2 Samuel 24 Footnotes

24:24 In this passage David is said to have purchased “the threshing floor and the oxen” for fifty shekels of silver. In 1Ch 21:22-25, David asks to buy the “threshing-floor plot” (lit “the place of the threshing floor”), apparently a parcel of land that included much more than the threshing floor itself, and accordingly pays a much larger sum of money, six hundred shekels of gold. The different payments are not contradictions, but refer to different purchases.