِي جُوعٍ، أَوْ تَهْرُبَ ثَلاثَةَ أَشْهُرٍ أَمَامَ أَعْدَائِكَ وَهُمْ يَتَعَقَّبُونَكَ، أَوْ يَتَفَشَّى وَبَأٌ فِي أَرْضِكَ طَوَالَ ثَلاثَةِ أَيَّامٍ. فَفَكِّرْ فِي الأَمْرِ مَلِيًّا وَأَخْبِرْنِي عَمَّا اسْتَقَرَّ عَلَيْهِ رَدُّكَ عَلَى مَنْ أَرْسَلَنِي؟»

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.”

١٤ فَأَجَابَ دَاوُدُ: «قَدْ ضَاقَ بِي الأَمْرُ، وَلَكِنْ خَيْرٌ لِي أَنْ أَقَعَ فِي يَدِ الرَّبِّ، لأَنَّ مَرَاحِمَهُ كَثِيرَةٌ مِنْ أَنْ أَقَعَ بَيْنَ يَدَيْ إِنْسَانٍ».

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.

١٥ فَأَفْشَى الرَّبُّ وَبَأٌ فِي إِسْرَائِيلَ مِنَ الصَّبَاحِ حَتَّى نِهَايَةِ ثَلاثَةِ أَيَّامٍ، فَمَاتَ مِنَ الشَّعْبِ مِنْ دَانٍ إِلَى بِئْرِ سَبْعَ سَبْعُونَ أَلْفَ رَجُلٍ.

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.

١٦ وَمَدَّ مَلاكُ الرَّبِّ يَدَهُ فَوْقَ أُورُشَلِيمَ لِيُهْلِكَهَا وَلَكِنْ أَخَذَتِ الرَّبَّ رَأْفَةٌ عَلَى مَا أَصَابَ الشَّعْبَ مِنْ شَرٍّ وَقَالَ لِلْمَلاكِ الْمُهْلِكِ: «كَفَى، رُدَّ يَدَكَ». وَكَانَ مَلاكُ الرَّبِّ عِنْدَئِذٍ قَدْ بَلَغَ بَيْدَرَ أَرُونَةَ الْيَبُوسِيِّ.

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.”

١٧ فَقَالَ دَاوُدُ لِلرَّبِّ عِنْدَمَا شَاهَدَ الْمَلاكَ الْمُهْلِكَ «أَنَا هُوَ الْمُخْطِئُ وَالْمُذْنِبُ، وَأَمَّا هَؤُلاءِ الْخِرَافُ فَمَاذَا جَنَوْا؟ لِيَحُلَّ عِقَابُكَ عَلَيَّ وَعَلَى بَيْتِ أَبِي».

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.”

١٨ فَجَاءَ جَادٌ إِلَى دَاوُدَ فِي ذَلِكَ الْيَوْمِ وَقَالَ لَهُ: «اذْهَبْ إِلَى بَيْدَرِ أَرُونَةَ الْيَبُوسِيِّ وَشَيِّدْ مَذْبَحاً لِلرَّبِّ فِيهِ».

19 David went up according to the saying of Gad, as the LORD commanded.

١٩ فَانْطَلَقَ دَاوُدُ حَسَبَ كَلامِ جَادٍ الَّذِي أَمَرَهُ بِهِ الرَّبُّ.

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.

٢٠ وَعِنْدَمَا رَأَى أَرُونَةُ الْمَلِكَ وَرِجَالَهُ قَاِدمِينَ نَحْوَهُ، خَرَجَ لِلِقَائِهِ وَخَرَّ سَاجِداً بِوَجْهِهِ عَلَى الأَرْضِ،

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.”

٢١ وَسَأَلَ: «لِمَاذَا جَاءَ سَيِّدِي الْمَلِكُ إِلَى بَيْتِ عَبْدِهِ؟» فَأَجَابَهُ دَاوُدُ: «لأَشْتَرِيَ مِنْكَ الْبَيْدَرَ حَتَّى أَبْنِيَ لِلرَّبِّ مَذْبَحاً فَتَكُفَّ الضَّرْبَةُ عَنِ النَّاسِ».

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.

٢٢ فَقَالَ أَرُونَةُ لِدَاوُدَ: «لِيَأْخُذْهُ سَيِّدِي الْمَلِكُ وَيُقَرِّبْ عَلَيْهِ مَا يَرُوقُ لَهُ. انْظُرْ! هَا هِيَ الْبَقَرُ لِلْمُحْرَقَاتِ، وَالنَّوَارِجُ وَأَنْيَارُ الْبَقَرِ لِتَكُونَ حَطَباً؛

23 All this, O king, does Araunah give to the king.” Araunah said to the king, “May the LORD your God accept you.”

٢٣ إِنَّ أَرُونَةَ يُقَدِّمُ كُلَّ هَذَا لِلْمَلِكِ». ثُمَّ أَضَافَ: «لِيَرْضَ الرَّبُّ إِلَهُكَ عَنْكَ».

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.

٢٤ فَقَالَ الْمَلِكُ: «لا، بَلْ أَشْتَرِي مِنْكَ كُلَّ هَذَا بِثَمَنٍ، إِذْ لَنْ أُصْعِدَ لِلرَّبِّ مُحْرَقَاتٍ مَجَّانِيَّةً». فَاشْتَرَى دَاوُدُ الْبَيْدَرَ وَالْبَقَرَ بِخَمْسِينَ شَاقِلاً مِنَ الْفِضَّةِ (نَحْوِ سِتِّ مِئَةِ جِرَامٍ).

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.

٢٥ وَشَيَّدَ دَاوُدُ هُنَاكَ مَذْبَحاً لِلرَّبِّ قَرَّبَ عَلَيْهِ مُحْرَقَاتٍ وَذَبَائِحَ سَلامٍ، فَاسْتَجَابَ الرَّبُّ الصَّلاةَ مِنْ أَجْلِ الأَرْضِ وَكَفَّ الْوَبَأُ عَنْ إِسْرَائِيلَ.