H0559–אָמַר–a.mar

David said to Joab and to the princes of the people, Go, number Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; and bring me word, that I may know the sum of them.

וַיֹּ֨אמֶר (יֹּ֨אמֶר) i.Yo.mer “he said”

Joab said, Yahweh make his people a hundred times as many as they are: but, my lord the king, aren't they all my lord's servants? why does my lord require this thing? why will he be a cause of guilt to Israel?

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (יֹּ֣אמֶר) i.Yo.mer “he said”

David said to God, I have sinned greatly, in that I have done this thing: but now, put away, I beg you, the iniquity of your servant; for I have done very foolishly.

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר (יֹּ֤אמֶר) i.Yo.mer “he said”

Yahweh spoke to Gad, David's seer, saying,

לֵאמֹֽר׃ (אמֹֽר) Mor “saying”

Go and speak to David, saying, Thus says Yahweh, I offer you three things: choose you one of them, that I may do it to you.

לֵאמֹ֗ר (אמֹ֗ר) Mor “saying”אָמַ֣ר 'a.Mar “he says”

So Gad came to David, and said to him, Thus says Yahweh, Take which you will:

וַיֹּ֥אמֶר (יֹּ֥אמֶר) i.Yo.mer “he said”אָמַ֥ר 'a.Mar “he says”

David said to Gad, I am in a great strait: let me fall, I pray, into the hand of Yahweh; for very great are his mercies: and let me not fall into the hand of man.

וַיֹּ֧אמֶר (יֹּ֧אמֶר) i.Yo.mer “he said”

God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was about to destroy, Yahweh saw, and he repented him of the evil, and said to the destroying angel, It is enough; now stay your hand. The angel of Yahweh was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

וַיֹּ֨אמֶר (יֹּ֨אמֶר) i.Yo.mer “he said”

David said to God, Isn't it I who commanded the people to be numbered? It is even I who have sinned and done very wickedly; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand, O Yahweh my God, be against me, and against my father's house; but not against your people, that they should be plagued.

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (יֹּ֣אמֶר) i.Yo.mer “he said”אָמַ֜רְתִּי 'a.Mar.ti “did I say”

Then the angel of Yahweh commanded Gad to tell David, that David should go up, and raise an altar to Yahweh in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

אָמַ֥ר 'a.Mar “he said”לֵאמֹ֣ר (אמֹ֣ר) Mor “say”

Then David said to Ornan, Give me the place of this threshing floor, that I may build thereon an altar to Yahweh: for the full price shall you give it me, that the plague may be stayed from the people.

וַיֹּ֨אמֶר (יֹּ֨אמֶר) i.Yo.mer “he said”

Ornan said to David, Take it to you, and let my lord the king do that which is good in his eyes: behold, I give [supplied: you] the oxen for burnt offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat for the meal-offering; I give it all.

וַיֹּ֨אמֶר (יֹּ֨אמֶר) i.Yo.mer “he said”

King David said to Ornan, No; but I will most assuredly buy it for the full price: for I will not take that which is your for Yahweh, nor offer a burnt-offering without cost.

וַיֹּ֨אמֶר (יֹּ֨אמֶר) i.Yo.mer “he said”

Yahweh commanded the angel; and he put up his sword again into the sheath of it.

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר (יֹּ֤אמֶר) i.Yo.mer “he spoke”

Then David said, This is the house of Yahweh God, and this is the altar of burnt-offering for Israel.

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (יֹּ֣אמֶר) i.Yo.mer “he said”

David commanded to gather together the foreigners who were in the land of Israel; and he set masons to hew worked stones to build the house of God.

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (יֹּ֣אמֶר) i.Yo.mer “he said”

David said, Solomon my son is young and tender, and the house that is to be built for Yahweh must be exceedingly magnificent, of fame and of glory throughout all countries: I will therefore make preparation for it. So David prepared abundantly before his death.

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (יֹּ֣אמֶר) i.Yo.mer “he said”

David said to Solomon his son, As for me, it was in my heart to build a house to the name of Yahweh my God.

וַיֹּ֥אמֶר (יֹּ֥אמֶר) i.Yo.mer “he said”

But the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, You have shed blood abundantly, and have made great wars: you shall not build a house to my name, because you have shed much blood on the earth in my sight.

לֵאמֹ֔ר (אמֹ֔ר) Mor “saying”

For David said, Yahweh, the God of Israel, has given rest to his people; and he dwells in Jerusalem forever:

אָמַ֣ר 'a.Mar “he had said”

But David didn't take the number of them from twenty years old and under, because Yahweh had said he would increase Israel like the stars of the sky.

אָמַ֣ר 'a.Mar “he had said”

Then David the king stood up on his feet, and said, Hear me, my brothers, and my people: as for me, it was in my heart to build a house of rest for the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, and for the footstool of our God; and I had made ready for the building.

וַיֹּ֕אמֶר (יֹּ֕אמֶר) i.Yo.mer “he said”

But God said to me, You shall not build a house for my name, because you are a man of war, and have shed blood.

אָ֣מַר 'A.mar “he said”

He said to me, Solomon your son, he shall build my house and my courts; for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be his father.

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (יֹּ֣אמֶר) i.Yo.mer “he said”

David said to Solomon his son, Be strong and of good courage, and do it: don't be afraid, nor be dismayed; for Yahweh God, even my God, is with you; he will not fail you, nor forsake you, until all the work for the service of the house of Yahweh is finished.

וַיֹּ֨אמֶר (יֹּ֨אמֶר) i.Yo.mer “he said”