Chronicles I 21:22

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.

Chronicles I 21:22 Meaning and Commentary

1 Chronicles 21:22

(See Gill on 1 Chronicles 21:1).

Chronicles I 21:22 In-Context

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.

23 And Orna said to David, Take it to thyself, and let my lord the king do what is right in his eyes: see, I have given the calves for a whole-burnt-offering, and the plough for wood, and the corn for a meat-offering; I have given all.

24 And king David said to Orna, Nay; for I will surely buy it for its worth in money: for I will not take thy property for the Lord, to offer a whole-burnt-offering to the Lord without cost .