2 Samuel 24:24 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

offer. See App-43.

the threshingfloor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver. Hebrew. goren (Ruth 3:2), mentioned in verses: 2 Samuel 24:16; 2 Samuel 24:18; 2 Samuel 16:21. Not the "place", Hebrew. makom, of 1 Chronicles 21:25 (Ruth 4:10), which was afterward the Temple area, about eight acres, and for which David gave the much larger sum of 600 shekels of gold. Two separate purchases effected, the one here was hurried, as an earnest, and the other was made later.

shekels. See App-51.

2 Samuel 24:24

24 And the king said unto Araunah, Nay; but I will surely buy it of thee at a price: neither will I offer burnt offerings unto the LORD my God of that which doth cost me nothing. So David bought the threshingfloor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.