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2 Samuel 24:20

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When Araunah looked out and saw the king and his servants coming toward him, he went out and bowed facedown before the king.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And Araunah looked forth, and saw the king and his servants coming on toward him: and Araunah went out, and bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground.

KJV

And Araunah looked, and saw the king and his servants coming on toward him: and Araunah went out, and bowed himself before the king on his face upon the ground.

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Commentary

5 notes on this verse

A commentator

Caesarius of Arles

SERMON 122.1 · Written before 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 …

This site's exposition

rear an altar unto the Lord

on 2 Samuel 24:18-23

Gad returns the same day with an instruction rather than another choice, go up and build an altar on Araunah's floor. Araunah sees the king coming and bows himself to the ground, then offers the floor, the oxen for the burnt offering, and the threshing instruments for wood, refusing no part of what the king might need. Adam Clarke reads the offer as loyalty to the king, care for a people under plague, and regard for his own safety in one gesture, and Araunah closes it with a blessing, the Lord thy God accept thee.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

1 And again the anger of the L ORD was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them to say, Go, number Israel and Judah. 2 For the king said to Joab the captain of the host, which was with him, Go now through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, and number ye the people, that I may know the number of the people.

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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

And his servants - In Chronicles “his four sons,” namely, David’s. It is very possible that David may have taken his sons with him, as well as his elders, and Gad’s original narrative may have mentioned the circumstance, which the compiler of this chapter did not care to specify, and so used the general term “his servants.”

The words behind it

15 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.

  • וַיַּשְׁקֵ֣ףand he looked down

    vaiyashkefH8259 →

  • אֲרַ֗וְנָהAraunah

    ʾaravnahH728 →9 times

  • וַיַּ֤רְאand he saw

    vaiyar'H7200 →1300 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙the king

    hamelekhH4428 →2525 times

  • וְאֶת־and <obj.>

    veetH853 →10935 times

  • עֲבָדָ֔יוservants his

    ʾavadavH5650 →799 times

  • עֹבְרִ֖יםpassing on

    ʾoerimH5674 →556 times

  • עָלָ֑יוto him

    ʾalavH5921 →5755 times

  • וַיֵּצֵ֣אand he went out

    vaiyetze'H3318 →1067 times

  • אֲרַ֔וְנָהAraunah

    ʾaravnahH728 →9 times

  • וַיִּשְׁתַּ֧חוּand he bowed down

    vaiyishtachuH7812 →172 times

  • לַמֶּ֛לֶךְto the king

    lamelekhH4428 →2525 times

  • אַפָּ֖יוface his

    ʾapavH639 →276 times

  • אָֽרְצָה׃[the] ground towards

    ʾaretzahH776 →2504 times

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

Related verses

4 in all, six open

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

    Genesis 18:2

    And Abraham looked up and saw three men standing nearby. When he saw them, he ran from the entrance of his tent to meet them and bowed low to the ground.

    it leads to

    • Hebrews 13:2

      Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have entertained angels without knowing it.

    • Genesis 18:22

      And the two men turned away and went toward Sodom, but Abraham remained standing before the LORD.

    • Genesis 19:1

      Now the two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gateway of the city. When Lot saw them, he got up to meet them, bowed facedown,

    • Judges 13:3

      The angel of the LORD appeared to the woman and said to her, “It is true that you are barren and have no children; but you will conceive and give birth to a son.

  • Through

    Ruth 2:10

    At this, she fell on her face, bowing low to the ground, and said to him, “Why have I found such favor in your eyes that you should take notice of me, even though…

    it leads to

    • 1 Samuel 25:23

      When Abigail saw David, she quickly got off the donkey, fell facedown, and bowed before him.

    • Ruth 2:13

      “My lord,” she said, “may I continue to find favor in your eyes, for you have comforted and spoken kindly to your maidservant, though I am not like one of your servant girls.”

    • 2 Samuel 19:28

      For all the house of my grandfather deserves death from my lord the king, yet you have set your servant among those who eat at your table. What further right, then, do I have…

    • Luke 1:43

      And why am I so honored, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?

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About 2 Samuel

The Plague of Jerusalem — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Plague of Jerusalem — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Caesarius of Arles, SERMON 122.1; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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