1 Chronicles 21:22 · KJV
“Then David said to Ornan, Grant me the place of {this} threshingfloor, that I may build an altar therein unto the LORD: thou shalt grant it me for the full price: that the plague may be stayed from the people. {Grant: Heb. Give}”
— 1 Chronicles 21:22
And as David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out of the threshingfloor, and bowed himself to David with {his} face to the ground.
And Ornan said unto David, Take {it} to thee, and let my lord the king do {that which is} good in his eyes: lo, I give {thee} the oxen {also} for burnt offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat for the meat offering; I give it all.
1 Chronicles 21 — Context
And Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat. {And Ornan...: or, When Ornan turned back and saw the angel, then he and his four sons with him hid themselves}
21And as David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out of the threshingfloor, and bowed himself to David with {his} face to the ground.
22Then David said to Ornan, Grant me the place of {this} threshingfloor, that I may build an altar therein unto the LORD: thou shalt grant it me for the full price: that the plague may be stayed from the people. {Grant: Heb. Give}
23And Ornan said unto David, Take {it} to thee, and let my lord the king do {that which is} good in his eyes: lo, I give {thee} the oxen {also} for burnt offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat for the meat offering; I give it all.
24And king David said to Ornan, Nay; but I will verily buy it for the full price: for I will not take {that} which {is} thine for the LORD, nor offer burnt offerings without cost.
Cross References
2 Samuel 24:21
And Araunah said, Wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant? And David said, To buy the threshingfloor of thee, to build an altar unto the LORD, that the plague may be stayed from the people.
1 Kings 21:2
And Ahab spake unto Naboth, saying, Give me thy vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it {is} near unto my house: and I will give thee for it a better vineyard than it; {or}, if it seem good to thee, I will give thee the worth of it in money. {seem...: Heb. be good in thine eyes}
Numbers 16:48
And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed.
Numbers 25:8
And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her belly. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.