Ornan
오르난
Named at 1 Chronicles 21:15 in “the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite”. 21:20–25 says, “Ornan turned back and saw the angel; and his four sons who were with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat. As David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out of the threshing floor, and bowed himself to David with his face to the ground”; when David says to Ornan, “Sell me the place of this threshing floor, that I may build an altar to the LORD on it. You shall sell it to me for the full price”, Ornan says, “Take it for yourself, and let my lord the king do that which is good in his eyes. Behold, I give the oxen for burnt offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat for the meal offering. I give it all”; King David says to Ornan, “No, but I will most certainly buy it for the full price”, and David gives to Ornan six hundred shekels of gold by weight for the place. The Korean Revised Version says at 21:20 that Ornan hid with his four sons (네 아들과 함께 숨었더니). 21:28 says that David saw that the LORD had answered him in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, and sacrificed there.
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- 1CH 21:14–17, engwebp
14So the LORD sent a pestilence on Israel, and seventy thousand men of Israel fell.
15God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it. As he was about to destroy, the LORD saw, and he relented of the disaster, and said to the destroying angel, “It is enough. Now withdraw your hand.” the LORD’s angel was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
16David lifted up his eyes, and saw the LORD’s angel standing between earth and the sky, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell on their faces.
17David said to God, “Isn’t it I who commanded the people to be counted? It is even I who have sinned and done very wickedly; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand, O LORD my God, be against me and against my father’s house; but not against your people, that they should be plagued.”
- 1CH 21:18–25, engwebp
18Then the LORD’s angel commanded Gad to tell David that David should go up and raise an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
19David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spoke in the LORD’s name.
20Ornan turned back and saw the angel; and his four sons who were with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.
21As David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out of the threshing floor, and bowed himself to David with his face to the ground.
22Then David said to Ornan, “Sell me the place of this threshing floor, that I may build an altar to the LORD on it. You shall sell it to me for the full price, that the plague may be stopped from afflicting the people.”
23Ornan said to David, “Take it for yourself, and let my lord the king do that which is good in his eyes. Behold, I give the oxen for burnt offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat for the meal offering. I give it all.”
24King David said to Ornan, “No, but I will most certainly buy it for the full price. For I will not take that which is yours for the LORD, nor offer a burnt offering that costs me nothing.”
25So David gave to Ornan six hundred shekels of gold by weight for the place.
- 1CH 21:28–30, engwebp
28At that time, when David saw that the LORD had answered him in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there.
29For the LORD’s tabernacle, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of burnt offering, were at that time in the high place at Gibeon.
30But David couldn’t go before it to inquire of God, for he was afraid because of the sword of the LORD’s angel.
- 2CH 3:1–2, engwebp
1Then Solomon began to build the LORD’s house at Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD appeared to David his father, which he prepared in the place that David had appointed, on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
2He began to build in the second day of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.
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Unresolved interpretation: The census as 2 Samuel 24 and 1 Chronicles 21 tell it
- 2 Samuel 24:1 says, “Again the LORD’s anger burned against Israel, and he moved David against them, saying, ‘Go, count Israel and Judah.’”; 24:2 that the king said to Joab the captain of the army, “Now go back and forth through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beersheba, and count the people, that I may know the sum of the people”; and 24:9, “Joab gave up the sum of the counting of the people to the king; and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men who drew the sword, and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men.” 24:13 says that Gad asked David, “Shall seven years of famine come to you in your land?”; 24:18 names “the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite”; and 24:24 says, “So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.”
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- 2SA 24:1–3, engwebp
1Again the LORD’s anger burned against Israel, and he moved David against them, saying, “Go, count Israel and Judah.”
2The king said to Joab the captain of the army, who was with him, “Now go back and forth through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beersheba, and count the people, that I may know the sum of the people.”
3Joab said to the king, “Now may the LORD your God add to the people, however many they may be, one hundred times; and may the eyes of my lord the king see it. But why does my lord the king delight in this thing?”
- 2SA 24:8–9, engwebp
8So when they had gone back and forth through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.
9Joab gave up the sum of the counting of the people to the king; and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men who drew the sword, and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men.
- 2SA 24:10–14, engwebp
10David’s heart struck him after he had counted the people. David said to the LORD, “I have sinned greatly in that which I have done. But now, the LORD, put away, I beg you, the iniquity of your servant; for I have done very foolishly.”
11When David rose up in the morning, the LORD’s word came to the prophet Gad, David’s seer, saying,
12“Go and speak to David, ‘The LORD says, “I offer you three things. Choose one of them, that I may do it to you.”’”
13So Gad came to David, and told him, saying, “Shall seven years of famine come to you in your land? Or will you flee three months before your foes while they pursue you? Or shall there be three days’ pestilence in your land? Now answer, and consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me.”
14David said to Gad, “I am in distress. Let us fall now into the LORD’s hand, for his mercies are great. Let me not fall into man’s hand.”
- 2SA 24:18–25, engwebp
18Gad came that day to David and said to him, “Go up, build an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.”
19David went up according to the saying of Gad, as the LORD commanded.
20Araunah looked out, and saw the king and his servants coming on toward him. Then Araunah went out and bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground.
21Araunah said, “Why has my lord the king come to his servant?” David said, “To buy your threshing floor, to build an altar to the LORD, that the plague may be stopped from afflicting the people.”
22Araunah said to David, “Let my lord the king take and offer up what seems good to him. Behold, the cattle for the burnt offering, and the threshing sledges and the yokes of the oxen for the wood.
23All this, O king, does Araunah give to the king.” Araunah said to the king, “May the LORD your God accept you.”
24The king said to Araunah, “No, but I will most certainly buy it from you for a price. I will not offer burnt offerings to the LORD my God which cost me nothing.” So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.
25David built an altar to the LORD there, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So the LORD was entreated for the land, and the plague was removed from Israel.
- 2SA 24:1–3, engwebp
- 1 Chronicles 21:1 says, “Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to take a census of Israel”; 21:2 that David said to Joab and to the princes of the people, “Go, count Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; and bring me word, that I may know how many there are”; and 21:5–6, “Joab gave the sum of the census of the people to David. All those of Israel were one million one hundred thousand men who drew a sword; and in Judah were four hundred seventy thousand men who drew a sword. But he didn’t count Levi and Benjamin among them, for the king’s word was abominable to Joab.” In the LORD’s word as Gad tells it, 21:12 reads “either three years of famine”; 21:18 names “the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite”; 21:25 says, “So David gave to Ornan six hundred shekels of gold by weight for the place”; and 21:26 says that David “called on the LORD; and he answered him from the sky by fire on the altar of burnt offering.”
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- 1CH 21:1–6, engwebp
1Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to take a census of Israel.
2David said to Joab and to the princes of the people, “Go, count Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; and bring me word, that I may know how many there are.”
3Joab said, “May the LORD make his people a hundred times as many as they are. But, my lord the king, aren’t they all my lord’s servants? Why does my lord require this thing? Why will he be a cause of guilt to Israel?”
4Nevertheless the king’s word prevailed against Joab. Therefore Joab departed and went throughout all Israel, then came to Jerusalem.
5Joab gave the sum of the census of the people to David. All those of Israel were one million one hundred thousand men who drew a sword; and in Judah were four hundred seventy thousand men who drew a sword.
6But he didn’t count Levi and Benjamin among them, for the king’s word was abominable to Joab.
- 1CH 21:9–13, engwebp
9The LORD spoke to Gad, David’s seer, saying,
10“Go and speak to David, saying, ‘The LORD says, “I offer you three things. Choose one of them, that I may do it to you.”’”
11So Gad came to David and said to him, “The LORD says, ‘Take your choice:
12either three years of famine; or three months to be consumed before your foes, while the sword of your enemies overtakes you; or else three days of the sword of the LORD, even pestilence in the land, and the LORD’s angel destroying throughout all the borders of Israel. Now therefore consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me.’”
13David said to Gad, “I am in distress. Let me fall, I pray, into the LORD’s hand, for his mercies are very great. Don’t let me fall into man’s hand.”
- 1CH 21:18–25, engwebp
18Then the LORD’s angel commanded Gad to tell David that David should go up and raise an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
19David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spoke in the LORD’s name.
20Ornan turned back and saw the angel; and his four sons who were with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.
21As David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out of the threshing floor, and bowed himself to David with his face to the ground.
22Then David said to Ornan, “Sell me the place of this threshing floor, that I may build an altar to the LORD on it. You shall sell it to me for the full price, that the plague may be stopped from afflicting the people.”
23Ornan said to David, “Take it for yourself, and let my lord the king do that which is good in his eyes. Behold, I give the oxen for burnt offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat for the meal offering. I give it all.”
24King David said to Ornan, “No, but I will most certainly buy it for the full price. For I will not take that which is yours for the LORD, nor offer a burnt offering that costs me nothing.”
25So David gave to Ornan six hundred shekels of gold by weight for the place.
- 1CH 21:26–27, engwebp
26David built an altar to the LORD there, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called on the LORD; and he answered him from the sky by fire on the altar of burnt offering.
27Then the LORD commanded the angel, and he put his sword back into its sheath.
- 1CH 21:1–6, engwebp
- 1 Chronicles 27:23–24 says, “But David didn’t take the number of them from twenty years old and under, because the LORD had said he would increase Israel like the stars of the sky. Joab the son of Zeruiah began to take a census, but didn’t finish; and wrath came on Israel for this. The number wasn’t put into the account in the chronicles of King David.” The Korean Revised Version gives the LORD’s word at 27:23 as he said it (여호와께서 전에 말씀하시기를 이스라엘 사람을 하늘의 별 같이 많게 하리라 하셨음이라).
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- 1CH 27:23–24, engwebp
23But David didn’t take the number of them from twenty years old and under, because the LORD had said he would increase Israel like the stars of the sky.
24Joab the son of Zeruiah began to take a census, but didn’t finish; and wrath came on Israel for this. The number wasn’t put into the account in the chronicles of King David.
- 1CH 27:23–24, engwebp
The two books each tell, in their own words, of a census of Israel. 2 Samuel 24:1 says that the LORD’s anger burned against Israel, and he moved David against them; 1 Chronicles 21:1 says that Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to take a census of Israel. 2 Samuel 24:2 gives the count “from Dan even to Beersheba”, and 1 Chronicles 21:2 “from Beersheba even to Dan”. 2 Samuel 24:9 gives eight hundred thousand valiant men who drew the sword in Israel and five hundred thousand men of Judah; 1 Chronicles 21:5 gives one million one hundred thousand men of Israel who drew a sword and four hundred seventy thousand in Judah, and 21:6 says that Levi and Benjamin were not counted among them; 2 Samuel 24:1–3 and 24:8–9 say nothing of Levi and Benjamin. 2 Samuel 24:13 names seven years of famine, and 1 Chronicles 21:12 three years of famine. 2 Samuel 24:18 names “the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite”, and 1 Chronicles 21:18 “the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite”; in both editions the two names differ (the Korean Revised Version 아라우나 and 오르난, WEB Araunah and Ornan). 2 Samuel 24:24 says that David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver, and 1 Chronicles 21:25 that David gave to Ornan six hundred shekels of gold by weight for the place. 1 Chronicles 21:26 says that the LORD answered David from the sky by fire on the altar of burnt offering; 2 Samuel 24:18–25 says nothing of fire. The text does not say how the two accounts stand to each other. This collection records each account from its own verses, keeps Araunah and Ornan and their threshing floors apart, does not relate or reconcile the numbers of the two accounts, and does not decide whether Araunah and Ornan are one man or the two threshing floors one place.
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Ornan turned back and saw the angel; and his four sons who were with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.
As David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out of the threshing floor, and bowed himself to David with his face to the ground.
Then David said to Ornan, “Sell me the place of this threshing floor, that I may build an altar to the LORD on it. You shall sell it to me for the full price, that the plague may be stopped from afflicting the people.”
Ornan said to David, “Take it for yourself, and let my lord the king do that which is good in his eyes. Behold, I give the oxen for burnt offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat for the meal offering. I give it all.”
King David said to Ornan, “No, but I will most certainly buy it for the full price. For I will not take that which is yours for the LORD, nor offer a burnt offering that costs me nothing.”
So David gave to Ornan six hundred shekels of gold by weight for the place.
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Current wording: Named at 1 Chronicles 21:15 in “the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite”. 21:20–25 says, “Ornan turned back and saw the angel; and his four sons who were with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat. As David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out of the threshing floor, and bowed himself to David with his face to the ground”; when David says to Ornan, “Sell me the place of this threshing floor, that I may build an altar to the LORD on it. You shall sell it to me for the full price”, Ornan says, “Take it for yourself, and let my lord the king do that which is good in his eyes. Behold, I give the oxen for burnt offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat for the meal offering. I give it all”; King David says to Ornan, “No, but I will most certainly buy it for the full price”, and David gives to Ornan six hundred shekels of gold by weight for the place. The Korean Revised Version says at 21:20 that Ornan hid with his four sons (네 아들과 함께 숨었더니). 21:28 says that David saw that the LORD had answered him in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, and sacrificed there.
Cited evidence: 1CH 21:14–17, engwebp / 1CH 21:18–25, engwebp / 1CH 21:28–30, engwebp / 2CH 3:1–2, engwebp
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