2 Samuel 24:23 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

All these things did Araunah as a king That is, with a royal bounty; give unto the king He not only offered, but actually gave them; he resigned his right and property in them to David; though David, by his refusal, returned it to Araunah again. The words in the Hebrew are, these things gave Araunah the king unto the king. From whence some infer that, before the taking of Jerusalem, he was the king of the Jebusites; or a man of the greatest authority among them, like a king; or was descended from the blood royal of the Jebusites. But neither the Greek, nor the Syriac, nor the Arabic copies have the word king, nor had the Vulgate it, till the edition published by Sextus; nor was it in the Chaldee Paraphrast, in the time of Kimchi, who cites it thus: Araunah gave to the king what the king asked of him. The Lord thy God accept thee He was a Jebusite by nation, but a sincere and hearty proselyte; which made him so liberal in his offers to God's service, and the common good of God's people.