Araunah
And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to
destroy it, the LORD repented him of the evil, and said to the
angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine
hand. And the angel of the LORD was by the threshingplace of
Araunah the Jebusite....
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And Araunah said unto David, Let my lord the king take and
offer up what [seemeth] good unto him: behold, [here be] oxen
for burnt sacrifice, and threshing instruments and [other]
instruments of the oxen for wood....
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And Araunah said, Wherefore is my lord the king come to his
servant? And David said, To buy the threshingfloor of thee, to
build an altar unto the LORD, that the plague may be stayed
from the people....
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is the name given by the Books of Samuel to a Jebusite who
owned the threshing floor on the summit of Mount Moriah that
David purchased and used as the site for assembling an altar
to God. The Book of Chronicles, a later text, renders his name
as Ornan. The narrative concerning Araunah appears at both 2
Samuel 24 and 1 Chronicles 21 . The Samu...
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a-ro'-na ('arawnah, 2 Sam 24:16,20 ff; 'aranyah 2 Sam 24:18,
and 'ornan, 1 Ch 21:15 ff; 2 Ch 3:1, all from a Hebrew root
meaning "to be strong"): A Jebusite from whom David at the
request of the prophet Gad bought a threshing-floor located
upon Mt. Moriah, as a site for an altar of the Lord at the
time of the great plague (2 Sam 24:15 ff; 1 Ch...
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A Jebusite from whom David bought a site for an altar
2Sa 24:16-24
-Also called ORNAN
1Ch 21:15-25...
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(ark), a Jebusite who sold his threshing floor on Mount Moriah
to David as a site for an altar to Jehovah, together with his
oxen. 2Sa 24:18-24; 1Ch 21:25...
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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...
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ARAUNAH or OMAN. A Jebusite, at whose threshing floor the
plague sent for numbering the people was, at David's
intercession, stayed. Be offered the area as a site for
Jehovah's altar, and only by constraint accepted David's pay
(50 shekels of silver, 2 Samuel 24:18-24; 600 shekels of
gold, 1 Chronicles 21:25. As 50 silver shekels is far too
l...
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