So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight.
So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight.
And David giveth to Ornan for the place shekels of gold in weight six hundred;
And David gave to Ornan for the place in shekels of gold the weight of six hundred [shekels].
1 Chronicles — A post-exilic retelling of Israel's story through the Davidic line — genealogies from Adam to Saul, then David's reign reframed around temple preparation. The priestly history that answers the exile's question: what does it mean to return?
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David had prepared by singing psalms, and the other prophets too by prophesying prepared for the Lord who was indeed the true Solomon a place that he might build a house, because they taught the hearts of their hearers by true faith, earnestly urging them …
Bede· Of the Temple of Solomon 1. 5.4-5, 735patristic
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.
Albert Barnes· Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)evangelical
By fire - Hebrew. by fire sent from heaven: which was the sign of God's acceptance. The fire that might justly have fastened on the sinner, fastened upon the sacrifice and consumed it. Thus Christ was made sin and a curse for us, and it pleased the Lord to bruise him, that through him God might be to us, not a consuming fire, but a reconciled Father.
John Wesley· Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament, 1765evangelical
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.
Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan
The verses this one reaches1
“No,” replied the king, “I insist on paying a price, for I will not offer to the LORD my God burnt offerings that cost me nothing.” So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
