1 Chronicles 21:24 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²⁴ But King David said to Ornan, “No, but I will buy it for the full price; I will not take for the Lord what is yours, nor offer burnt offerings which cost me nothing.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁴ And king David said to Ornan, Nay; but I will verily buy it for the full price: for I will not take that which is thine for the LORD, nor offer burnt offerings without cost.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁴ And King David said to Ornan, No, but I will pay the full price. I will not take what is yours for the Lord, nor offer burnt offerings which cost me nothing.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁴ And king David said to Ornan, Nay; but I will verily buy it for the full price: for I will not take that which is thine for Jehovah, nor offer a burnt-offering without cost.

Common English Bible

²⁴ But King David said to Ornan, “No, I will buy them from you at a fair price. I won’t offer to the LORD what belongs to you nor offer an entirely burned offering that costs me nothing.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁴ And king David said to him: "By no means shall it be so. Instead, I will give money to you, as much as it is worth. For I must not take it from you, and thereby offer to the Lord holocausts that cost nothing."

1 Chronicles 21:24 Cross References

Genesis 14:23

that I would not take a thread or a sandal-thong or anything that is yours, lest you should say, ‘I have made Abram rich.’

Genesis 23:13

And he said to Ephron in the hearing of the people of the land, “But if you will, hear me; I will give the price of the field; accept it from me, that I may bury my dead there.”

Genesis 23:9

that he may give me the cave of Mach-pelah, which he owns; it is at the end of his field. For the full price let him give it to me in your presence as a possession for a burying place.”

2 Samuel 24:24

But the king said to Araunah, “No, but I will buy it of you for a price; I will not offer burnt offerings to the Lord my God which cost me nothing.” So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.

1 Chronicles 21:23

Then Ornan said to David, “Take it; and let my lord the king do what seems good to him; see, I give the oxen for burnt offerings, and the threshing sledges for the wood, and the wheat for a cereal offering. I give it all.”

1 Chronicles 21:25

So David paid Ornan six hundred shekels of gold by weight for the site.

Romans 12:17

Repay no one evil for evil, but take thought for what is noble in the sight of all.