2 Sam. xxiv. 16, 18. גרן .הארונהARAUNAH, his Threshing-floor, or as it is called in Chronicles, the Threshing-floor of Ornan, was situated upon mount Sion, where the Temple of Jerusalem afterwards 1 Chron. xxi. 18. & seq. 2 Chron. iii. 1. גרן .ארנן Area Ornan.was built. This Threshing-floor belonged to Araunah or Ornan the Jebusite. David having seen the Angel of the Lord there preparing to afflict the City of Jerusalem with the Plague, and having understood likewise that this was the place, whereon the Lord had directed to have his worship established, bought the floor at the price of fifty shekels of silver, or six hundred shekels of gold, as the Chronicles import; and there offered to the Lord a burnt Sacrifice of the oxen which he had bought of Ornan, and consumed it on a fire made out of the wood belonging to the waggons, and the yokes.
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