1 Chronicles 21:22 meaning and explanation

Then David said to Ornan, “Grant me the site of this threshing floor, that I may build an altar to the LORD. Sell it to me for the full price, so that the plague upon the people may be halted.”

1 Chronicles 21:22, Berean Standard Bible

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David is speaking to Ornan the Jebusite after a plague struck Israel because David ordered a census, a sin the Chronicler attributes to Satan's incitement. The angel of the LORD has stopped at Ornan's threshing floor, and Gad has told David to build an altar there.

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