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Selected Verse: 1 Chronicles 21:25 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| 1Ch 21:25 |
King James |
So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight. |
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| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| David gave . . . for the place six hundred shekels of gold--At first he bought only the cattle and the threshing instruments, for which he paid fifty shekels of silver (Sa2 24:24); afterwards he purchased the whole property, Mount Moriah, on which the future temple stood. High in the center of the mountain platform rises a remarkable rock, now covered by the dome of "the Sakrah." It is irregular in its form, and measures about sixty feet in one direction and fifty feet in the other. It is the natural surface of Mount Moriah and is thought by many to be the rock of the threshing-floor of Araunah, selected by David, and continued by Solomon and Zerubbabel as "the unhewn stone" on which to build the altar [BARTLETT, Walks about Jerusalem; STANLEY]. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| Compare the marginal reference and note. It may also be conjectured that we should read "six" for "six hundred" here; since, according to the later Jewish system, six gold shekels were nearly equal in value to fifty silver ones. |
| The Scofield Bible Commentary, by Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, [1917] |
six hundred shekels of gold
A discrepancy has been imagined in the two accounts, (Sa2 24:24); (Ch1 21:25); (Sa2 24:24) records the price of the threshingfloor (Hebrew, "goren"); (Ch1 21:25) of the place (Hebrew, "magom", Literally, "home," (Sa1 2:20) same word or area on which afterward the great temple, with its spacious courts was built. (Ch2 3:1).
David gave fifty shekels of sliver for the "goren"; six hundred shekels of gold for the "magom." |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
| As to the different statements of the price, cf. on Sa2 24:24. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Six hundred - We read, Sa2 24:24, he gave fifty shekels of gold: that is, he gave in gold the value of six hundred shekels of silver. |
24 And the king said unto Araunah, Nay; but I will surely buy it of thee at a price: neither will I offer burnt offerings unto the LORD my God of that which doth cost me nothing. So David bought the threshingfloor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.
1 Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where the LORD appeared unto David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
20 And Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, The LORD give thee seed of this woman for the loan which is lent to the LORD. And they went unto their own home.
25 So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight.
24 And the king said unto Araunah, Nay; but I will surely buy it of thee at a price: neither will I offer burnt offerings unto the LORD my God of that which doth cost me nothing. So David bought the threshingfloor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.
25 So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight.
24 And the king said unto Araunah, Nay; but I will surely buy it of thee at a price: neither will I offer burnt offerings unto the LORD my God of that which doth cost me nothing. So David bought the threshingfloor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.
24 And the king said unto Araunah, Nay; but I will surely buy it of thee at a price: neither will I offer burnt offerings unto the LORD my God of that which doth cost me nothing. So David bought the threshingfloor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.
24 And the king said unto Araunah, Nay; but I will surely buy it of thee at a price: neither will I offer burnt offerings unto the LORD my God of that which doth cost me nothing. So David bought the threshingfloor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.