2 Samuel 24

1 Again Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel, and he moved David against them, saying, "Go, count Israel and Judah." 2 The king said to Joab the captain of the army, who was with him, "Now go back and forth through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beersheba, and count the people, that I may know the sum of the people."

3 Joab said to the king, "Now may Yahweh 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 Notwithstanding, 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 count the people of Israel. 5 They passed over the Jordan and encamped in Aroer, on the right side of the city that is in the middle of the valley of Gad, and to Jazer; 6 then they came to Gilead and to the land of Tahtim Hodshi; and they came to Dan Jaan and around to Sidon, 7 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 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 Joab gave up the sum of the counting 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 David’s heart struck him after he had counted the people. David said to Yahweh, "I have sinned greatly in that which I have done. But now, Yahweh, put away, I beg you, the iniquity of your servant; for I have done very foolishly."

11 When David rose up in the morning, Yahweh’s word came to the prophet Gad, David’s seer, saying, 12 "Go and speak to David, ‘Yahweh says, "I offer you three things. Choose one of them, that I may do it to you."’"

13 So Gad came to David, and told him, saying, "Shall seven 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 David said to Gad, "I am in distress. Let us fall now into Yahweh’s hand, for his mercies are great. Let me not fall into man’s hand."

15 So Yahweh sent a pestilence on Israel from the morning even to the appointed time; and seventy thousand men died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba. 16 When the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, Yahweh relented of the disaster, and said to the angel who destroyed the people, "It is enough. Now withdraw your hand." Yahweh’s angel was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

17 David spoke to Yahweh when he saw the angel who struck the people, and said, "Behold, I have sinned, and I have done perversely; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand be against me, and against my father’s house."

18 Gad came that day to David and said to him, "Go up, build an altar to Yahweh on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite."

19 David went up according to the saying of Gad, as Yahweh commanded. 20 Araunah looked out, and saw the king and his servants coming on toward him. Then Araunah went out and bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground. 21 Araunah said, "Why has my lord the king come to his servant?"

David said, "To buy your threshing floor, to build an altar to Yahweh, that the plague may be stopped from afflicting the people."

22 Araunah said to David, "Let my lord the king take and offer up what seems good to him. Behold, the cattle for the burnt offering, and the threshing sledges and the yokes of the oxen for the wood. 23 All this, O king, does Araunah give to the king." Araunah said to the king, "May Yahweh your God accept you."

24 The king said to Araunah, "No, but I will most certainly buy it from you for a price. I will not offer burnt offerings to Yahweh my God which cost me nothing." So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels*24:24 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces, so 50 shekels is about 0.5 kilograms or 1.1 pounds. of silver. 25 David built an altar to Yahweh there, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So Yahweh was entreated for the land, and the plague was removed from Israel.

Ka Taua e Rāwiri ngā Iwi o Īharaira

1 Nā, ka mura anō te riri o Ihowā ki a Īharaira, ā, ka whakatūtehu ia i a Rāwiri ki te hē mō rātou, ki te mea, "Tīkina, taua a Īharaira rāua ko Hūrā."

2 Nā, ko te kīanga a te kīngi ki a Ioapa ki te rangatira ope, i reira ia i a ia, "Tēnā, hāereerea ngā iwi katoa o Īharaira mai o Rāna ā tae noa ki Peerehepa, ka tatau i te iwi, kia mōhio ai ahau ki te tōpūtanga o te iwi."

3 Anō rā ko Ioapa ki te kīngi, "Mā Ihowā, mā tōu Atua e mea te iwi kia tātaki rau noa atu i tō rātou tokomaha i a rātou nei, ā, kia kite hoki ngā kanohi o tōku ariki, o te kīngi; otiia he aha tōku ariki, te kīngi i āhuareka ai ki tēnei mea?"

4 He ahakoa rā, ū tonu te kupu a te kīngi ki a Ioapa rātou ko ngā rangatira ope. Nā, haere atu ana a Ioapa rātou ko ngā rangatira ope i te aroaro o te kīngi ki te tatau i te iwi, i a Īharaira.

5 Nā, ka whiti rātou i Horano, ka noho ki Aroere, ki te taha ki matau o te pā i waenganui o te awaawa o Kara, ā tae noa ki Iatere. 6 Kātahi ka tae rātou ki Kireara, ki te whenua o Tahatimihorohi, ā, ka tae ki Ranaiāna, ā, āwhio haere ana ki Hairona; 7 ā, ka tae ki te pā kaha ki Tāira, ki ngā pā katoa o ngā Hiwi, o ngā Kanaani; ā, puta ana rātou ki te tonga o Hūrā, ki Peerehepa.

8 Nā, ka oti te whenua katoa te hāereere e rātou, ka tae rātou ki Hiruhārama i te paunga o ngā marama e iwa, o ngā rā e rua tekau.

9 Nā, ka hōmai e Ioapa te tōpūtanga o te iwi i taua ki te kīngi; ā, e waru rau mano ngā mārohirohi i roto i a Īharaira, he hunga mau hoari; ā, e rima rau mano ngā tāngata o Hūrā.

Te Whakawātanga ki te Hara a Rāwiri

10 Nā, ka patu te ngākau o Rāwiri i a ia i muri i tāna tauanga i te iwi. Ā, ka mea a Rāwiri ki a Ihowā, "Nui atu tōku hara i tāku i mea nei; nā, tēnā, kia whakarērea noatia iho, e Ihowā, te hē o tāu pononga; nui atu hoki te kūware o tāku i mea ai."

11 Nā, i te marangatanga ake o Rāwiri i te ata, ka puta te kupu a Ihowā ki a Kara poropiti, ki tā Rāwiri matakite, i mea ia, 12 "Haere, mea atu ki a Rāwiri, ko te kupu tēnei a Ihowā: ‘E toru ngā mea ka whakaaria e ahau ki a koe; whiriwhiria e koe tētahi o aua mea, ā, ka meatia e ahau ki a koe.’ "

13 Heoi, ka tae a Kara ki a Rāwiri, ā, ka kōrero ki a ia, ka mea, "Kia tae atu rānei ki a koe ētahi tau matekai e whitu ki tōu whenua? Kia toru rānei ngā marama e rere ai koe i te aroaro o ōu hoariri, me tā rātou whai anō i a koe? Kia toru rānei ngā rā o te mate urutā ki tōu whenua? Nā, whakaaroa e koe kia kitea ai tāku kupu e whakahoki ai ki tōku kaitono mai."

14 Anō rā ko Rāwiri ki a Kara, "He noa iho ōku whakaaro. Nā, kia taka tātou āianei ki roto ki te ringa o Ihowā, he nui hoki āna mahi tohu; ā, kaua ahau e taka ki te ringa o te tangata."

15 Heoi, whakapāngia ana e Ihowā he mate urutā ki a Īharaira, o te ata iho anō ā taea noatia te wā i whakaritea; ā, mate ake o te iwi, o Rāna ā tae noa ki Peerehepa, e whitu tekau mano tāngata. 16 Ā, nō te toronga atu o te ringa o te anahera ki Hiruhārama whakangaro ai, ka puta kē tō Ihowā whakaaro mō te kino, ā, ka mea ia ki te anahera e whakangaro ana i te iwi, "Kua nui tēnei! Kati tōu ringa." Ā, i te patunga wīti a Arauna Iepuhi, te anahera a Ihowā.

17 I kōrero hoki a Rāwiri ki a Ihowā i tōna kitenga i te anahera i patua ai te iwi, i mea, "Inā, kua hara ahau, kua mahi i te mahi hē; ko ēnei hipi ia, i aha rātou? Tēnā, kia pā tōu ringa ki ahau, ki te whare anō o tōku pāpā."

Te Āta o Rāwiri i runga i te Patunga Wīti

18 Nā, ka haere a Kara ki a Rāwiri i taua rā, ā, ka mea ki a ia, "Haere ki runga, whakaarahia he āta ki a Ihowā ki te patunga wīti a Arauna Iepuhi." 19 Nā, whakatika ana a Rāwiri, pērā ana me te kupu a Kara, me tā Ihowā i whakahau ai. 20 Ā, ka titiro atu a Arauna, ka kite i te kīngi rātou ko āna tāngata e haere mai ana ki a ia; nā, ka puta atu a Arauna, piko ana ki te kīngi, ahu ana tōna mata ki te whenua.

21 Nā, ka mea a Arauna, "He aha tōku ariki, te kīngi, i haere mai ai ki tāna pononga?"

Nā, ka mea a Rāwiri, "Ki te hoko i tāu patunga wīti, kia hangā ai he āta ki a Ihowā, kia mutu ai te whiunga o te iwi."

22 Nā, ka mea a Arauna ki a Rāwiri, "Me tango e tōku ariki, e te kīngi, me whakaeke te mea e pai ana ki tāna titiro. Nanā, ngā kau hei tahunga tinana, me ngā patu wīti, me ngā mea o ngā kau hei wahie!" 23 Ko ēnei katoa, e te kīngi, e hoatu ana e Arauna ki te kīngi. I mea anō a Arauna ki te kīngi, "Kia manako a Ihowā, tōu Atua ki a koe."

24 Nā, ka mea te kīngi ki a Arauna, "Kāhore, engari me āta hoko e ahau tōu wāhi ki te utu, e kore hoki e whakaherea e ahau he tahunga tinana ki a Ihowā, ki tōku Atua, kāhore i utua e ahau."

Heoi, hokona ana e Rāwiri taua patunga wīti me ngā kau ki te hiriwa, e rima tekau hekere. 25 Ā, hangā ana e Rāwiri he āta ki reira mā Ihowā, whakaekea ana e ia ētahi tahunga tinana me ētahi whakahere mō te pai. Heoi, ka mārie a Ihowā ki te whenua, ā, ka mutu te mate urutā ki a Īharaira.