1 Crônicas 21

Davi numera o povo, e Deus castiga-o

1 *2Sm 24.1-25Então, se levantou Satanás contra Israel e incitou a Davi a fazer resenha de Israel. 2 Disse Davi a Joabe e aos príncipes do povo: *1Cr 27.23-24Ide e contai a Israel desde Berseba até Dã; e trazei-me a conta, para que eu saiba o número. 3 Respondeu Joabe: *Dt 1.11Multiplique Jeová o seu povo cem vezes mais do que ele é; porém, ó rei, meu senhor, não são todos eles servos do meu senhor? Por que requer isso o meu senhor? Por que será ele ocasião de culpa a Israel? 4 Todavia, a palavra do rei prevaleceu contra Joabe. Pelo que partiu Joabe, e passou por todo o Israel, e voltou para Jerusalém. 5 Joabe deu a Davi a soma da resenha do povo. *2Sm 24.9Era todo o Israel um milhão e cem mil homens que usavam de espada; e Judá era quatrocentos e setenta mil homens que usavam de espada. 6 Mas entre eles não contou Joabe a *1Cr 27.24Levi nem a Benjamim, porque a palavra do rei era abominável a Joabe. 7 Isso desagradou a Deus, que feriu a Israel. 8 Então, disse Davi a Deus: Cometi um grande pecado em fazer isso; *2Sm 12.13porém, agora, digna-te perdoar a iniquidade do teu servo, porque procedi mui loucamente.

9 Falou Jeová a *1Cr 29.29;2Sm 24.11Gade, *1Sm 9.9vidente de Davi: 10 Vai e fala a Davi: Assim diz Jeová: Três coisas te proponho: Escolhe uma, para que eu ta faça. 11 Veio Gade a Davi e disse: Assim diz Jeová: Escolhe o que quiseres: 12 *2Sm 24.13ou três anos de fome; ou seres por três meses consumido diante dos teus adversários, enquanto a espada dos teus inimigos te alcança; ou senão a espada de Jeová por três dias, a saber, a peste na terra, e o anjo de Jeová fazendo estragos em todos os termos de Israel. Considera, agora, que resposta hei de dar a quem me enviou. 13 Respondeu Davi a Gade: Acho-me em grande aperto; caia eu nas mãos de Jeová (*Sl 51.1;130.4,7porque mui grandes são as suas misericórdias); e não caia nas mãos dos homens. 14 *1Cr 27.24Mandou Jeová a peste a Israel; e morreram de Israel setenta mil homens. 15 Enviou Deus um anjo a Jerusalém para a destruir; estando o anjo prestes a destruir, olhou Jeová, e *Êx 32.14;1Sm 15.11;Jn 3.10arrependeu-se do mal, e disse ao anjo destruidor: Basta; cesse já a tua mão. O anjo de Jeová estava junto à eira de Ornã, jebuseu. 16 Levantando Davi os olhos, viu ao anjo de Jeová que estava entre a terra e o céu, tendo uma espada desembainhada na mão estendida sobre Jerusalém. Então, Davi e os anciãos, *1Rs 21.27cobertos de cilício, se prostraram com o rosto em terra. 17 Disse Davi a Deus: Não sou eu quem mandou contar o povo? Sou eu o que pequei e procedi malissamente; *2Sm 7.8;Sl 74.1mas estas ovelhas, que fizeram? Seja Jeová, meu Deus, a tua mão contra mim e contra a casa de meu pai, porém não seja contra o teu povo para castigá-lo com peste.

Davi levanta um altar a Jeová na eira de Ornã

18 *2Cr 3.1Então, o anjo de Jeová ordenou a Gade que dissesse a Davi para subir e levantar um altar a Jeová, na eira de Ornã, jebuseu. 19 Subiu Davi conforme a palavra que Gade falou em nome de Jeová. 20 Virando-se Ornã, viu ao anjo; e esconderam-se seus quatro filhos que estavam com ele. Ora, Ornã estava debulhando trigo. 21 Quando Davi se vinha chegando a Ornã, este olhou e o viu e, saindo da eira, prostrou-se perante ele com o rosto em terra. 22 Então Davi disse a Ornã: Dá-me o lugar desta eira, para eu edificar um altar a Jeová (pelo seu valor mo darás), a fim de que cesse a praga de cima do povo. 23 Respondeu Ornã a Davi: Toma-o, e faça o rei, meu senhor, o que for do seu agrado. Eis que te dou os bois para holocaustos, os instrumentos de trilhar para lenha e o trigo para a oferta de cereais; dou tudo. 24 Disse o rei Davi a Ornã: Não; antes, pelo seu valor, quero comprá-lo, porque não tomarei o que é teu para Jeová, nem oferecerei um holocausto que não me custou nada. 25 *2Sm 24.24Davi deu a Ornã pelo lugar o peso de seiscentos siclos de ouro. 26 Edificou ali um altar a Jeová, ofereceu holocaustos e ofertas pacíficas e invocou a Jeová, *Lv 9.24;Jz 6.21que lhe respondeu do céu, mandando fogo sobre o altar do holocausto. 27 Jeová deu ordem ao anjo, que tornou a meter a sua espada na bainha.

28 Nesse tempo, vendo Davi que Jeová lhe tinha respondido na eira de Ornã, jebuseu, ofereceu ali sacrifícios. 29 *1Cr 16.39;1Rs 3.4Pois o tabernáculo de Jeová, que Moisés tinha feito no deserto, e o altar do holocausto estavam, naquele tempo, no alto em Gibeão. 30 Mas Davi não podia ir perante ele para indagar de Deus, porque estava atemorizado por causa da espada do anjo de Jeová.

1 And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel. 2 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. 3 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? 4 Nevertheless the king’s word prevailed against Joab. Wherefore Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, and came to Jerusalem.

5 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. 6 But Levi and Benjamin counted he not among them: for the king’s word was abominable to Joab.

7 And God was displeased with this thing; therefore he smote Israel.*21.7 And…: Heb. And it was evil in the eyes of the LORD concerning this thing 8 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.

9 And the LORD spake unto Gad, David’s seer, saying, 10 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.*21.10 offer: Heb. stretch out 11 So Gad came to David, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Choose thee*21.11 Choose…: Heb. Take to thee 12 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. 13 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.*21.13 very great: or, very many

14 So the LORD sent pestilence upon Israel: and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men. 15 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.*21.15 Ornan: also called, Araunah 16 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. 17 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.

18 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. 19 And David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spake in the name of the LORD. 20 And Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.*21.20 And Ornan…: or, When Ornan turned back and saw the angel, then he and his four sons with him hid themselves 21 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. 22 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.*21.22 Grant: Heb. Give 23 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. 24 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. 25 So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight. 26 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. 27 And the LORD commanded the angel; and he put up his sword again into the sheath thereof.

28 At that time when David saw that the LORD had answered him in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there. 29 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. 30 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.