This command was also evil in God’s sight, so he afflicted Israel.

神不喜悦这数点百姓的事，便降灾给以色列人。

这件事在上帝眼中看为恶，上帝就降灾给以色列。

这件事在神眼中看为恶，神就降灾给以色列。

上帝也不喜悦这事，便降灾给以色列人。

神不喜悦这事，所以他击打以色列人。

神不喜悅這數點百姓的事，便降災給以色列人。

這件事在上帝眼中看為惡，上帝就降災給以色列。

這件事在神眼中看為惡，神就降災給以色列。

上帝也不喜悅這事，便降災給以色列人。

神不喜悅這事，所以他擊打以色列人。

這件事上帝看為大壞事，故此他擊打了以色列人。

上帝不悅此事、遂擊以色列人、

大闢所為、上帝不悅、遂擊以色列族。

天主不悅此事、遂擊以色列人、

This command was also evil in the sight of God; so he punished Israel.

It was also evil in the sight of God. So he punished Israel.

But God was displeased with this thing, and he struck Israel.

God was very displeased with the census, and he punished Israel for it.

Now God was displeased with this thing, so He struck Israel.

And God was displeased with this thing; therefore He struck Israel.

And God was displeased with this thing; therefore he smote Israel.

This command was also evil in God’s sight, so He afflicted Israel.

And God was displeased with this thing; therefore he smote Israel.

God was also offended by it, so he attacked Israel.

God was displeased with this thing; therefore he struck Israel.

For David did what was right in the LORD’s sight, and he did not turn aside from anything he had commanded him all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriah the Hethite.

During David’s reign there was a famine for three successive years, so David inquired of the LORD. The LORD answered,“ It is due to Saul and to his bloody family, because he killed the Gibeonites.”

The Israelites, however, were unfaithful regarding the things set apart for destruction. Achan son of Carmi, son of Zabdi, son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took some of what was set apart, and the LORD’s anger burned against the Israelites.

“ Go and consecrate the people. Tell them to consecrate themselves for tomorrow, for this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: There are things that are set apart among you, Israel. You will not be able to stand against your enemies until you remove what is set apart.

The men of Ai struck down about thirty-six of them and chased them from outside the city gate to the quarries, striking them down on the descent. As a result, the people lost heart.

“ This is what the LORD’s entire community says:‘ What is this treachery you have committed today against the God of Israel by turning away from the LORD and building an altar for yourselves, so that you are in rebellion against the LORD today?Wasn’t the iniquity of Peor, which brought a plague on the LORD’s community, enough for us? We have not cleansed ourselves from it even to this day,and now would you turn away from the LORD? If you rebel against the LORD today, tomorrow he will be angry with the entire community of Israel.But if the land you possess is defiled, cross over to the land the LORD possesses where the LORD’s tabernacle stands, and take possession of it among us. But don’t rebel against the LORD or against us by building for yourselves an altar other than the altar of the LORD our God.Wasn’t Achan son of Zerah unfaithful regarding what was set apart for destruction, bringing wrath on the entire community of Israel? He was not the only one who perished because of his iniquity.’”The Reubenites, Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh answered the heads of the Israelite clans,“ The Mighty One, God, the LORD! The Mighty One, God, the LORD! He knows, and may Israel also know. Do not spare us today, if it was in rebellion or treachery against the LORDthat we have built for ourselves an altar to turn away from him. May the LORD himself hold us accountable if we intended to offer burnt offerings and grain offerings on it, or to sacrifice fellowship offerings on it.We actually did this from a specific concern that in the future your descendants might say to our descendants,‘ What relationship do you have with the LORD, the God of Israel?For the LORD has made the Jordan a border between us and you descendants of Reuben and Gad. You have no share in the LORD!’ So your descendants may cause our descendants to stop fearing the LORD.“ Therefore we said: Let’s take action and build an altar for ourselves, but not for burnt offering or sacrifice.

The LORD’s anger burned against Israel again, and he stirred up David against them to say,“ Go, count the people of Israel and Judah.”

When the time of mourning ended, David had her brought to his house. She became his wife and bore him a son. However, the LORD considered what David had done to be evil.

So the LORD sent a plague on Israel, and seventy thousand Israelite men died.

and buried the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan at Zela in the land of Benjamin in the tomb of Saul’s father Kish. They did everything the king commanded. After this, God was receptive to prayer for the land.