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New Living Translation

1 Chronicles 21:21

When Araunah saw David approaching, he left his threshing floor and bowed before 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.
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.
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 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 Then the angel of the Lord told Gad to instruct David to go up and build an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite. 19 So David went up to do what the Lord had commanded him through Gad. 20 Araunah, who was busy threshing wheat at the time, turned and saw the angel there. His four sons, who were with him, ran away and hid. 21 When Araunah saw David approaching, he left his threshing floor and bowed before David with his face to the ground. 22 David said to Araunah, "Let me buy this threshing floor from you at its full price. Then I will build an altar to the Lord there, so that he will stop the plague." 23 "Take it, my lord the king, and use it as you wish," Araunah said to David. "I will give the oxen for the burnt offerings, and the threshing boards for wood to build a fire on the altar, and the wheat for the grain offering. I will give it all to you." 24 But King David replied to Araunah, "No, I insist on buying it for the full price. I will not take what is yours and give it to the Lord . I will not present burnt offerings that have cost me nothing!" 25 So David gave Araunah 600 pieces of gold in payment for the threshing floor. 26 David built an altar there to the Lord and sacrificed burnt offerings and peace offerings. And when David prayed, the Lord answered him by sending fire from heaven to burn up the offering on the altar. 27 Then the Lord spoke to the angel, who put the 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
And Abraham named their son Isaac.
Genesis 21:4
Eight days after Isaac was born, Abraham circumcised him as God had commanded.
Genesis 21:34
And Abraham lived as a foreigner in Philistine country for a long time.
Numbers 10:12
So the Israelites set out from the wilderness of Sinai and traveled on from place to place until the cloud stopped in the wilderness of Paran.
Numbers 12:16
Then they left Hazeroth and camped in the wilderness of Paran.
Numbers 13:3
So Moses did as the Lord commanded him. He sent out twelve men, all tribal leaders of Israel, from their camp in the wilderness of Paran.
Numbers 13:26
to Moses, Aaron, and the whole community of Israel at Kadesh in the wilderness of Paran. They reported to the whole community what they had seen and showed them the fruit they had taken from the land.
Judges 14:2
When he returned home, he told his father and mother, "A young Philistine woman in Timnah caught my eye. I want to marry her. Get her for me."
1 Samuel 25:1
Now Samuel died, and all Israel gathered for his funeral. They buried him at his house in Ramah. Then David moved down to the wilderness of Maon.
1 Corinthians 7:38
So the person who marries his fiancée does well, and the person who doesn't marry does even better.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

See Gill "1Ch 21:1".


 
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