◄ 1 Chronicles 21:21 ►
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Good News Translation
As soon as Araunah saw King David approaching, he left the threshing place and bowed low, with his face touching the ground.

New Revised Standard Version
As David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David; he went out from the threshing floor, and did obeisance to David with his face to the ground.

Contemporary English Version
Just then, David arrived, and when Araunah saw him, he stopped his work and bowed down.

New American Bible
But as David came toward Ornan, he looked up and saw that it was David, and left the threshing floor and bowed down before David, his face to the ground.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And as David was coming to Ornan, Ornan saw him, and went out of the thrashingfloor to meet him, and bowed down to him with his face to the ground.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And as David was coming to Ornan, Ornan saw him, and went out of the thrashingfloor to meet him, and bowed down to him with his face to the ground.

bowed himself

1 Samuel 25:23 And when Abigail saw David, she made haste and lighted off the ass, and fell before David, on her face, and adored upon the ground.

2 Samuel 24:18-20 And Gad came to David that day, and said: Go up, and build an altar to the Lord in the thrashingfloor of Areuna the Jebusite. . . .

Context
David Builds an Altar
…20Now when Ornan looked up, and saw the angel, he and his four sons hid themselves: for at that time he was thrashing wheat in the floor. 21And as David was coming to Ornan, Ornan saw him, and went out of the thrashingfloor to meet him, and bowed down to him with his face to the ground.22And David said to him: Give me this place of thy thrashingfloor, that I may build therein an altar to the Lord: but thou shalt take of me as much money as it is worth, that the plague may cease from the people.…
Cross References
Genesis 50:10
And they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is situated beyond the Jordan: where celebrating the exequies with a great and vehement lamentation, they spent full seven days.

1 Chronicles 21:20
Now when Ornan looked up, and saw the angel, he and his four sons hid themselves: for at that time he was thrashing wheat in the floor.

1 Chronicles 21:22
And David said to him: Give me this place of thy thrashingfloor, that I may build therein an altar to the Lord: but thou shalt take of me as much money as it is worth, that the plague may cease from the people.

1 Chronicles 21:20
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