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Ornan

Also called Araunah

Mentioned 1016–1010 BC traditional (Jones)

Agile; also called Ornan 1 Chr. 21:15, a Jebusite who dwelt in Jerusalem before it was taken by the Israelites. The destroying angel, sent to punish David for his vanity in taking a census of the people, was stayed in his work of destruction near a threshing-floor belonging to Araunah which was situated on Mount Moriah.

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897).

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17 verses

Computed from the data. Years are traditional (Jones).

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Places

Places named in the same verses as Ornan, with the number of verses they share; a larger marker means more. Locations follow OpenBible.info, which grades each identification. A dashed ring on the map marks a region, river, or mountain rather than a town.

  1. likely location: Jerusalem3
  2. likely location: Mount Moriah1

Timeline

The strip runs from Creation to AD 100; the shaded part, 1041–985 BC, is drawn below at a larger scale around these mentions, with 3 contemporaries. Years are traditional (Jones), shown as recorded, not as settled fact.

Mentions

17 tagged verses in 3 books. Select a book to read its verses.

  1. 2 Samuel7
  2. 1 Chronicles9
  3. 2 Chronicles1

The name in each translation

TextOccurrences of each name
BSBOrnan 10Araunah 6
KJVOrnan 12Araunah 9
ASVOrnan 12Araunah 9

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Every verse

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2 Samuel7 verses
  1. 24:16

    But when the angel stretched out his hand to destroy Jerusalem, the LORD relented from the calamity and said to the angel who was destroying the people, “Enough! Withdraw your hand now!” At that time the angel of the LORD was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

  2. 24:18

    And 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.”

  3. 24:20

    When Araunah looked out and saw the king and his servants coming toward him, he went out and bowed facedown before the king.

  4. 24:21

    “Why has my lord the king come to his servant?” Araunah said. “To buy your threshing floor,” David replied, “that I may build an altar to the LORD, so that the plague upon the people may be halted.”

  5. 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.

  6. 24:23

    O king, Araunah gives all these to the king.” He also said to the king, “May the LORD your God accept you.”

  7. 24:24

    “No,” replied the king, “I insist on paying a price, for I will not offer to the LORD my God burnt offerings that cost me nothing.” So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.

1 Chronicles9 verses
  1. 21:15

    Then God sent an angel to destroy Jerusalem, but as the angel was doing so, the LORD saw it and relented from the calamity, and He said to the angel who was destroying the people, “Enough! Withdraw your hand now!” At that time the angel of the LORD was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

  2. 21:18

    Then 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.

  3. 21:20

    Now Ornan was threshing wheat when he turned and saw the angel; and his four sons who were with him hid themselves.

  4. 21:21

    David came to Ornan, and when Ornan looked out and saw David, he left the threshing floor and bowed facedown before David.

  5. 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.”

  6. 21:23

    Ornan said to David, “Take it! May my lord the king do whatever seems good to him. Look, I will give the oxen for the burnt offerings, the threshing sledges for the wood, and the wheat for the grain offering—I will give it all.”

  7. 21:24

    “No,” replied King David, “I insist on paying the full price, for I will not take for the LORD what belongs to you, nor will I offer burnt offerings that cost me nothing.”

  8. 21:25

    So David paid Ornan six hundred shekels of gold for the site.

  9. 21:28

    At that time, when David saw that the LORD had answered him at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, he offered sacrifices there.

2 Chronicles1 verse
  1. 3:1

    Then 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.

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

The full entry, public domain, as printed in 1897.

Agile; also called Ornan 1 Chr. 21:15, a Jebusite who dwelt in Jerusalem before it was taken by the Israelites. The destroying angel, sent to punish David for his vanity in taking a census of the people, was stayed in his work of destruction near a threshing-floor belonging to Araunah which was situated on Mount Moriah. Araunah offered it to David as a free gift, together with the oxen and the threshing instruments; but the king insisted on purchasing it at its full price (2 Sam. 24:24; 1 Chr. 21:24, 25), for, according to the law of sacrifices, he could not offer to God what cost him nothing. On the same place Solomon afterwards erected the temple (2 Sam. 24:16; 2 Chr. 3:1).