1 Cronache 21:28

28 In quel tempo Davide, vedendo che l’Eterno lo aveva esaudito nell’aia d’Ornan, il Gebuseo, vi offriva dei sacrifizi.

1 Cronache 21:28 Meaning and Commentary

1 Chronicles 21:28

At that time when David saw that the Lord had answered him in
the threshing floor Of Ornan the Jebusite
The same with Araunah, ( 2 Samuel 24:16 ) , with some small variation of the letters, and are of the same signification; both signifying the "ornus", as Hillerus ^F13 observes, the pine tree or ash; see ( Isaiah 44:14 ) , in whose threshingfloor David now was, and where he had been praying and sacrificing; and God had accepted his prayer, as the Targum, and had answered him, by causing fire to come down on the sacrifice and consume it, and by ordering the angel to put up his sword in its sheath:

then he sacrificed there;
again by the priests, and continued to do so, for he had sacrificed there before, ( 1 Chronicles 21:26 ) and finding his sacrifices in that place were acceptable, he repeated them, and did not go to Gibeon, as follows.

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FOOTNOTES:

F13 Onomastic. Sacr. p. 529, 530.

1 Cronache 21:28 In-Context

26 poi edificò quivi un altare all’Eterno, offrì olocausti e sacrifizi di azioni di grazie, e invocò l’Eterno, il quale gli rispose mediante il fuoco, che discese dal cielo sull’altare dell’olocausto.

27 Poi l’Eterno comandò all’angelo di rimettere la spada nel fodero.

28 In quel tempo Davide, vedendo che l’Eterno lo aveva esaudito nell’aia d’Ornan, il Gebuseo, vi offriva dei sacrifizi.

29 Il tabernacolo dell’Eterno che Mosè avea costruito nel deserto e l’altare degli olocausti si trovavano allora sull’alto luogo di Gabaon.

30 E Davide non poteva andare davanti a quell’altare a cercare Iddio, per lo spavento che gli avea cagionato la spada dell’angelo dell’Eterno.