KJV King James Version
And king David said to Ornan, Nay; but I will verily buy it for the full price: for I will not take [that] which [is] thine for the LORD, nor offer burnt offerings without cost.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
1 Chronicles 21:24
And king David said to Ornan, Nay; but I will verily buy it for the full price: for I will not take [that] which [is] thine for the LORD, nor offer burnt offerings without cost.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
“No,” replied King David, “I insist on paying the full price, for I will not take for the LORD what belongs to you, nor will I offer burnt offerings that cost me nothing.”
WEB World English Bible
King David said to Ornan, “No; but I will most certainly buy it for the full price. For I will not take that which is yours for Yahweh, nor offer a burnt offering without cost.”
ASV American Standard Version
And king David said to Ornan, Nay; but I will verily buy it for the full price: for I will not take that which is thine for Jehovah, nor offer a burnt-offering without cost.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And king David saith to Ornan, ‘Nay, for I surely buy for full silver; for I do not lift up that which is thine to Jehovah, so as to offer a burnt-offering without cost.’
Surrounding context — 1 Chronicles 21
21 And as David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out of the threshingfloor, and bowed himself to David with [his] face to the ground.
22 Then David said to Ornan, Grant me the place of [this] threshingfloor, that I may build an altar therein unto the LORD: thou shalt grant it me for the full price: that the plague may be stayed from the people.
23 And Ornan said unto David, Take [it] to thee, and let my lord the king do [that which is] good in his eyes: lo, I give [thee] the oxen [also] for burnt offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat for the meat offering; I give it all.
24 And king David said to Ornan, Nay; but I will verily buy it for the full price: for I will not take [that] which [is] thine for the LORD, nor offer burnt offerings without cost.
25 So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight.
26 And David built there an altar unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called upon the LORD; and he answered him from heaven by fire upon the altar of burnt offering.
27 And the LORD commanded the angel; and he put up his sword again into the sheath thereof.
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וַיֹּ֨אמֶרH559 · a.marto sayהַמֶּ֤לֶךְH4428 · me.lekhkingדָּוִיד֙H1732 · da.vidDavidלְאָרְנָ֔ןH771 · or.nanOrnanלֹ֕אH3808 · lonotכִּֽי־H3588 · kiforקָנֹ֥הH7069 · qa.nahto buyאֶקְנֶ֖הH7069 · qa.nahto buyבְּכֶ֣סֶףH3701 · ke.sephsilver: moneyמָלֵ֑אH4392 · ma.lefullכִּ֠יH3588 · kiforלֹא־H3808 · lonotאֶשָּׂ֤אH5375 · na.sato lift: raiseאֲשֶׁר־H834 · a.sherwhichלְךָ֙H9031 · kayouלַיהוָ֔הH3068 · ye.ho.vahLORDוְהַעֲל֥וֹתH5927 · a.lahto ascend: riseעוֹלָ֖הH5930 · o.lahburnt offeringחִנָּֽם׃H2600 · chin.namfor nothing
Cross-references
Deuteronomy 16:16-17Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the LORD empty:Malachi 1:12-14But ye have profaned it, in that ye say, The table of the LORD [is] polluted; and the fruit thereof, [even] his meat, [is] contemptible.Genesis 14:23That I will not [take] from a thread even to a shoelatchet, and that I will not take any thing that [is] thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich:Genesis 23:13And he spake unto Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, But if thou [wilt give it], I pray thee, hear me: I will give thee money for the field; take [it] of me, and I will bury my dead there.Romans 12:17Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men.
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