1 Chronicles 21:20
New International Version
While Araunah was threshing wheat, he turned and saw the angel; his four sons who were with him hid themselves.

New Living Translation
Araunah, who was busy threshing wheat at the time, turned and saw the angel there. His four sons, who were with him, ran away and hid.

English Standard Version
Now Ornan was threshing wheat. He turned and saw the angel, and his four sons who were with him hid themselves.

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

King James Bible
And Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.

New King James Version
Now Ornan turned and saw the angel; and his four sons who were with him hid themselves, but Ornan continued threshing wheat.

New American Standard Bible
Now Ornan turned back and saw the angel, and his four sons who were with him hid themselves. And Ornan was threshing wheat.

NASB 1995
Now Ornan turned back and saw the angel, and his four sons who were with him hid themselves. And Ornan was threshing wheat.

NASB 1977
Now Ornan turned back and saw the angel, and his four sons who were with him hid themselves. And Ornan was threshing wheat.

Legacy Standard Bible
Now Ornan turned back and saw the angel, and his four sons who were with him hid themselves. And Ornan was threshing wheat.

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

Christian Standard Bible
Ornan was threshing wheat when he turned and saw the angel. His four sons, who were with him, hid.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Ornan was threshing wheat when he turned and saw the angel. His four sons, who were with him, hid themselves.

American Standard Version
And Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons that were with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And David saw the Angel who was destroying among the people, that he had restrained his hand and did not destroy any more.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And Orna turned and saw the king; and he hid himself and his four sons with him. Now Orna was threshing wheat.

Contemporary English Version
Araunah and his four sons were threshing wheat at the time, and when they saw the angel, the four sons ran to hide.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

English Revised Version
And Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons that were with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Now, Ornan had turned around and seen the Messenger. Ornan's four sons who were with him hid, but Ornan kept on threshing the wheat.

Good News Translation
There at the threshing place Araunah and his four sons were threshing wheat, and when they saw the angel, the sons ran and hid.

International Standard Version
Ornan turned around and saw the angel. While his four sons with him ran away to hide, Ornan continued to thresh wheat.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons that were with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.

Literal Standard Version
And Ornan turns back and sees the messenger, and his four sons [are] with him hiding themselves, and Ornan is threshing wheat.

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

New American Bible
Ornan turned around and saw the king; his four sons who were with him hid themselves, but Ornan kept on threshing wheat.

NET Bible
While Ornan was threshing wheat, he turned and saw the messenger, and he and his four sons hid themselves.

New Revised Standard Version
Ornan turned and saw the angel; and while his four sons who were with him hid themselves, Ornan continued to thresh wheat.

New Heart English Bible
Ornan turned back, and saw the king, and his four sons who were with him hiding themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.

Webster's Bible Translation
And Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.

World English Bible
Ornan turned back and saw the angel; and his four sons who were with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.

Young's Literal Translation
And Ornan turneth back, and seeth the messenger, and his four sons are with him, hiding themselves, and Ornan is threshing wheat.

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Context
David Builds an Altar
19So David went up at the word that Gad had spoken in the name of the LORD. 20Now Ornan was threshing wheat when he turned and saw the angel; and his four sons who were with him hid themselves. 21David came to Ornan, and when Ornan looked out and saw David, he left the threshing floor and bowed facedown before David.…

Cross References
1 Chronicles 21:19
So David went up at the word that Gad had spoken in the name of the LORD.

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.


Treasury of Scripture

And Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.

Judges 6:11
And there came an angel of the LORD, and sat under an oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the Abiezrite: and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites.

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1 Chronicles 21
1. David, tempted by Satan, forces Joab to number the people
5. The number of the people being brought, David repents of it
9. David having three plagues proposed by God, chooses the pestilence
14. After the death of 70,000, David by repentance prevents the destruction of Jerusalem
18. David, by Gad's direction, purchases Ornan's threshing floor;
26. where having built an altar, God gives a sign of his favor by fire.
28. David sacrifices there, being restrained from Gibeon by fear of the angel














(20) And Ornan turned back (returned), and saw the angel; and his four sons with him hid themselves (were hiding). There can be little doubt that this is corrupt, and that the text of Samuel is right, "And Araunah looked up, and saw the king and his servants passing by him." The LXX. here has "Ornan turned, and saw the king;" the Vulg., "when Ornan had looked up" The Hebrew words for "returned" and "looked up," "angel" and "king," are similar enough to be easily confused in an ill-written or failed MS.

Now Ornan was threshing wheat.--This clause does not harmonise with the preceding statement, but its genuineness is made probable by the fact that Ornan was in his threshingfloor at the time. Moreover, the LXX. adds to 2Samuel 24:15, "And David chose for himself the death; and it was the days of wheat harvest."

Verse 20. - This verse is not found in the parallel place. The Septuagint reading of "king" in this verse, in place of "angel," is no doubt an error. The drift of this and the following verse is plain and continuous. Ornan and his sons had hidden themselves on the apparition of the angel, but came out on the advent of David, to welcome him.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Now Ornan
אָרְנָ֗ן (’ā·rə·nān)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 771: Ornan -- a Jebusite

was threshing
דָּ֥שׁ (dāš)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1758: To trample, thresh

wheat
חִטִּֽים׃ (ḥiṭ·ṭîm)
Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 2406: Wheat

when he
וְאָרְנָ֖ן (wə·’ā·rə·nān)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 771: Ornan -- a Jebusite

turned
וַיָּ֣שָׁב (way·yā·šāḇ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 7725: To turn back, in, to retreat, again

and saw
וַיַּרְא֙ (way·yar)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 7200: To see

the angel;
הַמַּלְאָ֔ךְ (ham·mal·’āḵ)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4397: A messenger, of God, an angel

and his four
וְאַרְבַּ֧עַת (wə·’ar·ba·‘aṯ)
Conjunctive waw | Number - masculine singular construct
Strong's 702: Four

sons
בָּנָ֛יו (bā·nāw)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 1121: A son

who were with him
עִמּ֖וֹ (‘im·mōw)
Preposition | third person masculine singular
Strong's 5973: With, equally with

hid themselves.
מִֽתְחַבְּאִ֑ים (miṯ·ḥab·bə·’îm)
Verb - Hitpael - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's 2244: To withdraw, hide


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