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Good News Translation

1 Chronicles 21:21

As soon as Araunah saw King David approaching, he left the threshing place and bowed low, with his face touching the ground.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

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

Dictionaries:

- Fausset Bible Dictionary - Moriah;   Temple;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Araunah;   Chronicles, Books of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   Gestures;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Araunah ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Araunah;   Temple;  

Encyclopedias:

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

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
David came to Ornan, and when Ornan looked and saw David, he left the threshing floor and bowed to David with his face to the ground.
Hebrew Names Version
As David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out of the threshing floor, and bowed himself to David with his face to the ground.
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.
English Standard Version
As David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David and went out from the threshing floor and paid homage to David with his face to the ground.
New Century Version
David came to Araunah, and when Araunah saw him, he left the threshing floor and bowed facedown on the ground before David.
New English Translation
When David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David; he came out from the threshing floor and bowed to David with his face to the ground.
Amplified Bible
As David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw him, and went out from the threshing floor and bowed down before David with his face to the ground.
New American Standard Bible
As David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out from the threshing floor and prostrated himself to David with his face to the ground.
World English Bible
As David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out of the threshing floor, and bowed himself to David with his face to the ground.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And as Dauid came to Ornan, Ornan looked and sawe Dauid, and went out of the thresshing floore, and bowed himselfe to Dauid with his face to the grounde.
Legacy Standard Bible
Then David came to Ornan, and Ornan looked and saw David, and went out from the threshing floor and bowed his face to the ground before David.
Berean Standard Bible
David came to Ornan, and when Ornan looked out and saw David, he left the threshing floor and bowed facedown before David.
Contemporary English Version
Just then, David arrived, and when Araunah saw him, he stopped his work and bowed down.
Complete Jewish Bible
David approached Ornan. When Ornan looked and saw David, he went out from the threshing-floor and prostrated himself before David with his face to the ground.
Darby Translation
And David came to Ornan, and Ornan looked and saw David, and went out of the threshing-floor, and bowed himself to David with [his] face to the ground.
Easy-to-Read Version
David walked up the hill to Araunah. Araunah saw him and left the threshing floor. He walked to David and bowed with his face to the ground in front of him.
George Lamsa Translation
And as David came to Aran, Aran turned and saw David and went out of his threshing floor, and bowed himself to David with his face to the ground.
Lexham English Bible
Then David came to Ornan, and Ornan looked and saw David. And he went out from the threshing floor, and they bowed down to David, faces to the ground.
Literal Translation
And as David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out of the threshing-floor and bowed down to David, with his face to the ground.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Now whan Dauid came to Arnan, Arnan loked, and was aware of Dauid, and wete forth out of the barne, and worshipped Dauid with his face to the grounde.
American Standard Version
And as David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out of the threshing-floor, and bowed himself to David with his face to the ground.
Bible in Basic English
And when David came, Ornan, looking, saw him, and came out from the grain-floor and went down on his face to the earth before him.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
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.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And as David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out of the threshing-floor, and bowed down to David with his face to the ground.
King James Version (1611)
And as Dauid came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw Dauid, and went out of the threshing floore, and bowed himselfe to Dauid with his face to the ground.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And David came to Orna; and Orna came forth from the threshing-floor, and did obeisance to David with his face to the ground.
English Revised Version
And as David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out of the threshing–floor, and bowed himself to David with his face to the ground.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor whanne Dauid cam to Ornam, Ornam bihelde Dauid, and yede forth fro the cornfloor ayens hym, and worschipide hym, lowli on the ground.
Update Bible Version
And as David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out of the threshing-floor, and bowed himself to David with his face to the ground.
Webster's Bible Translation
And as David came to Ornan, Ornan looked, and saw David, and went out of the threshing-floor, and bowed himself to David with [his] face to the ground.
New King James Version
So David came to Ornan, and Ornan looked and saw David. And he went out from the threshing floor, and bowed before David with his face to the ground.
New Living Translation
When Araunah saw David approaching, he left his threshing floor and bowed before David with his face to the ground.
New Life Bible
Ornan looked and saw David coming. So he went out from the grain-floor and put his face to the ground showing respect to David.
New Revised Standard
As David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David; he went out from the threshing floor, and did obeisance to David with his face to the ground.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then came David unto Ornan, - and Ornan looked, and saw David, and went forth out of the threshing-floor, and bowed himself unto David, with his face to the ground.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And as David was coming to Ornan, Ornan saw him, and went out of the thrashingfloor to meet him, and bowed down to him with his face to the ground.
Revised Standard Version
As David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David and went forth from the threshing floor, and did obeisance to David with his face to the ground.
Young's Literal Translation
And David cometh in unto Ornan, and Ornan looketh attentively, and seeth David, and goeth out from the threshing-floor, and boweth himself to David -- face to the earth.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
As David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out from the threshing floor and prostrated himself before David with his face to the ground.

Contextual Overview

18 The angel of the Lord told Gad to command David to go and build an altar to the Lord at Araunah's threshing place. 19 David obeyed the Lord 's command and went, as Gad had told him to. 20 There at the threshing place Araunah and his four sons were threshing wheat, and when they saw the angel, the sons ran and hid. 21 As soon as Araunah saw King David approaching, he left the threshing place and bowed low, with his face touching the ground. 22 David said to him, "Sell me your threshing place, so that I can build an altar to the Lord , to stop the epidemic. I'll give you the full price." 23 "Take it, Your Majesty," Araunah said, "and do whatever you wish. Here are these oxen to burn as an offering on the altar, and here are the threshing boards to use as fuel, and wheat to give as an offering. I give it all to you." 24 But the king answered, "No, I will pay you the full price. I will not give as an offering to the Lord something that belongs to you, something that costs me nothing." 25 And he paid Araunah six hundred gold coins for the threshing place. 26 He built an altar to the Lord there and offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings. He prayed, and the Lord answered him by sending fire from heaven to burn the sacrifices on the altar. 27 The Lord told the angel to put his sword away, and the angel obeyed.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

bowed himself: 1 Samuel 25:23, 2 Samuel 24:18-20

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 24:20 - bowed

Cross-References

Genesis 21:3
Abraham named him Isaac,
Genesis 21:4
and when Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God had commanded.
Genesis 21:34
Abraham lived in Philistia for a long time.
Numbers 10:12
and the Israelites started on their journey out of the Sinai Desert. The cloud came to rest in the wilderness of Paran.
Numbers 12:16
Then they left Hazeroth and set up camp in the wilderness of Paran.
Numbers 13:3
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Numbers 13:26
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Judges 14:2
He went back home and told his father and mother, "There is a Philistine woman down at Timnah who caught my attention. Get her for me; I want to marry her."
1 Samuel 25:1
Samuel died, and all the Israelites came together and mourned for him. Then they buried him at his home in Ramah. After this, David went to the wilderness of Paran.
1 Corinthians 7:38
So the man who marries does well, but the one who doesn't marry does even better.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

See Gill "1Ch 21:1".


 
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