1 Tawarikh 21:18-22

21:18 So the Lord’s messenger told Gad to instruct David to go up and build ¹  an altar for the Lord on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. 21:19 So David went up as Gad instructed him to do in the name of the Lord. ²  21:20 While Ornan was threshing wheat, he turned and saw the messenger, and he and his four sons hid themselves. 21:21 When David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David; he came out from the threshing floor and bowed to David with his face ³  to the ground. 21:22 David said to Ornan, “Sell me the threshing floor ⁴  so I can build ⁵  on it an altar for the Lord – I’ll pay top price ⁶  – so that the plague may be removed ⁷  from the people.”

[21:18]  ¹ tn Heb “that he should go up to raise up.”

[21:19]  ² tn Heb “and David went up by the word of Gad which he spoke in the name of the Lord.”

[21:21]  ³ tn Heb “nostrils.”

[21:22]  ⁴ tn Heb “the place of the threshing floor.”

[21:22]  ⁵ tn Following the imperative, the prefixed verbal form with vav (ו) conjunctive here indicates the immediate purpose/result: “so I can build.”

[21:22]  ⁶ tn Heb “For full silver sell to me.”

[21:22]  ⁷ tn Following the imperative and first person prefixed verbal form with vav (ו) conjunctive, this third person prefixed verbal form with vav conjunctive introduces the ultimate purpose/result: “so the plague may be removed.” Another option is subordinate this form to the preceding imperative, but the latter may be taken as a parenthetical expansion of the initial request.