Challoner [1752], THE NEW TESTAMENT OF Our LORD and SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST. Translated out of the Latin Vulgat Diligently compared with the original Greek And first published by the English College of Rhemes, anno 1582. Newly revised, and corrected according to the Clementin Edition of the Scriptures. WITH ANNOTATIONS For clearing up modern Controversies in Religion, and other Difficulties of Holy Writ () [word count] [B12000].
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CHAP. XXI.
David's sin in numbering the
people is punished by a pestilence:
which ceaseth upon
his offering sacrifice in the
threshing floor of Ornan.
1 And Satan rose up against
Israel: and moved
David to number Israel.
2 And 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 And 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 But the king's word rather
prevailed: and Joab departed,
and went through all
Israel: and returned to Jerusalem.
5 And he gave David the
number of them, whom he
had surveyed: and all note 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 But Levi and Benjamin
he did not number: for Joab
unwillingly executed the king's
orders.
7 And God was displeased
with this thing that was
commanded: and he struck
Israel.
8 And 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 And the Lord spoke to
Gad the Seer of David, saying:
10 Go, 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 And when Gad was
-- --
come to David, he said to
him: Thus saith the Lord:
Choose which thou wilt:
12 Either note 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, that sent me.
13 And 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 So the Lord sent a pestilence
upon Israel. And there
sell of Israel seventy thousand
men.
15 And 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 threshing-floor
of note Ornan the Jebusite.
16 And 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 hair-cloth, fell down
flat on the ground.
17 And 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 And the Angel of the
Lord commanded Gad to tell
David, to go up, and build
an altar to the Lord God in
the threshing-floor of Ornan
the Jebusite.
19 And David went up according
to the word of Gad,
which he spoke to him in the
name of the Lord.
20 Now when Ornan looked
up, and saw the Angel,
he and his four sons hid themselves:
for at that time he was
threshing wheat in the floor.
21 And as David was coming
to Ornan, Ornan saw
him, and went out of the
threshing-floor to meet him,
and bowed down to him with
his face to the ground.
22 And David said to him:
-- --
Give me this place of thy
threshing-floor, 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 And 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 And 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 freecost.
25 So David gave to Ornan
for the place, note six hundred
sicles of gold of just
weight.
26 And 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 And the Lord commanded
the Angel: and he
put up his sword again into
the sheath.
28 And David, seeing
that the Lord had heard him
in the threshing-floor of Ornan
the Jebusite, forthwith
offered victims there.
29 But the tabernacle of
the Lord, which Moses made
in the desart, and the altar of
holocausts, was at that time in
the high-place of Gabaon.
30 And 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.
Challoner [1752], THE NEW TESTAMENT OF Our LORD and SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST. Translated out of the Latin Vulgat Diligently compared with the original Greek And first published by the English College of Rhemes, anno 1582. Newly revised, and corrected according to the Clementin Edition of the Scriptures. WITH ANNOTATIONS For clearing up modern Controversies in Religion, and other Difficulties of Holy Writ () [word count] [B12000].
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