Teks -- 2 Samuel 24:18 (NET)

David Acquires a Threshing Floor and Constructs an Altar There

24:18 So Gad went to David that day and told him, “Go up and build an altar for the Lord on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.”

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

JFB: 2Sa 24:18 - Araunah

Or Ornan (1Ch 21:18), the Jebusite, one of the ancient inhabitants, who, having become a convert to the true religion, retained his house and possessions. He resided on Mount Moriah, the spot on which the temple was afterwards built (2Ch 3:1); but that mount was not then enclosed in the town.

Clarke: 2Sa 24:18 - Go up, rear an altar unto the Lord

Go up, rear an altar unto the Lord - This place is supposed to be Mount Moriah: on which, according to the rabbins, Cain and Abel offered their sacrifices; where Abraham attempted to sacrifice Isaac, and where the temple of Solomon was afterwards built.

TSK: 2Sa 24:18 - Gad // Araunah

Gad : 2Sa 24:11; 1Ch 21:18-30, threshing floor, These, among the ancient Jews, were only round, level plats of ground in the open air, as they are to this day in the East, where the corn was trodden out by oxen.

Araunah : Heb. Araniah, 2Sa 24:16

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: 2Sa 24:18 - Gad came that day to David // Go up // In the threshing-floor of Araunah the Jebusite

Gad came that day to David by command from God, 2Sa 24:19 1Ch 21:18 .

Go up to Mount Moriah.

In the threshing-floor of Araunah the Jebusite which place God appointed for this work, partly, in gracious condescension to and compliance with David’ s fear of going to Gibeon, which is expressed 1Ch 21:29,30 ; partly, because this was the place where God by his angel appeared in a threatening posture, where therefore it was meet he should be appeased; and partly, because God would hereby signify the translation of the tabernacle from Gibeon hither, and the erection of the temple here, 2Ch 3:1 .

Haydock: 2Sa 24:18 - Altar

Altar. This was done by a positive order. People still had the liberty of sacrificing on the heights of Gabaon. (Calmet) ---

This place was honoured with the tabernacle; and David would have gone thither, if he had not been so much terrified, 1 Paralipomenon xxi. 30. (Haydock)

Gill: 2Sa 24:18 - And Gad came that day to David // and said unto him, go up, rear an altar unto the Lord in the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite

And Gad came that day to David,.... Ordered and directed by the angel of the Lord, 1Ch 21:18,

and said unto him, go up, rear an altar unto the Lord in the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite: it was too far to go to Gibeon, where the tabernacle was, at such a time of extremity, when the sword of the angel was stretched out over Jerusalem, 1Ch 21:29; and this was the most proper place, as it was the very spot over and nearest to which the angel was; and was on Mount Moriah, where the Jews say Abraham offered up Isaac; and where the temple was afterwards built, as Kimchi and Ben Gersom observe; and Eupolemus, an Heathen writer ^g, says, that when David desired to build a temple for God, and that he would show him the place of the altar, an angel appeared to him, standing over the place where the altar at Jerusalem was to be built.