1 Chronicles 21:24
And King David said to Ornan, No; I will certainly give you the full price for it, because I will not take for the Lord what is yours, or give a burned offering without payment.
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25So David gave Ornan six hundred shekels of gold by weight for the place.
Cross References
Genesis 23:9That he will give me the hollow in the rock named Machpelah, which is his property at the end of his field; let him give it to me for its full price as a resting-place for my dead among you.
Deuteronomy 16:16Three times in the year let all your males come before the Lord your God in the place named by him; at the feast of unleavened bread, the feast of weeks, and the feast of tents: and they are not to come before the Lord with nothing in their hands;
Romans 12:17Do not give evil for evil to any man. Let all your business be well ordered in the eyes of all men.
Matthew Henry on 1 Chronicles 21:19-30
Ornan's Threshing-Floor. ( b. c. 1017.) 18 Then the angel of the Lord commanded Gad to say to David, that David should go up, and set up an altar unto the Lord in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite. 19 And David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spake in the name of the Lord . 20 And Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat. 21 And as David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out of the threshingfloor, and bowed… Read the whole commentary →