Verse 23

1 Chronicles 21:23

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

23 And David said to him: Give me this place of thy thrashingfloor, that I may build therein an altar to the Lord: but thou shalt take of me as much money as it is worth, that the plague may cease from the people.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יֹּ֨אמֶר אָרְנָ֤ן אֶל דָּוִיד֙ קַֽח לָ֔/ךְ וְ/יַ֛עַשׂ אֲדֹנִ֥/י הַ/מֶּ֖לֶךְ הַ/טּ֣וֹב בְּ/עֵינָ֑י/ו רְאֵה֩ נָתַ֨תִּי הַ/בָּקָ֜ר לָֽ/עֹל֗וֹת וְ/הַ/מּוֹרִגִּ֧ים לָ/עֵצִ֛ים וְ/הַ/חִטִּ֥ים לַ/מִּנְחָ֖ה הַ/כֹּ֥ל נָתָֽתִּי
English Translation
And Arnan said to David, "Take for yourself, and may my lord the king do what is good in his eyes. Behold, I have given the cattle for burnt offerings and the threshing implements for the wood, and the wheat for the grain offering; I have given it all."
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Chapter 21 Context
1 And Satan rose up against Israel: and moved David to number Israel. Focus ↗
2 And David said to Joab, and to the rulers of the people: Go, and number Israel from Bersabee even to... Focus ↗
3 And Joab answered: The Lord make his people a hundred times more than they are : but, my lord the ki... Focus ↗
4 But the king's word rather prevailed: and Joab departed, and went through all Israel: and returned t... Focus ↗
5 And he gave David the number of them, whom he had surveyed: and all the number of Israel was found t... Focus ↗
6 But Levi and Benjamin he did not number: for Joab unwillingly executed the king's orders. Focus ↗
7 And God (Elohim) was displeased with this thing that was commanded: and he struck Israel. Focus ↗
8 And David said to God (Elohim): I have sinned exceedingly in doing this: I beseech thee take away th... Focus ↗
10 And the Lord spoke to Gad the seer of David, saying: Focus ↗
11 Go, and speak to David, and tell him: Thus saith the Lord: I give thee the choice of three things: c... Focus ↗
12 And when Gad was come to David, he said to him: Thus saith the Lord: choose which thou wilt: Focus ↗
13 Either three years' famine: or three months to flee from thy enemies, and not to be able to escape t... Focus ↗
14 And David said to Gad: I am on every side in a great strait: but it is better for me to fall into th... Focus ↗
15 So the Lord sent a pestilence upon Israel. And there fell of Israel seventy thousand men. Focus ↗
16 And he sent an angel to Jerusalem, to strike it: and as he was striking it, the Lord beheld, and too... Focus ↗
17 And David lifting up his eyes, saw the angel of the Lord standing between heaven and earth, with a d... Focus ↗
18 And David said to God (Elohim): Am not I he that commanded the people to be numbered? It is I that h... Focus ↗
19 And the angel of the Lord commanded Gad to tell David, to go up, and build an altar to the Lord God... Focus ↗
20 and David went up, according to the word of Gad, which he spoke to him in the name of the Lord. Focus ↗
21 Now when Ornan looked up, and saw the angel, he and his four sons hid themselves: for at that time h... Focus ↗
22 And as David was coming to Ornan, Ornan saw him, and went out of the thrashingfloor to meet him, and... Focus ↗
23 And David said to him: Give me this place of thy thrashingfloor, that I may build therein an altar t...
24 And Ornan said to David: Take it, and let my lord the king do all that pleaseth him: and moreover th... Focus ↗
25 And king David said to him: It shall not be so, but I will give thee money as much se it is worth: f... Focus ↗
26 So David gave to Ornan for the place, six hundred sides of gold of just weight. Focus ↗
27 And he built there an altar to the Lord: and he offered holocausts, and peace offerings, and he call... Focus ↗
28 And the Lord commanded the angel: and he put up his sword again into the sheath. Focus ↗
29 And David seeing that the Lord had heard him in the thrashingfloor of Oman the Jebusite, forthwith o... Focus ↗
30 But the tabernacle of the Lord, which Moses made in the desert, and the altar of holocausts, was at... Focus ↗
31 And David could not go to the altar there to pray to God (Elohim): for he was seized with an exceedi... Focus ↗