1 Chronicles 21:21

When David arrived, Ornan looked out and saw David. He left the threshing floor and bowed down before David with his face to the ground.

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In The King James Version

And as David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out of the threshingfloor, and bowed himself to David with his face to the ground.

In Context

20Ornan was busy threshing wheat. He turned around and saw the angel; and his four sons who were with him went and hid.

22David said to Ornan, “Please let me have the threshing floor. I'll buy it at its full price. Then I can build an altar to the Lord here so that the plague on the people may be stopped.”

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Cross References

1 Samuel 25:23When Abigail saw David, she quickly got off the donkey, and bowed before him, her face to the ground.

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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