1 and while his four sons who were with him hid themselves, Ornan continued to thresh wheat.
212 Chr 3.1As David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David; he went out from the threshing floor and prostrated himself before David with his face to the ground.
22David said to Ornan, “Give me the site of the threshing floor that I may build on it an altar to the Lord—give it to me at its full price—so that the plague may be averted from the people.”
23Then Ornan said to David, “Take it, and let my lord the king do what seems good to him; see, I present the oxen for burnt offerings and the threshing sledges for the wood and the wheat for a grain offering. I give it all.”
24But King David said to Ornan, “No, but I will buy them for the full price. I will not take for the Lord what is yours nor offer burnt offerings that cost me nothing.”
252 Sam 24.24So David paid Ornan six hundred shekels of gold by weight for the site.
26Lev 9.24; Judg 6.21David built there an altar to the Lord and presented burnt offerings and offerings of well-being. He called upon the Lord, and he answered him with fire from heaven on the altar of burnt offering.
27Then the Lord commanded the angel, and he put his sword back into its sheath.
The Place Chosen for the Temple28At that time, when David saw that the Lord had answered him at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, he made his sacrifices there.
291 Kings 3.4; 1 Chr 16.39For the tabernacle of the Lord that Moses had made in the wilderness and the altar of burnt offering were at that time in the high place at Gibeon,
30but David could not go before it to inquire of God, for he was afraid of the sword of the angel of the Lord.
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