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Araunah - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Araunah 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. Th...
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; For how much did David buy the threshing floor? ... 2 Samuel 24:24 So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekel of silver. ... 1 Chronicles 21:25 So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold.
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“Then the Angel of the Lord commanded Gad to say to David, that David should go up and build an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite” (I Chron. 21:18)
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“And David spake unto the LORD when he saw the angel that smote the people, and said, Lo, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly: but these sheep, what have they done? ... 2 SAMUEL 24 : 17; 87. DAVID'S CENSUS, JUDGMENT AND PURCHASE OF THE THRESHING FLOOR; (2 SAMUEL 24: 1-25); ... CONDEMNED JOAB NUMBER THRESHING FLOOR;
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The Threshing Floor (formerly Hal's Corner of the Universe) is where wheat is separated from chaff, fact from fiction, and truth from falsehood. This site is dedicated to Truth, challenging the non-Christian to consider the claims of Christ and the Christian to learn from the Truth firsthand through God's Word.
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THE ATHEIST'S COMPLAINT: How much did David pay for the threshing floor? Did he pay fifty shekels of silver (2 Samuel 24:24) or did he pay six hundred shekels of gold (1 Chronicles 21:25)? Is there a contradiction?
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The Angel of Death told David to buy the threshing floor where they were standing and offer a sacrifice. The owner tried to give it to David along with the bull and the wood to make the sacrifice but David did not want to offer anything to God that cost him nothing.
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