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Ndaawitv Saauv I^saa^laa^en Caux Yu^ndaa Mienh

(Beiv mangc 1 Zunh Doic Douh 21:1-27)

 1Ziouv aengx qiex! jiez haic I^saa^laa^en Mienh ziouc coqv Ndaawitv hoic ninh mbuo. Ninh mbuox Ndaawitv, “Mingh saauv I^saa^laa^en caux Yu^ndaa Mienh maah!”
  2Ndaawitv ziouc gorngv mbuox Yo^aapc aengx caux ninh yiem nyei domh baeng-bieiv, “Mingh gormx fingx-fingx I^saa^laa^en Mienh, yiem Ndaan taux Mbe^e^qe^mbaa, saauv mienh weic bun yie hiuv duqv baeqc fingx nyei soux mouc.”
  3Mv baac Yo^aapc gorngv mbuox hungh diex, “Tov Ziouv, meih nyei Tin-Hungh, bun baeqc fingx jaa hiaangx gauh camv ih zanc maaih nyei yietc baeqv gouv, bun yie nyei ziouv, hungh diex, nyei m'zing duqv buatc. Mv baac yie nyei ziouv hungh diex weic haaix diuc zoux naaiv deix sic?”
  4Mv baac Yo^aapc caux domh baeng-bieiv ngaengc maiv duqv hungh diex nyei waac. Yo^aapc caux jun-baeng nyei domh baeng-bieiv ziouc yiem hungh nyei nza'hmien cuotv mingh saauv I^saa^laa^en Mienh nyei baeqc fingx.
  5Ninh mbuo jiex liuz Jor^ndaen Ndaaih ziouc liepc ciangv yiem Aa^lo^e Zingh, dongh yiem horngz gu'nyuoz nyei naamh bung zingh. Ninh mbuo aengx hungx jienv Gaatc aengx jiex mingh taux Yaase. 6Ninh mbuo daaih taux Gi^le^aatc aengx mingh taux Daatim Hotc^qi.⚓ Ninh mbuo aengx mingh taux Ndan^yaa^an,⚓ wingc mingh taux Sai^ndorn. 7Ninh mbuo aengx taux weih wuonv nyei zingh, Tailaqv, aengx mingh taux Hiwai Mienh caux Kaa^naa^an Mienh nyei norm-norm zingh. Nqa'haav laai ninh mbuo taux Yu^ndaa nyei ⟨Negepc Deic,⟩ Mbe^e^qe^mbaa wuov norm dorngx.
  8Ninh mbuo mingh gormx deic-bung liuz, ziouc nzuonx Ye^lu^saa^lem. Ninh mbuo longc nduoh hlaax caux nyic ziepc hnoi.
  9Yo^aapc ziouc mingh mbuox Ndaawitv ninh saauv baeqc fingx nyei soux mouc. Yiem I^saa^laa^en haih longc nzuqc ndaauv yaac zoux henv nyei baeng maaih betv ziepc waanc dauh. Yu^ndaa maaih hmz ziepc waanc.

Ziouv Dingc Ndaawitv Nyei Zuiz

(Beiv mangc 1 Zunh Doic Douh 21:7-17)

 10Ndaawitv saauv liuz mienh, ninh haiz hnyouv maiv longx. Ninh ziouc gorngv mbuox Ziouv, “Yie hnangv naaiv nor zoux yie baamz zuiz hlo haic. Mv baac Ziouv aac, tov meih guangc yie, meih nyei bou nyei zuiz, weic zuqc yie zoux naaiv deix sic za'gengh hngongx haic.”
  11Da'nyeic ndorm Ndaawitv jiez sin daaih, Ndaawitv nyei douc waac mienh, Gaatc, duqv zipv Ziouv nyei waac mi'aqv. 12Ninh gorngv, “Mingh mbuox Ndaawitv, ‘Ziouv hnangv naaiv gorngv. Yie maaih buo nyungc bun meih ginv. Meih ginv haaix nyungc, yie ziouc zoux wuov nyungc bun meih.’+”
  13Gaatc ziouc mingh lorz Ndaawitv, mbuox ninh, “Ziouv hnangv naaiv nor gorngv, ‘Meih oix bun meih nyei deic-bung zuqc buo⚓ hnyangx nyei domh ngorc fai? Fai oix zuqc meih nyei win-wangv zunc biaux buo hlaax nyieqc? Fai meih nyei deic-bung oix zuqc maaih buo hnoi nyei domh wuon-baengc?’ Ih zanc hnamv mangc gaax, yie oix zuqc hnangv haaix nor dau paaiv yie daaih wuov dauh?’+”
  14Ndaawitv gorngv mbuox Gaatc, “Yie gengh haiz aqc haic. Yie tov yiem Ziouv nyei buoz weic zuqc ninh za'gengh korv-lienh haic mienh, mv baac tov maiv dungx bun yie zuqc yiem baamh mienh nyei buoz-ndiev.”
  15Hnangv naaic, yiem lungh ndorm taux dingc daaih nyei ziangh hoc, Ziouv bun I^saa^laa^en Mienh butv domh wuon-baengc. Yiem Ndaan taux Mbe^e^qe^mbaa maaih siec waanc dauh I^saa^laa^en Mienh daic. 16Fin-mienh sung buoz oix mietc Ye^lu^saa^lem wuov zanc, Ziouv ziouc goiv za'eix mi'aqv. Ninh gorngv mbuox mietc mienh wuov dauh fin-mienh, “Gaux aqv. Hluotv meih nyei buoz maah!” Wuov zanc Ziouv nyei fin-mienh souv jienv yiem Ye^mbutc Mienh, Aa^laau^naa, nyei mborqv mbiauh ciangv.
  17Ndaawitv buatc daix mienh wuov dauh fin-mienh ninh gorngv mbuox Ziouv, “Se dongh yie baamz zuiz. Se dongh yie zoux dorngc. Naaiv deix ba'gi yungh maiv zoux haaix nyungc. Tov bun meih nyei buoz zuqc yie caux yie nyei hmuangv doic hnangv.”

Ndaawitv Ceix Ziec-Dorngh

(Beiv mangc 1 Zunh Doic Douh 21:18-22:1)

 18Dongh wuov hnoi Gaatc mingh lorz Ndaawitv yaac gorngv mbuox ninh, “Meih oix zuqc mingh Ye^mbutc Mienh, Aa^laau^naa, nyei mborqv mbiauh ciangv weic Ziouv ceix norm ziec-dorngh.” 19Ndaawitv ziouc ei jienv Ziouv longc Gaatc hatc nyei waac mingh aqv. 20Aa^laau^naa mangc buatc hungh diex caux ninh nyei jien hungx jienv ninh daaih, ninh cuotv mingh yiem hungh diex nyei nza'hmien mbaapv njiec, hmien taux ndau.
  21Aa^laau^naa gorngv, “Yie nyei ziouv, hungh diex, weic haaix diuc daaih lorz yie, meih nyei bou?”
 Ndaawitv dau, “Yie daaih maaiz meih nyei mborqv mbiauh ciangv weic Ziouv ceix norm ziec-dorngh bun baeqc fingx butv nyei domh wuon-baengc haih dingh.”
  22Aa^laau^naa gorngv mbuox Ndaawitv, “Yie nyei ziouv, hungh diex, buatc haaix nyungc a'hneiv longc, gunv zorqv daaih longc ziec. Mangc maah! Naaiv maaih ngongh weic zoux buov ziec nyei ga'naaiv. Aengx maaih ngongh nyei ndiangx-gaaz caux mborqv mbiauh nyei ga'naaiv weic zoux zaangh. 23O hungh diex aah! Naaiv yietc zungv yie, Aa^laau^naa, fungx bun meih aqv.” Aa^laau^naa aengx jaa waac gorngv, “Tov Ziouv, meih nyei Tin-Hungh, horpc hnyouv hungh diex.”
  24Mv baac hungh diex gorngv mbuox Aa^laau^naa, “Maiv zeiz lorqc. Yie oix ziux jaax-zinh tengx meih maaiz. Yie maiv oix longc baeqc baeqc duqv daaih nyei ga'naaiv fongc horc buov ziec bun Ziouv, yie nyei Tin-Hungh.”
 Ndaawitv ziouc longc ziepc hmz lungz⚓ nyaanh maaiz mborqv mbiauh ciangv caux ngongh. 25Ndaawitv yiem wuov weic Ziouv ceix norm ziec-dorngh, aengx fongc horc buov ziec caux ziec weic jiu tong nyei ga'naaiv. Weic naaiv, Ziouv muangx weic wuov norm deic-bung tov nyei waac. Yiem I^saa^laa^en butv nyei domh wuon-baengc ziouc dingh mi'aqv.

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David’s Census of Israel and Judah

 1Again ⚓the anger of the Lord was aroused against Israel, and He moved David against them to say, ⚓“Go, number Israel and Judah.”
  2So the king said to Joab the commander of the army who was with him, “Now go throughout all the tribes of Israel, ⚓from Dan to Beersheba, and count the people, that ⚓I may know the number of the people.”
  3And Joab said to the king, “Now may the Lord your God ⚓add to the people a hundred times more than there are, and may the eyes of my lord the king see it. But why does my lord the king desire this thing?” 4Nevertheless the king’s word prevailed against Joab and against the captains of the army. Therefore Joab and the captains of the army went out from the presence of the king to count the people of Israel.
  5And they crossed over the Jordan and camped in ⚓Aroer, on the right side of the town which is in the midst of the ravine of Gad, and toward ⚓Jazer. 6Then they came to Gilead and to the land of Tahtim Hodshi; they came to ⚓Dan Jaan and around to ⚓Sidon; 7and they came to the stronghold of ⚓Tyre and to all the cities of the ⚓Hivites and the Canaanites. Then they went out to South Judah as far as Beersheba. 8So when they had gone through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days. 9Then Joab gave the sum of the number of the people to the king. ⚓And there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men who drew the sword, and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men.

The Judgment on David’s Sin

 10And ⚓David’s heart condemned him after he had numbered the people. So ⚓David said to the Lord, ⚓“I have sinned greatly in what I have done; but now, I pray, O Lord, take away the iniquity of Your servant, for I have ⚓done very foolishly.”
  11Now when David arose in the morning, the word of the Lord came to the prophet ⚓Gad, David’s ⚓seer, saying, 12“Go and tell David, ‘Thus says the Lord: “I offer you three things; choose one of them for yourself, that I may do it to you.” ’ ” 13So Gad came to David and told him; and he said to him, “Shall ⚓seven years of famine come to you in your land? Or shall you flee three months before your enemies, while they pursue you? Or shall there be three days’ plague in your land? Now consider and see what answer I should take back to Him who sent me.”
  14And David said to Gad, “I am in great distress. Please let us fall into the hand of the Lord, ⚓for His mercies are great; but ⚓do not let me fall into the hand of man.”
  15So ⚓the Lord sent a plague upon Israel from the morning till the appointed time. From Dan to Beersheba seventy thousand men of the people died. 16⚓And when the angel stretched out His hand over Jerusalem to destroy it, ⚓the Lord relented from the destruction, and said to the angel who was destroying the people, “It is enough; now restrain your hand.” And the angel of the Lord was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
  17Then David spoke to the Lord when he saw the angel who was striking the people, and said, “Surely ⚓I have sinned, and I have done wickedly; but these sheep, what have they done? Let Your hand, I pray, be against me and against my father’s house.”

The Altar on the Threshing Floor

 18And Gad came that day to David and said to him, ⚓“Go up, erect an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.” 19So David, according to the word of Gad, went up as the Lord commanded. 20Now Araunah looked, and saw the king and his servants coming toward him. So Araunah went out and bowed before the king with his face to the ground.
  21Then Araunah said, “Why has my lord the king come to his servant?”
 ⚓And David said, “To buy the threshing floor from you, to build an altar to the Lord, that ⚓the plague may be withdrawn from the people.”
  22Now Araunah said to David, “Let my lord the king take and offer up whatever seems good to him. ⚓Look, here are oxen for burnt sacrifice, and threshing implements and the yokes of the oxen for wood. 23All these, O king, Araunah has given to the king.”
 And Araunah said to the king, “May the Lord your God ⚓accept you.”
  24Then the king said to Araunah, “No, but I will surely buy it from you for a price; nor will I offer burnt offerings to the Lord my God with that which costs me nothing.” So ⚓David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver. 25And David built there an altar to the Lord, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. ⚓So the Lord heeded the prayers for the land, and ⚓the plague was withdrawn from Israel.