1 Crônicas 21

1 Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to take a census of Israel. 2 David said to Joab and to the princes of the people, "Go, count Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; and bring me word, that I may know how many there are."

3 Joab said, "May Yahweh make his people a hundred times as many as they are. But, my lord the king, aren’t they all my lord’s servants? Why does my lord require this thing? Why will he be a cause of guilt to Israel?"

4 Nevertheless the king’s word prevailed against Joab. Therefore Joab departed and went throughout all Israel, then came to Jerusalem. 5 Joab gave the sum of the census of the people to David. All those of Israel were one million one hundred thousand men who drew a sword; and in Judah were four hundred seventy thousand men who drew a sword. 6 But he didn’t count Levi and Benjamin among them, for the king’s word was abominable to Joab.

7 God was displeased with this thing; therefore he struck Israel. 8 David said to God, "I have sinned greatly, in that I have done this thing. But now put away, I beg you, the iniquity of your servant, for I have done very foolishly."

9 Yahweh spoke to Gad, David’s seer, saying, 10 "Go and speak to David, saying, ‘Yahweh says, "I offer you three things. Choose one of them, that I may do it to you."’"

11 So Gad came to David and said to him, "Yahweh says, ‘Take your choice: 12 either three years of famine; or three months to be consumed before your foes, while the sword of your enemies overtakes you; or else three days of the sword of Yahweh, even pestilence in the land, and Yahweh’s angel destroying throughout all the borders of Israel. Now therefore consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me.’"

13 David said to Gad, "I am in distress. Let me fall, I pray, into Yahweh’s hand, for his mercies are very great. Don’t let me fall into man’s hand."

14 So Yahweh sent a pestilence on Israel, and seventy thousand men of Israel fell. 15 God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it. As he was about to destroy, Yahweh saw, and he relented of the disaster, and said to the destroying angel, "It is enough. Now withdraw your hand." Yahweh’s angel was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. 16 David lifted up his eyes, and saw Yahweh’s angel 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 on their faces. 17 David said to God, "Isn’t it I who commanded the people to be counted? It is even I who have sinned and done very wickedly; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand, O Yahweh my God, be against me and against my father’s house; but not against your people, that they should be plagued."

18 Then Yahweh’s angel commanded Gad to tell David that David should go up and raise an altar to Yahweh on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. 19 David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spoke in Yahweh’s name.

20 Ornan turned back and saw the angel; and his four sons who were with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat. 21 As David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out of the threshing floor, and bowed himself to David with his face to the ground.

22 Then David said to Ornan, "Sell me the place of this threshing floor, that I may build an altar to Yahweh on it. You shall sell it to me for the full price, that the plague may be stopped from afflicting the people."

23 Ornan said to David, "Take it for yourself, and let my lord the king do that which is good in his eyes. Behold, I give the oxen for burnt offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat for the meal offering. I give it all."

24 King David said to Ornan, "No, but I will most certainly buy it for the full price. For I will not take that which is yours for Yahweh, nor offer a burnt offering that costs me nothing."

25 So David gave to Ornan six hundred shekels*21:25 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.32 Troy ounces, so 600 shekels was about 6 kilograms or about 192 Troy ounces. of gold by weight for the place. 26 David built an altar to Yahweh there, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called on Yahweh; and he answered him from the sky by fire on the altar of burnt offering.

27 Then Yahweh commanded the angel, and he put his sword back into its sheath.

28 At that time, when David saw that Yahweh had answered him in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there. 29 For Yahweh’s tabernacle, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of burnt offering, were at that time in the high place at Gibeon. 30 But David couldn’t go before it to inquire of God, for he was afraid because of the sword of Yahweh’s angel.

Te Tatau me te Urutā

1 Nā, ka tū a Hātana hei hoariri mō Īharaira, ā, ka whakakīkī a Rāwiri ki te tatau i a Īharaira. 2 Nā, ka kī a Rāwiri ki a Ioapa rātou ko ngā rangatira o te iwi, "Tīkina taua a Īharaira, o Peerehepa atu ā tae noa ki Rāna, ka kawe mai ai i tō rātou tokomaha ki ahau, kia mōhio ai ahau."

3 Anō rā ko Ioapa, "Mā Ihowā e mea tāna iwi kia rau noa atu i a rātou e noho nei, otiia, e tōku ariki, e te kīngi, ehara ianei rātou katoa i te pononga nā tōku ariki? He aha rā tēnei i whāia ai e tōku ariki? He aha i waiho ai hei, take hē mō Īharaira?"

4 Otiia kaha tonu tā te kīngi kupu i tā Ioapa. Heoi, ka tūria atu e Ioapa, hāereerea ana e ia a Īharaira katoa, kua tae ki Hiruhārama. 5 Nā, ka hōmai e Ioapa te tokomaha o te iwi i taua ki a Rāwiri. Nā, a Īharaira katoa, he mano ngā mano me ngā mano kotahi rau, he hunga unu hoari; nā, a Hūrā, e whā rau e whitu tekau mano ngā tāngata unu hoari.

6 Ko Rīwai ia rāua ko Pineamine, kīhai i taua e ia i roto i a rātou; he mea whakarihariha hoki ki a Ioapa te kupu a te kīngi. 7 Nā, ka riri te Atua ki tēnei mea; ā, patua ana a Īharaira e ia.

8 Nā, ka mea a Rāwiri ki te Atua, "Nui atu tōku hara i ahau i mea i tēnei mea. Nā, tēnā, kia whakarērea noatia iho te hē o tāu pononga, nui atu hoki tōku kūware."

9 Nā, ka puta te kupu a Ihowā ki tā Rāwiri matakite, ki a Kara; i kī ia, 10 "Haere, kī atu ki a Rāwiri, mea atu, ‘Ko te kupu tēnei a Ihowā: E toru ēnei mea ka whakaaria atu nei e ahau ki a koe, whiriwhiria tētahi o ēnei māu ā ka meatia e ahau ki a koe.’ "

11 Heoi, ko te taenga o Kara ki a Rāwiri, ka mea ki a ia, "Ko te kupu tēnei a Ihowā, ‘Whiriwhiria māu: 12 kia toru rānei ngā tau matekai; kia toru rānei ngā marama e whakangaromia ai koe i te aroaro o ōu hoariri, me te hoari a ōu hoa whawhai e hopu ana i a koe? Kia toru rānei ngā rā o te hoari a Ihowā, arā o te mate urutā ki te whenua, me te anahera a Ihowā e whakangaro ana, i ngā rohe katoa o Īharaira.’ Nā, whakaaroa te kupu e whakahokia e ahau ki tōku kaitono mai."

13 Anō rā ko Rāwiri ki a Kara, "He noa iho ōku whakaaro; nā, kia taka ahau ki te ringa o Ihowā, he nui hoki āna mahi aroha; kaua hoki ahau e taka ki te ringa tangata."

14 Heoi, whakapāngia ana e Ihowā he mate urutā ki a Īharaira; ā, hinga iho o Īharaira e whitu tekau mano tāngata. 15 I tonoa anō e te Atua he anahera ki Hiruhārama whakangaro ai; ā, i a ia e mea ana ki te whakangaro, ka titiro a Ihowā. Nā, ka puta kē tō Ihowā whakaaro mō te kino, ā, ka mea ki te anahera whakangaro, "Kua nui! Kati tōu ringa." Nā, tū ana te anahera a Ihowā i te patunga wīti a Oronana Iepuhi.

16 Nā, ka ara ngā kanohi o Rāwiri, ka kite i te anahera a Ihowā e tū ana i te takiwā o te whenua, o te rangi, me tāna hoari, unu rawa, i tōna ringa, e totoro ana ki runga i Hiruhārama. Kātahi ka tāpapa a Rāwiri rātou ko ngā kaumātua, he kākahu taratara te hīpoki.

17 Ka mea a Rāwiri ki te Atua, "He teka ianei nāku i kī kia taua te iwi? Ko ahau tēnei te mea i hara, i mahi nei i te hē; ko ēnei hipi ia, i aha rātou? E Ihowā, e tōku Atua, kia pā rā tōu ringa ki ahau, ki te whare anō o tōku pāpā; kauaka ia ki tāu iwi, hei whiu mō rātou."

18 Kātahi ka kōrero te anahera a Ihowā ki a Kara kia mea ia ki a Rāwiri, kia haere a Rāwiri ki runga, ki te whakaara i tētahi āta ki a Ihowā ki te patunga wīti a Oronana Iepuhi. 19 Nā, haere ana a Rāwiri i tā Kara kōrero i kōrero ai ia i runga i te ingoa o Ihowā.

20 Nā, ka tahuri ake a Oronana, ka kite i te anahera; ā, piri ana ia, rātou ko āna tama tokowhā. Nā, i te patu wīti a Oronana. 21 Nā, i a Rāwiri e haere ana ki a Oronana, ka titiro a Oronana, ā, ka kite i a Rāwiri, nā, puta ana ia i te patunga wīti, piko ana ki a Rāwiri, tāpapa ana ki te whenua.

22 Kātahi ka mea a Rāwiri ki a Oronana, "Hōmai ki ahau te wāhi i tēnei patunga wīti, kia hangā ai e ahau he āta ki a Ihowā; kia tino rite te utu ka hōmai ai e koe ki ahau, kia mutu ai te whiunga o te iwi."

23 Nā, ka mea a Oronana ki a Rāwiri, "Me tango māu; ā, mā tōku ariki, mā te kīngi e mea te mea e pai ana ki tāna titiro. Nanā, ka hoatu e ahau ki a koe ngā kau hei tahunga tinana, me ngā patu wīti hei wahie, me te wīti anō hei whakahere totokore; ka hoatu katoa e ahau."

24 Nā, ka mea a Kīngi Rāwiri ki a Oronana, "Kāhore; engari ka hokona e ahau kia rite anō ngā utu. E kore hoki ahau e tango i tāu mā Ihowā, e kore hoki e whakaeke i ngā mea kīhai i utua hei tahunga tinana."

25 Heoi, e ono rau ngā hekere kōura, he mea pāuna, i hoatu e Rāwiri ki a Oronana mō taua wāhi. 26 Ā, hangā ana e Rāwiri he āta ki reira mā Ihowā, whakaekea ana he tahunga tinana, he whakahere mō te pai, ā, karanga ana ki a Ihowā. Nā, ka whakahokia tāna i te rangi, he ahi ki runga ki te āta tahunga tinana.

27 Nā, ka kōrero a Ihowā ki te anahera, ā, whakahokia ana e ia tāna hoari ki tōna takotoranga. 28 I taua wā anō, i te kitenga o Rāwiri kua whakarongo a Ihowā ki a ia i te patunga wīti a Oronana Iepuhi, ka mea patunga tapu ia ki reira. 29 Ko te tapenākara hoki o Ihowā i hangā nei e Mohi ki te koraha, me te āta tahunga tinana, i te wāhi tiketike i Kipeono i taua wā. 30 Kīhai ia a Rāwiri i āhei te haere ki mua o taua āta ki te rapu i tā te Atua, i wehi hoki ia i te hoari a te anahera a Ihowā.