David Buys A Threshing Floor

David said to buy the threshing floor from you in order to build an altar to the lord that the plague may be averted from the people then araunah said to david let my lord the king take and offer up what seems good to him.

David buys a threshing floor. In 1 chronicles 21 25 so david gave to ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight there is a superficial but no real discrepancy between these two narratives. Here are the oxen for the burnt offering and the threshing sledges and the yokes of the oxen for the wood. The angel of adonai was then by the threshing floor of araunah the jebusite 2 samuel 24 15 16 so david bought the threshing floor and the oxen for 50 shekels of silver. So david bought the threshing floor and the oxen and paid fifty shekels of silver for them.

Spurgeon at the metropolitan tabernacle newington. See the cattle and available for elevation offerings and the threshing tools and the. David builds an altar 21 david came to ornan and when ornan looked out and saw david he left the threshing floor and bowed facedown before david. A sermon delivered on lord s day morning november 9 1884 by c.

1ch 21 28 then david said this is the house of the lord god and this is the altar of the burnt offering for israel. David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver. Here are oxen for the burnt offering and here are threshing sledges and ox yokes for the wood. 1 kings 22 10 dressed in their royal robes the king of israel and jehoshaphat king of judah were sitting on their thrones at the threshing floor by the entrance of the gate of samaria with all the prophets prophesying before them.

King david ordered a census of the fighting men of israel. To buy your threshing floor david answered so i can build an altar to the lord that the plague on the people may be stopped araunah said to david let my lord the king take whatever he wishes and offer it up. This census was contrary to god s will. The story of araunah and his threshing floor is linked to that of david s sinful census in 2 samuel 24.

22 then david said to ornan grant me the site of this threshing floor that i may build an altar to the lord. David gave the fifty shekels for the immediate use of the place and for the oxen and implements. Perhaps the census was a source of pride or a sign that david was relying upon the strength of his men rather than the strength of the lord. Sell it to me for the full price so that the plague upon the people may be halted 23 ornan said to david my lord the king.

And david replied to buy threshing floor from you in order to build an altar to hashem so that the pestilence may cease from the people but araunah said to david let my lord the king take it and offer whatever is proper in his eyes.