1 Chronicles 21:23-26

21:23 Ornan told David, “You can have it! ¹  My master, the king, may do what he wants. ²  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. ³  I will not offer to the Lord what belongs to you or offer a burnt sacrifice ⁴  that cost me nothing. ⁵  21:25 So David bought the place from Ornan for 600 pieces of gold. ⁶  21:26 David built there an altar to the Lord and offered burnt sacrifices and peace offerings. ⁷  He called out to the Lord, and the Lord ⁸  responded by sending fire from the sky and consuming the burnt sacrifice on the altar.

¹ tn Heb “take for yourself.”

² tn Heb “what is good in his eyes.”

³ tn Heb “No, for buying I will buy for full silver.” The infinitive absolute precedes the finite verb for emphasis.

⁴ tc The parallel text in 2 Sam 24:24 has the plural “burnt sacrifices.”

⁵ tn Or “without [paying] compensation.”

⁵ tc The parallel text of 2 Sam 24:24 says David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for “fifty pieces of silver.” This would have been about 20 ounces (568 grams) of silver by weight.

⁷ tn Or “tokens of peace.”

⁸ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.