Araunah

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Agile; also called Ornan 1Ch_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 (2Sa_24:24; 1Ch_21:24, 1Ch_21:25), 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 (2Sa_24:16; 2Ch_3:1). (See Altar)

a-rô´na (ארונה, 'ărawnāh, 2Sa_24:16, 2Sa_24:20; ארניה, 'ăranyāh 2Sa_24:18, and ארנן, 'ornān, 1Ch_21:15; 2Ch_3:1, all from a Hebrew root meaning “to be strong”):

A Jebusite from whom David at the request of the prophet Gad bought a threshing-floor located upon Mt. Moriah, as a site for an altar of the Lord at the time of the great plague (2Sa_24:15; 1Ch_21:15), upon which Solomon later erected the temple (2Ch_3:1).