2 Samuel 24:21

Contextual Overview

²¹Araunah said, "Why has my lord the king come to his servant?" "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."²¹ Araunah said, "Why has my lord the king come to his servant?" "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." ²¹Then Araunah said, "Why has my lord the king come to his servant?" And David said, "To buy the threshing floor from you, in order to build an altar to Yahweh, that the plague may be checked from being upon the people." ²¹ Then Araunah said, "Why has my lord the king come to his servant?" And David said, "To buy the threshing floor from you, in order to build an altar to the LORD, that the plague may be held back from the people."²¹ And Areuna sayde: Wherefore is my lord the king come to his seruaunt? Dauid aunswered: To bye the threshing floore of thee, and to make an aulter vnto the Lord, that the plague may ceasse from the people. ²¹ He said, "Why has my lord and king come to me?" David answered, "I came to buy the threshing floor from you. Then I can build an altar to the Lord . Then the disease will stop." ²¹ And Araunah said, Why has my lord the king come to his servant? And David said, To buy the threshing-floor from you, in order to build an altar to Jehovah; and the plague will be stayed from the people. ²¹ And Arau'nah said, "Why has my lord the king come to his servant?" David said, "To buy the threshing floor of you, in order to build an altar to the LORD, that the plague may be averted from the people." ²¹ Araunah said, Why is my lord the king come to his servant? David said, To buy the threshing floor of you, to build an altar to Yahweh, that the plague may be stayed from the people. ²¹ And Araunah said, Wherefore is my lord the King come to his seruant? and Dauid saide, To buy the threshing floore of thee, to build an Altar vnto the Lord, that the plague may be stayed from the people.

Bible Verse Review
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Wherefore: 2 Samuel 24:3, 2 Samuel 24:18

To buy: Genesis 23:8-16, 1 Chronicles 21:22, Jeremiah 32:6-14

the plague: 2 Samuel 21:3-14, Numbers 16:47-50, Numbers 25:8, Psalms 106:30

Cross-References

Genesis 24:1
Abraham was now old and well advanced in years, and the LORD had blessed him in every way.

Genesis 24:1
Abraham was now very old, and the Lord had blessed him in every way.

Genesis 24:1
Now Abraham was old, advanced in age; and Yahweh had blessed Abraham in every way.

Genesis 24:1
Now Abraham was old, advanced in age; and the LORD had blessed Abraham in every way.

Genesis 24:1
And Abraham was old & stricken in dayes, and the Lorde had blessed Abraham in all thinges.

Genesis 24:1
Abraham lived to be a very old man. The Lord blessed him and everything he did.

Genesis 24:1
Now Abraham was old, well advanced in years; and the LORD had blessed Abraham in all things.

Genesis 24:1
Forsothe Abraham was eld, and of many daies, and the Lord hadde blessid hym in alle thingis.

Genesis 24:1
And Abraham was olde and well stricken in age: And the LORD had blessed Abraham in all things.

Genesis 24:1
And Abraham was old, and well stricken in age: and the Lord had blessed Abraham in all things.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Araunah said, wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant?.... Which both implies admiration in him, that so great a person should visit him in his threshingfloor; that a king should come to a subject his servant, who should rather have come to him, and would upon the least intimation; it was a piece of condescension he marvelled at; and it expresses a desire to know his pleasure with him, supposing it must be something very urgent and important, that the king should come himself upon it: and to this David made answer,

and David said, what he was come for:

to buy the threshingfloor of thee, to build an altar to the Lord, that the plague may be stayed from the people; for though David had acknowledged his sin, and God had repented of the evil he inflicted for it, and given orders for stopping it; yet he would have an altar built, and sacrifices offered, to show that the only way to have peace, and pardon, and safety from ruin and destruction, deserved by sin, is through the expiatory sacrifice of Christ, of which fill sacrifices were typical, and were designed to lead the faith of the Lord's people to that.