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!”
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.
- 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.”
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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.
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Cross-references · 13
- 2 Chr 3:1Then Solomon began to build Yahweh’s house at Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where Yahweh appeared to David his father, which he prepared in the place that David had appointed, on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
- 1 Chr 21:18–28Then Yahweh’s angel commanded Gad to tell David that David should go up and raise an altar to Yahweh on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
- Gen 28:17He was afraid, and said, “How dreadful is this place! This is none other than God’s house, and this is the gate of heaven.”
- 2 Sam 24:18Gad came that day to David, and said to him, “Go up, build an altar to Yahweh on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.”
- 2 Chr 6:5–6‘Since the day that I brought my people out of the land of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a house in, that my name might be there and I chose no man to be prince over my people Israel;
- 2 Kgs 18:22But if you tell me, ‘We trust in Yahweh our God;’ isn’t that he whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, ‘You shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?’
- Deut 12:11then it shall happen that to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there, there you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the wave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which you vow to Yahweh.
- Ps 132:13–14For Yahweh has chosen Zion. He has desired it for his habitation.
- Ps 78:60So that he abandoned the tent of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men;
- Ps 78:67–69Moreover he rejected the tent of Joseph, and didn’t choose the tribe of Ephraim,
- Deut 12:5–7But to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, you shall seek his habitation, and there you shall come.
- 2 Chr 32:12Hasn’t the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, ‘You shall worship before one altar, and you shall burn incense on it?’
- John 4:20–22Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship.”
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