Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 1 Chronicles 21:25
So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight.
25. gave for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight ] In 2Sa 24:24, bought the threshing floor and the oxen for money, even fifty shekels (so to be rendered).
A large discrepancy appears here between Chron. and 2 Sam. The former seems to say that 600 shekels were paid for the threshing floor alone, the latter that only 50 shekels were paid for the floor and oxen taken together. But the text of 2 Sam. is probably corrupt and should perhaps run, bought the threshing floor for money, even six hundred shekels, and the oxen for money, even fifty shekels. The “threshing floor” seems to have included the Temple Mount (1Ch 22:1), and we may compare the 600 shekels paid for it with the 400 paid by Abraham for the cave and field of Machpelah (Gen 23:15-17). In describing the 600 shekels as shekels of gold the Chronicler perhaps goes beyond his authority, for the sum then becomes improbably large.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Compare the marginal reference and note. It may also be conjectured that we should read six for six hundred here; since, according to the later Jewish system, six gold shekels were nearly equal in value to fifty silver ones.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
25. David gave . . . for the placesix hundred shekels of goldAt first he bought only the cattleand the threshing instruments, for which he paid fifty shekels ofsilver (2Sa 24:24); afterwardshe purchased the whole property, Mount Moriah, on which the futuretemple stood. High in the center of the mountain platform rises aremarkable rock, now covered by the dome of “the Sakrah.”It is irregular in its form, and measures about sixty feet in onedirection and fifty feet in the other. It is the natural surface ofMount Moriah and is thought by many to be the rock of thethreshing-floor of Araunah, selected by David, and continued bySolomon and Zerubbabel as “the unhewn stone” on which tobuild the altar [BARTLETT, Walks about Jerusalem; STANLEY].
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
See Gill “1Ch 21:1”.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
As to the different statements of the price, cf. on 2Sa 24:24.
Fuente: Keil & Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament
(25) So David gave to Oman for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight.Literally, shekels of golda weight of six hundred. Samuel has, And David purchased the threshingfloor and the oxen for silver, fifty shekels. The two estimates are obviously discordant. We have no means of calculating what would have been a fair price, for we know neither the extent of the purchase nor the value of the sums mentioned. But comparing Gen. 23:16, where four hundred shekels of silver are paid for the field and cave of Machpelah, fifty shekels of silver would seem to be too little. On the other hand, six hundred shekels of gold appears to be far too high a price for the threshingfloor. Perhaps for gold we should read silver. It has, indeed, been suggested that the authors were writing of two different things, and that Samuel assigns only the price of the threshingfloor and oxen; whereas the chronicler, when he speaks of the place, means the entire Mount of the Temple (Moriah), on which the floor was situate. But a comparison of the two narratives seems to identify the things purchasedthe place (1Ch. 21:25) is the place of the threshingfloor (1Ch. 21:22); and in both cases Samuel has the threshingfloor. Tradition may have varied on the subject; and as there is no positive mention of the use of gold money among the Hebrews apart from this passage (Madden), ours is probably the later form of the story. However this may be, the chronicler has doubtless preserved for us what he found in his original. It is interesting to compare with this sale some of those the records of which are preserved in the Babylonian Contract Tablets. One of these relates how Dn-sum-iddin sold a house and grounds in Borsippa for eleven and a-half min of silver, i.e., 690 shekels. This was in the second year of Nabonidus the last king of Babylon.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
David was commanded to go to Ornan, or Araunah, the Jebusite, to rear an altar unto the Lord in his threshingfloor. There had been a terrible plague in Jerusalem, in consequence of Davids great sin in numbering the people; and they were falling in thousands by the sword of the angel of vengeance David went up to the threshingfloor or Ornan on Mount Moriah. Ornan was willing to give it to him, but he determined to buy it. We read in the twenty-fifth verse;
1Ch 21:25-28. So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight. And David built there an altar unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called upon the LORD; and he answered him from heaven by fire upon the altar of burnt offering. And the LORD commanded the angel; and he put up his sword again into the sheath thereof. At that time when David saw that the LORD has answered him in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there.
There was the place for the temple, where the angel sheathed his sword. Christ Jesus, in his great atonement, is the corner-stone of the temple where divine justice sheathes its sword. There let the house of God be built. Every true Church of God is founded on the glorious doctrine of the atoning sacrifice. It was a threshingfloor, too; and God has built his Church on a threshingfloor. Depend upon it, the flail will always be going in every true Church, to fetch out the wheat from the chaff. We must have tribulation if we are in the Church of God. The threshingfloor will always be needed until we are taken up to the heavenly garner above.
1Ch 21:29-30. For the tabernacle of the LORD, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of the burnt offering, were at that season in the high place of Gibeon. But David could not go before it to inquire of God; for he was afraid because of the sword of the angel of the LORD.
(This exposition consisted of readings from 1Ch 21:25-30; 1 Chronicles 22.)
Fuente: Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible
six hundred shekels of gold
A discrepancy has been imagined in the two accounts, 2Sa 24:24,; 1Ch 21:25; 2Sa 24:24 records the price of the threshingfloor (heb. goren); 1Ch 21:25 of the place (Heb. magom, lit. “home,” 1Sa 2:20) same word or area on which afterward the great temple, with its spacious courts was built. 2Ch 3:1.
David gave fifty shekels of sliver for the “goren”; six hundred shekels of gold for the “magom.”
Fuente: Scofield Reference Bible Notes
2Sa 24:24, 2Sa 24:25
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
1Ch 21:25. David gave six hundred shekels of gold, &c. How this is reconciled with 2Sa 24:24, where it is said, David bought the thrashing-floor, &c, for fifty shekels of silver, see note there.
Fuente: Joseph Bensons Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
21:25 So David gave to Ornan for the place {m} six hundred shekels of gold by weight.
(m) Read 2Sa 24:24.