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1 Chronicles 21:22

in 1 Chronicles 21

Then David said to Ornan, “Grant me the site of this threshing floor, that I may build an altar to the LORD. Sell it to me for the full price, so that the plague upon the people may be halted.”

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Then David said to Ornan, Give me the place of this threshing-floor, that I may build thereon an altar unto Jehovah: for the full price shalt thou give it me, that the plague may be stayed from the people.

KJV

Then David said to Ornan, Grant me the place of this threshingfloor, that I may build an altar therein unto the Lord: thou shalt grant it me for the full price: that the plague may be stayed from the people.

This verse in 1 Chronicles 21

Commentary

2 notes on this verse

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

But God sees not as man sees. It is plain it was wrong in David to do it, and a great provocation to God, because he did it in the pride of his heart; and there is no sin that has in it more of contradiction and therefore more of offence to God than pride. The sin was David's; he alone must bear the blame of it.

This site's exposition

Grant me the site of this threshing floor

on 1 Chronicles 21:22-23

David asks, “Grant me the site of this threshing floor”, so the plague may be halted. Ornan offers everything at once: “the oxen for the burnt offerings, the threshing sledges for the wood, and the wheat for the grain offering”. The whole sacrifice stands ready before David has paid anything.

The words behind it

20 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיֹּ֨אמֶרand he said

    vaiyomerH559 →5305 times

  • דָּוִ֜ידDavid

    davidH1732 →999 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • אָרְנָ֗ןOrnan

    ʾarenanH771 →12 times

  • תְּנָה־give !

    tenah-H5414 →2011 times

  • לִּי֙to me

    li

  • מְק֣וֹם[the] place of

    mekomH4725 →401 times

  • הַגֹּ֔רֶןthe threshing floor

    hagorenH1637 →36 times

  • וְאֶבְנֶה־so I may build

    veevneh-H1129 →376 times

  • בּ֥וֹon it

    bo

  • מִזְבֵּ֖חַan altar

    mizbeachH4196 →401 times

  • לַיהוָ֑הto Yahweh

    layahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • בְּכֶ֤סֶףfor money

    bekhesefH3701 →403 times

  • מָלֵא֙full

    male'H4392 →64 times

  • תְּנֵ֣הוּgive it

    tenehuH5414 →2011 times

  • לִ֔יto me

    li

  • וְתֵעָצַ֥רso it may be restrained

    veteatzarH6113 →47 times

  • הַמַּגֵּפָ֖הthe plague

    hamagefahH4046 →

  • מֵעַ֥לfrom on

    mealH5921 →5755 times

  • הָעָֽם׃the people

    haamH5971 →1873 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Numbers 16:48

    He stood between the living and the dead, and the plague was halted.

    it leads to

    • 2 Samuel 24:25

      And there he built an altar to the LORD and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. Then the LORD answered the prayers on behalf of the land, and the plague upon Israel was halted.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Psalms 106:30

      But Phinehas stood and intervened, and the plague was restrained.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Numbers 25:8–11

      followed the Israelite into his tent, and drove the spear through both of them—through the Israelite and on through the belly of the woman. So the plague against the Israelites was halted,

  • Through

    Numbers 25:8

    followed the Israelite into his tent, and drove the spear through both of them—through the Israelite and on through the belly of the woman. So the plague against the Israelites was halted,

    it leads to

    • Numbers 16:46–48

      Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer, place fire from the altar in it, and add incense. Go quickly to the congregation and make atonement for them, because wrath has come out from the…

    • Psalms 106:29–31

      So they provoked the LORD to anger with their deeds, and a plague broke out among them.

  • Through

    1 Kings 21:2

    So Ahab said to Naboth, “Give me your vineyard to use as a vegetable garden, since it is next to my palace. I will give you a better vineyard in its place—or if you…

    it leads to

    • 1 Samuel 8:14

      He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive groves and give them to his servants.

    • 1 Timothy 6:9

      Those who want to be rich, however, fall into temptation and become ensnared by many foolish and harmful desires that plunge them into ruin and destruction.

    • James 1:14–15

      But each one is tempted when by his own evil desires he is lured away and enticed.

Where this verse is studied

About 1 Chronicles

This page draws on Jamieson Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.