2 Samuel 24:18
16 But when the angel stretched out his hand to destroy Jerusalem, the LORD relented from the calamity and said to the angel who was destroying the people, “Enough! Withdraw your hand now!” At that time the angel of the LORD was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
17 When David saw the angel striking down the people, he said to the LORD, “Surely I, the shepherd, have sinned and acted wickedly. But these sheep, what have they done? Please, let Your hand fall upon me and my father’s house.”
And that day Gad came to David and said to him, “Go up and build an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.”
19 So David went up at the word of Gad, just as the LORD had commanded.
20 When Araunah looked out and saw the king and his servants coming toward him, he went out and bowed facedown before the king.
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- BSB
- And that day Gad came to David and said to him, “Go up and build an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.”
- KJV
- And Gad came that day to David, and said unto him, Go up, rear an altar unto the LORD in the threshingfloor of Araunah the Jebusite.
- WEB
- Gad came that day to David and said to him, “Go up, build an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.”
- ASV
- And Gad came that day to David, and said unto him, Go up, rear an altar unto Jehovah in the threshing-floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
- DARBY
- And Gad came that day to David, and said to him, Go up, rear an altar to Jehovah in the threshing-floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
- BLB
- And Gad came to David that day and said to him, “Go up, raise to YHWH an altar on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.”
- ÅB
- Samme dag kom Gad til David og sa til ham: Gå opp og reis Herren et alter på jebusitten Aravnas treskeplass!
- OTB
- Så kom Gad til David den dagen og sa til ham, "Gå opp, bygg et alter for Herren på treskeplassen til Arauna jebusitten."
- B1930
- Samme dag kom Gad til David og sa til ham: Gå op og reis Herren et alter på jebusitten Aravnas treskeplass!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
1 Chronicles 21:18–30
Then the angel of the LORD ordered Gad to tell David to go up and build an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
Read in context2 Samuel 24:11
When David got up in the morning, a revelation from the LORD had come to Gad the prophet, David’s seer:
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