Then David said, This is the house of the LORD God, and this is the altar of the 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.”
- BSB Then David said, “Here shall be the house of the LORD God, as well as the altar of 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 at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where the Lord appeared unto David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
- 1 Chr 21:18–28Then the angel of the LORD commanded Gad to say to David, that David should go up, and set up an altar unto the LORD in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
- Gen 28:17And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this place! this is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.
- 2 Sam 24:18And Gad came that day to David, and said unto him, Go up, rear an altar unto the LORD in the threshingfloor of Araunah the Jebusite.
- 2 Chr 6:5–6Since the day that I brought forth my people out of the land of Egypt I chose no city among all the tribes of Israel to build an house in, that my name might be there; neither chose I any man to be a ruler over my people Israel:
- 2 Kgs 18:22But if ye say unto me, We trust in the LORD our God: is not that he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and hath said to Judah and Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?
- Deut 12:11Then there shall be a place which the LORD your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there; thither shall ye bring all that I command you; your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which ye vow unto the LORD:
- Ps 132:13–14For the LORD hath chosen Zion; he hath desired it for his habitation.
- Ps 78:60So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men;
- Ps 78:67–69Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:
- Deut 12:5–7But unto the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come:
- 2 Chr 32:12Hath not the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall worship before one altar, and burn incense upon it?
- John 4:20–22Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.
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