I Chronicles 21

وَوَقَفَ الشَّيْطَانُ ضِدَّ إِسْرَائِيلَ، وَأَغْوَى دَاوُدَ لِيُحْصِيَ إِسْرَائِيلَ.

And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.

فَقَالَ دَاوُدُ لِيُوآبَ وَلِرُؤَسَاءِ الشَّعْبِ: «اذْهَبُوا عِدُّوا إِسْرَائِيلَ مِنْ بِئْرِ سَبْعٍ إِلَى دَانَ، وَأْتُوا إِلَيَّ فَأَعْلَمَ عَدَدَهُمْ».

And David said to Joab and to the rulers of the people, Go, number Israel from Beer–sheba even to Dan; and bring the number of them to me, that I may know it.

فَقَالَ يُوآبُ: «لِيَزِدِ الرَّبُّ عَلَى شَعْبِهِ أَمْثَالَهُمْ مِئَةَ ضِعْفٍ. أَلَيْسُوا جَمِيعًا يَا سَيِّدِي الْمَلِكَ عَبِيدًا لِسَيِّدِي؟ لِمَاذَا يَطْلُبُ هذَا سَيِّدِي؟ لِمَاذَا يَكُونُ سَبَبَ إِثْمٍ لإِسْرَائِيلَ؟»

And Joab answered, The LORD make his people an hundred times so many more as they be: but, my lord the king, are they not all my lord's servants? why then doth my lord require this thing? why will he be a cause of trespass to Israel?

فَاشْتَدَّ كَلاَمُ الْمَلِكِ عَلَى يُوآبَ. فَخَرَجَ يُوآبُ وَطَافَ فِي كُلِّ إِسْرَائِيلَ ثُمَّ جَاءَ إِلَى أُورُشَلِيمَ.

Nevertheless the king's word prevailed against Joab. Wherefore Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, and came to Jerusalem.

فَدَفَعَ يُوآبُ جُمْلَةَ عَدَدِ الشَّعْبِ إِلَى دَاوُدَ، فَكَانَ كُلُّ إِسْرَائِيلَ أَلْفَ أَلْفٍ وَمِئَةَ أَلْفِ رَجُل مُسْتَلِّي السَّيْفِ، وَيَهُوذَا أَرْبَعَ مِئَةٍ وَسَبْعِينَ أَلْفَ رَجُل مُسْتَلِّي السَّيْفِ،

And Joab gave the sum of the number of the people unto David. And all they of Israel were a thousand thousand and an hundred thousand men that drew sword: and Judah was four hundred threescore and ten thousand men that drew sword.

وَأَمَّا لاَوِي وَبَنْيَامِينُ فَلَمْ يَعُدَّهُمْ مَعَهُمْ لأَنَّ كَلاَمَ الْمَلِكِ كَانَ مَكْرُوهًا لَدَى يُوآبَ.

But Levi and Benjamin counted he not among them: for the king's word was abominable to Joab.

وَقَبُحَ فِي عَيْنَيِ اللهِ هذَا الأَمْرُ فَضَرَبَ إِسْرَائِيلَ.

And God was displeased with this thing; therefore he smote Israel.

فَقَالَ دَاوُدُ لِلهِ: «لَقَدْ أَخْطَأْتُ جِدًّا حَيْثُ عَمِلْتُ هذَا الأَمْرَ. وَالآنَ أَزِلْ إِثْمَ عَبْدِكَ لأَنِّي سَفِهْتُ جِدًّا».

And David said unto God, I have sinned greatly, because I have done this thing: but now, I beseech thee, do away the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly.

فَكَلَّمَ الرَّبُّ جَادَ رَائِي دَاوُدَ وَقَالَ:

And the LORD spake unto Gad, David's seer, saying,

«اذْهَبْ وَكَلِّمْ دَاوُدَ قَائِلاً: هكَذَا قَالَ الرَّبُّ: ثَلاَثَةً أَنَا عَارِضٌ عَلَيْكَ فَاخْتَرْ لِنَفْسِكَ وَاحِدًا مِنْهَا فَأَفْعَلَهُ بِكَ».

Go and tell David, saying, Thus saith the LORD, I offer thee three things: choose thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee.

فَجَاءَ جَادُ إِلَى دَاوُدَ وَقَالَ لَهُ: «هكَذَا قَالَ الرَّبُّ: اقْبَلْ لِنَفْسِكَ:

So Gad came to David, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Choose thee

إِمَّا ثَلاَثَ سِنِينَ جُوعٌ، أَوْ ثَلاَثَةَ أَشْهُرٍ هَلاَكٌ أَمَامَ مُضَايِقِيكَ وَسَيْفُ أَعْدَائِكَ يُدْرِكُكَ، أَوْ ثَلاَثَةَ أَيَّامٍ يَكُونُ فِيهَا سَيْفُ الرَّبِّ وَوَبَأٌ فِي الأَرْضِ، وَمَلاَكُ الرَّبِّ يَعْثُو فِي كُلِّ تُخُومِ إِسْرَائِيلَ. فَانْظُرِ الآنَ مَاذَا أَرُدُّ جَوَابًا لِمُرْسِلِي».

Either three years' famine; or three months to be destroyed before thy foes, while that the sword of thine enemies overtaketh thee; or else three days the sword of the LORD, even the pestilence, in the land, and the angel of the LORD destroying throughout all the coasts of Israel. Now therefore advise thyself what word I shall bring again to him that sent me.

فَقَالَ دَاوُدُ لِجَادٍ: «قَدْ ضَاقَ بِيَ الأَمْرُ جِدًّا. دَعْنِي أَسْقُطْ فِي يَدِ الرَّبِّ لأَنَّ مَرَاحِمَهُ كَثِيرَةٌ، وَلاَ أَسْقُطُ فِي يَدِ إِنْسَانٍ».

And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let me fall now into the hand of the LORD; for very great are his mercies: but let me not fall into the hand of man.

فَجَعَلَ الرَّبُّ وَبَأً فِي إِسْرَائِيلَ، فَسَقَطَ مِنْ إِسْرَائِيلَ سَبْعُونَ أَلْفَ رَجُل.

So the LORD sent pestilence upon Israel: and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.

وَأَرْسَلَ اللهُ مَلاَكًا عَلَى أُورُشَلِيمَ لإِهْلاَكِهَا، وَفِيمَا هُوَ يُهْلِكُ رَأَى الرَّبُّ فَنَدِمَ عَلَى الشَّرِّ، وَقَالَ لِلْمَلاَكِ الْمُهْلِكِ: «كَفَى الآنَ، رُدَّ يَدَكَ». وَكَانَ مَلاَكُ الرَّبِّ وَاقِفًا عَِِنْدَ بَيْدَرِ أُرْنَانَ الْيَبُوسِيِّ.

And God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was destroying, the LORD beheld, and he repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed, It is enough, stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD stood by the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.

وَرَفَعَ دَاوُدُ عَيْنَيْهِ فَرَأَى مَلاَكَ الرَّبِّ وَاقِفًا بَيْنَ الأَرْضِ وَالسَّمَاءِ، وَسَيْفُهُ مَسْلُولٌ بِيَدِهِ وَمَمْدُودٌ عَلَى أُورُشَلِيمَ. فَسَقَطَ دَاوُدُ وَالشُّيُوخُ عَلَى وُجُوهِهِمْ مُكْتَسِينَ بِالْمُسُوحِ.

And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of the LORD stand between the earth and the heaven, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders of Israel, who were clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces.

وَقَالَ دَاوُدُ ِللهِ: «أَلَسْتُ أَنَا هُوَ الَّذِي أَمَرَ بِإِحْصَاءِ الشَّعْبِ؟ وَأَنَا هُوَ الَّذِي أَخْطَأَ وَأَسَاءَ، وَأَمَّا هؤُلاَءِ الْخِرَافُ فَمَاذَا عَمِلُوا؟ فَأَيُّهَا الرَّبُّ إِلهِي لِتَكُنْ يَدُكَ عَلَيَّ وَعَلَى بَيْتِ أَبِي لاَ عَلَى شَعْبِكَ لِضَرْبِهِمْ».

And David said unto God, Is it not I that commanded the people to be numbered? even I it is that have sinned and done evil indeed; but as for these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, O LORD my God, be on me, and on my father's house; but not on thy people, that they should be plagued.

فَكَلَّمَ مَلاَكُ الرَّبِّ جَادَ أَنْ يَقُولَ لِدَاوُدَ أَنْ يَصْعَدَ دَاوُدُ لِيُقِيمَ مَذْبَحًا لِلرَّبِّ فِي بَيْدَرِ أُرْنَانَ الْيَبُوسِيِّ.

Then the angel of the LORD commanded Gad to say to David, that David should go up, and set up an altar unto the LORD in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.

فَصَعِدَ دَاوُدُ حَسَبَ كَلاَمِ جَادَ الَّذِي تَكَلَّمَ بِهِ بِاسْمِ الرَّبِّ.

And David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spake in the name of the LORD.

فَالْتَفَتَ أُرْنَانُ فَرَأَى الْمَلاَكَ. وَبَنُوهُ الأَرْبَعَةُ مَعَهُ اخْتَبَأُوا، وَكَانَ أُرْنَانُ يَدْرُسُ حِنْطَةً.

And Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.

وَجَاءَ دَاوُدُ إِلَى أُرْنَانَ. وَتَطَلَّعَ أُرْنَانُ فَرَأَى دَاوُدَ، وَخَرَجَ مِنَ الْبَيْدَرِ وَسَجَدَ لِدَاوُدَ عَلَى وَجْهِهِ إِلَى الأَرْضِ.

And as David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out of the threshingfloor, and bowed himself to David with his face to the ground.

فَقَالَ دَاوُدُ لأُرْنَانَ: «أَعْطِنِي مَكَانَ الْبَيْدَرِ فَأَبْنِيَ فِيهِ مَذْبَحًا لِلرَّبِّ. بِفِضَّةٍ كَامِلَةٍ أَعْطِنِي إِيَّاهُ، فَتَكُفَّ الضَّرْبَةُ عَنِ الشَّعْبِ».

Then David said to Ornan, Grant me the place of this threshingfloor, that I may build an altar therein unto the LORD: thou shalt grant it me for the full price: that the plague may be stayed from the people.

فَقَالَ أُرْنَانُ لِدَاوُدَ: «خُذْهُ لِنَفْسِكَ، وَلْيَفْعَلْ سَيِّدِي الْمَلِكُ مَا يَحْسُنُ فِي عَيْنَيْهِ. اُنْظُرْ. قَدْ أَعْطَيْتُ الْبَقَرَ لِلْمُحْرَقَةِ، وَالنَّوَارِجَ لِلْوَقُودِ، وَالْحِنْطَةَ لِلتَّقْدِمَةِ. الْجَمِيعَ أَعْطَيْتُ».

And Ornan said unto David, Take it to thee, and let my lord the king do that which is good in his eyes: lo, I give thee the oxen also for burnt offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat for the meat offering; I give it all.

فَقَالَ الْمَلِكُ دَاوُدُ لأُرْنَانَ: «لاَ! بَلْ شِرَاءً أَشْتَرِيهِ بِفِضَّةٍ كَامِلَةٍ، لأَنِّي لاَ آخُذُ مَا لَكَ لِلرَّبِّ فَأُصْعِدَ مُحْرَقَةً مَجَّانِيَّةً».

And king David said to Ornan, Nay; but I will verily buy it for the full price: for I will not take that which is thine for the LORD, nor offer burnt offerings without cost.

وَدَفَعَ دَاوُدُ لأُرْنَانَ عَنِ الْمَكَانِ ذَهَبًا وَزْنُهُ سِتُّ مِئَةِ شَاقِل.

So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight.

وَبَنَى دَاوُدُ هُنَاكَ مَذْبَحًا لِلرَّبِّ، وَأَصْعَدَ مُحْرَقَاتٍ وَذَبَائِحَ سَلاَمَةٍ، وَدَعَا الرَّبَّ فَأَجَابَهُ بِنَارٍ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ عَلَى مَذْبَحِ الْمُحْرَقَةِ.

And David built there an altar unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called upon the LORD; and he answered him from heaven by fire upon the altar of burnt offering.

وَأَمَرَ الرَّبُّ الْمَلاَكَ فَرَدَّ سَيْفَهُ إِلَى غِمْدِهِ.

And the LORD commanded the angel; and he put up his sword again into the sheath thereof.

فِي ذلِكَ الْوَقْتِ لَمَّا رَأَى دَاوُدُ أَنَّ الرَّبَّ قَدْ أَجَابَهُ فِي بَيْدَرِ أُرْنَانَ الْيَبُوسِيِّ ذَبَحَ هُنَاكَ.

At that time when David saw that the LORD had answered him in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there.

وَمَسْكَنُ الرَّبِّ الَّذِي عَمِلَهُ مُوسَى فِي الْبَرِّيَّةِ وَمَذْبَحُ الْمُحْرَقَةِ كَانَا فِي ذلِكَ الْوَقْتِ فِي الْمُرْتَفَعَةِ فِي جِبْعُونَ.

For the tabernacle of the LORD, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of the burnt offering, were at that season in the high place at Gibeon.

وَلَمْ يَسْتَطِعْ دَاوُدُ أَنْ يَذْهَبَ إِلَى أَمَامِهِ لِيَسْأَلَ اللهَ لأَنَّهُ خَافَ مِنْ جِهَةِ سَيْفِ مَلاَكِ الرَّبِّ.

But David could not go before it to enquire of God: for he was afraid because of the sword of the angel of the LORD.