2 Samuel 24:22

22 Araunah said to David, "My master and king, you may take anything you want for a sacrifice. Here are some oxen for the whole burnt offering and the threshing boards and the yokes for the wood.

2 Samuel 24:22 Meaning and Commentary

2 Samuel 24:22

And Araunah said unto David, let my lord the king take and
offer up what [seemeth] good unto him
Build an altar, offer sacrifices of whatsoever he found upon the premises fit for the same, and make use of whatever came to hand proper to perform such service with, as follows:

behold, [here be] oxen for burnt sacrifice:
which were employed in treading the corn, hence the law in ( Deuteronomy 25:4 ) ;

and threshing instruments;
not flails, such as are used by us, but wooden sledges, drays or carts drawn on wheels, which were filled with stones, and the bottom of them stuck with iron teeth, and were drawn by oxen to and fro over the sheaves of corn; see ( Isaiah 28:27 ) ;

and [other] instruments of the oxen for wood;
as their yokes; these Araunah gave leave to take to burn the sacrifice with; and in ( 1 Chronicles 21:23 ) , it is added, "and the wheat for the meat offering", which was upon the threshingfloor; and there always went a meat offering with a burnt offering.

2 Samuel 24:22 In-Context

20 Araunah looked and saw the king and his servants coming to him. So he went out and bowed facedown on the ground before the king.

21 He said, "Why has my master the king come to me?" David answered, "To buy the threshing floor from you so I can build an altar to the Lord. Then the terrible disease will stop."

22 Araunah said to David, "My master and king, you may take anything you want for a sacrifice. Here are some oxen for the whole burnt offering and the threshing boards and the yokes for the wood.

23 My king, I give everything to you." Araunah also said to the king, "May the Lord your God be pleased with you."

24 But the king answered Araunah, "No, I will pay you for the land. I won't offer to the Lord my God burnt offerings that cost me nothing." So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for one and one-fourth pounds of silver.