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2 Tus vaj hais rau Yuas uas yog nws tus thawj tub rog tias : “Nej mus ncig xyuas cov xeem His Xas Lais txij Das mus rau Npes Xas Npes, nej txheeb cov neeg tas tib si, kom kuv paub meej saib muaj pes tsawg leej neeg.”
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?”
9 Yuas mus txheeb neeg tas, nws los hais qhia rau Das Vis tias muaj pes tsawg leej. Cov His Xas Lais muaj yim pua txhiab leej tub rog uas lawv leeg muaj rab ntaj. Cov Yus Das muaj tsib puas txhiab leej.
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 Das Vis kom Yuas txheeb neeg li ntawd tas mas Das Vis lub siab nyob tsis tus, nws hais rau HUAB TAIS tias : “Kuv tau ua ib qho txhaum loj kawg ! Nyem no, HUAB TAIS, thov koj zam rau koj tus tub txib, vim kuv tau yuam kev loj kawg.”
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 Tag kis sawv ntxov, thaum Das Vis sawv los, tus Yaj Saub Nkas hnov HUAB TAIS lo lus qhia nws tias : 12 “Koj mus hais rau Das Vis tias HUAB TAIS hais li no : Kuv hais peb yam rau koj. Koj xaiv ib yam ces kuv yuav ua yam ntawd rau koj.”
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 Ces tus Yaj Saub Nkas mus cuag Das Vis, nws hais rau Das Vis tias : “Koj puas nyiam cia koj lub teb chaws tshaib plab xya xyoo ? Los koj puas yeem swb cov yeeb ncuab peb hlis, cia koj khiav lawv ? Los koj puas yeem cia koj lub teb chaws raug mob aws peb hnub ? Nyem no, koj xav tswv yim ces koj thiaj hais saib kuv yuav teb dab tsi rau tus xa kuv tuaj.”
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 Das Vis hais rau Nkas tias : “Kuv nyuaj siab kawg ! Ntshai yeem cia peb poob nyob hauv HUAB TAIS txhais tes zoo dua. Vim nws kheev hlub neeg kawg. Kuv tsis xav poob nyob hauv neeg txhais tes.”
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 Ces Das Vis yeem xaiv tus mob aws. Thaum ntawd yog lub caij hlais nplej. HUAB TAIS tso aws los rau cov His Xas Lais txij thaum sawv ntxov mus txog lub caij nws teem. Tas sawv daws raug tus mob aws. Muaj xya caum txhiab leej neeg tuag nyob hauv lub teb chaws Das mus rau Npes Xas Npes. 16 Tus Tshiab xyab tes tso aws mus rau Yes Lus Xas Les thiab. Tab sis HUAB TAIS ho rov khuv leej, nws hais rau tus Tshiab rhuav txoj sia tias : “Txaus lawm ! Nyem no koj nkaum koj txhais tes rov qab.” Tus Tshiab thiaj mus nyob ze ntawm As Laus Nas uas yog cov Zes Npws lub tshav ntaus nplej.
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 Thaum Das Vis pom tus Tshiab uas tso aws tuaj rau tsoom pej xeem, Das Vis hais rau HUAB TAIS tias : “Yog kuv tau ua txhaum, yog kuv tau ua tsis zoo xwb. Cov ntawd yog pab yaj. Lawv tsis tau ua phem dab tsi. Thov kom koj txhais tes ntaus kuv thiab kuv tsev neeg xwb mas !”
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† 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.