1 Chronicles 21:28

28 Then anon David saw, that the Lord had heard him in the cornfloor of Ornan (the) Jebusite, and he offered there slain sacrifices. (And David saw at once, that the Lord had answered him at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, and he offered slain sacrifices there.)

1 Chronicles 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 Chronicles 21:28 In-Context

26 And David builded there an altar to the Lord, and offered thereon burnt sacrifices and peaceable sacrifices, and he inwardly called (on) God; and God heard him in fire from heaven upon the altar of burnt sacrifice. (And David built there an altar to the Lord, and offered on it burnt sacrifices and peace offerings, and he inwardly called on God; and God answered him from heaven with fire on the altar of burnt sacrifice.)

27 And the Lord commanded to the angel, and he turned his sword again into the sheath.

28 Then anon David saw, that the Lord had heard him in the cornfloor of Ornan (the) Jebusite, and he offered there slain sacrifices. (And David saw at once, that the Lord had answered him at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, and he offered slain sacrifices there.)

29 Forsooth the tabernacle of the Lord, that Moses had made in the desert, and the altar of burnt sacrifices, was in that tempest in the high place of Gibeon; (For the Tabernacle of the Lord, that Moses had made in the wilderness, and the altar of burnt sacrifices, were at that time at the hill shrine in Gibeon;)

30 and David might not go to the altar, to beseech God there, for he was afeared with full great dread (for he was afraid with a very great fear), seeing the sword of the angel of the Lord.