2 Samuel 24:20

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2 Samuel 24:18–22 · Berean Standard Bible

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.”

19 So David went up at the word of Gad, just as the LORD had commanded.

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

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.”

22 Araunah said to David, “My lord the king may take whatever seems good and offer it up. Here are the oxen for a burnt offering and the threshing sledges and ox yokes for the wood.

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

2 Samuel 9:8

Mephibosheth bowed down and said, “What is your servant, that you should show regard for a dead dog like me?”

Genesis 18:2

And Abraham looked up and saw three men standing nearby. When he saw them, he ran from the entrance of his tent to meet them and bowed low to the ground.

Ruth 2:10

At this, she fell on her face, bowing low to the ground, and said to him, “Why have I found such favor in your eyes that you should take notice of me, even though I am a foreigner?”

1 Chronicles 21:20

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

1 Chronicles 21:21

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