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1 Chronicles 21:22-24
New English Translation
1 Chronicles 21:22-24
New English Translation
22 David said to Ornan, “Sell me the threshing floor[a] so I can build[b] on it an altar for the Lord—I’ll pay top price[c]—so that the plague may be removed[d] from the people.” 23 Ornan told David, “You can have it![e] My master, the king, may do what he wants.[f] 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.[g] I will not offer to the Lord what belongs to you or offer a burnt sacrifice[h] that cost me nothing.[i]
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- 1 Chronicles 21:22 tn Heb “the place of the threshing floor.”
- 1 Chronicles 21:22 tn Following the imperative, the prefixed verbal form with vav (ו) conjunctive here indicates the immediate purpose: “so I can build.”
- 1 Chronicles 21:22 tn Heb “For full silver sell to me.”
- 1 Chronicles 21:22 tn Following the imperative and first person prefixed verbal form with vav (ו) conjunctive, this third person prefixed verbal form with vav conjunctive introduces the ultimate purpose: “so the plague may be removed.”
- 1 Chronicles 21:23 tn Heb “take for yourself.”
- 1 Chronicles 21:23 tn Heb “what is good in his eyes.”
- 1 Chronicles 21:24 tn Heb “No, for buying I will buy for full silver.” The infinitive absolute precedes the finite verb for emphasis.
- 1 Chronicles 21:24 tc The parallel text in 2 Sam 24:24 has the plural “burnt sacrifices.”
- 1 Chronicles 21:24 tn Or “without [paying] compensation.”
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