1 Chronicles 21:17
David said to God, “Isn’t it I who commanded the people to be counted? It is even I who have sinned and done very wickedly; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand, O LORD my God, be against me and against my father’s house; but not against your people, that they should be plagued.”1 Chronicles 21:17 · WEB
This verse in other languages
- ગુજરાતી — 1 કાળવૃતાંત ૨૧:૧૭
- દાઉદે ઈશ્વરને કહ્યું, “સૈન્યની ગણતરી કરવાની આજ્ઞા આપનાર શું હું નથી? આ દુષ્ટતા મેં કરી છે. પણ આ ઘેટાંઓ, તેઓએ શું કર્યું છે? હે યહોવાહ, મારા ઈશ્વર, કૃપા કરી તમારા હાથે, મને અને મારા કુટુંબને શિક્ષા કરો, પણ આ મરકીથી તમારા લોકોનો નાશ ન કરો.”
- हिन्दी — 1 इतिहास २१:१७
- तब दाऊद ने परमेश्वर से कहा, “जिसने प्रजा की गिनती लेने की आज्ञा दी थी, वह क्या मैं नहीं हूँ? हाँ, जिसने पाप किया और बहुत बुराई की है, वह तो मैं ही हूँ। परन्तु इन भेड़-बकरियों ने क्या किया है? इसलिए हे मेरे परमेश्वर यहोवा! तेरा हाथ मेरे पिता के घराने के विरुद्ध हो, परन्तु तेरी प्रजा के विरुद्ध न हो, कि वे मारे जाएँ।”
In context
15God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it. As he was about to destroy, the LORD saw, and he relented of the disaster, and said to the destroying angel, “It is enough. Now withdraw your hand.” the LORD’s angel was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
16David lifted up his eyes, and saw the LORD’s angel standing between earth and the sky, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell on their faces.
17David said to God, “Isn’t it I who commanded the people to be counted? It is even I who have sinned and done very wickedly; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand, O LORD my God, be against me and against my father’s house; but not against your people, that they should be plagued.”
18Then the LORD’s angel commanded Gad to tell David that David should go up and raise an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
19David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spoke in the LORD’s name.
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