24:20 When Araunah looked out and saw the king and his servants approaching him, he 1 went out and bowed to the king with his face 2 to the ground. 24:21 Araunah said, “Why has my lord the king come to his servant?” David replied, “To buy from you the threshing floor so I can build an altar for the Lord, so that the plague may be removed from the people.”
1 tn Heb “Araunah.” The name has been replaced in the translation by the pronoun (“he”) for stylistic reasons.
2 tn Heb “nostrils.”