1 Chronicles:Chapter 21

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1 Chronicles:Chapter 21

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¹撒殫起來反對以色列，慫恿達味統計以色列：	¹And Satan rose up against Israel: and moved David to number Israel.
²達味對約阿布及人民的首領說：「你們去統計以色列，由貝爾舍巴直到丹，然後回來告訴我，叫我知道他們的數目。」	²And David said to Joab, and to the rulers of the people: Go, and number Israel from Bersabee even to Dan, and bring me the number of them that I may know it.
³約阿布回答說：「願上主使自己的百姓比現在更增加百倍！我主大王，他們不都是我主的僕人嗎？我主為什麼硬要這樣作？為什麼要使以色列陷於罪惡？」	³And Joab answered: The Lord make his people a hundred times more than they are: but, my lord the king, are they not all thy servants: why doth my lord seek this thing, which may be imputed as a sin to Israel?
⁴然而君王的命令迫使約阿布；約阿布便去，走遍了全以色列，然後回到耶路撒冷，	⁴But the king's word rather prevailed: and Joab departed, and went through all Israel: and returned to Jerusalem.
⁵將統計人民的數目呈報給達味：全以色列能持刀的人有一百一十萬，猶大人能持刀的有四十七萬。	⁵And he gave David the number of them, whom he had surveyed: and all the number of Israel was found to be eleven hundred thousand men that drew the sword: and of Juda four hundred and seventy thousand fighting men.
⁶惟有肋未人及本雅明人沒有統計，因為約阿布憎厭君王的命令。	⁶But Levi and Benjamin he did not number: for Joab unwillingly executed the king's orders.
⁷這事使天主不悅，遂打擊了以色列。	⁷And God was displeased with this thing that was commanded: and he struck Israel.
⁸達味對天主說：「我作這事，實在犯了重罪。現在，求你赦免你僕人的罪，因為我所行的實在昏愚。」	⁸And David said to God: I have sinned exceedingly in doing this: I beseech thee take away the iniquity of thy servant, for I have done foolishly.
⁹上主曉諭達味的先見者加得說：	⁹And the Lord spoke to Gad the seer of David, saying:
¹⁰「你去告訴達味：上主這樣說：我給你提出三件事，任你選擇一件，我好向你實行。」	¹⁰Go, and speak to David, and tell him: Thus saith the Lord: I give thee the choice of three things: choose one which thou wilt, and I will do it to thee.
¹¹加得來到達味前，對他說：「上主這樣說：任你選擇：	¹¹And when Gad was come to David, he said to him: Thus saith the Lord: choose which thou wilt:
¹²或者三年饑荒；或者三個月在你敵人前流亡，為敵人持刀追擊；或者三日在你國內遭受上主的刀，即瘟疫，讓上主的使者蹂躪以色列全境。現在你考慮一下，我應向那派遣我來的回覆什麼！」	¹²Either three years' famine: or three months to flee from thy enemies, and not to be able to escape their sword: or three days to have the sword of the Lord, and pestilence in the land, and the angel of the Lord destroying in all the coasts of Israel: now therefore see what I shall answer him who sent me.
¹³達味對加得說：「我很作難，但我寧願落在上主手中，因為他富於仁慈，而不願落在人手中。」	¹³And David said to Gad: I am on every side in a great strait: but it is better for me to fall into the hands of the Lord, for his mercies are many, than into the hands of men.
¹⁴於是上主使瘟疫降於以色列；在以色列因瘟疫死了七萬人。	¹⁴So the Lord sent a pestilence upon Israel. And there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.
¹⁵當時，天主派一位天使往耶路撒冷去，要毀滅那城；將要毀滅的時候，上主一看，便後悔降災，遂吩咐毀滅的天使說：「夠了，現在收回你的手罷！」那時，上主的天使正立在耶步斯人敖爾難的禾場上。	¹⁵And he sent an angel to Jerusalem, to strike it: and as he was striking it, the Lord beheld, and took pity for the greatness of the evil: and said to the angel that destroyed: It is enough, now stop thy hand. And the angel of the Lord stood by the thrashing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
¹⁶達味舉目，見上主的使者立在天地中間，手持脫鞘的刀，朝向耶路撒冷。達味與眾長老都身穿麻衣，俯伏在地。	¹⁶And David lifting up his eyes, saw the angel of the Lord standing between heaven and earth, with a drawn sword in his hand, turned against Jerusalem: and both he and the ancients clothed in haircloth, fell down flat on the ground.
¹⁷達味對天主說：「不是我下了令統計百姓麼？是我犯了罪，是我這個牧者作了惡。但這羊群作了什麼？上主，我的天主！願你的手打擊我和我的父家，但不要將瘟疫降在你百姓身上！」	¹⁷And David said to God: Am not I he that commanded the people to be numbered? It is I that have sinned: it is I that have done the evil: but as for this flock, what hath it deserved? O Lord my God, let thy hand be turned, I beseech thee, upon me, and upon my father's house: and let not thy people be destroyed.
¹⁸上主的天使吩咐加得去告訴達味，叫他上去，在耶步斯人敖爾難的禾場上，為上主建立一座祭壇。	¹⁸And the angel of the Lord commanded Gad to tell David, to go up, and build an altar to the Lord God in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
¹⁹達味就照加得奉上主的名所說的話上去了。	¹⁹And David went up, according to the word of Gad, which he spoke to him in the name of the Lord.
²⁰敖爾難回頭看見君王和他的四個兒子經過；那時敖爾難正在打麥子。	²⁰Now when Ornan looked up, and saw the angel, he and his four sons hid themselves: for at that time he was thrashing wheat in the floor.
²¹達味走到敖爾難那裏，敖爾難一看見是達味，便走出禾場，俯首至地叩拜達味。	²¹And as David was coming to Ornan, Ornan saw him, and went out of the threshingfloor to meet him, and bowed down to him with his face to the ground.
²²達味對敖爾難說：「請將這塊禾場地段讓給我，我要在這禾場上為上主建立一座祭壇，請照足價讓給我，為止息民間的災禍。」	²²And David said to him: Give me this place of thy threshingfloor, that I may build therein an altar to the Lord: but thou shalt take of me as much money as it is worth, that the plague may cease from the people.
²³敖爾難對達味說：「儘管用罷！我主大王看着好，就去行罷！看，我將牛給你作全燔祭，打禾具作木柴，麥子作素祭：這一切我都供給你。」	²³And Ornan said to David: Take it, and let my lord the king do all that pleaseth him: and moreover the oxen also I give for a holocaust, and the drays for wood, and the wheat for the sacrifice: I will give it all willingly.
²⁴達味王對敖爾難說：「不成！我一定要照足價來買；我不能拿你的東西獻於上主，不能用沒有代價的東西，獻作全燔祭。」	²⁴And king David said to him: It shall not be so, but I will give thee money as much as it is worth: for I must not take it from thee, and so offer to the Lord holocausts free cost.
²⁵於是達味為那塊地付給敖爾難六百「協刻耳」重的金子。	²⁵So David gave to Ornan for the place, six hundred sicles of gold of just weight.
²⁶達味在那裏為上主建立了一座祭壇，奉獻了全燔祭與和平祭，呼求了上主，上主由天上垂聽了他，使火降在全燔祭壇上，	²⁶And he built there an altar to the Lord: and he offered holocausts, and peace offerings, and he called upon the Lord, and he heard him by sending fire from heaven upon the altar of the holocaust.
²⁷並命天使將刀收入鞘中。	²⁷And the Lord commanded the angel: and he put up his sword again into the sheath.
²⁸那時，達味見上主在耶步斯人敖爾難的禾場上垂聽了他，就在那裏獻了祭。──	²⁸And David seeing that the Lord had heard him in the threshingfloor of Oman the Jebusite, forthwith offered victims there.
²⁹梅瑟在曠野所造的會幕和全燔祭壇，那時雖都在基貝紅高處；	²⁹But the tabernacle of the Lord, which Moses made in the desert, and the altar of holocausts, was at that time in the high place of Gabaon.
³⁰但達味不敢前去求問天主，因為害怕上主使者的刀。	³⁰And David could not go to the altar there to pray to God: for he was seized with an exceeding great fear, seeing the sword of the angel of the Lord.

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