David Purchased 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.

David purchased threshing floor. David built and altar there to hashem and he offered elevation offering and peace offerings. David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver. After david s death his son king solomon built a glorious temple on the same site. Hashem then answered the prayers of the land and the pestilence ceased from israel.

As this site would later become the location of the beit hamikdash temple david purchases the land publicly just as avraham did when he purchased the cave of machpelah in chevron for a great sum of money and in. 22 then david said to ornan grant me the site of this threshing floor that i may build an altar to the lord. King david purchased the threshing floor temple altar. David gave the fifty shekels for the immediate use of the place and for the oxen and implements.

So david bought the threshing floor and the oxen and paid fifty shekels of silver for them. 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. א ר ו נ ה ǎrawnāh was a jebusite mentioned in the second book of samuel who owned the threshing floor on mount moriah which david purchased and used as the site for assembling an altar to god the first book of chronicles a later text renders his name as ornan hebrew. 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.

About a thousand years later at this very location king david bought the threshing floor of araunah the jebusite and built an altar to the lord so that a plague may be held back from the people 2 samuel 24 18 21. 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. That threshing floor the place where he intends to offer sacrifices is now called the har habayit temple mount in yerushalayim. So david bought the threshing floor and the cattle for fifty silver shekels.

I chronicles 21 22 30. 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.