१ इतिहास 21
1 इस्राएलको विरुद्ध एउटा दुश्मन खडा भयो र आफ्ना मानिसहरूको सङ्ख्या गन्नलाई दाऊदलाई सुर्यायो ।
Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to take 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 ।”
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.”
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?”
Joab said, “May Yahweh 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?”
4 तर राजाको वचन योआबको विरुद्धमा लागू भयो । त्यसैले योआब त्यहाँबाट हिंडे र सारा इस्राएलभरी गए । तब तिनी यरूशलेममा फर्केर आए ।
Nevertheless the king’s word prevailed against Joab. Therefore Joab departed and went throughout all Israel, then came 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 ।
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.
6 तर लेवी र बेन्यामीनलाई तिनीहरूसँग गन्ती गरिएन, किनकि राजाको हुकुमले योआबलाई साह्रै खिन्न पारेको थियो ।
But he didn’t count Levi and Benjamin among them, for the king’s word was abominable to Joab.
7 यो कामबाट परमेश्वर अप्रसन्न हुनुभयो, अनि उहाँले इस्राएललाई आक्रमण गर्नुभयो ।
God was displeased with this thing; therefore he struck Israel.
8 दाऊदले परमेश्वरलाई भने, “मैले यसो गरेर ठुलो पाप गरेको छु । अब आफ्नो दासको दोषलाई हटाउनुहोस्, किनकि मैले धेरै मूर्खतापूर्ण काम गरेको छु ।”
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.”
9 परमप्रभुले दाऊदका अगमवक्ता गादलाई भन्नुभयो,
Yahweh spoke to Gad, David’s seer, saying,
10 “गएर दाऊदलाई भन्, ‘परमप्रभु यसो भन्नुहुन्छः तँलाई म तिनवटा कुरा रोज्न दिन्छु । तिमध्ये एउटा रोज ।’”
“Go and speak to David, saying, ‘Yahweh says, “I offer you three things. Choose one of them, that I may do it to you.”’”
11 यसैले गाद दाऊदकहाँ गए र तिनलाई भने, “परमप्रभु यही भन्नुहुन्छ, ‘यिमध्ये एउटा रोज:
So Gad came to David and said to him, “Yahweh says, ‘Take 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 to be consumed before your foes, while the sword of your enemies overtakes you; or else three days of the sword of Yahweh, even pestilence in the land, and Yahweh’s angel destroying throughout all the borders of Israel. Now therefore consider what answer I shall return to him 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 said to Gad, “I am in distress. Let me fall, I pray, into Yahweh’s hand, for his mercies are very great. Don’t let me fall into man’s hand.”
14 त्यसैले परमप्रभुले इस्राएलमा एउटा विपत्ति पठाउनुभयो, र सत्तरी हजार मानिसहरू मरे ।
So Yahweh sent a pestilence on Israel, and seventy thousand men of Israel fell.
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 sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it. As he was about to destroy, Yahweh saw, and he relented of the disaster, and said to the destroying angel, “It is enough. Now withdraw your hand.” Yahweh’s angel was standing by 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 ।
David lifted up his eyes, and saw Yahweh’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.
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, “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 Yahweh my God, be against me and against my father’s house; but not against your people, that they should be plagued.”
18 यसैले दाऊदलाई यबूसी अरौनाको खलामा गएर परमप्रभुको निम्ति एउटा वेदी बनाउन भन् भनी परमप्रभुका स्वर्गदूतले गादलाई भने ।
Then Yahweh’s angel commanded Gad to tell David that David should go up and raise an altar to Yahweh on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
19 यसैले परमप्रभुको नाउँमा गादले हुकुम गरेझैं गर्नलाइ दाऊद त्यहाँ उक्लेर गए ।
David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spoke in Yahweh’s name.
20 अरौनाले आफ्नो गहूँ चुट्दै गरेका समयमा, तिनी पछि फर्के, र स्वर्गदूतलाई देखे । तिनी र तिनका चार जना छोराहरू आफूलाई लुकाए ।
Ornan turned back and saw the angel; and his four sons who were with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.
21 दाऊद अरौनाकहाँ आउँदा, अरौनाले हेरे र दाऊदलाई देखे । तिनी खलाबाट बाहिर आए र आफ्नो अनुहार भुइँमा घोप्टो पारेर दाऊदको अघि घुँडा टेके ।
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.
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 ।”
Then David said to Ornan, “Sell me the place of this threshing floor, that I may build an altar to Yahweh on it. You shall sell it to me for the full price, that the plague may be stopped from afflicting the people.”
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 ।”
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.”
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 ।”
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 Yahweh, nor offer a burnt offering that costs me nothing.”
25 यसैले त्यस जग्गाको निम्ति दाऊदले अरौनालाई छ सय सुनका सिक्का तिरे ।
So David gave to Ornan six hundred shekels of gold by weight 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 Yahweh there, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called on Yahweh; and he answered him from the sky by fire on the altar of burnt offering.
27 तब परमप्रभुले त्यो स्वर्गदूतलाई आज्ञा दिनुभयो र स्वर्गदूतले आफ्नो तरवारलाई त्यसको म्यानमा राखे ।
Then Yahweh commanded the angel, and he put his sword back into its sheath.
28 जब दाऊदले यबूसी अरौनाको खलामा परमप्रभुले जवाफ दिनुभएको देखे, तब तिनले त्यही बेला बलिदानहरू चढाए ।
At that time, when David saw that Yahweh had answered him in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there.
29 त्यस बेला, मोशाले उजाड-स्थानमा बनाएको परमप्रभुको पवित्र वासस्थान र होमबलिको वेदी गिबोनको डाँडाको उच्च स्थानमा नै थिए ।
For Yahweh’s tabernacle, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of burnt offering, were at that time in the high place at Gibeon.
30 तापनि परमप्रभुको अगुवाइ माग्न दाऊद त्यहाँ जान सकेनन्, किनकि ती स्वर्गदूतको तरवारसँग तिनी साह्रै डराएका थिए ।
But David couldn’t go before it to inquire of God, for he was afraid because of the sword of Yahweh’s angel.
