23 Then Ornan said unto David, Take it to thee, and let my lord the king do that which seemeth him good: lo, I give thee bullocks for burnt offerings, and threshing instruments for wood, and wheat for meat offering, I give it all.

24 And King David said to Ornan, Not so: but I will buy it for sufficient [a]money: for I will not take that which is thine for the Lord, nor offer burnt offerings without cost.

25 So David gave to Ornan for that place [b]six hundred shekels of gold by weight.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Chronicles 21:24 That is, as much as it is worth: for having enough of his own, and yet to have taken of another man’s goods to offer unto the Lord, it had been theft and not acceptable to God.
  2. 1 Chronicles 21:25 Read 2 Sam. 24:24.

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