p. 8 | A Question by James White

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 16, 1870

A Question.

By James White

2 Sam. 24:24 reads: “So David bought the threshing floor and oxen for fifty shekels of silver.” 1 Chron. 21:25 reads: “So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight.” Can they be harmonized?

Smith’s Bible Dictionary, on these passages, distinguishes between “the place,” and “the threshing floor and oxen.” It says: “The very words of the two passages show that the authors were writing of different things, and, therefore, there is no reason to suppose that there is any error.”

J. H. W.