1 Chronicles 21:25 BSB

1 Chronicles 21:25

So David paid Ornan six hundred shekels of gold for the site.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight.

KJV

So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight.

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Commentary

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Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Compare the marginal reference and note. It may also be conjectured that we should read “six” for “six hundred” here; since, according to the later Jewish system, six gold shekels were nearly equal in value to fifty silver ones.

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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.

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Original language & word study

9 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיִּתֵּ֥ן	vai.yi.Ten	and he gave	H5414 →
דָּוִ֛יד	da.Vid	David	H1732 →
לְאָרְנָ֖ן	le.'a.re.Nan	to Ornan	H771 →
בַּמָּק֑וֹם	ba.ma.Kom	for the place	H4725 →
שִׁקְלֵ֣י	shik.Lei	shekels of	H8255 →
זָהָ֔ב	za.Hav	gold	H2091 →
מִשְׁקָ֖ל	mish.Kal	weight	H4948 →
שֵׁ֥שׁ	shesh	six	H8337 →
מֵאֽוֹת׃	me.'ot	hundred<s>	H3967 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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