1 Chronicles 21:20

And Orna turned and saw the king; and he hid himself and his four sons with him. Now Orna was threshing wheat.

Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

And Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.

In Context

19And David went up according to the word of Gad, which he spoke in the name of the Lord.

21And David came to Orna; and Orna came forth from the threshing-floor, and did obeisance to David with his face to the ground.

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Cross References

Judges 6:11And an angel of the Lord came, and sat down under the fir tree, which was in Ephratha in the land of Joas father of Esdri; and Gedeon his son was threshing wheat in a wine-press in order to escape from the face of Madiam.

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 →

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