They came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and there they lamented with a very great and severe lamentation. He mourned for his father seven days.
2 Samuel 24:21 - Y'all Version Bible Araunah said, “Why has my lord the king come to his servant?” David said, “To buy your threshing floor, to build an altar to YHWH, that the plague may be stopped from afflicting the people.” Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And Araunah said, Wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant? And David said, To buy the threshingfloor of thee, to build an altar unto the LORD, that the plague may be stayed from the people. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Araunah said, Why has my lord the king come to his servant? And David said, To buy the threshing floor from you, to build there an altar to the Lord, that the plague may be stayed from the people. American Standard Version (1901) And Araunah said, Wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant? And David said, To buy the threshing-floor of thee, to build an altar unto Jehovah, that the plague may be stayed from the people. Common English Bible Araunah said, “Why has my master and king come to his servant?” David said, “To buy this threshing floor from you to build an altar to the LORD, so the plague among the people may come to an end.” Catholic Public Domain Version And going out, he adored the king, lying prone with his face to the ground, and he said, "What is the reason that my lord the king has come to his servant?" And David said to him, "So as to purchase the threshing floor from you, and to build an altar to the Lord, and to quiet the plague that rages among the people." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And going out he worshipped the king, bowing with his face to the earth, and said: Wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant? And David said to him: To buy the thrashing-floor of thee, and build an altar to the Lord, that the plague, which rageth among the people, may cease. |
They came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and there they lamented with a very great and severe lamentation. He mourned for his father seven days.
Gad came that day to David and said to him, “Go up, build an altar to YHWH on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.”
Araunah looked out, and saw the king and his servants coming on toward him. Then Araunah went out and bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground.
Joab said to the king, “Now may YHWH your God add to the people, however many they may be, one hundred times; and may the eyes of my lord the king see it. But why does my lord the king delight in this thing?”
Then David said to Ornan, “Sell me the place of this threshing floor, that I may build an altar to YHWH on it. You must sell it to me for the full price, that the plague may be stopped from afflicting the people.”
Then Phinehas stood up and executed judgment, so the plague was stopped.
He went after the man of Israel into the pavilion, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her body. So the plague was stopped among the children of Israel.