Araunah in Easton's Bible Dictionary
agile; also called Ornan 1 Chr. 21:15, a Jebusite who dwelt
in
Jerusalem before it was taken by the Israelites. The
destroying
angel, sent to punish David for his vanity in taking
a census of
the people, was stayed in his work of destruction
near a
threshing-floor belonging to Araunah which was
situated on Mount
Moriah. Araunah offered it to David as a free gift,
together
with the oxen and the threshing instruments; but the
king
insisted on purchasing it at its full price (2 Sam.
24:24; 1
Chr. 21:24, 25), for, according to the law of
sacrifices, he
could not offer to God what cost him nothing. On the
same place
Solomon afterwards erected the temple (2 Sam. 24:16;
2 Chr.
3:1). (See ALTAR -T0000185.)
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