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1 इस्राएलको विरुद्ध एउटा दुश्‍मन खडा भयो र आफ्‍ना मानिसहरूको सङ्ख्‍या गन्‍नलाई दाऊदलाई सुर्‍यायो ।
Satan interfered to cause trouble for Israel. He provoked David to do a census of Israel.
2 दाऊदले योआब र आफ्‍ना फौजका कमान्डरहरूलाई भने, “जाओ, बेर्शेबादेखि दानसम्‍मका इस्राएलका मानिसहरूको सङ्‍खया गन्‍ती गर र मलाई बताओ, ताकि म तिनीहरूको संख्‍या जान्‍न सकूँ ।”
So David told Joab and the army commanders, “Go and count the Israelites from Beersheba to Dan. Then report back to me so I can have a total number.”
3 योआबले भने, “परमप्रभुले आफ्‍ना फौजलाई सय गुणा बढाउनुभएको होस् । तर हे मेरा मालिक राजा, के तिनीहरूले मेरा मालिकको सेवा गर्दैनन् र? इस्राएलमाथि किन दोष ल्‍याउनुहुन्‍छ?”
But Joab replied, “May the Lord multiply his people a hundred times over. Your Majesty, aren't they all your subjects? Why do you want to do this? Why should you make Israel guilty?”
4 तर राजाको वचन योआबको विरुद्धमा लागू भयो । त्यसैले योआब त्यहाँबाट हिंडे र सारा इस्राएलभरी गए । तब तिनी यरूशलेममा फर्केर आए ।
But the king was adamant so Joab left and went all over Israel. Eventually he returned to Jerusalem,
5 त्यसपछि योआबले दाऊदलाई योद्धाहरूको जम्मा संख्या बताए । इस्राएलमा तरवार चलाउन सक्‍नेहरू इस्राएलमा ११ लाख थिए । यहूदामा मात्र ४ लाख ७० हजार सेना थिए ।
and he gave David the number of people censused. In Israel there were 1,100,000 fighting men who could handle a sword, and 470,000 in Judah.
6 तर लेवी र बेन्‍यामीनलाई तिनीहरूसँग गन्‍ती गरिएन, किनकि राजाको हुकुमले योआबलाई साह्रै खिन्‍न पारेको थियो ।
However, Joab did not include Levi and Benjamin in the census total, because he disagreed with what the king had ordered.
7 यो कामबाट परमेश्‍वर अप्रसन्‍न हुनुभयो, अनि उहाँले इस्राएललाई आक्रमण गर्नुभयो ।
The Lord considered the census a bad thing to do and he punished Israel for it.
8 दाऊदले परमेश्‍वरलाई भने, “मैले यसो गरेर ठुलो पाप गरेको छु । अब आफ्‍नो दासको दोषलाई हटाउनुहोस्, किनकि मैले धेरै मूर्खतापूर्ण काम गरेको छु ।”
Then David said to God, “I have committed a terrible sin by doing this. Please take away the guilt of your servant, for I have been very stupid.”
9 परमप्रभुले दाऊदका अगमवक्ता गादलाई भन्‍नुभयो,
The Lord told Gad, David's seer,
10 “गएर दाऊदलाई भन्, ‘परमप्रभु यसो भन्‍नुहुन्‍छः तँलाई म तिनवटा कुरा रोज्‍न दिन्‍छु । तिमध्ये एउटा रोज ।’”
“Go and tell David that this is what the Lord says: ‘I'm giving you three options. Choose one of them, and that's what I'll do to you.’”
11 यसैले गाद दाऊदकहाँ गए र तिनलाई भने, “परमप्रभु यही भन्‍नुहुन्‍छ, ‘यिमध्ये एउटा रोज:
So Gad went and told David, “This is what the Lord says: ‘Make your choice:
12 तिन वर्षसम्‍मको अनिकालको कुरा, वा तेरा शत्रुहरूले तीन महिनासम्‍म खेद्‍ने र उनीहरूका तरवारले मारिने कुरा, वा तिन दिनको लागि परमप्रभुको तरवार, अर्थात् परमप्रभुका दूतले इस्राएलका सम्‍पूर्ण ठाउँमा विनाश ल्‍याउने एउटा विपत्तिको कुरा ।’ त्‍यसो हो भने, मलाई पठाउनुहुनेकहाँ मैले के जवाफ लानुपर्ने हो सो अब निर्णय गर्नुहोस् ।”
either three years of famine; or three months of devastation, running from the swords of your enemies; or three days of the Lord's sword—in other words three days of plague in the land, with an angel of the Lord causing destruction throughout the whole of Israel.’ Now you have to decide how I should reply to the one who sent me.”
13 तब दाऊदले गादलाई भने, “म साह्रै सङ्कष्‍टमा परेको छु! मानिसको हातमा पर्नुभन्दा मलाई परमप्रभुको हातमा नै पर्न देऊ, किनकि उहाँका करुणामय कामहरू धेरै महान् छन् ।”
David replied to Gad, “This is an awful situation for me! Please, let the Lord decide my punishment, for he is so merciful. Don't let me be punished by people.”
14 त्यसैले परमप्रभुले इस्राएलमा एउटा विपत्ति पठाउनुभयो, र सत्तरी हजार मानिसहरू मरे ।
So the Lord a plague on Israel, and 70,000 Israelites died.
15 परमेश्‍वरले यरूशलेम विनाश गर्न एउटा स्‍वर्गदूत पठाउनुभयो । तिनले त्‍यो नाश गर्न लाग्‍दा परमप्रभुले त्‍यो देखेर त्‍यस सर्वनाशदेखि मन बदल्‍नुभयो । ती नाश गर्ने स्‍वर्गदूतलाई उहाँले भन्‍नुभयो, “अब भयो! तिम्रो हात थाम ।” त्‍यस बेला ती स्‍वर्गदूत यबूसी अरौनाका खलाको छेउमा उभिरहेका थिए ।
God also sent an angel to destroy Jerusalem. But just as the angel was about to destroy it, the Lord saw it, and he relented from causing such a disaster. He told the destroying angel, “That's enough. You can stop now.” Right then the angel of the Lord was standing beside the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
16 दाऊदले मास्‍तिर हेरे र परमप्रभुका स्‍वर्गदूतले आफ्‍नो हातमा नाङ्गो तरवार लिएर यरूशलेममाथि ताकेर आकाश र पृथ्‍वीका बीचमा खडा भएको देखे । तब भाङ्‌ग्रा लागाएका दाऊद र धर्म-गुरुहरू भूइँमा घोप्‍टो परे ।
When David looked up and saw the angel of the Lord standing between earth and heaven, holding his drawn sword extended over Jerusalem, David and the elders, wearing sackcloth, fell on their faces.
17 दाऊदले परमेश्‍वरलाई भने, “सेनाको गन्‍ती गर् भनेर हुकुम दिने म होइनँ र? मैले यो दुष्‍ट काम गरें । तर बिचरा यी भेडाहरूले के नै पो गरेका छन् र? हे परमप्रभु मेरा परमेश्‍वर!, तपाईंको हातले म र मेरो घरानालाई प्रहार गरोस्, तर तर यो विपत्ति तपाईंका मानिसहरूमाथि नरहोस् ।”
David said to God, “Wasn't it me who ordered the census of the people? I'm the one who has sinned and acted wickedly. But these sheep, what have they done? Lord my God, please punish me and my family, but don't punish your people with this plague.”
18 यसैले दाऊदलाई यबूसी अरौनाको खलामा गएर परमप्रभुको निम्‍ति एउटा वेदी बनाउन भन् भनी परमप्रभुका स्वर्गदूतले गादलाई भने ।
Then the angel of the Lord told Gad to tell David to go and build an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
19 यसैले परमप्रभुको नाउँमा गादले हुकुम गरेझैं गर्नलाइ दाऊद त्‍यहाँ उक्‍लेर गए ।
So David went and did what Gad had told him in the name of the Lord.
20 अरौनाले आफ्‍नो गहूँ चुट्दै गरेका समयमा, तिनी पछि फर्के, र स्‍वर्गदूतलाई देखे । तिनी र तिनका चार जना छोराहरू आफूलाई लुकाए ।
Ornan was busy threshing wheat. He turned around and saw the angel; and his four sons who were with him went and hid.
21 दाऊद अरौनाकहाँ आउँदा, अरौनाले हेरे र दाऊदलाई देखे । तिनी खलाबाट बाहिर आए र आफ्‍नो अनुहार भुइँमा घोप्‍टो पारेर दाऊदको अघि घुँडा टेके ।
When David arrived, Ornan looked out and saw David. He left the threshing floor and bowed down before David with his face to the ground.
22 तब दाऊदले अरौनालाई भने, “मलाई यो खला बेच ताकि यहाँ म परमप्रभुको निम्‍ति एउटा वेदी बनाउन सकूँ । म पुरै दाम तिर्नेछु, ताकि मानिसहरूबाट यो विपत्ति हटिजाओस् ।”
David said to Ornan, “Please let me have the threshing floor. I'll buy it at its full price. Then I can build an altar to the Lord here so that the plague on the people may be stopped.”
23 अरौनाले दाऊदलाई भने, “त्‍यो तपाईंको आफ्नै ठानेर लिनुहोस्, मेरा मालिक महाराजा । हजुरो नजरमा जस्तो असल लाग्छ सो त्‍यहाँ गर्नुहोस् । हेर्नुहोस्, म तपाईंलाई होमबलिको निम्‍ति गोरुहरू, दाउराको निम्‍ति काठहरू र अन्‍नबलिको निम्‍ति गहूँ दिन्छु । यो सबै थोक म तपाईंलाई दिनेछु ।”
“Take it, and Your Majesty can do whatever you want with it,” Ornan told David. “You can have the oxen for burnt offerings, the threshing boards for firewood, and the wheat for a grain offering. I'll give it all to you.”
24 दाऊद राजाले औरानलाई भने, “होइन, पुरै दाम तिरेर नै म यसलाई किन्छु । तिम्रो जे छ त्‍यो लिने अनि मेरो दाम नपरी त्‍यो सित्तैंमा परमप्रभुलाई होमबलीको रूपमा चढाउने काम म गर्दिन ।”
“No, I insist, I will pay the full price,” replied King David “I won't take for the Lord what is yours or present burnt offerings that didn't cost me anything.”
25 यसैले त्‍यस जग्‍गाको निम्‍ति दाऊदले अरौनालाई छ सय सुनका सिक्‍का तिरे ।
So David paid Ornan six hundred shekels of gold for the place.
26 दाऊदले त्‍यहाँ परमप्रभुको निम्‍ति एउटा वेदी बनाए र त्‍यसमाथि होमबलि र मेलबलि चढाए । तिनले परमप्रभुमा पुकारा गरे, जसले तिनलाई स्‍वर्गबाट होमबलिको वेदीमा आगो बर्साएर जवाफ दिनुभयो ।
David built an altar to the Lord there and presented burnt offerings and friendship offerings. He called on the Lord in prayer, and the Lord answered him with fire from heaven on the altar of burnt offering.
27 तब परमप्रभुले त्‍यो स्‍वर्गदूतलाई आज्ञा दिनुभयो र स्‍वर्गदूतले आफ्नो तरवारलाई त्‍यसको म्‍यानमा राखे ।
Then the Lord told the angel to put his sword back into its sheath.
28 जब दाऊदले यबूसी अरौनाको खलामा परमप्रभुले जवाफ दिनुभएको देखे, तब तिनले त्यही बेला बलिदानहरू चढाए ।
When David saw that the Lord had answered him at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, he offered sacrifices there.
29 त्यस बेला, मोशाले उजाड-स्‍थानमा बनाएको परमप्रभुको पवित्र वासस्‍थान र होमबलिको वेदी गिबोनको डाँडाको उच्‍च स्‍थानमा नै थिए ।
At that time the tent of the Lord that Moses had made in the wilderness, and the altar of burnt offering, were at the high place in Gibeon.
30 तापनि परमप्रभुको अगुवाइ माग्‍न दाऊद त्‍यहाँ जान सकेनन्, किनकि ती स्‍वर्गदूतको तरवारसँग तिनी साह्रै डराएका थिए ।
But David did not want to go there to ask God's will, because he was afraid of the sword of the angel of the Lord.

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