The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

1 Chronicles 21:17 (KJV)
And David said unto God, Is it not I that commanded the people to be numbered? even I it is that have sinned and done evil indeed; but as for these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, O LORD my God, be on me, and on my father's house; but not on thy people, that they should be plagued.

 

[Deade]

1 Chronicles 21:18 (NIV)

David Builds an Altar

18. Then the angel of the Lord ordered Gad to tell David to go up and build an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

 

[Deade]

1 Chronicles 21:19 (NIV)


So David went up in obedience to the word that Gad had spoken in the name of the Lord.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

1 Chronicles 21:20 (JPS Tanakh 1917)
And Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons that were with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.

 

[Deade]

1 Chronicles 21:21 (NIV)


Then David approached, and when Araunah looked and saw him, he left the threshing floor and bowed down before David with his face to the ground.

 

[Deade]

1 Chronicles 21:22 (NIV)


David said to him, “Let me have the site of your threshing floor so I can build an altar to the Lord, that the plague on the people may be stopped. Sell it to me at the full price.”

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

1 Chronicles 21:23 (JPS Tanakh 1917)
And Ornan said unto David: 'Take it to thee, and let my lord the king do that which is good in his eyes; lo, I give thee the oxen for burnt-offerings, and the threshing-instruments for wood, and the wheat for the meal-offering; I give it all'

 

[Deade]

1 Chronicles 21:24 (NIV)


But King David replied to Araunah, “No, I insist on paying the full price. I will not take for the Lord what is yours, or sacrifice a burnt offering that costs me nothing.”

 

[Deade]

1 Chronicles 21:25 (NIV)


So David paid Araunah six hundred shekels of gold for the site.

 

[Dan_473]

1 Chronicles 21: 26. And David put up an altar there to the Lord, offering burned offerings and peace-offerings with prayers to the Lord; and he gave him an answer from heaven, sending fire on the altar of burned offering.

 

[Deade]

1 Chronicles 21:27 (ESV)


Then the LORD commanded the angel, and he put his sword back into its sheath.

 

[Deade]

1 Chronicles 21:28 (ESV)


At that time, when David saw that the LORD had answered him at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, he sacrificed there.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

1 Chronicles 21:29 (BSB)
For the tabernacle of the LORD that Moses had made in the wilderness and the altar of burnt offering were presently at the high place in Gibeon,

 

[Deade]

1 Chronicles 21:30 (RSV)


but David could not go before it to inquire of God, for he was afraid of the sword of the angel of the Lord.

 

[Deade]

1 Chronicles 22:1 (RSV)


Then David said, “Here shall be the house of the Lord God and here the altar of burnt offering for Israel.”

 

[Dan_473]

1 Chronicles 22: 2. And David gave orders to get together all the men from strange lands who were in the land of Israel; and he put stone-cutters to work, cutting stones for building the house of God.

 

[Deade]

1 Chronicles 22:3 (RSV)


David also provided great stores of iron for nails for the doors of the gates and for clamps, as well as bronze in quantities beyond weighing,

 

[Deade]

1 Chronicles 22:4 (RSV)


and cedar timbers without number; for the Sidonians and Tyrians brought great quantities of cedar to David.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

1 Chronicles 22:5 (King James 2000)
And David said, Solomon my son is young and tender, and the house that is to be built for the LORD must be exceedingly magnificent, of fame and of glory throughout all countries: I will therefore now make preparation for it. So David prepared abundantly before his death.

 

[Deade]

1 Chronicles 22:6 (RSV)

David’s Charge to Solomon and the Leaders

6. Then he called for Solomon his son, and charged him to build a house for the Lord, the God of Israel.