1 Então se levantou Satanás contra Israel, e incitou a Davi a fazer resenha de Israel.

2 Disse Davi a Joabe e aos príncipes do povo: Ide e contai a Israel desde Berseba até Dã; e trazei-me a conta, para que eu saiba o número.

3 Respondeu Joabe: Multiplique Jeová o seu povo cem vezes mais do que ele é: porém, ó rei meu senhor, não são todos eles servos do meu senhor? por que requer isso o meu senhor? por que será ele ocasião de culpa a Israel?

4 Todavia a palavra do rei prevaleceu contra Joabe. Pelo que partiu Joabe e passou por todo o Israel, e voltou para Jerusalém.

5 Joabe deu a Davi a soma da resenha do povo. Era todo o Israel um milhão e cem mil homens que usavam de espada; e Judá era quatrocentos e setenta mil homens que usavam de espada.

6 Mas entre eles não contou Joabe a Levi nem a Benjamim, porque a palavra do rei era abominável a Joabe.

7 Isso desagradou a Deus, que feriu a Israel.

8 Então disse Davi a Deus: Cometi um grande pecado em fazer isso; porém, agora, digna-te perdoar a iniqüidade do teu servo, porque procedi mui loucamente.

9 Falou Jeová a Gade, vidente de Davi:

10 Vai e fala a Davi: Assim diz Jeová: Três coisas te proponho: Escolhe uma, para que eu ta faça.

11 Veio Gade a Davi e disse: Assim diz Jeová: Escolhe o que quiseres:

12 ou três anos de fome; ou seres por três meses consumido diante dos teus adversários, enquanto a espada dos teus inimigos te alcança; ou senão a espada de Jeová por três dias, a saber, a peste na terra, e o anjo de Jeová fazendo estragos em todos os termos de Israel. Considera agora que resposta hei de dar a quem me enviou.

13 Respondeu Davi a Gade: Acho-me em grande aperto; caia eu nas mãos de Jeová (porque mui grandes são as suas misericórdias); e não caia nas mãos dos homens.

14 Mandou Jeová a peste a Israel; e morreram de Israel setenta mil homens.

15 Enviou Deus um anjo a Jerusalém para a destruir; estando o anjo prestes a destruir, olhou Jeová e arrependeu-se do mal, e disse ao anjo destruidor: Basta: cesse já a tua mão. O anjo de Jeová estava junto à eira de Ornã, jebuseu.

16 Levantando Davi os olhos, viu ao anjo de Jeová que estava entre a terra e o céu, tendo uma espada desembainhada na mão estendida sobre Jerusalém. Então Davi e os anciãos, cobertos de cilício, se prostraram com os rostos em terra.

17 Disse Davi a Deus: Não sou eu quem mandou contar o povo? sou eu o que pequei e procedi malissamente; mas estas ovelhas, que fizeram? Seja Jeová meu Deus a tua mão contra mim e contra a casa de meu pai; porém não seja contra o teu povo para castigá-lo com peste.

18 Então o anjo de Jeová ordenou a Gade que dissesse a Davi para subir e levantar um altar a Jeová na eira de Ornã, jebuseu.

19 Subiu Davi conforme a palavra que Gade falou em nome de Jeová.

20 Virando-se Ornã, viu ao anjo; e esconderam-se seus quatro filhos que estavam com ele. Ora, Ornã estava debulhando trigo.

21 Quando Davi se vinha chegando a Ornã, este olhou e o viu e, saindo da eira, prostrou-se perante ele com o rosto em terra.

22 Então Davi disse a Ornã: Dá-me o lugar desta eira, para eu edificar um altar a Jeová (pelo seu valor mo darás), a fim de que cesse a praga de cima do povo.

23 Respondeu Ornã a Davi: Toma-o, e faça o rei meu senhor o que for do seu agrado. Eis que te dou os bois para holocaustos, os instrumentos de trilhar para lenha e o trigo para a oferta de cereais; dou tudo.

24 Disse o rei Davi a Ornã: Não, antes pelo seu valor quero comprá-lo, porque não tomarei o que é teu para Jeová, nem oferecerei um holocausto que não me custou nada.

25 Davi deu a Ornã pelo lugar o peso de seiscentos siclos de ouro.

26 Edificou ali um altar a Jeová, ofereceu holocaustos e ofertas pacíficas e invocou a Jeová, que lhe respondeu do céu, mandando fogo sobre o altar do holocausto.

27 Jeová deu ordem ao anjo, que tornou a meter a sua espada na bainha.

28 Nesse tempo vendo Davi que Jeová lhe tinha respondido na eira de Ornã jebuseu, ofereceu ali sacrifícios.

29 Pois o tabernáculo de Jeová, que Moisés tinha feito no deserto, e o altar do holocausto, estavam naquele tempo no alto em Gibeom.

30 Mas Davi não podia ir perante ele para indagar de Deus, porque estava atemorizado por causa da espada do anjo de Jeová.

1 And Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to number Israel. 2 And David said to Joab and to the princes of the people, Go, number Israel from Beer-sheba even to Dan; and bring me word, that I may know the sum of them. 3 And Joab said, Jehovah make his people a hundred times as many as they are: but, my lord the king, are they not all my lord’s servants? why doth my lord require this thing? why will he be a cause of guilt unto Israel? 4 Nevertheless the king’s word prevailed against Joab. Wherefore Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, and came to Jerusalem. 5 And Joab gave up the sum of the numbering of the people unto David. And all they of Israel were a thousand thousand and a hundred thousand men that drew sword: and Judah was four hundred threescore and ten thousand men that drew sword. 6 But Levi and Benjamin counted he not among them; for the king’s word was abominable to Joab. 7 And God was displeased with this thing; therefore he smote Israel. 8 And David said unto God, I have sinned greatly, in that I have done this thing: but now put away, I beseech thee, the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly.

9 And Jehovah spake unto Gad, David’s seer, saying, 10 Go and speak unto David, saying, Thus saith Jehovah, I offer thee three things: choose thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee. 11 So Gad came to David, and said unto him, Thus saith Jehovah, Take which thou wilt: 12 either three years of famine; or three months to be consumed before thy foes, while the sword of thine enemies overtaketh thee; or else three days the sword of Jehovah, even pestilence in the land, and the angel of Jehovah destroying throughout all the borders of Israel. Now therefore consider what answer I shall return to him that sent me. 13 And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let me fall, I pray, into the hand of Jehovah; for very great are his mercies: and let me not fall into the hand of man. 14 So Jehovah sent a pestilence upon Israel; and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men. 15 And God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was about to destroy, Jehovah beheld, and he repented him of the evil, and said to the destroying angel, It is enough; now stay thy hand. And the angel of Jehovah was standing by the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite. 16 And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of Jehovah standing between earth and heaven, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces. 17 And David said unto God, Is it not I that commanded the people to be numbered? even I it is that have sinned and done very wickedly; but these sheep, what have they done? let thy hand, I pray thee, O Jehovah my God, be against me, and against my father’s house; but not against thy people, that they should be plagued.

18 Then the angel of Jehovah commanded Gad to say to David, that David should go up, and rear an altar unto Jehovah in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite. 19 And David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spake in the name of Jehovah. 20 And Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons that were with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat. 21 And as David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out of the threshing-floor, and bowed himself to David with his face to the ground. 22 Then David said to Ornan, Give me the place of this threshing-floor, that I may build thereon an altar unto Jehovah: for the full price shalt thou give it me, that the plague may be stayed from the people. 23 And Ornan said unto David, Take it to thee, and let my lord the king do that which is good in his eyes: lo, I give thee the oxen for burnt-offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat for the meal-offering; I give it all. 24 And king David said to Ornan, Nay; but I will verily buy it for the full price: for I will not take that which is thine for Jehovah, nor offer a burnt-offering without cost. 25 So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight. 26 And David built there an altar unto Jehovah, and offered burnt-offerings and peace-offerings, and called upon Jehovah; and he answered him from heaven by fire upon the altar of burnt-offering. 27 And Jehovah commanded the angel; and he put up his sword again into the sheath thereof.

28 At that time, when David saw that Jehovah had answered him in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there. 29 For the tabernacle of Jehovah, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of burnt-offering, were at that time in the high place at Gibeon. 30 But David could not go before it to inquire of God; for he was afraid because of the sword of the angel of Jehovah.