2 Samuel 24
1 TUHAN marah lagi kepada Israel, lalu Daud dibujuknya dengan maksud mendatangkan kesulitan atas bangsa itu. Kata TUHAN kepadanya, "Adakanlah sensus di Israel dan Yehuda."
Again the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them, saying, "Go, number Israel and Judah."
2 Lalu berkatalah Daud kepada Yoab panglima tentaranya, "Pergilah bersama perwira-perwiramu kepada semua suku Israel di seluruh negeri untuk mengadakan sensus. Aku ingin tahu jumlah mereka."
The king said to Joab and the captains of the army, who were 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."
3 Tetapi Yoab berkata kepada raja, "Semoga TUHAN Allah Baginda melipatgandakan rakyat Israel sampai seratus kali dari jumlah mereka sekarang, dan semoga Baginda masih hidup supaya dapat melihatnya. Tetapi untuk apa Baginda menghendaki sensus ini?"
Joab said to the king, "Now may the LORD 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 Tetapi raja tetap berpegang pada perintahnya itu. Jadi Yoab dan para perwiranya pergi untuk menghitung bangsa Israel.
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 number the children of Israel.
5 Setelah menyeberangi Sungai Yordan, Yoab dan anak buahnya berkemah di sebelah selatan Aroer, sebuah kota di tengah-tengah lembah di wilayah Gad. Dari situ mereka pergi ke utara, ke Yaezer,
They crossed over the Jordan and began at Aroer, and from the city that is in the middle of the valley of Gad; then on to Jazer.
6 lalu terus ke Gilead dan ke Kades di wilayah orang Het. Kemudian mereka ke Dan, lalu dari Dan belok ke arah barat, ke Sidon.
Then they came to Gilead, and to the region of the Hethites, to Kedesh; and they came to Dan, and around to Sidon,
7 Dari situ mereka pergi ke selatan ke Tirus kota yang berkubu itu. Seterusnya mereka pergi ke semua kota orang Hewi dan orang Kanaan, dan akhirnya ke Bersyeba, di bagian selatan Yehuda.
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 Mereka menjelajahi seluruh negeri dalam waktu sembilan bulan dan dua puluh hari. Setelah itu kembalilah mereka ke Yerusalem
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 dan melaporkan kepada raja hasil sensus itu. Jumlah laki-laki yang memenuhi syarat untuk dinas tentara ada 800.000 orang di Israel dan 500.000 orang di Yehuda.
Joab 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.
10 Tetapi setelah Daud selesai menghitung bangsa itu, dia merasa bersalah, lalu berkata kepada TUHAN, "Ya TUHAN, aku sangat berdosa! Ampunilah aku, sebab tindakanku itu sangat bodoh."
David's heart struck him after that he had numbered the people. David said to the LORD, "I have sinned greatly in that which I have done. But now, LORD, put away, I beg you, the iniquity of your servant; for I have done very foolishly."
11 TUHAN berkata kepada Nabi Gad yang menjadi penghubung antara Daud dan TUHAN, "Pergilah dan katakanlah kepada Daud bahwa Aku memberikan tiga pilihan kepadanya. Apa saja yang dipilihnya akan Kulakukan." Keesokan harinya, setelah Daud bangun tidur,
When David rose up in the morning, the word of the LORD came to the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying,
"Go and speak to David, 'Thus says the LORD, "I offer you three things. Choose one of them, that I may do it to you."'"
13 Gad datang menghadap dan memberitahukan kepadanya perintah TUHAN itu, katanya, "Mana yang Baginda pilih: Negeri ini ditimpa bencana kelaparan selama tiga tahun, atau Baginda lari dikejar-kejar musuh selama tiga bulan, atau negeri ini diserang wabah penyakit selama tiga hari? Putuskanlah sekarang apa yang harus kusampaikan kepada TUHAN."
So Gad came to David, and told him, and said to him, "Shall three 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 Daud menjawab, "Aduh! Celakalah aku! Tetapi daripada aku dihukum oleh manusia, lebih baik kita semua dihukum oleh TUHAN, sebab besar kasih sayang-Nya."
David said to Gad, "I am in distress. Let me fall now into the hand of the LORD; for his mercies are great. Let me not fall into the hand of man."
15 Maka TUHAN mendatangkan wabah penyakit kepada orang Israel mulai dari pagi hari itu sampai pada waktu yang telah ditetapkan-Nya. Di seluruh Israel 70.000 orang meninggal.
So the LORD sent a pestilence on Israel from the morning even to the appointed time; and the destruction began among the people. And there died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba seventy thousand men.
16 Malaikat TUHAN yang membawa maut itu sudah sampai di tempat pengirikan gandum milik Arauna, orang Yebus. Ketika TUHAN melihat bahwa malaikat itu sudah siap untuk memusnahkan Yerusalem, TUHAN mengubah keputusan-Nya, dan Ia berhenti menghukum bangsa itu. Kata-Nya kepada malaikat itu, "Cukup! Berhenti!"
When the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD relented of the disaster, and said to the angel who destroyed the people, "It is enough. Now stay your hand." The angel of the LORD was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite. And David lifted up his eyes and saw the angel of the LORD standing between earth and the sky, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell down on their faces.
17 Daud melihat malaikat yang sedang membunuhi rakyat itu, lalu ia berkata kepada TUHAN, "Akulah yang berdosa sebab aku yang membuat kesalahan itu. Tetapi apa kesalahan bangsa yang malang itu? Hukumlah aku dan keluargaku!"
David spoke to the LORD when he saw the angel who struck the people, and said, "Look, I have sinned, and I, the shepherd, have done great evil. But these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand be against me, and against my father's house."
18 Pada hari itu juga Gad datang menghadap Daud dan berkata kepadanya, "Hendaklah Baginda naik ke tempat pengirikan gandum milik Arauna, dan mendirikan mezbah bagi TUHAN."
Gad came that day to David, and said to him, "Go up, build an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite."
19 Maka berangkatlah Daud sesuai dengan perintah TUHAN yang disampaikan kepadanya melalui Gad.
David went up according to the saying of Gad, as the LORD commanded.
20 Kebetulan Arauna sedang menjenguk ke bawah, dan dilihatnya raja serta para pengiringnya datang kepadanya. Arauna sujud di hadapan Daud,
And Araunah looked out and saw the king and his servants coming on toward him, so Araunah went out and bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground.
21 dan bertanya, "Apa maksud kedatangan Baginda?" Jawab Daud, "Untuk membeli tempat pengirikan gandum ini, aku hendak mendirikan mezbah bagi TUHAN di sini, supaya wabah ini berhenti."
And Araunah said, "Why has my lord the king come to his servant?" David said, "To buy your threshing floor, to build an altar to the LORD, that the plague may be stopped from afflicting the people."
22 Kata Arauna, "Ambil saja Baginda, dan persembahkanlah kepada TUHAN apa yang Baginda rasa baik. Ini sapi-sapi untuk kurban bakaran dan untuk kayu bakarnya Baginda dapat memakai tangkai bajak dan papan-papan pengirikan."
Araunah said to David, "Let my lord the king take and offer up what seems good to him. Look, the cattle for the burnt offering, and the threshing instruments and the yokes of the oxen for the wood."
23 Arauna memberikan semuanya itu kepada raja, sambil berkata, "Kiranya TUHAN Allah Baginda menerima persembahan Baginda."
All these Araunah gave to the king." And Araunah said to the king, "May the LORD your God accept you."
24 Tetapi raja menjawab, "Jangan! Aku mau membelinya. Aku tak mau mempersembahkan kepada TUHAN Allahku sesuatu yang kudapat dengan cuma-cuma." Lalu Daud membeli tempat pengirikan gandum dan sapi-sapi itu dengan harga lima puluh uang perak.
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 the LORD my God which cost me nothing." So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.
25 Lalu Daud mendirikan mezbah di situ bagi TUHAN dan mempersembahkan kurban bakaran serta kurban perdamaian. TUHAN mengabulkan doa Daud, lalu berakhirlah wabah itu di Israel.
David built an altar to the LORD there, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So the LORD responded to the plea for the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel.
