Discovery Box1 Chronicles 21:23-26 
Context21:23 Ornan told David, “You can have it! 1 My master, the king, may do what he wants. 2 Look, I am giving you the oxen for burnt sacrifices, the threshing sledges for wood, and the wheat for an offering. I give it all to you.” 21:24 King David replied to Ornan, “No, I insist on buying it for top price. 3 I will not offer to the Lord what belongs to you or offer a burnt sacrifice 4 that cost me nothing. 5 21:25 So David bought the place from Ornan for 600 pieces of gold. 6 21:26 David built there an altar to the Lord and offered burnt sacrifices and peace offerings. 7 He called out to the Lord, and the Lord 8 responded by sending fire from the sky and consuming the burnt sacrifice on the altar.
1 tn Heb “take for yourself.”
2 tn Heb “what is good in his eyes.”
3 tn Heb “No, for buying I will buy for full silver.” The infinitive absolute precedes the finite verb for emphasis.
4 tc The parallel text in 2 Sam 24:24 has the plural “burnt sacrifices.”
5 tn Or “without [paying] compensation.”
6 tc The parallel text of 2 Sam 24:24 says David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for “fifty pieces of silver.” This would have been about 20 ounces (568 grams) of silver by weight.
tn Heb “six hundred shekels of gold.” This would have been about 15 lbs. (6.8 kg) of gold by weight.
7 tn Or “tokens of peace.”
8 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the
