२ शमूएल 24

1 फेरि इस्राएलको विरुद्धमा परमप्रभुको क्रोध पर्‍यो र उहाँले दाऊदलाई यसो भनेर उत्तेजित गर्नुभयो, “जा, इस्राएल र यहूदाको गणना गर् ।”

Now again the anger of the LORD burned 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 ।”

So the king said to Joab and the captains of the army, who were with him, "Now go back and forth through all Israel, from Dan even to Beersheba and number the people, that I may know the sum 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?”

But 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?"

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 ।

However, 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 number the children of Israel.

5 तिनीहरू यर्दन नदी तरे र बेसीमा सहरको दक्षिणतिर अरोएरनेर छाउनी हाले । अनि तिनीहरू गाददेख याजेरसम्म हिंडे ।

They crossed over the Jordan and began from Aroer, and from the city that is in the middle of the valley of Gad; then on to Jazer.

6 तिनीहरू गिलाद र तातीम-हदोशीमा आए अनि दान-यान र सीदोनको सेरोफेरोसम्म पुगे ।

Then they came to Gilead, and to the region of the Hethites, to Kedesh; and they came to Dan. Then they skirted Sidon,

7 तिनीहरू टुरोस अनि हिव्वीहरू र कनानीहरूका सबै सहरका किल्‍लासम्म पुगे । अनि तिनीहरू यहूदाको बर्शेबामा भएको नेगेवतिर गए ।

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.

8 जब तिनीहरू देशमा सबैतिर गए, तब तिनीहरू नौ महिना बिस दिनको अन्तमा यरूशलेममा फर्केर आए ।

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.

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 ।

Joab gave up the sum of the numbering 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.

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 ।”

David's heart struck him after that he had numbered the people. David said to the LORD, "I have sinned greatly in that which I have done. But now, LORD, put away, I beg you, the iniquity of your servant; for I have done very foolishly."

11 जब दाऊद बिहान उठे, दाऊदका दर्शी गाद अगमवक्‍ताकहाँ परमेश्‍वरको वचन यसो भनेर आयो,

When David rose up in the morning, the word of the LORD came to 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 speak to David, 'Thus says the LORD, "I offer you three things. Choose one of them, that I may do it to you."'

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 ।”

So Gad came to David, and told him, and said to him, "Shall three 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."

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 ।”

David said to Gad, "All of them are difficult for me. Only let me fall now into the hand of the LORD; for his mercies are great. 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 ।

So the LORD sent a pestilence on Israel from the morning even to the appointed time; and the destruction began among the people. And there died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba 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 ।

When the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD relented of the disaster, and said to the angel who destroyed the people, "It is enough. Now stay your hand." The angel of the LORD was standing near the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite. And David lifted up his eyes and saw the angel of the LORD 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 down on their faces.

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 ।”

Then David spoke to the LORD when he saw the angel who struck the people, and said, "Look, I have sinned, and I, the shepherd, have done great evil. But these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand be against me, and against 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 went to David that day and said, "Go up, build an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite."

19 जसरी परमप्रभुले गादलाई गर्ने आज्ञा गर्नुभयो, त्‍यसरी नै दाऊद माथि गए ।

So David went up and did what Gad had said, as the LORD 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 out and saw the king and his servants coming on toward him, so 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 has my lord the king come to his servant?" And David said, "To buy this threshing floor from you to build an altar to the LORD, so that the plague may be held back 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 ।

But Araunah said to David, "Let my lord the king take and offer up what seems good to him. Look, the oxen for the burnt offering, and the threshing sledges and the yokes of the oxen for the wood.

23 यी सबै म अरौनाले मेरो महाराजालाई दिने छु ।” तब तिनले राजालाई भने, “परमप्रभु तपाईंका परमेश्‍वरले तपाईंलाई स्वीकार गर्नुभएको होस् ।”

All these Araunah gives to the king." And Araunah said to the king, "May the LORD your God accept you."

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 ।

But the king said to Araunah, "No, but I will 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.

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 ।

Then David built an altar to the LORD there and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So the LORD responded to the plea for the land, and the plague was withdrawn from Israel.