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2 Samuel 24:22
Araunah said to David, “May my lord the king take whatever seems good to him and offer it up. Here are the oxen for a burnt offering and the threshing sledges and ox yokes for the wood.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Araunah addresses King David at the threshing floor, responding to David’s stated purpose of purchasing the land and equipment to halt the plague. The words — The text highlights יִקַּח (yi.Kach, “let him take”) and וְ/יַ֛עַל (ve./Ya.'al, “and let him offer up”), framing Araunah’s response as a voluntary surrender of the oxen, sledges, and yokes for the sacrifice. The thread — This motif of surrendering agricultural equipment for sacred use echoes Elisha slaughtering his oxen and burning their yokes (1 Kings 19:21) and the Israelites chopping up the Philistine cart (1 Samuel 6:14). Why it lands — The passage records an unconditional offer of livelihood tools, which asks the reader to recognize that worship requires surrendering what one would normally use for survival.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And Araunah said unto David, Let my lord the king take and offer up what seemeth good unto him: behold, here be oxen for burnt sacrifice, and threshing instruments and other instruments of the oxen for wood.
Cross-references
- 1 Kings 19:21 So Elisha turned back from him, took his pair of oxen, and slaughtered them. Using the oxen’s equipment for fuel, he cooked the meat and gave it to the people, and they ate. Then he set out to follow and serve Elijah.
- 1 Samuel 6:14 The cart came to the field of Joshua of Beth-shemesh and stopped there near a large rock. The people chopped up the cart and offered the cows as a burnt offering to the LORD.
- Genesis 23:11 “No, my lord. Listen to me. I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it. I give it to you in the presence of my people. Bury your dead.”
- 1 Chronicles 21:22 Then David said to Ornan, “Grant me the site of this threshing floor, that I may build an altar to the LORD. Sell it to me for the full price, so that the plague upon the people may be halted.”