1 Tawarikh 21:15

21:15 God sent an angel ¹  to ravage ²  Jerusalem. As he was doing so, ³  the Lord watched ⁴  and relented from ⁵  his judgment. ⁶  He told the angel who was destroying, “That’s enough! ⁷  Stop now!” ⁸ 

Now the Lord’s angel was standing near the threshing floor of Ornan ⁹  the Jebusite.

1 Tawarikh 21:18

21:18 So the Lord’s messenger told Gad to instruct David to go up and build ¹⁰  an altar for the Lord on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

1 Tawarikh 21:20-21

21:20 While Ornan was threshing wheat, he turned and saw the messenger, and he and his four sons hid themselves. 21:21 When David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David; he came out from the threshing floor and bowed to David with his face ¹¹  to the ground.

1 Tawarikh 21:23

21:23 Ornan told David, “You can have it! ¹²  My master, the king, may do what he wants. ¹³  Look, I am giving you the oxen for burnt sacrifices, the threshing sledges for wood, and the wheat for an offering. I give it all to you.”

1 Tawarikh 21:25

21:25 So David bought the place from Ornan for 600 pieces of gold. ¹⁴ 

[21:15]  ¹ tn The parallel text of 2 Sam 24:15 reports that God sent a plague, while 24:16-17 attributes this to the instrumentality of an angel.

[21:15]  ² tn Or “destroy.”

[21:15]  ³ tn Heb “while he was destroying.”

[21:15]  ⁴ tn Or “saw.”

[21:15]  ⁵ tn Or “was grieved because of.”

[21:15]  ⁶ tn Heb “concerning the calamity.”

[21:15]  ⁷ tn For this nuance of the Hebrew word רַב (rav), see BDB 913 s.v. 1.f.

[21:15]  ⁸ tn Heb “Now, drop your hand.”

[21:15]  ⁹ tn In the parallel text in 2 Sam 24:16 this individual is called אֲרַוְנָא (’aravna’, “Aravna”), traditionally “Araunah.” The form of the name found here also occurs in vv. 18-28.

[21:18]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “that he should go up to raise up.”

[21:21]  ¹¹ tn Heb “nostrils.”

[21:23]  ¹² tn Heb “take for yourself.”

[21:23]  ¹³ tn Heb “what is good in his eyes.”

[21:25]  ¹⁴ tc The parallel text of 2 Sam 24:24 says David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for “fifty pieces of silver.” This would have been about 20 ounces (568 grams) of silver by weight.

[21:25]  tn Heb “six hundred shekels of gold.” This would have been about 15 lbs. (6.8 kg) of gold by weight.