David Takes a Census
(2 Samuel 24.1-25)1 Satan wanted to bring trouble on the people of Israel, so he made David decide to take a census. 2 David gave orders to Joab and the other officers, “Go through Israel, from one end of the country to the other, and count the people. I want to know how many there are.”
3 Joab answered, “May the Lord make the people of Israel a hundred times more numerous than they are now! Your Majesty, they are all your servants. Why do you want to do this and make the whole nation guilty?” 4 But the king made Joab obey the order. Joab went out, traveled through the whole country of Israel, and then returned to Jerusalem. 5 He reported to King David the total number of men capable of military service: 1,100,000 in Israel and 470,000 in Judah. 6 Because Joab disapproved of the king's command, he did not take any census of the tribes of Levi and Benjamin.
7 God was displeased with what had been done, so he punished Israel. 8 David said to God, “I have committed a terrible sin in doing this! Please forgive me. I have acted foolishly.”
9 Then the Lord said to Gad, David's prophet, 10 “Go and tell David that I am giving him three choices. I will do whichever he chooses.”
11 Gad went to David, told him what the Lord had said, and asked, “Which is it to be? 12 Three years of famine? Or three months of running away from the armies of your enemies? Or three days during which the Lord attacks you with his sword and sends an epidemic on your land, using his angel to bring death throughout Israel? What answer shall I give the Lord?”
13 David replied to Gad, “I am in a desperate situation! But I don't want to be punished by people. Let the Lord himself be the one to punish me, because he is merciful.”
14 So the Lord sent an epidemic on the people of Israel, and seventy thousand of them died. 15 Then he sent an angel to destroy Jerusalem, but he changed his mind and said to the angel, “Stop! That's enough!” The angel was standing by the threshing place of Araunah, a Jebusite.
16 David saw the angel standing in midair, holding his sword in his hand, ready to destroy Jerusalem. Then David and the leaders of the people—all of whom were wearing sackcloth—bowed low, with their faces touching the ground. 17 David prayed, “O God, I am the one who did wrong. I am the one who ordered the census. What have these poor people done? Lord, my God, punish me and my family, and spare your people.”
18 The angel of the Lord told Gad to command David to go and build an altar to the Lord at Araunah's threshing place. 19 David obeyed the Lord's command and went, as Gad had told him to. 20 There at the threshing place Araunah and his four sons were threshing wheat, and when they saw the angel, the sons ran and hid. 21 As soon as Araunah saw King David approaching, he left the threshing place and bowed low, with his face touching the ground. 22 David said to him, “Sell me your threshing place, so that I can build an altar to the Lord, to stop the epidemic. I'll give you the full price.”
23 “Take it, Your Majesty,” Araunah said, “and do whatever you wish. Here are these oxen to burn as an offering on the altar, and here are the threshing boards to use as fuel, and wheat to give as an offering. I give it all to you.”
24 But the king answered, “No, I will pay you the full price. I will not give as an offering to the Lord something that belongs to you, something that costs me nothing.” 25 And he paid Araunah six hundred gold coins for the threshing place. 26 He built an altar to the Lord there and offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings. He prayed, and the Lord answered him by sending fire from heaven to burn the sacrifices on the altar.
27 The Lord told the angel to put his sword away, and the angel obeyed. 28 David saw by this that the Lord had answered his prayer, so he offered sacrifices on the altar at Araunah's threshing place. 29 The Tent of the Lord's presence which Moses had made in the wilderness, and the altar on which sacrifices were burned were still at the place of worship at Gibeon at this time; 30 but David was not able to go there to worship God, because he was afraid of the sword of the Lord's angel.
Dawuda ye kelediŋolu yaatee
(2 Samuweli 24:1-17)1 Seetaanoo* wulita Banisirayila kamma, a ye Dawuda marisa ka Banisirayilankoolu yaatee. 2 Dawuda wulita, a ko Yowabu aniŋ kelediŋ ñaatonkoolu ye ko, “Ali taa ali ye Banisirayilankoolu bee yaatee ka bo bankoo tonkoŋ fo a tonkoŋ, ali ye a yaatewo samba naŋ, fo n si a loŋ.” 3 Bari Yowabu ko, “Allamaa Yaawe* ye a la moolu lafaa ko siiñaa keme. Ñinnu bee mu i la dookuulaalu le ti. M maarii mansa, muŋ ne ye a tinna i suulata ka ñiŋ ke? Muŋ ne ye a tinna i ka Banisirayila boyindi?” 4 Bari Yowabu maŋ balaŋ noo mansa la kumoo ma. Bituŋ a bota jee, ka taa moolu yaatee, mennu bee be Banisirayila, wo koolaa a muruta naŋ Yerusalaamu.
5 Yowabu ye kelediŋolu kontoo fo Dawuda ye. Banisirayila bee kono kee mendiŋ miliyoŋ kiliŋ, wuli keme kiliŋ ne be jee, mennu si keloo ke noo niŋ hawusaroo* la, aduŋ Yahuuda kono kee wuli keme naani, kee wuli taŋ woorowula. 6 Bari a maŋ Lewi niŋ Benjamini lasiloo moolu yaatee, kaatu mansa la ñiŋ yaamaroo mu a ye kuu ñantabaloo le ti.
7 Dawuda la ñiŋ kuwo maŋ Alla kontaani, bituŋ a ye Banisirayila yankankati. 8 Dawuda ko Yaawe ye ko, “Ŋa junube kuu baa le ke, ka ñiŋ kuu siifaa ke! Yaawe, ŋa i daani, dukaree, sabari, i ye hakatu n ye. Ŋa kuu fuuriŋ baa le ke.”
9 Bituŋ Yaawe diyaamuta Annabilayi Kadu ye meŋ ka a la kumoo sindi Dawuda ma ko, 10 “Taa i ye a fo Dawuda ye ko, ‘Yaawe ye ñiŋ ne fo ko, a be kuu saba le laa la i ye. I si kiliŋ tomboŋ wo saboo kono, a si meŋ ke i la.’ ”
11 Wo to le Kadu taata Dawuda kaŋ, a ko a ye ko, “Yaawe ye ñiŋ ne fo ko, i si a tomboŋ i lafita meŋ na: 12 Fo sanji saba konkoo ye boyi i la bankoo kaŋ baŋ? Waraŋ kari saba i kali bori i jawoolu ñaato, aduŋ i jawoolu la hawusaroo si tu i noo la? Waraŋ tili saba alibalaa kuuraŋo ye naa i la bankoo kaŋ, aduŋ a si a la malaayikoo kii naŋ ka faaroo ke Banisirayila bankoo bee kaŋ? Saayiŋ, a fo n ye, m be jaabiroo meŋ samba la a ye, meŋ ye n kii.”
13 Bituŋ Dawuda ko Kadu ye ko, “M be niikuyaa baa le kono. Ŋa duŋ Yaawe buloo kono, kaatu a balafaatiyo warata le. Bari a kana a ke, ŋa duŋ hadamadiŋolu buloo kono.”
14 Bituŋ Yaawe ye alibalaa kuuraŋo boyi Banisirayilankoolu kaŋ. Aduŋ moo wuli taŋ woorowula le faata. 15 Alla ye malaayikoo kii, ka Yerusalaamu kasaara. Biriŋ a ye a dati ka jee kasaara, Yaawe balafaata, a ko a ye ko, “A kaañanta. A tu jee.”
Wo waatoo Yaawe la malaayikoo tarata Arawuna Yebusinkoo la toñonkari dulaa le to. 16 Dawuda ye a kuŋo wuli, a ye Yaawe la malaayikoo je, a be looriŋ saŋo niŋ bankoo teema, aduŋ hawusaroo be a bulu, a ye a wanka Banisirayila kunto. Bituŋ Dawuda niŋ alifaalu sujudita ì bitita ì ñaadaa kaŋ, booto funtoo be dundiŋ ì la. 17 Wo to le Dawuda ko Alla ye ko, “Fo a maŋ ke, nte le ŋa yaamaroo dii baŋ, ka moolu yaatee? Nte le ye junube kuwo ke, ŋa kuu jawu baa le ke, bari n na moolu, wolu ye muŋ ne ke? Yaawe n na Alla, i buloo si laa n niŋ n na dimbaayaa kaŋ, alibalaa kuuraŋo kana laa i la moolu kaŋ.”
Dawuda ye sadaabodulaa loo
(2 Samuweli 24:18-25)18 Wo to le Yaawe la malaayikoo ye Kadu yaamari ka a fo Dawuda ye ko, a ñanta taa la le ka sadaabodulaa* loo Yaawe ye Arawuna Yebusinkoo la toñonkari dulaa to. 19 Wo to le Dawuda taata, komeŋ Kadu ye a fo a ye ñaameŋ Yaawe too la. 20 Wo tumoo Arawuna be wiiti* toñonkoo le la, a ye a ñaa fayi kooma, a ye malaayikoo je, bituŋ a dinkee naanoo mennu be a fee, ye i maabo. 21 Jee niŋ jee Arawuna ye Dawuda je, a ka a waliŋ, a bota a la toñonkari dulaa to, a ye a benduŋ. Bituŋ a ñoyita a ye, a ye a kuŋo jimi duuma.
22 Dawuda ko a ye a ko, “I la toñonkari dulaa dii n na, fo n si sadaabodulaa loo Yaawe ye jee. A jarita meŋ-wo-meŋ na, m be a joo la le, fo alibalaa kuuraŋo meŋ boyita moolu kaŋ, si bo.”
23 Arawuna ko a ye ko, “M maarii Mansa, a taa. I lafita feŋ-wo-feŋ na, a ke. Ninsi senelaalu fele, ka ì ke jani sadaa* ti, aduŋ toñonkarilaŋolu* fele ka ì ke loo ti, aniŋ wiiti* siimaŋo ka a ke siimaŋ sadaa ti. Nte le ye a bee dii i la.”
24 Bari Mansa Dawuda ye Arawuna jaabi ko, “Hanii, m be ì saŋ na i bulu le, ì daa mu feŋ-wo-feŋ ti. N te feŋ taa la i bulu Yaawe ye, meŋ mu i taa ti. N te feŋ ke la jani sadaa ti, m maŋ feŋ joo meŋ kunto.”
25 Wo to le Dawuda ye Arawuna la toñonkari dulaa saŋ sani kuntu keme wooro la. 26 Dawuda ye sadaabodulaa loo Yaawe ye jee, a ye jani sadaalu niŋ kayira sabatindiraŋ sadaalu bondi. A duwaata jee, aduŋ Yaawe ye a jaabi niŋ dimbaa la, ka bo naŋ saŋo santo, ka sadaa jani meŋ be sadaabodulaa kaŋ. 27 Wo to le Yaawe ko malaayikoo ye ko, “I la hawusaroo murundi a laa kono.” Bituŋ a ye a la hawusaroo murundi a laa kono. 28 Wo waatoo le mu Dawuda ye a je ko, Yaawe ye a la duwaa jaabi Arawuna Yebusinkoo la toñonkari dulaa to le, a naata tenteŋ ka sadaa bondi jee. 29 Wo waatoo la Yaawe la Tiriliisi Senuŋo*, Musa ye meŋ loo keñewuloo* kono Yaawe ye, aniŋ sadaajanidulaa* be nuŋ Alla batudulaa tintiŋo* le to Kibeyoni. 30 Bari Dawuda maŋ haañi ka taa jee ka Alla batu, kaatu a be silariŋ Yaawe la malaayikoo la hawusaroo le la.
