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1 Chronicles 21:21

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.

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.
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.
Good News Translation
As soon as Araunah saw King David approaching, he left the threshing place and bowed low, with his face touching 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 So the Lord 's messenger told Gad to instruct David to go up and build an altar for the Lord on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. 19 So David went up as Gad instructed him to do in the name of the Lord . 20 While Ornan was threshing wheat, he turned and saw the messenger, and he and his four sons hid themselves. 21 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. 22 David said to Ornan, "Sell me the threshing floor so I can build on it an altar for the Lord —I'll pay top price—so that the plague may be removed from the people." 23 Ornan told David, "You can have it! My master, the king, may do what he wants. Look, I am giving you the oxen for burnt sacrifices, the threshing sledges for wood, and the wheat for an offering. I give it all to you." 24 King David replied to Ornan, "No, I insist on buying it for top price. I will not offer to the Lord what belongs to you or offer a burnt sacrifice that cost me nothing. 25 So David bought the place from Ornan for 600 pieces of gold. 26 David built there an altar to the Lord and offered burnt sacrifices and peace offerings. He called out to the Lord , and the Lord responded by sending fire from the sky and consuming the burnt sacrifice on the altar. 27 The Lord ordered the messenger to put his sword back into its sheath.

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 his son—whom Sarah bore to him—Isaac.
Genesis 21:4
When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him just as God had commanded him to do.
Genesis 21:34
So Abraham stayed in the land of the Philistines for quite some time.
Numbers 10:12
So the Israelites set out on their journeys from the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud settled in the wilderness of Paran.
Numbers 12:16
After that the people moved from Hazeroth and camped in the wilderness of Paran.
Numbers 13:3
So Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran at the command of the Lord . All of them were leaders of the Israelites.
Numbers 13:26
They came back to Moses and Aaron and to the whole community of the Israelites in the wilderness of Paran at Kadesh. They reported to the whole community and showed the fruit of the land.
Judges 14:2
When he got home, he told his father and mother, "A Philistine girl in Timnah has caught my eye. Now get her for my wife."
1 Samuel 25:1
Samuel died, and all Israel assembled and mourned him. They buried him at his home in Ramah. Then David left and went down to the desert of Paran.
1 Corinthians 7:38
So then, the one who marries his own virgin does well, but the one who does not, does better.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

See Gill "1Ch 21:1".


 
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