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1 Chronicles 21:25

And so Dauid gaue to Ornan for that place sicles of golde sixe hundred by wayght.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Araunah;   Gold;   Miracles;   Money;   Ornan;  

Dictionaries:

- Easton Bible Dictionary - Araunah;   Coin;   Jebusites;   Shekel;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Araunah;   Metals;   Moriah;   Satan;   Taanach;   Temple;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Araunah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Araunah ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Araunah;   Temple;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Arau'nah;   Jeb'usites;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Temple;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Threshing-Floor;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Corner-Stone;   Jebusites;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
So David gave Ornan fifteen pounds of gold for the plot.
Hebrew Names Version
So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight.
King James Version
So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight.
English Standard Version
So David paid Ornan 600 shekels of gold by weight for the site.
New Century Version
So David paid Araunah about fifteen pounds of gold for the place.
New English Translation
So David bought the place from Ornan for 600 pieces of gold.
Amplified Bible
So David gave Ornan 600 shekels of gold by weight for the site.
New American Standard Bible
So David gave Ornan six hundred shekels of gold by weight for the site.
World English Bible
So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight.
Geneva Bible (1587)
So Dauid gaue to Ornan for that place sixe hundreth shekels of golde by weight.
Legacy Standard Bible
So David gave Ornan 600 shekels of gold by weight for the site.
Berean Standard Bible
So David paid Ornan six hundred shekels of gold for the site.
Contemporary English Version
So David paid Araunah six hundred gold coins for his threshing place.
Complete Jewish Bible
So David bought the place from Ornan for 600 shekels of gold by weight [fifteen pounds].
Darby Translation
And David gave to Ornan for the place in shekels of gold the weight of six hundred [shekels].
Easy-to-Read Version
So David gave Araunah about 15 pounds of gold for the place.
George Lamsa Translation
So David bought from Aran that place of the threshing floor for fifty shekels.
Good News Translation
And he paid Araunah six hundred gold coins for the threshing place.
Lexham English Bible
So David gave to Ornan six hundred shekels of gold by weight for the place.
Literal Translation
And David gave to Ornan six hundred shekels of gold in weight for the place.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
So Dauid gaue Arnan for ye rowme, sixe hundreth Sycles of golde in weight.
American Standard Version
So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight.
Bible in Basic English
So David gave Ornan six hundred shekels of gold by weight for the place.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight.
King James Version (1611)
So Dauid gaue to Ornan for the place, sixe hundred shekels of gold by weight.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And David gave to Orna for his place six hundred shekels of gold by weight.
English Revised Version
So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor Dauid yaf to Ornam for the place sixe hundrid siclis of gold of most iust weiyte.
Update Bible Version
So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight.
Webster's Bible Translation
So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight.
New King James Version
So David gave Ornan six hundred shekels of gold by weight for the place.
New Living Translation
So David gave Araunah 600 pieces of gold in payment for the threshing floor.
New Life Bible
So David gave Ornan 600 pieces of gold by weight for the place.
New Revised Standard
So David paid Ornan six hundred shekels of gold by weight for the site.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So David gave to Ornan, for the place, - shekels of gold, by weight, six hundred.
Douay-Rheims Bible
So David gave to Ornan for the place, six hundred sicles of gold of just weight.
Revised Standard Version
So David paid Ornan six hundred shekels of gold by weight for the site.
Young's Literal Translation
And David giveth to Ornan for the place shekels of gold [in] weight six hundred;
New American Standard Bible (1995)
So David gave Ornan 600 shekels of gold by weight for the site.

Contextual Overview

18 And the angell of the Lord commaunded Gad to say to Dauid, that Dauid shoulde go vp and set vp an aulter vnto the Lorde in the threshing floore of Ornan the Iebusite. 19 And Dauid went vp according to the saying of Gad whiche he spake in the name of the Lorde. 20 And Ornan turned about, and saw the angell, and his foure sonnes were with him, and hyd them selues: But Ornan was threshing wheate. 21 And as Dauid came to Ornan, Ornan loked and sawe Dauid, and went out of the threshing floore, and bowed hym selfe to Dauid with his face to the grounde. 22 And Dauid sayde to Ornan: Geue me the place of the threshing floore, that I may buylde an aulter therin vnto the lord: Thou shalt geue it me for as much money as it is worth, that the plague may ceasse from the people. 23 And Ornan sayd vnto Dauid: Take it to thee, and let my lorde the king do that which seemeth good in his eyes: Lo, I geue thee oxen also for burnt sacrifices, and treshing instrumentes for wood, & wheate for meate offring, I geue it all. 24 And king Dauid sayde to Ornan: Not so, but I will bye it for as much money as it is worth: For I will not take that whiche is thyne for the Lorde, nor offer burnt offringes without coast. 25 And so Dauid gaue to Ornan for that place sicles of golde sixe hundred by wayght. 26 And Dauid buylt there an aulter vnto the Lorde, and offred burnt offringes and peace offringes, and called vpon the Lorde, and he hearde him from heauen in fire vpon the aulter of burnt offring. 27 And when the Lorde had spoken to the angel, he put vp his sword againe into the sheathe of it.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

2 Samuel 24:24, 2 Samuel 24:25

Cross-References

Genesis 13:7
And there fell a stryfe betwene the heardmen of Abrams cattell, and the heardmen of Lottes cattell: Moreouer, the Chanaanites, and Pherisites dwelled at that tyme in the lande.
Genesis 21:15
And the water was spent in the bottell, and she cast the lad vnder some one of the trees:
Genesis 21:17
And God hearde the voyce of the lad, and the angell of God called to Hagar out of heauen, and said vnto her, what ayleth thee Hagar? feare not: for God hath hearde the voyce of the lad where he lyeth.
Genesis 21:22
And at the same season, Abimelech and Phicol his chiefe captayne spake vnto Abraham, saying, God [is] with thee in all that thou doest:
Genesis 29:8
And they sayde: we may not vntyll all the flockes be brought together, and tyl they roule the stone from the welles mouth, and so we water our sheepe.
Judges 1:15
She aunswered vnto him, Geue me a blessing: for thou hast geuen me a southward land, geue me also springes of water. And Caleb gaue her springes, both aboue and beneath.
Proverbs 17:10
One reproofe more feareth a wise man, then an hundred stripes doth a foole.
Proverbs 25:9
Handle thy matter with thy neighbour himselfe, and discouer not thy secrete to another:
Proverbs 27:5
Open rebuke, is better then secrete loue.
Matthew 18:15
Moreouer, yf thy brother trespas agaynst thee, go and tell hym his faulte betwene thee and hym alone: If he heare thee, thou hast wonne thy brother.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

See Gill "1Ch 21:1".

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Compare the marginal reference and note. It may also be conjectured that we should read “six” for “six hundred” here; since, according to the later Jewish system, six gold shekels were nearly equal in value to fifty silver ones.


 
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