Verse 25
1 Chronicles 21:25
Bible in Basic English
25
So David gave Ornan six hundred shekels of gold by weight for the place.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יִּתֵּ֥ן דָּוִ֛יד לְ/אָרְנָ֖ן בַּ/מָּק֑וֹם שִׁקְלֵ֣י זָהָ֔ב מִשְׁקָ֖ל שֵׁ֥שׁ מֵאֽוֹת
English Translation
And David gave to Ornan in the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight.
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Chapter 21 Context
1
Now Satan, designing evil against Israel, put into David's mind the impulse to take the number of Is...
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And David said to Joab and the captains of the people, Now let all Israel, from Beer-sheba to Dan, b...
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And Joab said, May the Lord make his people a hundred times more in number than they are; but, my lo...
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But the king's word was stronger than Joab's. So Joab went out and went through all Israel and came...
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And Joab gave David the number of all the people; all the men of Israel, able to take up arms, were...
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But Levi and Benjamin were not numbered among them, for Joab was disgusted with the king's order.
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And God (Elohim) was not pleased with this thing; so he sent punishment on Israel.
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Then David said to God (Elohim), Great has been my sin in doing this; but now, be pleased to take aw...
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9
Then the word of the Lord came to Gad, David's seer, saying,
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10
Go and say to David, The Lord says, Three things are offered to you: say which of them you will have...
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So Gad came to David and said to him, The Lord says, Take whichever you will:
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12
Three years when there will not be enough food; or three months of war, when you will go in flight b...
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And David said to Gad, This is a hard decision for me to make: let me come into the hands of the Lor...
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14
So the Lord sent disease on Israel, causing the death of seventy thousand men.
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15
And God (Elohim) sent an angel to Jerusalem for its destruction: and when he was about to do so, the...
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And David, lifting up his eyes, saw the angel of the Lord there between earth and heaven, with an un...
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17
And David said to God (Elohim), Was it not I who gave the order for the people to be numbered? It is...
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18
Then the angel of the Lord gave orders to Gad to say to David that he was to go and put up an altar...
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19
And David went up, as Gad had said in the name of the Lord.
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And Ornan, turning back, saw the angel, and his four sons who were with him went to a secret place....
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21
And when David came, Ornan, looking, saw him, and came out from the grain-floor and went down on his...
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Then David said to Ornan, Give me the place where this grain-floor is, so that I may put up an altar...
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And Ornan said to David, Take it, and let my lord the king do what seems right to him. See, I give y...
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24
And King David said to Ornan, No; I will certainly give you the full price for it, because I will no...
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25
So David gave Ornan six hundred shekels of gold by weight for the place.
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And David put up an altar there to the Lord, offering burned offerings and peace-offerings with pray...
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Then the Lord gave orders to the angel, and he put back his sword into its cover.
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At that time, when David saw that the Lord had given him an answer on the grain-floor of Ornan the J...
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For the House of the Lord, which Moses had made in the waste land, and the altar of burned offerings...
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But David was not able to go before it to get directions from the Lord, so great was his fear of the...
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