2 Samuel 24:21 meaning and explanation
“Why has my lord the king come to his servant?” Araunah said. “To buy your threshing floor,” David replied, “that I may build an altar to the LORD, so that the plague upon the people may be halted.”
2 Samuel 24:21, Berean Standard Bible
Explanation preview
Araunah, a Jebusite whose threshing floor sat on the height that would become Jerusalem's temple mount, asks why the king has come to him. David answers plainly: he wants to buy the threshing floor and build an altar there so the plague that has killed seventy thousand Israelites might be stopped.
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