Afflicting Altar Araunah Arau'nah Averted Build Buy David Disease Floor Grain-floor Held Order Plague Price Restrained Servant Stayed Stopped Threshing Threshingfloor Threshing-floor Wherefore
24:21 And {l} Araunah said, Wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant? And David said, To buy the threshingfloor of thee, to build an altar unto the LORD, that the plague may be stayed from the people.
(l) Called also Ornan 1Ch 21:20.
24:18-25 God's encouraging us to offer to him spiritual sacrifices, is an evidence of his reconciling us to himself. David purchased the ground to build the altar. God hates robbery for burnt-offering. Those know not what religion is, who chiefly care to make it cheap and easy to themselves, and who are best pleased with that which costs them least pains or money. For what have we our substance, but to honour God with it; and how can it be better bestowed? See the building of the altar, and the offering proper sacrifices upon it. Burnt-offerings to the glory of God's justice; peace-offerings to the glory of his mercy. Christ is our Altar, our Sacrifice; in him alone we may expect to escape his wrath, and to find favour with God. Death is destroying all around, in so many forms, and so suddenly, that it is madness not to expect and prepare for the close of life.
Afflicting Altar Araunah Arau'nah Averted Build Buy David Disease Floor Grain-Floor Held Order Plague Price Restrained Servant Stopped Threshing Threshingfloor Threshing-Floor Wherefore
Afflicting Altar Araunah Arau'nah Averted Build Buy David Disease Floor Grain-Floor Held Order Plague Price Restrained Servant Stopped Threshing Threshingfloor Threshing-Floor Wherefore
