1 Chronicles 21:20-21

21:20 While Ornan was threshing wheat, he turned and saw the messenger, and he and his four sons hid themselves. 21:21 When David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David; he came out from the threshing floor and bowed to David with his face ¹  to the ground.

1 Chronicles 21:25

21:25 So David bought the place from Ornan for 600 pieces of gold. ² 

1 Chronicles 21:28

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.

1 Chronicles 21:18

21:18 So the Lord’s messenger told Gad to instruct David to go up and build ³  an altar for the Lord on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

1 Chronicles 21:15

21:15 God sent an angel ⁴  to ravage ⁵  Jerusalem. As he was doing so, ⁶  the Lord watched ⁷  and relented from ⁸  his judgment. ⁹  He told the angel who was destroying, “That’s enough! ¹⁰  Stop now!” ¹¹ 

Now the Lord’s angel was standing near the threshing floor of Ornan ¹²  the Jebusite.

1 Chronicles 21:22-24

21:22 David said to Ornan, “Sell me the threshing floor ¹³  so I can build ¹⁴  on it an altar for the Lord – I’ll pay top price ¹⁵  – so that the plague may be removed ¹⁶  from the people.” 21:23 Ornan told David, “You can have it! ¹⁷  My master, the king, may do what he wants. ¹⁸  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. ¹⁹  I will not offer to the Lord what belongs to you or offer a burnt sacrifice ²⁰  that cost me nothing. ²¹ 

[21:21]  ¹ tn Heb “nostrils.”

[21:25]  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.

[21:18]  ¹ tn Heb “that he should go up to raise up.”

[21:15]  ¹ tn The parallel text of 2 Sam 24:15 reports that God sent a plague, while 24:16-17 attributes this to the instrumentality of an angel.

[21:15]  ² tn Or “destroy.”

[21:15]  ³ tn Heb “while he was destroying.”

[21:15]  ⁴ tn Or “saw.”

[21:15]  ⁵ tn Or “was grieved because of.”

[21:15]  ⁶ tn Heb “concerning the calamity.”

[21:15]  ⁷ tn For this nuance of the Hebrew word רַב (rav), see BDB 913 s.v. 1.f.

[21:15]  ⁸ tn Heb “Now, drop your hand.”

[21:15]  ⁹ tn In the parallel text in 2 Sam 24:16 this individual is called אֲרַוְנָא (’aravna’, “Aravna”), traditionally “Araunah.” The form of the name found here also occurs in vv. 18-28.

[21:22]  ¹ tn Heb “the place of the threshing floor.”

[21:22]  ² tn Following the imperative, the prefixed verbal form with vav (ו) conjunctive here indicates the immediate purpose/result: “so I can build.”

[21:22]  ³ tn Heb “For full silver sell to me.”

[21:22]  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.

[21:23]  ¹ tn Heb “take for yourself.”

[21:23]  ² tn Heb “what is good in his eyes.”

[21:24]  ¹ tn Heb “No, for buying I will buy for full silver.” The infinitive absolute precedes the finite verb for emphasis.

[21:24]  ² tc The parallel text in 2 Sam 24:24 has the plural “burnt sacrifices.”

[21:24]  ³ tn Or “without [paying] compensation.”