So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight.
The verse records David securing the long-consecrated spot on which the temple was built, on the heights of Mount Moriah where Abraham had offered Isaac. The threshing floor of Ornan was bought for six hundred shekels of gold by weight. David paid the full price for the threshing floor where he would build an altar rather than accept it as a free gift, for he would not offer God a sacrifice that cost him nothing.
There David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings to stay the avenging sword, and God answered him by fire from heaven. The altar and sacrifice at Ornan's threshing floor turned aside the destroying angel's sword. The sacrifice there was a symbol of the Saviour's sacrifice and mediation for guilty people. God thus marked it as the place where worshipers of Jehovah meet God and renew their vows of allegiance to Him.
The verse records David securing the long-consecrated spot on which the temple was built, on the heights of Mount Moriah where Abraham had offered Isaac. The threshing floor of Ornan was bought for six hundred shekels of gold by weight. David paid the full price for the threshing floor where he would build an altar rather than accept it as a free gift, for he would not offer God a sacrifice that cost him nothing.
There David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings to stay the avenging sword, and God answered him by fire from heaven. The altar and sacrifice at Ornan's threshing floor turned aside the destroying angel's sword. The sacrifice there was a symbol of the Saviour's sacrifice and mediation for guilty people. God thus marked it as the place where worshipers of Jehovah meet God and renew their vows of allegiance to Him.