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1여호와께서 다시 이스라엘을 향하여 진노하사 저희를 치시려고 다윗을 감동시키사 가서 이스라엘과 유다의 인구를 조사하라 하신지라 2왕이 이에 그 곁에 있는 군대 장관 요압에게 이르되 너는 이스라엘 모든 지파 가운데로 다니며 단에서부터 브엘세바까지 인구를 조사하여 그 도수를 내게 알게 하라 3요압이 왕께 고하되 이 백성은 얼마든지 왕의 하나님 여호와께서 백 배나 더하게 하사 내 주 왕의 눈으로 보게 하시기를 원하나이다 그런데 내 주 왕은 어찌하여 이런 일을 기뻐하시나이까 하되 4왕의 명령이 요압과 군대 장관들을 재촉한지라 요압과 장관들이 이스라엘 인구를 조사하려고 왕의 앞에서 물러나서 5요단을 건너 갓 골짜기 가운데 성읍 아로엘 우편 곧 야셀 맞은편에 이르러 장막을 치고 6길르앗에 이르고 닷딤홋시 땅에 이르고 또 다냐안에 이르러서는 시돈으로 돌아서 7두로 견고한 성에 이르고 히위 사람과 가나안 사람의 모든 성읍에 이르고 유다 남편으로 나와서 브엘세바에 이르니라 8저희 무리가 국중을 두루 돌아 아홉 달 스무 날만에 예루살렘에 이르러 9요압이 인구 도수를 왕께 고하니 곧 이스라엘에서 칼을 빼는 담대한 자가 팔십만이요 유다 사람이 오십만이었더라 10다윗이 인구 수를 조사한 후에 그 마음에 자책하고 여호와께 아뢰되 내가 이 일을 행함으로 큰 죄를 범하였나이다 여호와여 이제 간구하옵나니 종의 죄를 사하여 주옵소서 내가 심히 미련하게 행하였나이다 하니라 11다윗이 아침에 일어날 때에 여호와의 말씀이 다윗의 선견자 된 선지자 갓에게 임하여 가라사대 12가서 다윗에게 말하기를 여호와의 말씀에 내가 네게 세 가지를 보이노니 너는 그 중에서 하나를 택하라 내가 그것을 네게 행하리라 하셨다 하라 13갓이 다윗에게 이르러 고하여 가로되 왕의 땅에 칠 년 기근이 있을 것이니이까 혹시 왕이 왕의 대적에게 쫓겨 석 달을 그 앞에서 도망하실 것이니이까 혹시 왕의 땅에 삼 일 동안 온역이 있을 것이니이까 왕은 생각하여 보고 나를 보내신 이에게 대답하게 하소서 14다윗이 갓에게 이르되 내가 곤경에 있도다 여호와께서는 긍휼이 크시니 우리가 여호와의 손에 빠지고 내가 사람의 손에 빠지지 않기를 원하노라 15이에 여호와께서 그 아침부터 정하신 때까지 온역을 이스라엘에게 내리시니 단부터 브엘세바까지 백성의 죽은 자가 칠만 인이라 16천사가 예루살렘을 향하여 그 손을 들어 멸하려 하더니 여호와께서 이 재앙 내림을 뉘우치사 백성을 멸하는 천사에게 이르시되 족하다 이제는 네 손을 거두라 하시니 때에 여호와의 사자가 여부스 사람 아라우나의 타작 마당 곁에 있는지라 17다윗이 백성을 치는 천사를 보고 곧 여호와께 아뢰어 가로되 나는 범죄하였고 악을 행하였삽거니와 이 양무리는 무엇을 행하였나이까 청컨대 주의 손으로 나와 내 아비의 집을 치소서 하니라 18이 날에 갓이 다윗에게 이르러 고하되 올라가서 여부스 사람 아라우나의 타작마당에서 여호와를 위하여 단을 쌓으소서 하매 19다윗이 여호와의 명하신 바 갓의 말대로 올라가니라 20아라우나가 바라보다가 왕과 그 신복들이 자기를 향하여 옴을 보고 나가서 왕의 앞에서 얼굴을 땅에 대고 절하며 21가로되 어찌하여 내 주 왕께서 종에게 임하시나이까 다윗이 가로되 네게서 타작마당을 사서 여호와께 단을 쌓아 백성에게 내리는 재앙을 그치게 하려 함이로라 22아라우나가 다윗에게 고하되 원컨대 내 주 왕은 좋게 여기시는 대로 취하여 드리소서 번제에 대하여는 소가 있고 땔 나무에 대하여는 마당질하는 제구와 소의 멍에가 있나이다 23왕이여 아라우나가 이것을 다 왕께 드리나이다 하고 또 왕께 고하되 왕의 하나님 여호와께서 왕을 기쁘게 받으시기를 원하나이다 24왕이 아라우나에게 이르되 그렇지 아니하다 내가 값을 주고 네게서 사리라 값 없이는 내 하나님 여호와께 번제를 드리지 아니하리라 하고 은 오십 세겔로 타작마당과 소를 사고 25그곳에서 여호와를 위하여 단을 쌓고 번제와 화목제를 드렸더니 이에 여호와께서 그 땅을 위하여 기도를 들으시매 이스라엘에게 내리는 재앙이 그쳤더라

1Again Yahweh’s anger was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them, saying, “Go, number Israel and Judah.” 2The 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 number the people, that I may know the sum of the people.” 3Joab 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?” 4Notwithstanding, 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 number the people of Israel. 5They 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: 6then they came to Gilead, and to the land of Tahtim Hodshi; and they came to Dan Jaan, and around to Sidon, 7and 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. 8So when they had gone back and forth through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days. 9Joab gave up the sum of the numbering 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. 10David’s heart struck him after that he had numbered 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.” 11When David rose up in the morning, Yahweh’s word came to the prophet Gad, David’s seer, saying, 12“Go and speak to David, ‘Thus says Yahweh, “I offer you three things. Choose one of them, that I may do it to you.”’” 13So Gad came to David, and told him, and said to him, “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.” 14David said to Gad, “I am in distress. Let us fall now into the hand of Yahweh; for his mercies are great. Let me not fall into the hand of man.” 15So Yahweh sent a pestilence on Israel from the morning even to the appointed time; and there died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba seventy thousand men. 16When 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 stay your hand.” Yahweh’s angel was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite. 17David 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.” 18Gad came that day to David, and said to him, “Go up, build an altar to Yahweh on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.” 19David went up according to the saying of Gad, as Yahweh commanded. 20Araunah 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. 21Araunah 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.” 22Araunah 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 instruments and the yokes of the oxen for the wood: 23all this, king, does Araunah give to the king.” Araunah said to the king, “May Yahweh your God accept you.” 24The 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 of silver. 25David built an altar to Yahweh there, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So Yahweh was entreated for the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel.

1En de toorn des HEEREN voer voort te ontsteken tegen Israel; en Hij porde David aan tegen henlieden, zeggende: Ga, tel Israel en Juda. 2De koning dan zeide tot Joab, den krijgsoverste, die bij hem was: Trek nu om, door alle stammen van Israel, van Dan tot Ber-seba toe, en tel het volk, opdat ik het getal des volks wete. 3Toen zeide Joab tot den koning: Nu doe de HEERE, uw God, tot dit volk, zoals deze en die nu zijn, honderdmaal meer, dat de ogen van mijn heer den koning het aanzien; maar waarom heeft mijn heer de koning lust tot deze zaak? 4Doch des konings woord nam de overhand tegen Joab, en tegen de oversten des heirs. Alzo toog Joab uit, met de oversten des heirs, van des konings aangezicht, om het volk Israel te tellen. 5En zij gingen over de Jordaan, en legerden zich bij Aroer, ter rechterhand der stad, die in het midden is van de beek van Gad, en aan Jaezer. 6Voorts kwamen zij in Gilead, en in het lage land Hodsi; ook kwamen zij tot Dan-Jaan, en rondom bij Sidon. 7En zij kwamen tot de vesting van Tyrus, en alle steden der Hevieten en der Kanaanieten; en zij kwamen uit aan het zuiden van Juda te Ber-seba. 8Alzo togen zij om door het ganse land; en ten einde van negen maanden en twintig dagen kwamen zij te Jeruzalem. 9En Joab gaf de som van het getelde volk aan den koning; en in Israel waren achthonderd duizend strijdbare mannen, die het zwaard uittrokken, en de mannen van Juda waren vijfhonderd duizend man. 10En Davids hart sloeg hem, nadat hij het volk geteld had; en David zeide tot den HEERE: Ik heb zeer gezondigd in hetgeen ik gedaan heb; maar nu, o HEERE, neem toch de misdaad Uws knechts weg, want ik heb zeer zottelijk gedaan. 11Als nu David des morgens opstond, zo geschiedde het woord des HEEREN tot den profeet Gad, Davids ziener, zeggende: 12Ga heen, en spreek tot David: Alzo zegt de HEERE: Drie dingen draag Ik u voor; verkies u een uit die, dat Ik u doe. 13Zo kwam Gad tot David, en maakte het hem bekend, en zeide tot hem: Zal u een honger van zeven jaren in uw land komen? Of wilt gij drie maanden vlieden voor het aangezicht uwer vijanden, dat die u vervolgen? Of dat er drie dagen pestilentie in uw land zij? Merk nu, en zie toe, wat antwoord ik Dien zal wederbrengen, Die mij gezonden heeft. 14Toen zeide David tot Gad: Mij is zeer bange; laat ons toch in de hand des HEEREN vallen, want Zijn barmhartigheden zijn vele, maar laat mij in de hand van mensen niet vallen. 15Toen gaf de HEERE een pestilentie in Israel, van den morgen af tot den gezetten tijd toe; en er stierven van het volk, van Dan tot Ber-seba toe, zeventig duizend mannen. 16Toen nu de engel zijn hand uitstrekte over Jeruzalem, om haar te verderven, berouwde het den HEERE over dat kwaad, en Hij zeide tot den engel, die het verderf onder het volk maakte: Het is genoeg, trek uw hand nu af. De engel des HEEREN nu was bij den dorsvloer van Arauna, den Jebusiet. 17En David, als hij den engel zag, die het volk sloeg, sprak tot den HEERE, en zeide: Zie ik, ik heb gezondigd, en ik, ik heb onrecht gehandeld, maar wat hebben deze schapen gedaan? Uw hand zij toch tegen mij en tegen mijns vaders huis. 18En Gad kwam tot David op dienzelfden dag, en zeide tot hem: Ga op, richt den HEERE een altaar op, op den dorsvloer van Arauna, den Jebusiet. 19Alzo ging David op naar het woord van Gad, gelijk als de HEERE geboden had. 20En Arauna zag toe, en zag den koning en zijn knechten tot zich overkomen; zo ging Arauna uit, en boog zich voor den koning met zijn aangezicht ter aarde. 21En Arauna zeide: Waarom komt mijn heer de koning tot zijn knecht? En David zeide: Om dezen dorsvloer van u te kopen, om den HEERE een altaar te bouwen, opdat deze plage opgehouden worde van over het volk. 22Toen zeide Arauna tot David: Mijn heer de koning neme en offere, wat goed is in zijn ogen; zie, daar de runderen ten brandoffer, en de sleden en het rundertuig tot hout. 23Dit alles gaf Arauna, de koning, aan den koning. Voorts zeide Arauna tot den koning: De HEERE uw God neme een welgevallen in u! 24Doch de koning zeide tot Arauna: Neen, maar ik zal het zekerlijk van u kopen voor den prijs; want ik zal den HEERE, mijn God, niet offeren brandofferen om niet. Alzo kocht David den dorsvloer en de runderen voor vijftig zilveren sikkelen. 25En David bouwde aldaar den HEERE een altaar, en offerde brandofferen en dankofferen. Alzo werd de HEERE den lande verbeden, en deze plage van over Israel opgehouden.