1 Chronicles 21:21

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 3:21

3:21 The descendants of Hananiah:

Pelatiah, Jeshaiah, the sons of Rephaiah, of Arnan, of Obadiah, and of Shecaniah.

1 Chronicles 21:20

21:20 While Ornan was threshing wheat, he turned and saw the messenger, and he and his four sons hid themselves.

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 ²  an altar for the Lord on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

1 Chronicles 21:15

21:15 God sent an angel ³  to ravage ⁴  Jerusalem. As he was doing so, ⁵  the Lord watched ⁶  and relented from ⁷  his judgment. ⁸  He told the angel who was destroying, “That’s enough! ⁹  Stop now!” ¹⁰ 

Now the Lord’s angel was standing near the threshing floor of Ornan ¹¹  the Jebusite.

1 Chronicles 21:22-23

21:22 David said to Ornan, “Sell me the threshing floor ¹²  so I can build ¹³  on it an altar for the Lord – I’ll pay top price ¹⁴  – so that the plague may be removed ¹⁵  from the people.” 21:23 Ornan told David, “You can have it! ¹⁶  My master, the king, may do what he wants. ¹⁷  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.”

[21:21]  ¹ tn Heb “nostrils.”

[21:18]  ² tn Heb “that he should go up to raise up.”

[21:15]  ³ 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]  ⁴ tn Or “destroy.”

[21:15]  ⁵ tn Heb “while he was destroying.”

[21:15]  ⁶ tn Or “saw.”

[21:15]  ⁷ tn Or “was grieved because of.”

[21:15]  ⁸ tn Heb “concerning the calamity.”

[21:15]  ⁹ tn For this nuance of the Hebrew word רַב (rav), see BDB 913 s.v. 1.f.

[21:15]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “Now, drop your hand.”

[21:15]  ¹¹ 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]  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.

[21:23]  ⁵ tn Heb “take for yourself.”

[21:23]  ⁶ tn Heb “what is good in his eyes.”