2 Samuel 24:23

All this, O king, Araunah gives to the king. And Araunah said to the king, LORD thy God accept thee.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

All these things did Araunah, as a king, give unto the king. And Araunah said unto the king, The LORD thy God accept thee.

In Context

22And Araunah said to David, Let my lord the king take and offer up what seems good to him. Behold, the oxen for the burnt-offering, and the threshing instruments and the yokes of the oxen for the wood.

24And the king said to Araunah, No, but I will truly buy it from thee at a price. Neither will I offer burnt-offerings to LORD my God which cost me nothing. So David bought the threshing-floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver

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Cross References

Psalms 20:3remember all thy offerings, and accept thy burnt-sacrifice (Selah),

Psalms 45:16Instead of thy fathers shall be thy sons, whom thou shall make rulers in all the earth.

Isaiah 60:7All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together to thee. The rams of Nebaioth shall minister to thee. They shall come up with acceptance on my altar, and I will glorify the house of my glory.

Hosea 8:13As for the sacrifices of my offerings, they sacrifice flesh and eat it, but LORD does not accept them. He will now remember their iniquity, and visit their sins. They shall return to Egypt.

1 Timothy 2:1I exhort therefore, first of all, that supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings, be made for all men,

Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 24:19-25

The Plague Removed. ( b. c. 1017.) 18 And Gad came that day to David, and said unto him, Go up, rear an altar unto the Lord in the threshingfloor of Araunah the Jebusite. 19 And David, according to the saying of Gad, went up as the Lord commanded. 20 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. 21 And Araunah said, Wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant? And David said, To buy the… Read the whole commentary →

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