2 Samuel 24:23

I, Araunah, am giving all this to you, the king.” Then he said, “I desire/hope that Yahweh our God will accept your offering.”

Translation for Translators

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

22Araunah replied to David, “Your Majesty, offer to Yahweh whatever you wish/want. Here, take my oxen to use for the offering that will be completely burned on the altar. And here, take their yokes and the boards that I use for the threshing, and use them for the wood that you will burn.

24But the king said to Araunah, “No, I will not take these things as a gift. I will pay you for it. I will not take sacrifices that have cost me nothing, and offer them to Yahweh to be completely burned on the altar.” So he paid 50 pieces of silver to Araunah for the oxen and the ground.

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Cross References

Psalms 20:3I desire/hope that he will accept all the offerings that you give him to be burned on the altar, and all your other offerings. (Think about that!)

Psalms 45:16Some day, your sons and your grandsons will become kings, just like your ancestors were. You will enable them to become rulers in many countries [HYP].

Isaiah 60:7They will bring flocks of sheep and goats from Kedar in northern Arabia and give them to you. They will bring [PRS] rams from Nebaioth for you to sacrifice on my altars, and I will accept them happily. At that time I will cause my temple to be very beautifully decorated.

Hosea 8:13They offer sacrifices to me, and they eat some of the meat of those sacrifices, which is what I permitted them to do. But I, Yahweh, am not pleased with those sacrifices. I remember the evil things that they have done, and I will punish them for the sins that they have committed: I will force them to go to other countries and become slaves like they were [MET] in Egypt.

1 Timothy 2:1The first (OR, most important) thing that I urge you to tell your congregation is that Christians should continually ask God for what they need. They should also pray to God for all other people, and they should be thanking God.

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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