2 Samuel 24:21

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Og Arvna sa: Hvorfor kommer min herre kongen til sin tjener? David svarte: For å kjøpe treskeplassen av dig og bygge et alter der for Herren, forat hjemsøkelsen kan stanse og vike fra folket.

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Wherefore: 2 Samuel 24:3, 2 Samuel 24:18

To buy: Genesis 23:8-16, 1 Chronicles 21:22, Jeremiah 32:6-14

the plague: 2 Samuel 21:3-14, Numbers 16:47-50, Numbers 25:8, Psalms 106:30

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Araunah said, wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant?.... Which both implies admiration in him, that so great a person should visit him in his threshingfloor; that a king should come to a subject his servant, who should rather have come to him, and would upon the least intimation; it was a piece of condescension he marvelled at; and it expresses a desire to know his pleasure with him, supposing it must be something very urgent and important, that the king should come himself upon it: and to this David made answer,

and David said, what he was come for:

to buy the threshingfloor of thee, to build an altar to the Lord, that the plague may be stayed from the people; for though David had acknowledged his sin, and God had repented of the evil he inflicted for it, and given orders for stopping it; yet he would have an altar built, and sacrifices offered, to show that the only way to have peace, and pardon, and safety from ruin and destruction, deserved by sin, is through the expiatory sacrifice of Christ, of which fill sacrifices were typical, and were designed to lead the faith of the Lord's people to that.