1 Chronicles 21:23

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Ornan said to David, ‘Take it! My lord the king may do whatever he wants.  See, I give the oxen for the burnt offerings, the threshing sledges for the wood, and the wheat for the grain offering #– #I give it all.’

Cross References

1 Samuel 6:14

The cart came to the field of Joshua of Beth-shemesh and stopped there near a large rock. The people of the city chopped up the cart and offered the cows as a burnt offering to the Lord.

Jeremiah 32:8

‘Then, as the Lord had said, my cousin Hanamel came to the guard’s courtyard and urged me, “Please buy my field in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, for you own the right of inheritance and redemption. Buy it for yourself.” Then I knew that this was the word of the Lord.

1 Kings 19:21

So he turned back from following him, took the team of oxen, and slaughtered  them. With the oxen’s wooden yoke and plough,  he cooked the meat and gave it to the people, and they ate. Then he left, followed Elijah, and served him.

1 Chronicles 21:22

Then David said to Ornan, ‘Give me this threshing-floor plot so that I may build an altar to the Lord on it. Give it to me for the full price, so the plague on the people may be stopped.’

1 Chronicles 21:24

King David answered Ornan, ‘No, I insist on paying the full price, for I will not take for the Lord what belongs to you or offer burnt offerings that cost me nothing.’