Araunah
(ark), a Jebusite who sold his threshing floor on Mount Moriah to David as a site for an altar to Jehovah, together with his oxen. (2 Samuel 24:18-24; 1 Chronicles 21:25)
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia on Araunah
Araunah a-ro'-na ('arawnah, 2Sa 24:16,20 ff; 'aranyah 2Sa 24:18, and 'ornan, 1Ch 21:15 ff; 2Ch 3:1, all from a Hebrew root meaning "to be strong"): A Jebusite from whom David at the request of the prophet Gad bought a threshing-floor located upon Mt. Moriah, as a site for an altar of the Lord at the time of the great plague (2Sa 24:15 ff; 1Ch 21:15 ff), upon which Solomon later erected the temple (2Ch 3:1). ⇒See a list of verses on ARAUNAH in the Bible. ⇒See also the McClintock and Strong Biblical Cyclopedia.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible on Araunah
A Jebusite who owned a threshing- floor on Mount Moriah. When David numbered the people, and the pestilence was sent as a punish- ment for his sin, this spot was indicated by the prophet Gad as the place where an altar should be erected to J", because the plague had been stayed. David went to A. and bought the threshing-Uoor and oxen for 50 shekels of silver. The price paid is given in 1 Ch 21" as 600 shekels or gold — a discrepancy which we have no means of explain- ing. R. M. Boyd. ARBA (yrjx) is described as ' the great man among the Anakim ' (Jos 14"), ' the father of the Anak' (15"), 'the father of the Anok' (21"). This may mean that he was regarded as the progenitor of the Anakim, and it certainly implies that he was regarded as the great man in their traditional history. Presumably he was regarded as the founder of the city that bore his naD'v*, and as having founded it seven years before the Egyp. Zoan (Jos 15", Gn 23' 35", Nu 13'»). See Anakim, Giant. Arbah, or Arba, City of. This phrase occurs in AV in Gn 35", Jos 15" 21". It is simply a tr. of the n;ime which elsewhere app…
Fausset's Bible Dictionary on Araunah
ARAUNAH or OMAN. A Jebusite, at whose threshing floor the plague sent for numbering the people was, at David's intercession, stayed. Be offered the area as a site for Jehovah's altar, and only by constraint accepted David's pay (50 shekels of silver, 2Sa 24:18-24; 600 shekels of gold, 1Ch 21:25. As 50 silver shekels is far too low a price for the whole land, if there be no transcriber's error here, which is possible, probably the 50 silver shekels were paid for the small floor, the oxen, and wood of the yokes only; the 600 gold shekels for the whole hill on which David afterward built the temple). Contrast his kingly spirit, "Behold, here be oxen for burnt sacrifice and threshing instruments for wood," with the groveling excuse of the man invited to the king's banquet (Luk 14:19). But compare Elisha's similar spirit when called of: God's prophet (1Ki 19:21). Self sacrifice raises one from degradation low as that of the accursed Jebusites to be in Israel a "king and a priest unto God" (compare 2Sa 24:23 with Exo 19:6; 1Pe 2:5; 1Pe 2:9; Rev 1:6; Rev 5:10; Rev 20:6). "These things did A…
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