Date: November 9th , 2023
Source: Bible New International Version
1 Chronicles ; Chapter 21 verse 16-19
David Counts the Fighting Men
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.
17 David said to God, “Was it not I who ordered the fighting men to be counted? I, the shepherd, have sinned and done wrong. These are but sheep. What have they done? Lord my God, let your hand fall on me and my family, 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 of Araunah the Jebusite. 19 So David went up in obedience to the word that Gad had spoken in the name of the Lord.
16 داؤد نے نظر اٹھا کر دیکھا کہ خدا وند کا فرشتہ آسمان اور زمین کے بیچ کھڑا ہے۔ فرشتہ نے اپنی تلوار یروشلم پر کھینچ رکھی تھی۔ تب داؤداور بزر گ جو کہ ٹا ٹ پہنے ہوئے تھے اوندھے منھ زمین پر گر پڑے۔ 17 داؤد نے خدا سے کہا ، “کیا وہ میں نہیں تھا جس نے لوگوں کو گننے کا حکم دیا تھا ؟ اس لئے وہ میں ہی ہوں جس نے گناہ اور غلطی کی یہ لوگ جو میرے لئے بھیڑ جیسے ہیں انہوں نے کیا کیا ہے ؟ خدا وند میرے خدا مجھے اور میرے خاندان کو سزا دے لیکن اس بھیانک وبا: کو روک دے جو تیرے آدمیوں کے بیچ ہے۔”
18 تب خدا وند کے فرشتہ نے جاد سے کہا ، “داؤد سے کہو کہ وہ خدا وند کے لئے یبوسی اروناہ کی کھلیان پر ایک قربان گاہ بنائے۔” 19 اور اس طرح سے داؤد وہاں گیا جیسا کہ جاد نے خدا وند کے نام پر اسے کہا تھا۔
My point of view about above verses
When David took census of Israelites. God didn't like it as it was evil on sight of God and he punished them
When David took census of Israelites God gave him three options to take away his guilt – he has to select one to carry out against him
God gave three options to David through Gad prophet, three years of famine, or three months of battle with your enemies or three days of the sword of the Lord – and asked him to select
David selected 3 days of sword with the Lord as he thought it is better to be in Lord’s hand than in human as His mercy is greater- So Lord sent three days of plague and 70,000 of Israel died – He also sent angel to destroy Jerusalem but When angel was doing it, the Lord sympathized and said to angel enough – withdraw your hand
When David saw angel of the Lord with the sword – he fell face down and said it is me who sinned against you by counting the fighting men so I should be punished not these people – so David made an altar as commanded by God through Gad
May God give us wisdom to understand Him through His Word as He speaks with us through this - and apply it in our lives to have a blissful life on earth
