21Araunah said, |Why has my lord the king come to his servant?| David said, |To buy your threshing floor, to build an altar to Yahweh, that the plague may be stopped from afflicting the people.|


In Context

18 Gad came that day to David, and said to him, |Go up, build an altar to Yahweh on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.|

19 David went up according to the saying of Gad, as Yahweh commanded.

20 Araunah looked out, and saw the king and his servants coming on toward him. Then Araunah went out, and bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground.

21 Araunah said, |Why has my lord the king come to his servant?| David said, |To buy your threshing floor, to build an altar to Yahweh, that the plague may be stopped from afflicting the people.|

22 Araunah said to David, |Let my lord the king take and offer up what seems good to him. Behold, the cattle for the burnt offering, and the threshing instruments and the yokes of the oxen for the wood:

23 all this, king, does Araunah give to the king.| Araunah said to the king, |May Yahweh your God accept you.|

2 Samuel 24:21 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

24:21Araunah said, "Why has my lord the king come to his servant?" "To buy your threshing floor," David answered, "so I can build an altar to the Lord , that the plague on the people may be stopped."

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

24:21And 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.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

24:21An going out he worshipped the king, bowing with his face to the earth, and said: Wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant? Arid David said to him: To buy the thrashingfloor of thee, and build an altar to the Lord, that the plague, which rageth among the people, may cease.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

24:21And Araunah said, Wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant? And David said, To buy the threshing-floor of thee, to build an altar unto Jehovah, that the plague may be stayed from the people.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

24:21And Araunah said, Why is my lord the king come to his servant? And David said, To buy the threshing-floor of thee, to build an altar to Jehovah, that the plague may be stayed from the people.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

24:21And Araunah said, Wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant? And David said, To buy the threshing-floor of thee, to build an altar unto the LORD, that the plague may be stayed from the people.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

24:21And Araunah said, Why is my lord the king come to his servant? And David said, To buy the threshing-floor of thee, to build an altar to the LORD, that the plague may be stayed from the people.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

24:21And Araunah saith, 'Wherefore hath my lord the king come unto his servant?' and David saith, 'To buy from thee the threshing-floor, to build an altar to Jehovah, and the plague is restrained from the people.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

24:21And Araunah said, Why is my lord the king come to his servant? And David said, To buy the threshing floor of you, to build an altar to the LORD, that the plague may be stayed from the people.