H0559–אָמַר–a.mar

And David saith unto Joab, and unto the heads of the people, `Go, number Israel from Beer-Sheba even unto Dan, and bring unto me, and I know their number.'

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

And Joab saith, `Jehovah doth add to His people as they are a hundred times; are they not, my lord, O king, all of them to my lord for servants? why doth my lord seek this? why is he for a cause of guilt to Israel?'

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

and David saith unto God, `I have sinned exceedingly, in that I have done this thing; and now, cause to pass away, I pray Thee, the iniquity of Thy servant, for I have acted very foolishly.'

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

And Jehovah speaketh unto Gad, seer of David, saying:

לֵאמֹֽר׃ (אמֹֽר) Mor “saying”

`Go, and thou hast spoken unto David, saying, Thus said Jehovah, Three -- I am stretching out unto thee; choose for thee one of these, and I do `it' to thee.'

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

And Gad cometh in unto David, and saith to him, `Thus said Jehovah, Take for thee --

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

And David saith unto Gad, `I am greatly distressed, let me fall, I pray thee, into the hand of Jehovah, for very many `are' His mercies, and into the hand of man let me not fall.'

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

and God sendeth a messenger to Jerusalem to destroy it, and as he is destroying Jehovah hath seen, and is comforted concerning the evil, and saith to the messenger who `is' destroying, `Enough, now, cease thy hand.' And the messenger of Jehovah is standing by the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite,

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

And David saith unto God, `Did not I -- I say to number the people? Yea, I it `is' who have sinned, and done great evil: and these, the flock, what did they? O Jehovah, my God, let, I pray Thee, Thy hand be on me, and on the house of my father, and not on Thy people -- to be plagued.'

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

And the messenger of Jehovah spake unto Gad, saying for David, `Surely David doth go up to raise an altar to Jehovah in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.'

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

And David saith unto Ornan, `Give to me the place of the threshing-floor, and I build in it an altar to Jehovah; for full silver give it to me, and the plague is restrained from the people.'

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

And Ornan saith unto David, `Take to thee -- and my lord the king doth that which is good in his eyes: see, I have given the oxen for burnt-offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat for a present; the whole I have given.'

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

And king David saith to Ornan, `Nay, for I surely buy for full silver; for I do not lift up that which is thine to Jehovah, so as to offer a burnt-offering without cost.'

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

And Jehovah saith to the messenger, and he turneth back his sword unto its sheath.

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

And David saith, `This is the house of Jehovah God, and this the altar for burnt-offering for Israel.'

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

And David saith to gather the sojourners who `are' in the land of Israel, and appointeth hewers to hew hewn-stones to build a house of God.

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

And David saith, `Solomon my son `is' a youth and tender, and the house to be built to Jehovah `is' to be made exceedingly great, for name and for beauty to all the lands; let me prepare, I pray Thee, for it;' and David prepareth in abundance before his death.

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

and David saith to Solomon his son, `As for me, it hath been with my heart to build a house to the name of Jehovah my God,

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

and the word of Jehovah `is' against me, saying, Blood in abundance thou hast shed, and great wars thou hast made: thou dost not build a house to My name, for much blood thou hast shed to the earth before Me.

לֵאמֹ֔ר (אמֹ֔ר) Mor “saying”

for David said, `Jehovah, God of Israel, hath given rest to His people, and He doth tabernacle in Jerusalem unto the age;'

אָמַ֣ר 'a.Mar “he had said”

And David hath not taken up their number from a son of twenty years and under, for Jehovah said to multiply Israel as the stars of the heavens.

אָמַ֣ר 'a.Mar “he had said”

And David the king riseth on his feet, and saith, `Hear me, my brethren and my people, I -- with my heart -- to build a house of rest for the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, and for the footstool of our God, and I prepared to build,

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

and God hath said to me, Thou dost not build a house to My name, for a man of wars thou `art', and blood thou hast shed.

אָ֣מַר 'A.mar “he said”

and saith to me, Solomon thy son, he doth build My house, and My courts, for I have fixed on him to Me for a son, and I -- I am to him for a father,

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

And David saith to Solomon his son, `Be strong, and courageous, and do; do not fear nor be affrighted, for Jehovah God, my God, `is' with thee; He doth not fail thee, nor forsake thee, unto the completion of all the work of the service of the house of Jehovah.

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