2 Samuel 24:21 ““Why has my lord the king come to his servant?” Araunah said. “To buy…”

2 Samuel 24:21

“Why has my lord the king come to his servant?” Araunah said. “To buy your threshing floor,” David replied, “that I may build an altar to the LORD, so that the plague upon the people may be halted.”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

Araunah said, “Why has my lord the king come to his servant?” David said, “To buy your threshing floor, to build an altar to the LORD, that the plague may be stopped from afflicting the people.”

American Standard Version

And Araunah said, Wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant? And David said, To buy the threshing-floor of thee, to build an altar unto Jehovah, that the plague may be stayed from the people.

Geneva Bible 1599

And Araunah said, Wherefore is my lord the King come to his seruant? Then Dauid answered, To bye the threshing floore of thee for to builde an altar vnto the Lord, that the plague may cease from the people.

Darby Translation

And Araunah said, Why is my lord the king come to his servant? And David said, To buy the threshing-floor of thee, to build an altar to Jehovah, that the plague may be stayed from the people.

Young's Literal Translation

And Araunah saith, 'Wherefore hath my lord the king come unto his servant?' and David saith, 'To buy from thee the threshing-floor, to build an altar to Jehovah, and the plague is restrained from the people.'

Bible in Basic English

And Araunah said, Why has my lord the king come to his servant? And David said, To give you a price for your grain-floor, so that I may put up an altar to the Lord, and the disease may be stopped among the people.

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Cross references

“Wherefore”

2 Samuel 24:3 2 Samuel 24:18

2 Samuel 24:3 · BSB

But Joab replied to the king, “May the LORD your God multiply the troops a hundred times over, and may the eyes of my lord the king see it. But why does my lord the king want to do such a thing?”

2 Samuel 24:18 · BSB

And that day Gad came to David and said to him, “Go up and build an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.”

“To buy”

Genesis 23:8–16 1 Chronicles 21:22 Jeremiah 32:6–14

Genesis 23:8–16 · BSB

“If you are willing for me to bury my dead,” he said to them, “listen to me, and approach Ephron son of Zohar on my behalf

1 Chronicles 21:22 · BSB

Then David said to Ornan, “Grant me the site of this threshing floor, that I may build an altar to the LORD. Sell it to me for the full price, so that the plague upon the people may be halted.”

Jeremiah 32:6–14 · BSB

Jeremiah replied, “The word of the LORD came to me, saying:

“the plague”

2 Samuel 21:3–14 Numbers 25:8 Psalm 106:30 Numbers 16:47–50

2 Samuel 21:3–14 · BSB

So David asked the Gibeonites, “What shall I do for you? How can I make amends so that you may bless the inheritance of the LORD?”

Numbers 25:8 · BSB

followed the Israelite into his tent, and drove the spear through both of them—through the Israelite and on through the belly of the woman. So the plague against the Israelites was halted,

Psalm 106:30 · BSB

But Phinehas stood and intervened, and the plague was restrained.

Numbers 16:47–50 · BSB

So Aaron took the censer as Moses had ordered and ran into the midst of the assembly. And seeing that the plague had begun among the people, he offered the incense and made atonement for the people.

Also

Numbers 16:44–50

Numbers 16:44–50 · BSB

and the LORD said to Moses,

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

20When Araunah looked out and saw the king and his servants coming toward him, he went out and bowed facedown before the king.

22Araunah said to David, “May my lord the king take whatever seems good to him and offer it up. Here are the oxen for a burnt offering and the threshing sledges and ox yokes for the wood.

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