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歴代誌Ⅰ 21
Japanese Living Bible
歴代誌Ⅰ 21
Japanese Living Bible
ダビデの人口調査
21 時にサタンが、ダビデに人口調査をさせるように仕向けて、イスラエルに災いをもたらしました。
2 王は、ヨアブをはじめ指導者たちに命じました。「国中の人口を完全に調べ上げ、その人数を報告してほしい。」
3 すると、ヨアブが反対意見を述べました。「主が民を百倍に増してくださっても、みなあなたの民ではありませんか。それなのになぜ、そんな要求をなさるのですか。なぜ、イスラエルに罪を犯させるようなことをなさるのですか。」
4 しかし、王が説き伏せたので、ヨアブは命令どおりイスラエル中を巡り歩き、エルサレムに帰って来ました。 5 ヨアブが報告した総人口は、全イスラエルで戦いに出られる者が百十万人、ユダで四十七万人でした。 6 ただし、ヨアブは王の命令に心を痛めていたので、数の中にレビとベニヤミンの二部族を入れませんでした。
7 この人口調査は神の御心を損なったので、神はイスラエルを罰しました。
8 ダビデは神に言いました。「私は罪を犯しました。どうかお赦しください。自分のしたことがどんなに間違っていたか、今わかりました。」
9 そこで主は、王の相談役である預言者ガドに語りました。 10-11 「ダビデに次のように伝えよ。『主は、三つのうち一つを選べと言われる。 12 三年間のききんか、三か月の間敵に苦しめられることか、それとも、御使いが国中を荒らし、三日間恐ろしい疫病に悩まされることかだ。よく考えて、私を遣わされたお方に何と答えるか決めるように。』」
ガドはダビデのもとに行き、そのとおり伝えました。
13 王は答えました。「一つを選ぶのはつらいことです。どうか、私を人の手にではなく、主の御手に陥らせてください。主のあわれみは深いからです。」
14 すると、神はイスラエルに疫病を下したので、七万人が死にました。 15 病気が猛威をふるっている時、主は一人の御使いを送って、エルサレムを滅ぼそうとしました。しかし、主はあわれに思って考えを変え、御使いに、「もう十分だ。手を引きなさい」と命じたのです。御使いはその時、エブス人オルナンの打穀場に立っていました。 16 王は、御使いが抜き身の剣をエルサレムの方に差し伸べ、天と地の間に立っているのを見ました。そこで、その場に居合わせたイスラエルの長老たちとともに荒布をまとい、地にひれ伏しました。
17 ダビデは神に願いました。「人口調査の命令を出して罪を犯したのは、この私です。民が何をしたというのでしょう。主よ、私と私の家族を滅ぼしても、民は滅ぼさないでください。」
18 すると、御使いはガドに、「王がエブス人オルナンの打穀場に祭壇を築くように」と指示しました。 19-20 王はさっそく、小麦の打穀をしていたオルナンに会いに行きました。オルナンが振り向くと、御使いの姿が見えたので、彼の四人の子は走って隠れました。 21 オルナンは王が来るのも見て、打穀場から出て来てひれ伏しました。
22 ダビデはオルナンに言いました。「それ相応の金を払うから、この打穀場を譲ってくれないか。ここに主のための祭壇を築きたいのだ。そうすれば、伝染病も収まるだろうから。」
23 「王よ、どうぞお気に召すままにお使いください。よろしければ、焼き尽くすいけにえ用の牛も差し上げます。打穀の器具を、たきぎ代わりに使っていただいてけっこうです。穀物のささげ物がお入り用でしたら、小麦がございます。何でもご用立ていたします。」
24 「いや、十分な金額で買い取らせてほしい。おまえのものを取って、それを主にささげるわけにはいかない。ふところを痛めずに、いけにえをささげることはしたくないのだ。」
25 そして、ダビデはオルナンに六百シェケル（約七キログラム）の金を与えました。 26 こうして手に入れた場所に主のための祭壇を築き、その上で、焼き尽くすいけにえと和解のいけにえをささげました。ダビデが大声で主を呼ぶと、主は彼に答え、天から下った火がいけにえを焼き尽くしました。 27 それから、主は御使いに命じて、剣をさやに納めさせました。 28 ダビデは願いが聞かれたのを見て、もう一度いけにえをささげました。 29 当時、モーセが荒野で造った幕屋と祭壇は、ギブオンの高台にありました。 30 しかしダビデは、神を求めてそこまで行くことができませんでした。抜き身の剣を持つ御使いを恐れたからです。
1 Chronicles 21
New International Version
1 Chronicles 21
New International Version
David Counts the Fighting Men(A)
21 Satan(B) rose up against Israel and incited David to take a census(C) of Israel. 2 So David said to Joab and the commanders of the troops, “Go and count(D) the Israelites from Beersheba to Dan. Then report back to me so that I may know how many there are.”
3 But Joab replied, “May the Lord multiply his troops a hundred times over.(E) My lord the king, are they not all my lord’s subjects? Why does my lord want to do this? Why should he bring guilt on Israel?”
4 The king’s word, however, overruled Joab; so Joab left and went throughout Israel and then came back to Jerusalem. 5 Joab reported the number of the fighting men to David: In all Israel(F) there were one million one hundred thousand men who could handle a sword, including four hundred and seventy thousand in Judah.
6 But Joab did not include Levi and Benjamin in the numbering, because the king’s command was repulsive to him. 7 This command was also evil in the sight of God; so he punished Israel.
8 Then David said to God, “I have sinned greatly by doing this. Now, I beg you, take away the guilt of your servant. I have done a very foolish thing.”
9 The Lord said to Gad,(G) David’s seer,(H) 10 “Go and tell David, ‘This is what the Lord says: I am giving you three options. Choose one of them for me to carry out against you.’”
11 So Gad went to David and said to him, “This is what the Lord says: ‘Take your choice: 12 three years of famine,(I) three months of being swept away[a] before your enemies, with their swords overtaking you, or three days of the sword(J) of the Lord(K)—days of plague in the land, with the angel of the Lord ravaging every part of Israel.’ Now then, decide how I should answer the one who sent me.”
13 David said to Gad, “I am in deep distress. Let me fall into the hands of the Lord, for his mercy(L) is very great; but do not let me fall into human hands.”
14 So the Lord sent a plague on Israel, and seventy thousand men of Israel fell dead.(M) 15 And God sent an angel(N) to destroy Jerusalem.(O) But as the angel was doing so, the Lord saw it and relented(P) concerning the disaster and said to the angel who was destroying(Q) the people, “Enough! Withdraw your hand.” The angel of the Lord was then standing at the threshing floor of Araunah[b] the Jebusite.
16 David looked up and saw the angel of the Lord standing between heaven and earth, with a drawn sword in his hand extended over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell facedown.(R)
17 David said to God, “Was it not I who ordered the fighting men to be counted? I, the shepherd,[c] have sinned and done wrong. These are but sheep.(S) What have they done? Lord my God, let your hand fall on me and my family,(T) but do not let this plague remain on your people.”
David Builds an Altar
18 Then the angel of the Lord ordered Gad to tell David to go up and build an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor(U) of Araunah the Jebusite. 19 So David went up in obedience to the word that Gad had spoken in the name of the Lord.
20 While Araunah was threshing wheat,(V) he turned and saw the angel; his four sons who were with him hid themselves. 21 Then David approached, and when Araunah looked and saw him, he left the threshing floor and bowed down before David with his face to the ground.
22 David said to him, “Let me have the site of your threshing floor so I can build an altar to the Lord, that the plague on the people may be stopped. Sell it to me at the full price.”
23 Araunah said to David, “Take it! Let my lord the king do whatever pleases him. Look, I will give the oxen for the burnt offerings, the threshing sledges for the wood, and the wheat for the grain offering. I will give all this.”
24 But King David replied to Araunah, “No, I insist on paying the full price. I will not take for the Lord what is yours, or sacrifice a burnt offering that costs me nothing.”
25 So David paid Araunah six hundred shekels[d] of gold for the site. 26 David built an altar to the Lord there and sacrificed burnt offerings and fellowship offerings. He called on the Lord, and the Lord answered him with fire(W) from heaven on the altar of burnt offering.
27 Then the Lord spoke to the angel, and he put his sword back into its sheath. 28 At that time, when David saw that the Lord had answered him on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite, he offered sacrifices there. 29 The tabernacle of the Lord, which Moses had made in the wilderness, and the altar of burnt offering were at that time on the high place at Gibeon.(X) 30 But David could not go before it to inquire of God, because he was afraid of the sword of the angel of the Lord.
Footnotes
- 1 Chronicles 21:12 Hebrew; Septuagint and Vulgate (see also 2 Samuel 24:13) of fleeing
- 1 Chronicles 21:15 Hebrew Ornan, a variant of Araunah; also in verses 18-28
- 1 Chronicles 21:17 Probable reading of the original Hebrew text (see 2 Samuel 24:17 and note); Masoretic Text does not have the shepherd.
- 1 Chronicles 21:25 That is, about 15 pounds or about 6.9 kilograms
1 Chronicles 21
King James Version
1 Chronicles 21
King James Version
21 And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.
2 And David said to Joab and to the rulers of the people, Go, number Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; and bring the number of them to me, that I may know it.
3 And Joab answered, The Lord make his people an hundred times so many more as they be: but, my lord the king, are they not all my lord's servants? why then doth my lord require this thing? why will he be a cause of trespass to 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 the sum of the number of the people unto David. And all they of Israel were a thousand thousand and an 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, because I have done this thing: but now, I beseech thee, do away the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly.
9 And the Lord spake unto Gad, David's seer, saying,
10 Go and tell David, saying, Thus saith the Lord, 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 the Lord, Choose thee
12 Either three years' famine; or three months to be destroyed before thy foes, while that the sword of thine enemies overtaketh thee; or else three days the sword of the Lord, even the pestilence, in the land, and the angel of the Lord destroying throughout all the coasts of Israel. Now therefore advise thyself what word I shall bring again to him that sent me.
13 And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let me fall now into the hand of the Lord; for very great are his mercies: but let me not fall into the hand of man.
14 So the Lord sent 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 destroying, the Lord beheld, and he repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed, It is enough, stay now thine hand. And the angel of the Lord stood by the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
16 And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of the Lord stand between the earth and the heaven, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders of Israel, who were 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 evil indeed; but as for these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, O Lord my God, be on me, and on my father's house; but not on thy people, that they should be plagued.
18 Then the angel of the Lord commanded Gad to say to David, that David should go up, and set up an altar unto the Lord in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
19 And David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spake in the name of the Lord.
20 And Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons 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 threshingfloor, and bowed himself to David with his face to the ground.
22 Then David said to Ornan, Grant me the place of this threshingfloor, that I may build an altar therein unto the Lord: thou shalt grant it me for the full price: 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 also for burnt offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat for the meat 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 the Lord, nor offer burnt offerings 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 the Lord, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called upon the Lord; and he answered him from heaven by fire upon the altar of burnt offering.
27 And the Lord commanded the angel; and he put up his sword again into the sheath thereof.
28 At that time when David saw that the Lord had answered him in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there.
29 For the tabernacle of the Lord, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of the burnt offering, were at that season in the high place at Gibeon.
30 But David could not go before it to enquire of God: for he was afraid because of the sword of the angel of the Lord.
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