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ARAUNAH

(Heb. ʾărawnâ) (also ORNAN)

A Jebusite inhabitant of Jerusalem who offered his threshing floor to David as a site for sacrifice in a time of plague against Israel and Jerusalem (2 Sam. 24:16-25; 1 Chr. 21:15-28). In Chronicles he is called Ornan. David insisted on a legal purchase of the threshing floor for 50 shekels of silver (2 Sam. 24:24; cf. 600 shekels of gold, 1 Chr. 21:25). In obedience to Gad the seer, David erected an altar here on which he made offerings, thus bringing an end to a three-day plague imposed by the Lord due to David’s census. The Chronicler identifies the location of the threshing floor as Mt. Moriah and the site of the future temple of Solomon (1 Chr. 22:1; 2 Chr. 3:1).

The name may be related to Hurrian iwirne, “ruler,” and thus represent a title rather than a personal name (cf. the use of the definite article with Araunah, 2 Sam. 24:16, and the association of the title “king,” v. 23 MT).

John D. Fortner

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ARAUNAH

Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)