1 Chronicles 21:22-24

21:22 David said to Ornan, “Sell me the threshing floor ¹  so I can build ²  on it an altar for the Lord – I’ll pay top price ³  – so that the plague may be removed ⁴  from the people.” 21:23 Ornan told David, “You can have it! ⁵  My master, the king, may do what he wants. ⁶  Look, I am giving you the oxen for burnt sacrifices, the threshing sledges for wood, and the wheat for an offering. I give it all to you.” 21:24 King David replied to Ornan, “No, I insist on buying it for top price. ⁷  I will not offer to the Lord what belongs to you or offer a burnt sacrifice ⁸  that cost me nothing. ⁹ 

¹ tn Heb “the place of the threshing floor.”

² tn Following the imperative, the prefixed verbal form with vav (ו) conjunctive here indicates the immediate purpose/result: “so I can build.”

³ tn Heb “For full silver sell to me.”

⁴ tn Following the imperative and first person prefixed verbal form with vav (ו) conjunctive, this third person prefixed verbal form with vav conjunctive introduces the ultimate purpose/result: “so the plague may be removed.” Another option is subordinate this form to the preceding imperative, but the latter may be taken as a parenthetical expansion of the initial request.

⁵ tn Heb “take for yourself.”

⁶ tn Heb “what is good in his eyes.”

⁷ tn Heb “No, for buying I will buy for full silver.” The infinitive absolute precedes the finite verb for emphasis.

⁸ tc The parallel text in 2 Sam 24:24 has the plural “burnt sacrifices.”

⁹ tn Or “without [paying] compensation.”