Text -- 1 Chronicles 21:24 (NET)

21:24 King David replied to Ornan, “No, I insist on buying it for top price. I will not offer to the Lord what belongs to you or offer a burnt sacrifice that cost me nothing.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: 1Ch 21:24

¹ tn Heb “No, for buying I will buy for full silver.” The infinitive absolute precedes the finite verb for emphasis.

² tc The parallel text in 2 Sam 24:24 has the plural “burnt sacrifices.”

³ tn Or “without [paying] compensation.”