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Síðari Samúelsbók 24
Icelandic Bible
Síðari Samúelsbók 24
Icelandic Bible
24 Reiði Drottins upptendraðist enn gegn Ísrael. Egndi hann þá Davíð upp í móti þeim með því að segja: "Far þú og tel Ísrael og Júda."
2 Þá sagði konungur við Jóab og hershöfðingjana, sem með honum voru: "Farið um allar ættkvíslir Ísraels frá Dan til Beerseba og teljið fólkið, til þess að ég fái að vita, hve margt fólkið er."
3 Jóab svaraði konungi: "Drottinn Guð þinn margfaldi lýðinn _ hversu margir, sem þeir nú kunna að vera _ hundrað sinnum og láti minn herra konunginn lifa það. En hvers vegna vill minn herra konungurinn gjöra þetta?"
4 En Jóab og hershöfðingjarnir máttu eigi gjöra annað en það, sem konungur bauð. Gekk þá Jóab og hershöfðingjarnir burt frá konungi til þess að taka manntal í Ísrael.
5 Þeir fóru yfir Jórdan og byrjuðu á Aróer og borginni, sem er í dalnum í áttina til Gað og Jaser.
6 Síðan komu þeir til Gíleað, og til lands Hetíta, í nánd við Kades. Þá komu þeir til Dan, og frá Dan beygðu þeir við í áttina til Sídon.
7 Því næst komu þeir til Týruskastala og til allra borga Hevíta og Kanaaníta, fóru síðan til suðurlandsins í Júda, til Beerseba.
8 En er þeir höfðu farið um land allt, komu þeir eftir níu mánuði og tuttugu daga til Jerúsalem.
9 Og Jóab sagði konungi töluna, sem komið hafði út við manntalið: Í Ísrael voru átta hundruð þúsundir vopnfærra manna vopnbúinna, en í Júda fimm hundruð þúsundir manns.
10 En samviskan sló Davíð, er hann hafði látið telja fólkið. Þá sagði Davíð við Drottin: "Mjög hefi ég syndgað með því, sem ég hefi gjört. En Drottinn, tak nú burt misgjörð þjóns þíns, því að mjög óviturlega hefir mér til tekist."
11 Er Davíð reis morguninn eftir, kom orð Drottins til Gaðs spámanns, sjáanda Davíðs, svolátandi:
12 "Far þú og seg við Davíð: Svo segir Drottinn: Þrjá kosti set ég þér, kjós einn af þeim, og mun ég svo við þig gjöra."
13 Þá gekk Gað til Davíðs, sagði honum frá þessu og mælti til hans: "Hvað kýst þú, að hungur komi í þrjú ár yfir land þitt, eða að þú verðir að flýja í þrjá mánuði fyrir óvinum þínum og sverðið elti þig, eða drepsótt geisi þrjá daga í landi þínu? Hugsaðu þig nú um, og sjá til, hverju ég á að svara þeim, sem sendi mig."
14 Þá sagði Davíð við Gað: "Ég er í miklum nauðum staddur. Látum oss falla í hendur Drottins, því að mikil er miskunn hans, en í manna hendur vil ég ekki falla."
15 Davíð kaus þá drepsóttina, en hveitiuppskeran stóð yfir, þegar sóttin byrjaði, og af lýðnum frá Dan til Beerseba dóu sjötíu þúsund manns.
16 En er engillinn rétti út hönd sína gegn Jerúsalem til þess að eyða hana, þá iðraði Drottin hins illa, og hann sagði við engilinn, sem eyddi fólkinu: "Nóg er að gjört! Drag nú að þér höndina!" En engill Drottins var þá hjá þreskivelli Aravna Jebúsíta.
17 Þegar Davíð sá, hversu engillinn drap niður fólkið, þá sagði hann við Drottin: "Sjá, ég hefi syndgað, og ég hefi misgjört. En þetta er hjörð mín, _ hvað hefir hún gjört? Lát hönd þína leggjast á mig og ættmenn mína."
18 Þann dag kom Gað til Davíðs og mælti við hann: "Far þú og reis Drottni altari á þreskivelli Aravna Jebúsíta."
19 Og Davíð fór eftir boði Gaðs, eins og Drottinn hafði skipað.
20 Og er Aravna leit upp og sá konung og menn hans koma til sín, þá gekk hann í móti þeim og laut á ásjónu sína til jarðar fyrir konungi.
21 Og Aravna mælti: "Hví kemur minn herra konungurinn til þjóns síns?" Davíð svaraði: "Til þess að kaupa af þér þreskivöllinn, svo að ég geti reist Drottni altari og plágunni megi létta af lýðnum."
22 Aravna svaraði Davíð: "Taki minn herra konungurinn það, sem honum þóknast, og fórni. Sjá, hér eru nautin til brennifórnar og þreskisleðarnir og aktygin af nautunum til eldiviðar.
23 Allt þetta, konungur, gefur Aravna konunginum." Og Aravna mælti við konung: "Drottinn, Guð þinn, sé þér náðugur!"
24 En konungur sagði við Aravna: "Eigi svo, en kaupa vil ég það verði af þér, því að ekki vil ég færa Drottni, Guði mínum, það í brennifórnir, er ég hefi kauplaust þegið." Síðan keypti Davíð þreskivöllinn og nautin fyrir fimmtíu sikla silfurs.
2 Samuel 24
New International Version
2 Samuel 24
New International Version
David Enrolls the Fighting Men(A)
24 Again(B) the anger of the Lord burned against Israel,(C) and he incited David against them, saying, “Go and take a census of(D) Israel and Judah.”
2 So the king said to Joab(E) and the army commanders[a] with him, “Go throughout the tribes of Israel from Dan to Beersheba(F) and enroll(G) the fighting men, so that I may know how many there are.”
3 But Joab(H) replied to the king, “May the Lord your God multiply the troops a hundred times over,(I) and may the eyes of my lord the king see it. But why does my lord the king want to do such a thing?”
4 The king’s word, however, overruled Joab and the army commanders; so they left the presence of the king to enroll the fighting men of Israel.
5 After crossing the Jordan, they camped near Aroer,(J) south of the town in the gorge, and then went through Gad and on to Jazer.(K) 6 They went to Gilead and the region of Tahtim Hodshi, and on to Dan Jaan and around toward Sidon.(L) 7 Then they went toward the fortress of Tyre(M) and all the towns of the Hivites(N) and Canaanites. Finally, they went on to Beersheba(O) in the Negev(P) of Judah.
8 After they had gone through the entire land, they came back to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.
9 Joab reported the number of the fighting men to the king: In Israel there were eight hundred thousand able-bodied men who could handle a sword, and in Judah five hundred thousand.(Q)
10 David was conscience-stricken(R) after he had counted the fighting men, and he said to the Lord, “I have sinned(S) greatly in what I have done. Now, Lord, I beg you, take away the guilt of your servant. I have done a very foolish thing.(T)”
11 Before David got up the next morning, the word of the Lord had come to Gad(U) the prophet, David’s seer:(V) 12 “Go and tell David, ‘This is what the Lord says: I am giving you three options. Choose one of them for me to carry out against you.’”
13 So Gad went to David and said to him, “Shall there come on you three[b] years of famine(W) in your land? Or three months of fleeing from your enemies while they pursue you? Or three days of plague(X) in your land? Now then, think it over and decide how I should answer the one who sent me.”
14 David said to Gad, “I am in deep distress. Let us fall into the hands of the Lord, for his mercy(Y) is great; but do not let me fall into human hands.”
15 So the Lord sent a plague on Israel from that morning until the end of the time designated, and seventy thousand of the people from Dan to Beersheba died.(Z) 16 When the angel stretched out his hand to destroy Jerusalem, the Lord relented(AA) concerning the disaster and said to the angel who was afflicting the people, “Enough! Withdraw your hand.” The angel of the Lord(AB) was then at the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
17 When David saw the angel who was striking down the people, he said to the Lord, “I have sinned; I, the shepherd,[c] have done wrong. These are but sheep.(AC) What have they done?(AD) Let your hand fall on me and my family.”(AE)
David Builds an Altar(AF)
18 On that day Gad went to David and said to him, “Go up and build an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor of Araunah(AG) the Jebusite.” 19 So David went up, as the Lord had commanded through Gad. 20 When Araunah looked and saw the king and his officials coming toward him, he went out and bowed down before the king with his face to the ground.
21 Araunah said, “Why has my lord the king come to his servant?”
“To buy your threshing floor,” David answered, “so I can build an altar to the Lord, that the plague on the people may be stopped.”(AH)
22 Araunah said to David, “Let my lord the king take whatever he wishes and offer it up. Here are oxen(AI) for the burnt offering, and here are threshing sledges and ox yokes for the wood. 23 Your Majesty, Araunah[d] gives(AJ) all this to the king.” Araunah also said to him, “May the Lord your God accept you.”
24 But the king replied to Araunah, “No, I insist on paying you for it. I will not sacrifice to the Lord my God burnt offerings that cost me nothing.”(AK)
So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen and paid fifty shekels[e](AL) of silver for them. 25 David built an altar(AM) to the Lord there and sacrificed burnt offerings and fellowship offerings. Then the Lord answered his prayer(AN) in behalf of the land, and the plague on Israel was stopped.
Footnotes
- 2 Samuel 24:2 Septuagint (see also verse 4 and 1 Chron. 21:2); Hebrew Joab the army commander
- 2 Samuel 24:13 Septuagint (see also 1 Chron. 21:12); Hebrew seven
- 2 Samuel 24:17 Dead Sea Scrolls and Septuagint; Masoretic Text does not have the shepherd.
- 2 Samuel 24:23 Some Hebrew manuscripts and Septuagint; most Hebrew manuscripts King Araunah
- 2 Samuel 24:24 That is, about 1 1/4 pounds or about 575 grams
2 Samuel 24
King James Version
2 Samuel 24
King James Version
24 And again the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them to say, Go, number Israel and Judah.
2 For the king said to Joab the captain of the host, which was with him, Go now through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beersheba, and number ye the people, that I may know the number of the people.
3 And Joab said unto the king, Now the Lord thy God add unto the people, how many soever they be, an hundredfold, and that the eyes of my lord the king may see it: but why doth my lord the king delight in this thing?
4 Notwithstanding the king's word prevailed against Joab, and against the captains of the host. And Joab and the captains of the host went out from the presence of the king, to number the people of Israel.
5 And they passed over Jordan, and pitched in Aroer, on the right side of the city that lieth in the midst of the river of Gad, and toward Jazer:
6 Then they came to Gilead, and to the land of Tahtimhodshi; and they came to Danjaan, and about to Zidon,
7 And came to the strong hold of Tyre, and to all the cities of the Hivites, and of the Canaanites: and they went out to the south of Judah, even to Beersheba.
8 So when they had gone through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.
9 And Joab gave up the sum of the number of the people unto the king: and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men that drew the sword; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men.
10 And David's heart smote him after that he had numbered the people. And David said unto the Lord, I have sinned greatly in that I have done: and now, I beseech thee, O Lord, take away the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly.
11 For when David was up in the morning, the word of the Lord came unto the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying,
12 Go and say unto David, Thus saith the Lord, I offer thee three things; choose thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee.
13 So Gad came to David, and told him, and said unto him, Shall seven years of famine come unto thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee three months before thine enemies, while they pursue thee? or that there be three days' pestilence in thy land? now advise, and see what answer I shall return to him that sent me.
14 And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall now into the hand of the Lord; for his mercies are great: and let me not fall into the hand of man.
15 So the Lord sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time appointed: and there died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba seventy thousand men.
16 And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand. And the angel of the Lord was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite.
17 And David spake unto the Lord when he saw the angel that smote the people, and said, Lo, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly: but these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, be against me, and against my father's house.
18 And Gad came that day to David, and said unto him, Go up, rear an altar unto the Lord in the threshingfloor of Araunah the Jebusite.
19 And David, according to the saying of Gad, went up as the Lord commanded.
20 And Araunah looked, and saw the king and his servants coming on toward him: and Araunah went out, and bowed himself before the king on his face upon the ground.
21 And Araunah said, Wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant? And David said, To buy the threshingfloor of thee, to build an altar unto the Lord, that the plague may be stayed from the people.
22 And Araunah said unto David, Let my lord the king take and offer up what seemeth good unto him: behold, here be oxen for burnt sacrifice, and threshing instruments and other instruments of the oxen for wood.
23 All these things did Araunah, as a king, give unto the king. And Araunah said unto the king, The Lord thy God accept thee.
24 And the king said unto Araunah, Nay; but I will surely buy it of thee at a price: neither will I offer burnt offerings unto the Lord my God of that which doth cost me nothing. So David bought the threshingfloor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.
25 And David built there an altar unto the Lord, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So the Lord was intreated for the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel.
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