Then David said, “Here shall be the house of the LORD God, as well as the altar of burnt offering for Israel.”
Parallel translations
- WEB Then David said, “This is the house of Yahweh God, and this is the altar of burnt offering for Israel.”
- KJV Then David said, This is the house of the LORD God, and this is the altar of the burnt offering for Israel.
- NKJV Then David said, “This is the house of the Lord God, and this is the altar of burnt offering for Israel.”
- NASB Then David said, “This is the house of the Lord God, and this is the altar of burnt offering for Israel.”
- NLT Then David said, “This will be the location for the Temple of the Lord God and the place of the altar for Israel’s burnt offerings!”
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Quick answer
David declared that this site was the house of the LORD God and the altar of burnt offering for Israel. He identified the temple's future location.
Overview
With prophetic conviction, David named Ornan's threshing floor as the place where God's house and altar would stand. This pivotal declaration links the site of averted judgment with Israel's central place of worship. The temple here would point ahead to Christ, the true meeting place between God and humanity, and to His body as the dwelling of God's presence.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 13
- 2 Chr 3:1Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to his father David. This was the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
- 1 Chr 21:18–28Then the angel of the LORD ordered Gad to tell David to go up and build an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
- Gen 28:17And he was afraid and said, “How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God; this is the gate of heaven!”
- 2 Sam 24:18And that day Gad came to David and said to him, “Go up and build an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.”
- 2 Chr 6:5–6‘Since the day I brought My people out of the land of Egypt, I have not chosen a city from any tribe of Israel in which to build a house so that My Name would be there, nor have I chosen anyone to be ruler over My people Israel.
- 2 Kgs 18:22But if you say to me, ‘We trust in the LORD our God,’ is He not the One whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem: ‘You must worship before this altar in Jerusalem’?
- Deut 12:11then the LORD your God will choose a dwelling for His Name. And there you are to bring everything I command you: your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and special gifts, and all the choice offerings you vow to the LORD.
- Ps 132:13–14For the LORD has chosen Zion; He has desired it for His home:
- Ps 78:60He abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent He had pitched among men.
- Ps 78:67–69He rejected the tent of Joseph and refused the tribe of Ephraim.
- Deut 12:5–7Instead, you must seek the place the LORD your God will choose from among all your tribes to establish as a dwelling for His Name, and there you must go.
- 2 Chr 32:12Did not Hezekiah himself remove His high places and His altars and say to Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You must worship before one altar, and on it you shall burn sacrifices’?
- John 4:20–22Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews say that the place where one must worship is in Jerusalem.”
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