Chronicles I 21:20

20 And Orna turned and saw the king; and he hid himself and his four sons with him. Now Orna was threshing wheat.

Chronicles I 21:20 Meaning and Commentary

1 Chronicles 21:20

(See Gill on 1 Chronicles 21:1).

Chronicles I 21:20 In-Context

18 And the angel of the Lord told Gad to tell David, that he should go up to erect and altar to the Lord, in the threshing-floor of Orna the Jebusite.

19 And David went up according to the word of Gad, which he spoke in the name of the Lord.

20 And Orna turned and saw the king; and he hid himself and his four sons with him. Now Orna was threshing wheat.

21 And David came to Orna; and Orna came forth from the threshing-floor, and did obeisance to David with his face to the ground.

22 And David said to Orna, Give me thy place of the threshing-floor, and I will build upon it an altar to the Lord: give it me for its worth in money, and the plague shall cease from the people.