Araunah in Biblical History

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Who is Araunah?
ARAU'NAH
(ark; a large ash or pine), or OR'NAN, was a Jebusite who lived at Jerusalem and owned a threshing-place or floor, where the temple was afterward built. 2 Sam 24:16. David bought it of him because the destroying angel sent to desolate the nation, in consequence of David's sin of numbering the people, stayed his hand at the command of God just as he had reached the floor. Araunah refused at first to receive anything for it, but offered it to him, together with oxen for sacrifices, and the timber of the threshing-instruments for fuel. David refused to receive them as a gift, as he would not offer to the Lord that which had cost him nothing. He therefore bought the oxen for fifty shekels of silver, 2 Sam 24:24, and the whole place for six hundred shekels of gold, 1 Chr 21:25, and offered his sacrifices, which were accepted and the plague stayed. 2 Sam 24:23 may be better translated; "The whole O king, does Araunah give unto the King." But taking the Authorized Version translation as it stands, it favors the view of some that the expression "Araunah the king" implies that he was one of the kings of the Jebusites.

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