1 Chronicles 21:17

21:17 David said to God, “Was I not the one who decided to number the army? I am the one who sinned and committed this awful deed! ¹  As for these sheep – what have they done? O Lord my God, attack me and my family, ²  but remove the plague from your people!” ³ 

1 Chronicles 21:22

21:22 David said to Ornan, “Sell me the threshing floor ⁴  so I can build ⁵  on it an altar for the Lord – I’ll pay top price ⁶  – so that the plague may be removed ⁷  from the people.”

[21:17]  ¹ tn “and doing evil I did evil.” The infinitive absolute precedes the finite form of the verb for emphasis.

[21:17]  ² tn Heb “let your hand be on me and on the house of my father.”

[21:17]  ³ tn Heb “but on your people not for a plague.”

[21:22]  ⁴ tn Heb “the place of the threshing floor.”

[21:22]  ⁵ tn Following the imperative, the prefixed verbal form with vav (ו) conjunctive here indicates the immediate purpose/result: “so I can build.”

[21:22]  ⁶ tn Heb “For full silver sell to me.”

[21:22]  ⁷ 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.