And Gad came that day to David, and said unto him, Go up, rear an altar unto the LORD in the threshingfloor of Araunah the Jebusite.
Ver. 18. And Gad came.] By the command of God's angel, 1Ch 21:18 after that David and the elders had humbled themselves and prayed (ib.), and after that Zadok the priest had stood in his priestly attire between the living and the dead, to make atonement, as Aaron sometime had done, say the Hebrews in Jerome; but this latter is not so certain.
In the threshlng floor of Araunah the Jebusite.] Which was in mount Moriah, where Abraham was ready to have offered his son Isaac, and where afterwards stood the temple. 2Ch 3:1 But what was the threshing floor of a Jebusite to God above all other soils? As in places, so in persons, that is worthiest which he pleaseth to accept.