撒母耳記下 24
Chinese Union Version, punctuated (Traditional)
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
1耶和華又向 以色列 人發怒，就激動 大衛 ，使他吩咐人去數點 以色列 人和 猶大 人。
1And the anger of the Lord was again kindled against Israel, and stirred up David among them, saying: Go, number Israel and Juda.
2大衛 就吩咐跟隨他的元帥 約押 說：「你去走遍 以色列 眾支派，從 但 直到 別是巴 ，數點百姓，我好知道他們的數目。」
2And the king said to Joab the general of his army: Go through all the tribes of Israel from Dan to Bersabee, and number ye the people that I may know the number of them.
3約押 對王說：「無論百姓多少，願耶和華－你的上帝再加增百倍，使我主我王親眼得見。我主我王何必喜悅行這事呢？」
3And Joab said to the king: The Lord thy God increase thy people, and make them as many more as they are now, and again multiply them a hundredfold in the sight of my lord the king: but what meaneth my lord the king by this kind of thing?
4但王的命令勝過 約押 和眾軍長。 約押 和眾軍長就從王面前出去，數點 以色列 的百姓。
4But the king’s words prevailed over the words of Joab, and of the captains of the army: and Joab, and the captains of the soldiers went out from the presence of the king, to number the people of Israel.
5他們過了 約旦河 ，在 迦得谷 中、城的右邊 亞羅珥 安營，與 雅謝 相對，
5And when they had passed the Jordan, they came to Aroer to the right side of the city, which is in the vale of Gad.
6又到了 基列 和 他停‧合示 地，又到了 但‧雅安 ，繞到 西頓 ，
6And by Jazer they passed into Galaad, and to the lower land of Hodsi, and they came into the woodlands of Dan. And going about by Sidon,
7來到 泰爾 的保障，並 希未 人和 迦南 人的各城，又到 猶大 南方的 別是巴 。
7They passed near the walls of Tyre, and all the land of the Hevite, and the Chanaanite, and they came to the south of Juda into Bersabee:
8他們走遍全地，過了九個月零二十天，就回到 耶路撒冷 。
8And having gone through the whole land, after nine months and twenty days, they came to Jerusalem.
9約押 將百姓的總數奏告於王： 以色列 拿刀的勇士有八十萬； 猶大 有五十萬。
9And Joab gave up the sum of the number of the people to the king, and there were found of Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men that drew the sword: and of Juda five hundred thousand fighting men.
10大衛 數點百姓以後，就心中自責，禱告耶和華說：「我行這事大有罪了。耶和華啊，求你除掉僕人的罪孽，因我所行的甚是愚昧。」
10But David’s heart struck him, after the people were numbered: and David said to the Lord: I have sinned very much in what I have done: but I pray thee, O Lord, to take away the iniquity of thy servant, because I have done exceeding foolishly.
11大衛 早晨起來，耶和華的話臨到先知 迦得 ，就是 大衛 的先見，說：
11And David arose in the morning, and the word of the Lord came to Gad the prophet and the seer of David, saying:
12「你去告訴 大衛 ，說耶和華如此說：『我有三樣災，隨你選擇一樣，我好降與你。』」
12Go, and say to David: Thus saith the Lord: I give thee thy choice of three things, choose one of them which thou wilt, that I may do it to thee.
13於是 迦得 來見 大衛 ，對他說：「你願意國中有七年的饑荒呢？是在你敵人面前逃跑，被追趕三個月呢？是在你國中有三日的瘟疫呢？現在你要揣摩思想，我好回覆那差我來的。」
13And when Gad was come to David, he told him, saying: Either seven years of famine shall come to thee in thy land: or thou shalt flee three months before thy adversaries, and they shall pursue thee: or for three days there shall be a pestilence in thy land. Now therefore deliberate, and see what answer I shall return to him that sent me.
14大衛 對 迦得 說：「我甚為難！我願落在耶和華的手裏，因為他有豐盛的憐憫。我不願落在人的手裏。」
14And David said to Gad: I am in a great strait: but it is better that I should fall into the hands of the Lord (for his mercies are many) than into the hands of men.
15於是，耶和華降瘟疫與 以色列 人，自早晨到所定的時候；從 但 直到 別是巴 ，民間死了七萬人。
15And the Lord sent a pestilence upon Israel, from the morning unto the time appointed, and there died of the people from Dan to Bersabee seventy thousand men.
16天使向 耶路撒冷 伸手要滅城的時候，耶和華後悔，就不降這災了，吩咐滅民的天使說：「夠了！住手吧！」那時耶和華的使者在 耶布斯 人 亞勞拿 的禾場那裏。
16And when the angel of the Lord had stretched out his hand over Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord had pity on the affliction, and said to the angel that slew the people: It is enough: now hold thy hand. And the angel of the Lord was by the thrashingfloor of Areuna the Jebusite.
17大衛 看見滅民的天使，就禱告耶和華說：「我犯了罪，行了惡；但這群羊做了甚麼呢？願你的手攻擊我和我的父家。」
17And David said to the Lord, when he saw the angel striking the people: It is I; I am he that have sinned, I have done wickedly: these that are the sheep, what have they done? let thy hand, I beseech thee, be turned against me, and against my father’s house.
18當日， 迦得 來見 大衛 ，對他說：「你上去，在 耶布斯 人 亞勞拿 的禾場上為耶和華築一座壇。」
18And Gad came to David that day, and said: Go up, and build an altar to the Lord in the thrashingfloor of Areuna the Jebusite.
19大衛 就照着 迦得 奉耶和華名所說的話上去了。
19And David went up according to the word of Gad which the Lord had commanded him.
20亞勞拿 觀看，見王和他臣僕前來，就迎接出去，臉伏於地，向王下拜，
20And Areuna looked, and saw the king and his servants coming towards him:
21說：「我主我王為何來到僕人這裏呢？」 大衛 說：「我要買你這禾場，為耶和華築一座壇，使民間的瘟疫止住。」
21An going out he worshipped the king, bowing with his face to the earth, and said: Wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant? Arid David said to him: To buy the thrashingfloor of thee, and build an altar to the Lord, that the plague, which rageth among the people, may cease.
22亞勞拿 對 大衛 說：「我主我王，你喜悅用甚麼，就拿去獻祭。看哪，這裏有牛可以作燔祭，有打糧的器具和套牛的軛可以當柴燒。
22And Areuna said to David: Let my lord the king take, and offer, as it seemeth good to him: thou hast here oxen for a holocaust, and the wain, and the yokes of the oxen for wood.
23王啊，這一切，我 亞勞拿 都奉給你」；又對王說：「願耶和華－你的上帝悅納你。」
23All these things Areuna as a king gave to the king: and Areuna said to the king: The Lord thy God receive thy vow.
24王對 亞勞拿 說：「不然。我必要按着價值向你買；我不肯用白得之物作燔祭獻給耶和華－我的上帝。」 大衛 就用五十舍客勒銀子買了那禾場與牛。
24And the king answered him, and said: Nay, but I will buy it of thee at a price, and I will not offer to the Lord my God holocausts free cost. So David bought the floor, and the oxen, for fifty sicles of silver:
25大衛 在那裏為耶和華築了一座壇，獻燔祭和平安祭。如此，耶和華垂聽國民所求的，瘟疫在 以色列 人中就止住了。
25And David built there an altar to the Lord, and offered holocausts and peace offerings: and the Lord became merciful to the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel.
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