David Buys The Threshing Floor

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.

David buys the threshing floor. Spurgeon at the metropolitan tabernacle newington. Here are oxen for the burnt offering and here are threshing sledges and ox yokes for the wood. King david ordered a census of the fighting men of israel. 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.

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. 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. A sermon delivered on lord s day morning november 9 1884 by c. This census was contrary to god s will.

22 then david said to ornan grant me the site of this threshing floor that i may build an altar to the lord. See the cattle and available for elevation offerings and the threshing tools and the. And david said to buy the threshing floor from you to build an altar to the lord that the plague may be withdrawn from the people 22 now araunah said to david let my lord the king take and offer up whatever seems good to him. 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.

So david bought the threshing floor and the oxen and paid fifty shekels of silver for them. At that time when david saw that the lord had answered him in the threshing floor of ornan the jebusite then he sacrificed there. Look here are oxen for burnt sacrifice and threshing implements and the yokes of the oxen for wood. The story of araunah and his threshing floor is linked to that of david s sinful census in 2 samuel 24.

We would like to show you a description here but the site won t allow us. 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. David gave the fifty shekels for the immediate use of the place and for the oxen and implements. Then david built there an altar to adonai and offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings.

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.