World English Bible
1 Chronicles 21:20
“Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons who were with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.”
Verse in context — 1 Chronicles 21
Then the angel of Yahweh commanded Gad to tell David that David should go up, and raise an altar to Yahweh in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spoke in the name of Yahweh.
Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons who were with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.
As David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out of the threshing floor, and bowed himself to David with his face to the ground.
Then David said to Ornan, "Give me the place of this threshing floor, that I may build thereon an altar to Yahweh. You shall sell it to me for the full price, that the plague may be stopped from afflicting the people.
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Genealogies and David’s reign, emphasizing temple worship.
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