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Week 24, Day 5 — 2 Samuel 24, 1 Chronicles 21

Jeremy Paschall
06/09/24 - Podcast

And now, a minute with the Word…

David refused to “‘offer burnt offerings to the LORD my God that cost me nothing.’ So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver” (2 Samuel 24.24). First Chronicles 21.25 adds that David paid “600 shekels of gold by weight for the site.” A few verses later, “Then David said, ‘Here shall be the house of the LORD God and here the altar of burnt offering for Israel’” (22.1), followed immediately by David’s preparations for building of the temple of God (verses 2-19). It is likely, then, “that the first price was for the oxen and the equipment and the wheat for the meal offering (1 Chron. 21:23), and that the other price was for the larger site, including the threshing floor, upon which the temple would be built” (Bob Waldron, Truth Commentaries: 1 & 2 Samuel, pages 1060-1061).