Lectionary Calendar
Wednesday, April 8th, 2026
Wednesday in Easter Week
Attention!
StudyLight.org has pledged to help build churches in Uganda. Help us with that pledge and support pastors in the heart of Africa.
Click here to join the effort!

Read the Bible

New Life Version

1 Chronicles 21:21

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.

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 Living Translation
When Araunah saw David approaching, he left his threshing floor and bowed before David with his face to the ground.
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 say to David, "Go up and build an altar to the Lord on the grain-floor of Ornan the Jebusite." 19 So David went up when he heard what Gad said in the name of the Lord. 20 Now Ornan was beating the grain. He turned and saw the angel. And his four sons hid themselves. 21 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. 22 David said to him, "Give me this part of the grain-floor, that I may build an altar on it to the Lord. Give it to me for the full price. Then the disease will be turned away from the people." 23 Ornan said to David, "Take it. Let my lord the king do what is good in his eyes. See, I will give the bulls for burnt gifts. I will give the objects made of wood used for beating grain for the fire-wood. And I will give the grain for the grain gift. I will give it all." 24 But King David said to Ornan, "No, I will buy it for the full price. I will not take what is yours for the Lord. And I will not give a burnt gift for which I do not pay." 25 So David gave Ornan 600 pieces of gold by weight for the place. 26 Then David built an altar there to the Lord. He gave burnt gifts and peace gifts, and he called to the Lord. The Lord answered him with fire from heaven on the altar of burnt gifts. 27 Then the Lord told the angel to return his sword to its holder.

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 gave the name Isaac to his son who was born to him by Sarah.
Genesis 21:4
Then Abraham did the religious act of the Jews on Isaac when he was eight days old, as God had told him to do.
Genesis 21:34
And Abraham stayed in the land of the Philistines for many days.
Numbers 10:12
The people of Israel moved on from the Desert of Sinai. Then the cloud came down and rested in the desert of Paran.
Numbers 12:16
The people moved from Hazeroth after that. And they set up their tents in the desert of Paran.
Numbers 13:3
So Moses sent them from the desert of Paran, as the Lord had told him. All of the men were heads of the people of Israel.
Numbers 13:26
And they came to Moses and Aaron and to all the people of Israel in the desert of Paran, at Kadesh. They brought news to them and to all the people, and showed them the fruit of the land.
Judges 14:2
He returned and told his father and mother, "I saw a woman in Timnah. She is one of the daughters of the Philistines. Now get her for me as a wife."
1 Samuel 25:1
Now Samuel died. All Israel gathered together and was filled with sorrow for him. They buried him at his house in Ramah. Then David got ready and went down to the desert of Paran.
1 Corinthians 7:38
The man who gets married does well, but the man who does not get married does better.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

See Gill "1Ch 21:1".


 
adsfree-icon
Ads FreeProfile