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Myles Coverdale Bible

1 Chronicles 21:25

So Dauid gaue Arnan for ye rowme, sixe hundreth Sycles of golde in weight.

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.
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.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And so Dauid gaue to Ornan for that place sicles of golde sixe hundred by wayght.
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 sayde vnto Gad, that he shulde speake vnto Dauid, that Dauid shulde shulde go vp, & set vp an altare in the barne of Arnan the Iebusite. 19 So Dauid wente vp acordinge to ye worde of Gad, which he spake in the name of the LORDE. 20 But wha Arnan turned him, and sawe the angell (and his foure sonnes with him) they hyd the selues: for Arnan thro?shed wheate. 21 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. 22 And Dauid sayde vnto Arnan: Geue me rowme in the barne, to buylde an altare vnto the LORDE therin: for ye full money shalt thou geue it me, that the plage maye ceasse from the people. 23 But Arnan sayde vnto Dauid: Take it vnto the, and let my lorde the kynge do as pleaseth him. Beholde, that oxe geue I for a burntofferynge, and those vessels to the oxe, and wheate for the meatofferynge, I geue it all. 24 Neuertheles the kynge sayde vnto Arnan: Not so, but for ye full money wyl I bye it: for that which is thine wyl not I take for the LORDE, and offre a burntofferynge for naughte. 25 So Dauid gaue Arnan for ye rowme, sixe hundreth Sycles of golde in weight. 26 And there buylded Dauid an altare vnto ye LORDE, & offred burntofferynges & slaynofferynges. And whan he called vpo the LORDE, he herde him thorow the fyre from heaue vpon ye altare of the burntofferynge. 27 And ye LORDE sayde vnto the angell, that he shulde put his swerde in to his sheeth.

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 strife betwene the hirdmen of Abrams catell, and the hirdmen of Lots catell. The Cananites also and the Pheresites dwelt at that tyme in the londe.
Genesis 21:15
Now whan the water in the botell was out, she layed the childe vnder a bush,
Genesis 21:17
Then God herde the voyce of the childe, and the angell of God called vnto Agar out of heauen, and sayde vnto her: What ayleth the, Agar? Feare not, for God hath herde ye voyce of the childe, where he lyeth.
Genesis 21:22
At the same tyme talked Abimelech and Phicol his chefe captayne with Abraham, and sayde: God is with the in all that thou doest.
Genesis 29:8
They answered: We can not, tyll all the flockes be brought together, and tyll we roule the stone from the welles mouth, & so geue the shepe drynke.
Judges 1:15
She sayde: Geue me a blessynge, for thou hast geuen me a south & drye londe, geue me also a watery londe. Then gaue he her a londe that was watery aboue and beneth.
Proverbs 17:10
One reprofe only doth more good to him yt hath vnderstodinge, then an C. stripes vnto a foole.
Proverbs 25:9
Handle thy matter wt yi neghbor himself, & discouer not another mans secrete:
Proverbs 27:5
An open rebuke is better, then a secrete loue.
Matthew 18:15
Yf thy brother trespace agaynst the, go and tell him his faute betwene the and him alone. Yf he heare the, thou hast wone 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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