A Cause of Trespass
1 And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.
Tena shetani akasimama juu ya Israeli, akamshawishi Daudi kuwahesabu Israeli.
2 And David said to Joab and to the rulers of the people, Go, number Israel from Beer-sheba even to Dan; and bring the number of them to me, that I may know it .
Basi Daudi akamwambia Yoabu, na wakuu wa watu, Nendeni kawahesabu Israeli toka Beer-sheba mpaka Dani; mkanipashe habari, nipate kujua jumla yao.
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?
Naye Yoabu akasema, Bwana na awaongeze watu wake mara mia hesabu yao ilivyo; lakini, bwana wangu mfalme, si wote watumishi wa bwana wangu? Mbona basi bwana wangu analitaka neno hili? Mbona awe sababu ya hatia kwa Israeli?
4 Nevertheless the king's word prevailed against Joab. Wherefore Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, and came to Jerusalem.
Lakini neno la mfalme likawa na nguvu juu ya Yoabu. Kwa hiyo Yoabu akaenda zake, akapita kati ya Israeli wote, akafika Yerusalemu.
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.
Naye Yoabu akamtolea Daudi jumla ya hesabu ya watu. Na hao wote wa Israeli walikuwa watu elfu mara elfu, na mia elfu, wenye kufuta panga; na wa Yuda watu mia nne na sabini elfu, wenye kufuta panga.
6 But Levi and Benjamin counted he not among them: for the king's word was abominable to Joab.
Lakini Lawi na Benyamini hakuwahesabu miongoni mwao; kwa sababu neno la mfalme limemchukiza Yoabu.
7 And God was displeased with this thing; therefore he smote Israel.
Neno hilo likawa baya machoni pa Mungu; kwa hiyo akawapiga Israeli.
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.
Naye Daudi akamwambia Mungu, Nimekosa sana, kwa kuwa nimelifanya jambo hili; lakini sasa uuondolee mbali, nakusihi, uovu wa mtumwa wako; kwani nimefanya upumbavu kabisa.
9 And the LORD spake unto Gad, David's seer, saying,
Naye Bwana akanena na Gadi, mwonaji wake Daudi, akisema,
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.
Nenda ukanene na Daudi, ukisema, Bwana asema hivi, Nakuwekea mambo matatu; katika haya ujichagulie moja, nikutendee hilo.
11 So Gad came to David, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Choose thee
Basi Gadi akamwendea Daudi, akamwambia, Bwana asema hivi, Kubali upendavyo;
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.
miaka mitatu ya njaa; au miezi mitatu kuangamia mbele ya adui zako, ukipatwa na upanga wa watesi wako; au siku tatu upanga wa Bwana, yaani tauni katika nchi, na malaika wa Bwana akiharibu kati ya mipaka yote ya Israeli. Haya basi ufikiri ni jawabu gani nimrudishie yeye aliyenituma.
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.
Naye Daudi akamwambia Gadi, Nimeingia katika mashaka sana; basi sasa na nianguke katika mkono wa Bwana; kwa kuwa rehema zake ni nyingi sana; wala nisianguke katika mkono wa wanadamu.
14 So the LORD sent pestilence upon Israel: and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.
Basi Bwana akawaletea Israeli tauni; nao wakaanguka wa Israeli watu sabini elfu.
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.
Naye Mungu akatuma malaika aende Yerusalemu ili auangamize; naye alipokuwa tayari kuangamiza, Bwana akatazama, akaghairi katika mabaya, akamwambia malaika aharibuye, Basi yatosha; sasa ulegeze mkono wako. Naye malaika wa Bwana akasimama karibu na kiwanja cha kupuria cha Arauna, Myebusi.
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.
Daudi akainua macho yake, akamwona huyo malaika wa Bwana amesimama kati ya nchi na mbingu, naye alikuwa na upanga wazi mkononi, umenyoshwa juu ya Yerusakmu. Ndipo Daudi na wazee wakaanguka kifulifuli, nao wamevaa nguo za magunia.
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.
Daudi akamwambia Mungu, Je! Si mimi niliyeamuru watu wahesabiwe? Naam, mimi ndimi niliyekosa, na kufanya yaliyo maovu sana; lakini kondoo hawa, wamefanya nini? Mkono wako, nakusihi, Ee Bwana, Mungu wangu, na uwe juu yangu, na juu ya nyumba ya babangu; wala si juu ya watu wako, hata wao wapigwe.
An Altar unto the Lord
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.
Ndipo huyo malaika wa Bwana akamwamuru Gadi kwamba amwambie Daudi, ya kuwa Daudi akwee, akamwinulie Bwana madhabahu katika kiwanja cha kupuria cha Arauna, Myebusi.
19 And David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spake in the name of the LORD.
Basi Daudi akakwea sawasawa na neno la Gadi, alilolinena kwa jina la Bwana.
20 And Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.
Arauna alipogeuka, na kumwona yule malaika, ndipo yeye na wanawe wanne waliokuwa pamoja naye wakajificha. Naye Arauna alikuwa akipura ngano.
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.
Basi Daudi alipokuwa akimjia Arauna, Arauna akatazama, akamwona Daudi, akatoka katika kile kiwanja, akamsujudia Daudi kifulifuli hata nchi.
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.
Ndipo Daudi akamwambia Arauna, Unipe mahali pa kiwanja hiki, ili kwamba nimjengee Bwana madhabahu hapa; kwa thamani yake kamili utanipa; ili kwamba tauni izuiliwe katika watu.
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.
Arauna akamwambia Daudi, Ujitwalie, na bwana wangu mfalme na afanye yaliyo mema machoni pake; tazama, ng'ombe kwa sadaka za kuteketezwa, na vyombo vya kupuria kwa kuni, na ngano kwa sadaka ya unga, nazitoa; zote nazitoa.
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.
Mfalme Daudi akamwambia Arauna, La, sivyo, lakini kweli nitazinunua kwa thamani yake kamili; kwani sitamtwalia Bwana kilicho chako, wala kutoa sadaka ya kuteketezwa isiyo na gharama.
25 So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight.
Basi Daudi akampimia Arauna thamani ya mahali pale shekeli mia sita za dhahabu kwa uzani
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.
Kisha Daudi akamjengea Bwana madhabahu huko, akatoa sadaka za kuteketezwa na sadaka za amani, akamlingana Bwana; naye akamwitikia kutoka mbinguni kwa moto juu ya madhabahu hiyo ya sadaka ya kuteketezwa.
27 And the LORD commanded the angel; and he put up his sword again into the sheath thereof.
Bwana naye akamwamuru malaika; naye akaurudisha upanga wake alani mwake tena.
28 At that time when David saw that the LORD had answered him in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there.
Wakati huo, Daudi alipoona ya kwamba Bwana amemwitikia katika kiwanja cha Arauna, Myebusi, ndipo hutoa dhabihu huko.
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.
Kwa maana ile maskani ya Bwana, aliyoifanya Musa jangwani, na madhabahu ya sadaka ya kuteketezwa, vilikuwapo wakati huo mahali pa juu pa Gibeoni.
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.
Wala Daudi hakuweza kwenda mbele yake ili kumwuliza Mungu; kwa sababu aliona hofu kwa ajili ya upanga wa yule malaika wa Bwana.
