२ शमूएल 24
1 फेरि इस्राएलको विरुद्धमा परमप्रभुको क्रोध पर्यो र उहाँले दाऊदलाई यसो भनेर उत्तेजित गर्नुभयो, “जा, इस्राएल र यहूदाको गणना गर् ।”
And again the anger of Jehovah was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them saying, Go, number Israel and Judah.
2 राजाले आफूसँग भएका फौजका कमाण्डर योआबलाई भने, “दानदेखि बेर्शेबासम्मका इस्राएलका सबै कुलमा जाऊ र सबै मानिसको गणना गर ताकि युद्धको निम्ति योग्य मानिसहरूका जम्माजम्मी सङ्ख्या मलाई थाहा होस् ।”
And the king said to Joab the captain of the host, who was with him, Go, I pray thee, through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, and count the people, that I may know the number of the people.
3 योआबले राजालाई भने, “परमप्रभु तपाईंका परमेश्वरले मानिसहरूका सङ्ख्यामा सय गुणा वृद्धि गर्नुभएको होस् र मेरा मालिक महाराजाले यसो भएको आफ्नै आँखाले देखून् । तर मेरा मालिक महाराजालाई यो किन चाहियो?”
And Joab said to the king, May Jehovah thy God even add to the people, how many soever they be, a hundredfold, and that the eyes of my lord the king may see [it]; but why does my lord the king delight in this thing?
4 तापनि, योआब र फौजका कमाण्डरहरूका विरुद्धमा राजाको बोली नै अन्तिम भयो । त्यसैले योआब र कमाण्डरहरू इस्राएलका मानिसहरूको सङ्ख्या गणना गर्न राजाको उपस्थितिबाट निस्केर गए ।
But the king's word prevailed against Joab, and against the captains of the army. And Joab and the captains of the army went out from the presence of the king to count the people of Israel.
5 तिनीहरू यर्दन नदी तरे र बेसीमा सहरको दक्षिणतिर अरोएरनेर छाउनी हाले । अनि तिनीहरू गाददेख याजेरसम्म हिंडे ।
And they passed over the Jordan, and encamped in Aroer, on the right side of the city that is in the midst of the ravine of Gad, and toward Jaazer.
6 तिनीहरू गिलाद र तातीम-हदोशीमा आए अनि दान-यान र सीदोनको सेरोफेरोसम्म पुगे ।
And they came to Gilead, and to the land of Tahtim-hodshi; and came to Dan-jaan, and to the environs of Sidon;
7 तिनीहरू टुरोस अनि हिव्वीहरू र कनानीहरूका सबै सहरका किल्लासम्म पुगे । अनि तिनीहरू यहूदाको बर्शेबामा भएको नेगेवतिर गए ।
and they came to the fortified city of Tyre, and to all the cities of the Hivites and of the Canaanites; and went out to the south of Judah, to Beer-sheba.
8 जब तिनीहरू देशमा सबैतिर गए, तब तिनीहरू नौ महिना बिस दिनको अन्तमा यरूशलेममा फर्केर आए ।
And they went through all the land, and came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.
9 त्यसपछि योआबले लडाकु मानिसका जम्मा सङ्ख्या राजालाई बताइदिए । इस्राएलमा तरवार चलाउन सक्ने साहसी मानिसहरू ८,००,००० थिए र यहूदामा ५,००,००० मानिसहरू थिए ।
And Joab gave the sum of the number of the people to the king; and there were of Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men that drew sword; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men.
10 दाऊदले गणना गरेपछि तिनको हृदय दुःखी भयो । त्यसैले तिनले परमप्रभुलाई भने, “मैले यसो गरेर ठुलो पाप गरेको छु । अब हे परमप्रभु, आफ्नो सेवकको दोष हटाइदिनुहोस्, किनकि मैले धेरै मूर्ख भएर काम गरेको छु ।”
And David's heart smote him after he had numbered the people. And David said to Jehovah, I have sinned greatly in what I have done; and now, I beseech thee, Jehovah, put away the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly.
11 जब दाऊद बिहान उठे, दाऊदका दर्शी गाद अगमवक्ताकहाँ परमेश्वरको वचन यसो भनेर आयो,
And when David arose in the morning, the word of Jehovah came to the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying,
12 “जा र दाऊदलाई भन्, 'परमप्रभु यसो भन्नुहुन्छ, “म तँलाई तीन वटा विकल्प रोज्न दिन्छु । तिमध्ये एउटा रोज ।”
Go and say to David, Thus saith Jehovah: I impose on thee three [things]; choose one of them that I may do it unto thee.
13 त्यसैले गाद दाऊदकहाँ गए र तिनलाई भने, “तपाईंको देशमा तीन वर्षको अनकाल आउने छ? वा तपाईंका शत्रुहरूले तपाईंलाई खेद्दा तीन महिनासम्म तपाईं भाग्नुहुने छ? वा तपाईंको देशमा तीन दिन रुढी हुने छ? मलाई पठाउनुहुनेलाई मैले के जवाफ दिऊँ अब निर्णय गर्नुहोस् ।”
And Gad came to David, and told him, and said to him, Shall seven years of famine come to thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee three months before thine adversaries while they pursue thee? or shall there be three days' pestilence in thy land? Now be aware and consider what word I shall bring again to him that sent me.
14 त्यसपछि दाऊदले गादलाई भने, “म ठुलो कष्टमा परेको छु । मानिसको हातमा पर्नुभन्दा परमप्रभुको हातमा नै हामी परौं, किनकि उहाँका दयापूर्ण कामहरू धेरै महान् छन् ।”
And David said to Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall, I pray thee, into the hand of Jehovah; for his mercies are great; but let me not fall into the hand of man.
15 त्यसैले परमप्रभुले बिहानदेखि तोकिएको समयसम्म इस्राएलमा रुढी पठाउनुभयो र दानदेखि बेर्शेबासम्म सत्तरी हजार मानिसहरू मरे ।
And Jehovah sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the set time; and there died of the people from Dan even to Beer-sheba seventy thousand men.
16 जब स्वर्गदूतले यरूशलेमलाई नाश गर्न आफ्नो हात त्यता पसारे, तब त्यसले ल्याउने हानिको कारणले परमप्रभुले आफ्नो मन बदल्नुभयो र उहाँले मानिसहरूलाई नाश पारिरहेका स्वर्गदूतलाई भन्नुभयो, “पुग्यो! अब तिम्रो हात थाम ।” त्यस बेला स्वर्गदूत यबूसी अरौनाको खलामा खडा भएका थिए ।
And the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it; but Jehovah repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed among the people, It is enough: withdraw now thine hand. And the angel of Jehovah was by the threshing-floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
17 अनि जब दाऊदले मानिसहरूलाई आक्रमण गर्ने स्वर्गदूत देखे तब तिनले भने, “मैले पाप गरेको छु, र मैले भ्रष्ट किसिमले काम गरेको छु । तर यी भेडाहरू, तिनीहरूले के गरेका छन् र? कृपया, तपाईंको हातले मलाई र मेरो बुबाको परिवारलाई दण्ड दिनुहोस् ।”
And David spoke to Jehovah when he saw the angel that smote among the people, and said, Behold, it is I that have sinned, and it is I that have committed iniquity; but these sheep, what have they done? let thy hand, I pray thee, be on me, and on my father's house!
18 अनि त्यस दिन गाद दाऊदकहाँ आए र तिनलाई भने, “माथि जानुहोस् र यबूसी अरौनाको खलामा परमप्रभुको निम्ति एउटा वेदी बनाउनुहोस् ।”
And Gad came that day to David, and said to him, Go up, rear an altar to Jehovah in the threshing-floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
19 जसरी परमप्रभुले गादलाई गर्ने आज्ञा गर्नुभयो, त्यसरी नै दाऊद माथि गए ।
And David, according to the saying of Gad, went up as Jehovah had commanded.
20 अरौनाले बाहिर हेरे र राजा र तिनका सेवकहरू आइरहेको देखे । त्यसैले अरौना बाहिर गएर आफ्नो अनुहार भुईंमा घोप्टो पारेर राजालाई दण्डवत् गरे ।
And Araunah looked, and saw the king and his servants coming on towards him; and Araunah went out, and bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground.
21 तब अरौनाले भने, “मेरो मालिक महाराजा आफ्नो सेवककहाँ किन आउनुभएको छ?” दाऊदले जवाफ दिए, “तिम्रो खला किन्नलाई ताकि म परमप्रभुको निम्ति एउटा वेदी बनाउन सकौं, जसले गर्दा मानिसहरूबाट रुढी हटाइयोस् ।”
And Araunah said, Why is my lord the king come to his servant? And David said, To buy the threshing-floor of thee, to build an altar to Jehovah, that the plague may be stayed from the people.
22 अरौनाले दाऊदलाई भने, “ए मेरो मालिक महाराजा, त्यो आफ्नैझैं लिनुहोस् । तपाईंको दृष्टिमा जे असल छ सो त्यसमा गर्नुहोस् । हेर्नुहोस्, होमबलिको निम्ति गोरूहरू अनि दाउराको निम्ति दाइँ गर्ने काठहरू र जुवाहरू छन् ।
And Araunah said to David, Let my lord the king take and offer up that which is good in his sight: see, [here are] oxen for the burnt-offering, and the threshing-sledges and implements of the oxen for wood.
23 यी सबै म अरौनाले मेरो महाराजालाई दिने छु ।” तब तिनले राजालाई भने, “परमप्रभु तपाईंका परमेश्वरले तपाईंलाई स्वीकार गर्नुभएको होस् ।”
All these things, O king, doth Araunah give to the king. And Araunah said to the king, Jehovah thy God accept thee.
24 राजाले अरौनालाई भने, “होइन, मैले मूल्य दिएर किन्नमा नै जोड दिन्छु । मलाई कुनै मूल्य नपर्ने कुनै पनि कुरा म परमप्रभुलाई होमबलि चढाउँदिनँ ।” त्यसैले दाऊदले खला र गोरुहरूलाई चाँदीका पचास सिक्कामा किने ।
And the king said to Araunah, No; but I will in any case buy [them] of thee at a price: neither will I offer up to Jehovah my God burnt-offerings without cost. And David bought the threshing-floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.
25 दाऊदले त्यहाँ परमप्रभुको निम्ति एउटा वेदी बनाए र त्यसमा होमबलि र मेलबलि चढाए । त्यसैले परमप्रभुले देशको निम्ति गरिएको प्रार्थनाको जवाफ दिनुभयो र इस्राएलमाथिको रुढी थामियो ।
And David built there an altar to Jehovah, and offered up burnt-offerings and peace-offerings. And Jehovah was propitious to the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel.
