2 Samuel 24:21 BSB — MannaFest

2 Samuel 24:21

“Why has my lord the king come to his servant?” Araunah said. “To buy your threshing floor,” David replied, “that I may build an altar to the LORD, so that the plague upon the people may be halted.”

BSB

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ASV

And Araunah said, Wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant? And David said, To buy the threshing-floor of thee, to build an altar unto Jehovah, that the plague may be stayed from the people.

KJV

And Araunah said, Wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant? And David said, To buy the threshingfloor of thee, to build an altar unto the Lord, that the plague may be stayed from the people.

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Commentary

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Caesarius of Arles

SERMON 122.1 (542)

Notice, brothers, that no place in the land of the Jews was found worthy for the altar of the Lord to be built; but in the land of the Gentiles a place is chosen where the angel is seen and the altar of the Lord …

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Original language & word study

21 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיֹּ֣אמֶר	vai.Yo.mer	and he said	H559 →
אֲרַ֔וְנָה	'a.Rav.nah	Araunah	H728 →
מַדּ֛וּעַ	ma.Du.a'	why?	H4069 →
בָּ֥א	ba'	has he come	H935 →
אֲדֹנִֽי־	'a.do.ni-	lord my	H113 →
הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ	ha.Me.lekh	the king	H4428 →
אֶל־	'el-	to	H413 →
עַבְדּ֑וֹ	av.Do	servant his	H5650 →
וַיֹּ֨אמֶר	vai.Yo.mer	and he said	H559 →
דָּוִ֜ד	da.Vid	David	H1732 →
לִקְנ֧וֹת	lik.Not	to buy	H7069 →
מֵעִמְּךָ֣	me.'i.me.Kha	from with <the> you	H5973 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
הַגֹּ֗רֶן	ha.Go.ren	the threshing floor	H1637 →
לִבְנ֤וֹת	liv.Not	to build	H1129 →
מִזְבֵּ֙חַ֙	miz.Be.ach	an altar	H4196 →
לַֽיהוָ֔ה	la.Yah.weh	to Yahweh	H3068 →
וְתֵעָצַ֥ר	ve.te.'a.Tzar	so it may be restrained	H6113 →
הַמַּגֵּפָ֖ה	ha.ma.ge.Fah	the plague	H4046 →
מֵעַ֥ל	me.'Al	from on	H5921 →
הָעָֽם׃	ha.'Am	the people	H5971 →

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

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Psalms 106:30
But Phinehas stood and intervened, and the plague was restrained.
leads to
- Numbers 25:6–8
  Just then an Israelite man brought to his family a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses and the whole congregation of Israel while they were weeping at the entrance to the Tent of…
- Numbers 25:14–15
  The name of the Israelite who was slain with the Midianite woman was Zimri son of Salu, the leader of a Simeonite family.
- Joshua 7:12
  This is why the Israelites cannot stand against their enemies. They will turn their backs and run from their enemies, because they themselves have been set apart for destruction. I will no longer be…
- 1 Kings 18:40–41
  Then Elijah ordered them, “Seize the prophets of Baal! Do not let a single one escape.” So they seized them, and Elijah brought them down to the Kishon Valley and slaughtered them there.
- Deuteronomy 13:9–11
  Instead, you must surely kill him. Your hand must be the first against him to put him to death, and then the hands of all the people.
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,
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
2 Samuel 24:3
But Joab replied to the king, “May the LORD your God multiply the troops a hundred times over, and may the eyes of my lord the king see it. But why does my lord…
leads to
- Deuteronomy 1:11
  May the LORD, the God of your fathers, increase you a thousand times over and bless you as He has promised.

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