2. Krallar (2. Samuel) 24

¹Ve Rab'bin öfkesi İsrail'e karşı yeniden alevlendi ve Davut'u onların arasında harekete geçirip, "Git, İsrail ve Yahuda'yı say" dedi.

²Kral, yanında bulunan ordu komutanı Yoav'a, "Dan'dan Beer-Şeva'ya kadar bütün İsrail ve Yahuda oymaklarını dolaş ve halkı denetle ki, halkın sayısını bileyim" dedi.

³Yoav krala, "Rab Tanrın halkı şimdikinin yüz katı kadar çoğaltsın ve efendim kralın gözleri de bunu görsün; ancak efendim kral neden böyle bir şeyi arzuluyor?" dedi.

⁴Fakat kralın sözü Yoav'a ve ordu komutanlarına ağır bastı. Böylece Yoav ve ordu komutanları, İsrail halkını denetlemek üzere kralın huzurundan çıktılar.

⁵Şeria Irmağı'nı geçip Gad vadisinin ortasındaki kentin sağ tarafında bulunan Aroer'de ve Eliezer'de ordugah kurdular.

⁶Sonra Gilead'a ve Adasay olan Tabason topraklarına geldiler; oradan Danidan ile Udan'a ulaştılar ve Sayda'yı çevrelediler.

⁷Sur Kalesi'ne, Hivliler ile Kenanlıların bütün kentlerine vardılar ve Yahuda'nın güneyine, Beer-Şeva'ya çıktılar.

⁸Bütün ülkeyi baştan başa dolaştıktan sonra, dokuz ay yirmi günün sonunda Yeruşalim'e döndüler.

⁹Yoav halkın sayım sonucunu krala sundu: İsrail'de kılıç kuşanabilen sekiz yüz bin yiğit, Yahuda'da ise beş yüz bin savaşçı vardı.

¹⁰Halkı saydıktan sonra Davut'un yüreği sızladı. Davut Rab'be, "Bu yaptığım şeyle büyük günah işledim, ya Rab! Şimdi lütfen kulunun suçunu bağışla, çünkü çok büyük bir aptallık ettim" dedi.

¹¹Davut sabah kalktığında, Rab'bin sözü Davut'un görücüsü Peygamber Gad'a şöyle geldi:

¹²"Git ve Davut'a de ki: Rab şöyle diyor: Önüne üç şey getiriyorum; bunlardan birini kendin için seç ki, sana onu yapayım."

¹³Gad Davut'un yanına gelip durumu bildirdi ve ona şöyle dedi: "Sana hangisi gelsin: Ülkende üç yıl kıtlık mı olsun, yoksa seni kovalayan düşmanlarının önünden üç ay boyunca kaçmak mı, yoksa ülkende üç gün ölümcül salgın hastalık olması mı? Şimdi düşün ve beni gönderene ne yanıt vereceğimi kararlaştır."

¹⁴Davut Gad'a, "Her yandan çok sıkıştım" dedi, "İnsan eline düşmektense, Rab'bin eline düşelim; çünkü O'nun merhameti çok büyüktür."

¹⁵Ve Davut kendisi için ölümü seçti. Bu olay buğday biçme zamanındaydı. Rab İsrail üzerine sabahtan öğle vaktine kadar salgın hastalık gönderdi. Halk arasında kırgın başladı ve Dan'dan Beer-Şeva'ya kadar halktan yetmiş bin kişi öldü.

¹⁶Tanrı'nın meleği Yeruşalim'i yok etmek için elini uzattığında, Rab bu yıkımdan dolayı kararından döndü ve halkı yok eden meleğe, "Yeter artık, elini çek!" dedi. Rab'bin meleği Yevuslu Orna'nın harman yerinin yanındaydı.

¹⁷Davut, halkı vuran meleği görünce Rab'be şöyle dedi: "İşte, günah işleyen benim, kötülük yapan çoban benim; ama bu koyunlar ne yaptı ki? Lütfen senin elin bana ve babamın evine karşı olsun."

¹⁸Gad o gün Davut'un yanına gelip ona, "Yukarı çık ve Yevuslu Orna'nın harman yerinde Rab'be bir sunak kur" dedi.

¹⁹Davut, Gad'ın sözü uyarınca, Rab'bin buyurduğu gibi yukarı çıktı.

²⁰Orna bakıp kralın ve görevlilerinin kendisinin üzerinden geçip gittiğini gördü. Hemen dışarı çıkıp kralın önünde yüzüstü yere kapandı.

²¹Orna, "Efendim kral neden kulunun yanına geldi?" dedi. Davut, "Rab'be bir sunak kurmak ve halkın üzerindeki salgın son bulsun diye harman yerini senden satın almak için geldim" dedi.

²²Orna Davut'a, "Efendim kral gözüne iyi görüneni alsın ve Rab'be sunsun" dedi, "İşte yakmalık sunu için öküzler, odun yerine de tekerlekler ve öküzlerin koşum takımları."

²³Orna bunların hepsini krala verdi ve "Tanrın Rab seni kabul etsin" dedi.

²⁴Ancak kral Orna'ya, "Hayır, kesinlikle değerini ödeyip senden satın alacağım; Tanrım Rab'be karşılıksız yakmalık sunular sunmam" dedi. Böylece Davut harman yerini ve öküzleri elli gümüş şekele satın aldı.

²⁵Davut orada Rab'be bir sunak kurup yakmalık sunular ve esenlik sunuları sundu. Süleyman daha sonra sunağı genişletti, çünkü başlangıçta küçüktü. Rab ülkenin yakarışını duydu ve salgın hastalık İsrail'den uzaklaştırıldı.

¹ΚΑΙ προσέθετο ὀργὴν Κύριος ἐκκαῆναι ἐν ᾿Ισραήλ, καὶ ἐπέσεισε τὸν Δαυὶδ ἐν αὐτοῖς λέγων· βάδιζε, ἀρίθμησον τὸν ᾿Ισραὴλ καὶ τὸν ᾿Ιούδαν.

²καὶ εἶπεν ὀ βασιλεὺς πρὸς ᾿Ιωὰβ ἄρχοντα τῆς ἰσχύος τὸν μετ’ αὐτοῦ· δίελθε δὴ πάσας φυλὰς ᾿Ισραὴλ καὶ ᾿Ιούδα, ἀπὸ Δὰν καὶ ἕως Βηρσαβεὲ καὶ ἐπίσκεψαι τὸν λαόν, καὶ γνώσομαι τὸν ἀριθμὸν τοῦ λαοῦ.

³καὶ εἶπεν ᾿Ιωὰβ πρὸς τὸν βασιλέα· καὶ προσθείη Κύριος ὁ Θεὸς πρὸς τὸν λαὸν ὥσπερ αὐτοὺς καὶ ὥσπερ αὐτοὺς ἑκατονταπλασίονα, καὶ ὀφθαλμοὶ τοῦ κυρίου μου τοῦ βασιλέως ὁρῶντες· καὶ ὁ κύριός μου ὁ βασιλεὺς ἱνατί βούλεται ἐν τῷ λόγῳ τούτῳ;

⁴καὶ ὑπερίσχυσεν ὀ λόγος τοῦ βασιλέως πρὸς ᾿Ιωὰβ καὶ εἰς τοὺς ἄρχοντας τῆς δυνάμεως. καὶ ἐξῆλθεν ᾿Ιωὰβ καὶ οἱ ἄρχοντες τῆς ἰσχύος ἐνώπιον τοῦ βασιλέως ἐπισκέψασθαι τὸν λαὸν τὸν ᾿Ισραήλ.

⁵καὶ διέβησαν τὸν ᾿Ιορδάνην καὶ παρενέβαλον ἐν ᾿Αροὴρ ἐκ δεξιῶν τῆς πόλεως τῆς ἐν μέσῳ τῆς φάραγγος Γὰδ καὶ ᾿Ελιέζερ.

⁶καὶ ἦλθον εἰς Γαλαὰδ καὶ εἰς γῆν Θαβασών, ἥ ἐστιν ᾿Αδασαί, καὶ παρεγένοντο εἰς Δανιδὰν καὶ Οὐδὰν καὶ ἐκύκλωσαν εἰς Σιδῶνα.

⁷καὶ ἦλθον εἰς Μάψαρ Τύρου καὶ εἰς πάσας τὰς πόλεις τοῦ Εὐαίου καὶ τοῦ Χαναναίου καὶ ἦλθαν κατὰ νότον ᾿Ιούδα εἰς Βηρσαβεὲ

⁸καὶ περιώδευσαν ἐν πάσῃ τῇ γῇ καὶ παρεγένοντο ἀπὸ τέλους ἐννέα μηνῶν καὶ εἴκοσιν ἡμερῶν εἰς ῾Ιερουσαλήμ.

⁹καὶ ἔδωκεν ᾿Ιωὰβ τὸν ἀριθμὸν τῆς ἐπισκέψεως τοῦ λαοῦ πρὸς τὸν βασιλέα, καὶ ἐγένετο ᾿Ισραὴλ ὀκτακόσιαι χιλιάδες ἀνδρῶν δυνάμεως σπωμένων ῥομφαίαν καὶ ἀνὴρ ᾿Ιούδα πεντακόσιαι χιλιάδες ἀνδρῶν μαχητῶν.

¹⁰καὶ ἐπάταξε καρδία Δαυὶδ αὐτὸν μετὰ τὸ ἀριθμῆσαι τὸν λαόν, καὶ εἶπε Δαυὶδ πρὸς Κύριον· ἥμαρτον σφόδρα, ὃ ἐποίησα νῦν, Κύριε· παραβίβασον δὴ τὴν ἀνομίαν τοῦ δούλου σου, ὅτι ἐμωράνθην σφόδρα.

¹¹καὶ ἀνέστη Δαυὶδ τὸ πρωΐ. καὶ λόγος Κυρίου ἐγένετο πρὸς Γὰδ τὸν προφήτην τὸν ὁρῶντα λέγων·

¹²πορεύθητι καὶ λάλησον πρὸς Δαυὶδ λέγων· τάδε λέγει Κύριος· τρία ἐγώ εἰμι αἴρω ἐπὶ σέ, καὶ ἔκλεξαι σεαυτῷ ἓν ἐξ αὐτῶν καὶ ποιήσω σοι.

¹³καὶ εἰσῆλθε Γὰδ πρὸς Δαυὶδ καὶ ἀνήγγειλε καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῷ· ἔκλεξαι σεαυτῷ γενέσθαι, εἰ ἔλθῃ σοι τρία ἔτη λιμὸς ἐν τῇ γῇ σου, ἢ τρεῖς μῆνας φεύγειν σε ἔμπροσθεν τῶν ἐχθρῶν σου καὶ ἔσονται διώκοντές σε, ἢ γενέσθαι τρεῖς ἡμέρας θάνατον ἐν τῇ γῇ σου· νῦν οὖν γνῶθι καὶ ἰδὲ τί ἀποκριθῶ τῷ ἀποστείλαντί με ρῆμα.

¹⁴καὶ εἶπε Δαυὶδ πρὸς Γάδ· στενά μοι πάντοθεν σφόδρα ἐστίν· ἐμπεσοῦμαι δὴ εἰς χεῖρας Κυρίου, ὅτι πολλοὶ οἱ οἰκτιρμοὶ αὐτοῦ σφόδρα, εἰς δὲ χεῖρας ἀνθρώπου οὐ μὴ ἐμπέσω·

¹⁵καὶ ἐξελέξατο ἑαυτῷ Δαυὶδ τὸν θάνατον. καὶ ἡμέραι θερισμοῦ πυρῶν, καὶ ἔδωκε Κύριος θάνατον ἐν ᾿Ισραὴλ ἀπὸ πρωΐθεν ἕως ὥρας ἀρίστου, καὶ ἤρξατο ἡ θραῦσις ἐν τῷ λαῷ, καὶ ἀπέθανεν ἐκ τοῦ λαοῦ ἀπὸ Δὰν καὶ ἕως Βηρσαβεὲ ἑβδομήκοντα χιλιάδες ἀνδρῶν.

¹⁶καὶ ἐξέτεινεν ὁ ἄγγελος τοῦ Θεοῦ τὴν χεῖρα αὐτοῦ εἰς ῾Ιερουσαλὴμ τοῦ διαφθεῖραι αὐτήν, καὶ παρεκλήθη Κύριος ἐπὶ τῇ κακίᾳ καὶ εἶπε τῷ ἀγγέλῳ τῷ διαφθείροντι ἐν τῷ λαῷ· πολὺ νῦν, ἄνες τὴν χεῖρά σου· καὶ ὁ ἄγγελος Κυρίου ἦν παρὰ τῇ ἅλῳ ᾿Ορνὰ τοῦ ᾿Ιεβουσαίου.

¹⁷καὶ εἶπε Δαυὶδ πρὸς Κύριον ἐν τῷ ἰδεῖν αὐτὸν τὸν ἄγγελον τὸν τύπτοντα ἐν τῷ λαῷ καὶ εἶπεν· ἰδοὺ ἐγώ εἰμι ἠδίκησα καὶ ἐγώ εἰμι ὁ ποιμὴν ἐκακοποίησα, καὶ οὗτοι τὰ πρόβατα τί ἐποίησαν; γενέσθω δὴ ἡ χείρ σου ἐν ἐμοὶ καὶ ἐν τῷ οἴκῳ τοῦ πατρός μου.

¹⁸καὶ ἦλθε Γὰδ πρὸς Δαυὶδ ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἐκείνῃ καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῷ· ἀνάβηθι καὶ στῆσον τῷ Κυρίῳ θυσιαστήριον ἐν τῷ ἅλωνι ᾿Ορνὰ τοῦ ᾿Ιεβουσαίου.

¹⁹καὶ ἀνέβη Δαυὶδ κατὰ τὸν λόγον Γάδ, καθ’ ὃν τρόπον ἐνετείλατο αὐτῷ Κύριος.

²⁰καὶ διέκυψεν ᾿Ορνὰ καὶ εἶδε τὸν βασιλέα καὶ τοὺς παῖδας αὐτοῦ παραπορευομένους ἐπάνω αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐξῆλθεν ᾿Ορνὰ καὶ προσεκύνησε τῷ βασιλεῖ ἐπὶ πρόσωπον αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν.

²¹καὶ εἶπεν ᾿Ορνά· τί ὅτι ἦλθεν ὁ κύριός μου ὁ βασιλεὺς πρός τὸν δοῦλον αὐτοῦ; καὶ εἶπε Δαυὶδ· κτήσασθαι παρὰ σοῦ τὸν ἅλωνα τοῦ οἰκοδομῆσαι θυσιαστήριον τῷ Κυρίῳ, καὶ συσχεθῇ ἡ θραῦσις ἐπάνω τοῦ λαοῦ.

²²καὶ εἶπεν ᾿Ορνὰ πρὸς Δαυὶδ· λαβέτω καὶ ἀνενεγκάτω ὁ κύριός μου ὁ βασιλεὺς τῷ Κυρίῳ τὸ ἀγαθὸν ἐν ὀφθαλμοῖς αὐτοῦ· ἰδοὺ οἱ βόες εἰς ὁλοκαύτωμα, καὶ οἱ τροχοὶ καὶ τὰ σκεύη τῶν βοῶν εἰς ξύλα.

²³τὰ πάντα ἔδωκεν ᾿Ορνὰ τῷ βασιλεῖ, καὶ εἶπεν ᾿Ορνά πρὸς τὸν βασιλέα· Κύριος ὁ Θεός σου εὐλογήσαι σε.

²⁴καὶ εἶπεν ὁ βασιλεὺς πρὸς ᾿Ορνά· οὐχί, ὅτι ἀλλὰ κτώμενος κτήσομαι παρὰ σοῦ ἐν ἀλλάγματι, καὶ οὐκ ἀνοίσω τῷ Κυρίῳ μου Θεῷ ὁλοκαύτωμα δωρεάν· καὶ ἐκτήσατο Δαυὶδ τὸν ἅλωνα καὶ τοὺς βόας ἐν ἀργυρίῳ σίκλων πεντήκοντα.

²⁵καὶ ᾠκοδόμησεν ἐκεῖ Δαυὶδ θυσιαστήριον Κυρίῳ. καὶ ἀνήνεγκεν ὁλοκαυτώσεις καὶ εἰρηνικάς. καὶ προσέθηκε Σαλωμὼν ἐπὶ τὸ θυσιαστήριον ἐπ’ ἐσχάτῳ, ὅτι μικρὸν ἦν ἐν πρώτοις. καὶ ἐπήκουσε Κύριος τῇ γῇ, καὶ συνεσχέθη ἡ θραῦσις ἐπάνωθεν ᾿Ισραήλ.

¹And the Lord caused his anger to burn forth again in Israel, and [Satan] stirred up David against them, saying, Go, number Israel and Juda.

²And the king said to Joab commander of the host, who was with him, Go now through all the tribes of Israel and Juda, from Dan even to Bersabee, and number the people, and I will know the number of the people.

³And Joab said to the king, Now may the Lord add to the people a hundred-fold as many as they are, and [may] the eyes of my lord the king see it: but why does my lord the king desire this thing?

⁴Nevertheless the word of the king prevailed against Joab and the captains of the host: And Joab and the captains of the host went out before the king to number the people of Israel.

⁵And they went over Jordan, and encamped in Aroer, on the right of the city which is in the midst of the valley of Gad and Eliezer.

⁶And they came to Galaad, and into the land of Thabason, which is Adasai, and they came to Danidan and Udan, and compassed Sidon.

⁷And they came to Mapsar of Tyre, and to all the cities of the Evite and the Chananite: and they came by the South of Juda to Bersabee.

⁸And they compassed the whole land; and they arrived at Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.

⁹And Joab gave in the number of the census of the people to the king: and Israel consisted of eight hundred thousand men of might that drew sword; and the men of Juda, five hundred thousand fighting men.

¹⁰And the heart of David smote him after he had numbered the people; and David said to the Lord, I have sinned grievously, O Lord, [in] what I have now done: remove, I pray thee, the iniquity of thy servant, for I have been exceedingly foolish.

¹¹And David rose early in the morning, and the word of the Lord came to the prophet Gad, the seer, saying, Go, and speak to David, saying,

¹²Thus saith the Lord, I bring [one of] three things upon thee: now choose thee one of them, and I will do [it] to thee.

¹³And Gad went in to David, and told him, and said to him, Choose [one of these things] to befall thee, whether there shall come upon thee [for] three years famine in thy land; or that thou shouldest flee three months before thine enemies, and they should pursue thee; or that there should be [for] three days mortality in thy land. Now then decide, and see what answer I shall return to him that sent me.

¹⁴And David said to Gad, On every side I am much straitened: let me fall now into the hands of the Lord, for his compassions [are] very many; and let me not fall into the hands of man.

¹⁵So David chose for himself the mortality: and [they were] the days of wheat-harvest; and the Lord sent a pestilence upon Israel from morning till noon, and the plague began among the people; and there died of the people from Dan even to Bersabee seventy thousand men.

¹⁶And the angel of the Lord stretched out his hand against Jerusalem to destroy it, and the Lord repented of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, [It is] enough now, withhold thine hand. And the angel of the Lord was by the threshing-floor of Orna the Jebusite.

¹⁷And David spoke to the Lord when he saw the angel smiting the people, and he said, Behold, it is I that have done wrong, but these sheep what have they done? Let thy hand, I pray thee, be upon me, and upon my father’s house.

¹⁸And Gad came to David in that day, and said to him, Go up, and set up to the Lord and altar in the threshing-floor of Orna the Jebusite.

¹⁹And David went up according to the word of Gad, as the Lord commanded him.

²⁰And Orna looked out, and saw the king and his servants coming on before him: and Orna went forth, and did obeisance to the king with his face to the earth.

²¹And Orna said, Why has my lord the king come to his servant? and David said, To buy of thee the threshing-floor, in order to build an altar to the Lord that the plague may be restrained from off the people.

²²And Orna said to David, Let my lord the king take and offer to the Lord that which is good in his eyes: behold, [here are] oxen for a whole-burnt-offering, and the wheels and furniture of the oxen for wood.

²³Orna gave all to the king: and Orna said to the king, The Lord thy God bless thee.

²⁴And the king said to Orna, Nay, but I will surely buy it of thee at a fair price, and I will not offer to the Lord my God a whole-burnt-offering for nothing. So David purchased the threshing-floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.

²⁵And David built there an altar to the Lord, and offered up whole-burnt-offerings and peace-offerings: and Solomon made an addition to the altar afterwards, for it was little at first. And the Lord hearkened to the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel.