1 Nyakati 21
1 Adui akainuka dhidi ya Israeli na kumchochea Daudi kuhesabu Israeli.
And Satan rose up against Israel: and moved David to number Israel.
2 Daudi akamwabia Yoabu na kwa wakuu wa Jeshi, “Nenda, wahesabu watu wa Israeli kutoka Beerisheba mpaka Dani na uniletee taarifa, ilinijue idadi yao.”
And David said to Joab, and to the rulers of the people: Go, and number Israel from Bersabee even to Dan, and bring me the number of them that I may know it.
3 Yoabu akasema, “Yahweh na afanya jeshi lake mara mia zaidi ya lilivyo. Lakini bwana wangu mfalme, kwani wote hawamtumikii bwana wangu? kwa nini bwana wangu anataka hili? Kwa nini ulete hatia kwa Israeli?”
And Joab answered: The Lord make his people a hundred times more than they are: but, my lord the king, are they not all thy servants: why doth my lord seek this thing, which may be imputed as a sin to Israel?
4 Lakini neno la mfalme halikubadilika kwa Yoabu. Hivyo Yoabu akaondoka na kwenda Israeli yote. Kisha akarudi Yerusalemu.
But the king’s word rather prevailed: and Joab departed, and went through all Israel: and returned to Jerusalem.
5 Yoabu akatoa taarifa ya idadi ya jumla ya wanaume wa mapambano kwa Daudi. Kulikuwa ndani ya Israeli wanaume 1, 100, 000 walio beba upanga. Yuda peke yake kulikuwa na wanajeshi 470, 000.
And he gave David the number of them, whom he had surveyed: and all the number of Israel was found to be eleven hundred thousand men that drew the sword: and of Juda four hundred and seventy thousand fighting men.
6 Lakini Levi na Benjamini hawaku hesabiwa miongoni mwao, kwa kuwa amri ya mfalme ilimuudhi Yoabu.
But Levi and Benjamin he did not number: for Joab unwillingly executed the king’s orders.
7 Mungu alikwazika na hili tendo, akashambulia Israeli.
And God was displeased with this thing that was commanded: and he struck Israel.
8 Daudi akamwambia Mungu, “Nimetenda dhambi kubwa kwa kufanya hili. Sasa chukua hatia ya mtumishi wako, nimetenda kwa ujinga sana.”
And David said to God: I have sinned exceedingly in doing this: I beseech thee take away the iniquity of thy servant, for I have done foolishly.
9 Yahweh akamwambia Gadi, nabii wa Daudi,
And the Lord spoke to Gad the seer of David, saying:
10 “Nenda useme kwa Daudi, “Hili ndilo Yahweh anasema: Ninakupa maamuzi matatu. Chagua moja wapo.”
Go, and speak to David, and tell him: Thus saith the Lord: I give thee the choice of three things: choose one which thou wilt, and I will do it to thee.
11 Hivyo Gadi akaenda kwa Daudi na kusema, “Yahweh anasema hivi, 'Chagua moja ya haya:
And when Gad was come to David, he said to him: Thus saith the Lord: choose which thou wilt:
12 kati ya miaka mitatu ya ukame, miezi mitatu unakimbizwa na adui zako na kupatwa na upanga wao, au siku tatu za upanga wa Yahweh, yani, pigo katika nchi, malaika wa Yahweh akiharibu nchi yote ya Israeli.' Hivyo sasa, amua jibu gani ni mpelekee yeye aliye nituma.”
Either three years’ famine: or three months to flee from thy enemies, and not to be able to escape their sword: or three days to have the sword of the Lord, and pestilence in the land, and the angel of the Lord destroying in all the coasts of Israel: now therefore see what I shall answer him who sent me.
13 Kisha Daudi akamwambia Gadi, “Nipo katika shida kubwa sana. Acha nianguke katika mikono ya Yahweh kuliko kuangukia mikono ya mwanadamu, sababu matendo yake ya rehema ni makubwa mno.”
And David said to Gad: I am on every side in a great strait: but it is better for me to fall into the hands of the Lord, for his mercies are many, than into the hands of men.
14 Hivyo Yahweh akatuma pigo Israeli, na watu elfu sabini wakafa.
So the Lord sent a pestilence upon Israel. And there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.
15 Mungu akatuma malaika Yerusalemu kuiharibu. Wakati alipo taka kuiharibu, Yahweh akatazama na kubadili nia yake kuhusu shambulio. Akasema kwa malaika wa uharibifu, “Imetosha! Rudisha mkono wako.” Wakati huo malaika wa Yahweh alikua amesimama eneo la kupeta la Orinani Myebusi.
And he sent an angel to Jerusalem, to strike it: and as he was striking it, the Lord beheld, and took pity for the greatness of the evil: and said to the angel that destroyed: It is enough, now stop thy hand. And the angel of the Lord stood by the thrashing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
16 Daudi akatazama juu na kuona malaika wa Yahweh amesimama kati ya nchi na mbingu, akiwa na upanga mkonono mwake akiuelekeza Yerusalemu. Kisha Daudi na wazee, wakiwa wamevaa magunia, wakalala chini uso ukiwa kwenye ardhi.
And David lifting up his eyes, saw the angel of the Lord standing between heaven and earth, with a drawn sword in his hand, turned against Jerusalem: and both he and the ancients clothed in haircloth, fell down flat on the ground.
17 Daudi akamwambia Mungu, “Sio mimi niliye amuru jeshi kuhesabiwa? Nimefanya hichi kitu kiovu. Lakini hawa kondoo, wamefanya nini? Yahweh Mungu wangu! Acha mkono wako unipige mimi na familia yangu, lakini usiache pigo iliendelee kubaki kwa watu wako.”
And David said to God: Am not I he that commanded the people to be numbered? It is I that have sinned: it is I that have done the evil: but as for this flock, what hath it deserved? O Lord my God, let thy hand be turned, I beseech thee, upon me, and upon my father’s house: and let not thy people be destroyed.
18 Hivyo malaika wa Yahweh akamuamuru Gadi kusema kwa Daudi, kwamba Daudi aende juu na kujenga madhabahu ya Yahweh katika eneo la kupeta la Oranani Myebusi.
And the angel of the Lord commanded Gad to tell David, to go up, and build an altar to the Lord God in the thrashingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
19 Daudi akaenda kama Gadi alivyo muelekeza cha kufanya kwa jina la Yahweh.
And David went up, according to the word of Gad, which he spoke to him in the name of the Lord.
20 Wakati Orinani akipepeta ngano, aligeuka na kumuona malaika. Yeye na wana wake wanne wakajificha.
Now when Ornan looked up, and saw the angel, he and his four sons hid themselves: for at that time he was thrashing wheat in the floor.
21 Wakati Daudi alipo kuja kwa Orinani, Orinani akatazama na kumuona Daudi. Aliacha eneo la kupeta na akamuinamia Daudi uso wake ukiwa kwenye ardhi.
And as David was coming to Ornan, Ornan saw him, and went out of the thrashingfloor to meet him, and bowed down to him with his face to the ground.
22 Kisha Daudi akasema kwa Orinani, “Niuzie hili eneo la kupeta, iliniweze kumjenga Yahweh madhabahu. Nitalipa gharama yote, ili pigo liondolewe kwa watu.”
And David said to him: Give me this place of thy thrashingfloor, that I may build therein an altar to the Lord: but thou shalt take of me as much money as it is worth, that the plague may cease from the people.
23 Orinani wakwambia Daudi, “Chukuwa kama lako, bwana wangu mfalme. Fanya nalo linalo kupendeza. Tazama, nitakupa ng'ombe kwa sadaka ya kuteketeza, vifaa vya kupeta kwa ajili ya mbao, na ngano kwa sadaka ya mbegu; nitakupa yote wewe.”
And Ornan said to David: Take it, and let my lord the king do all that pleaseth him: and moreover the oxen also I give for a holocaust, and the drays for wood, and the wheat for the sacrifice: I will give it all willingly.
24 Mfalme Daudi akamwambia Orinani, “Hapana, nina sisitiza kununua kwa bei yote. Sitachukua kilicho chako na kutoa kama sadaka ya kuteketeza kwa Yahweh kama haitanighramu chochote.”
And king David said to him: It shall not be so, but I will give thee money as much as it is worth: for I must not take it from thee, and so offer to the Lord holocausts free cost.
25 Hivyo Daudi akalipa shekeli mia sita ya dhahabu kwa hilo eneo.
So David gave to Ornan for the place, six hundred sicles of gold of just weight.
26 Daudi akajenga madhabahu ya Yahweh pale na kutoa sadaka za kuteketezwa na sadaka za ushirika. Akamuita Yahweh, aliye mjibu kwa moto kutoka mbinguni kwenye madhabahu ya sadaka za kuteketezwa.
And he built there an altar to the Lord: and he offered holocausts, and peace offerings, and he called upon the Lord, and he heard him by sending Are from heaven upon the altar of the holocaust.
27 Kisha Yahweh akampa agizo malaika, na malaika akarudisha upanga kwenye mfuko wake.
And the Lord commanded the angel: and he put up his sword again into the sheath.
28 Daudi alipo ona kuwa Yahweh amemjibu kwenye eneo la kupeta la Orinani Myebusi, alitoa dhabihu pale pale kwa wakati huo.
And David seeing that the Lord had heard him in the thrashingfloor of Oman the Jebusite, forthwith offered victims there.
29 Sasa kwa wakati huo, hema la kuabudia la Yahweh, ambalo Musa alilitengeneza nyikani, na madhabahu ya sadaka za kuteketezwa, zilikuwa sehemu ya juu huko Gibeoni.
But the tabernacle of the Lord, which Moses made in the desert, and the altar of holocausts, was at that time in the high place of Gabaon.
30 Walakini, Daudi hakuweza kwenda huko kumuliza Mungu muelekeo, kwa kuwa alikuwa anaogopa upanga wa malaika wa Yahweh.
And David could not go to the altar there to pray to God: for he was seized with an exceeding great fear, seeing the sword of the angel of the Lord.
