1 Chronicles 21:25-30

21:25 So David bought the place from Ornan for 600 pieces of gold. 1  21:26 David built there an altar to the Lord and offered burnt sacrifices and peace offerings. 2  He called out to the Lord, and the Lord 3  responded by sending fire from the sky and consuming the burnt sacrifice on the altar. 21:27 The Lord ordered the messenger 4  to put his sword back into its sheath.

21:28 At that time, when David saw that the Lord responded to him at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, he sacrificed there. 21:29 Now the Lord’s tabernacle (which Moses had made in the wilderness) and the altar for burnt sacrifices were at that time at the worship center 5  in Gibeon. 21:30 But David could not go before it to seek God’s will, for he was afraid of the sword of the Lord’s messenger.

1 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.

2 tn Or “tokens of peace.”

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

3 tn Heb “spoke to the messenger.”

4 tn Or “high place.”