At God’s command, David buys Ornan’s threshing floor, builds an altar, offers sacrifices, and receives fire from heaven as a sign of acceptance. The LORD then commands the angel to sheath the sword. This location becomes the decisive transition toward the temple site. The parallel purchase account in Samuel gives a different price because it describes the transaction differently; proposed harmonizations should be presented as proposals, not certainties.

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2 Samuel 24:18–25 1 Chronicles 21:18–30

First Chronicles 21 retells the altar episode at Ornan/Araunah’s threshing floor, adds fire from heaven, and explains why David continues sacrificing there. The parallel confirms the same plague-ending site while deepening its theological importance as the place later associated with the temple.

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1 Chronicles 21:18–27 Hebrews 10:1–10

The place where judgment is halted through accepted sacrifice becomes the temple site, joining judgment, sacrifice, and divine dwelling in a trajectory that culminates in Christ’s final sacrifice.

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An Altar on Ornan’s Threshing Floor

2 Samuel 24:18–25 → 1 Chronicles 21:18–30

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2 Samuel 24:18–25 1 Chronicles 21:18–30