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Araunah
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Araunah (a-rau'nah), ark? a large ash or pine. A Jebusite, it has been supposed of royal race, from whom David purchased a threshing-floor as a site for an altar to the Lord. 2 Samuel 24:18-25. In 1 Chronicles 21:18-28, and 2 Chronicles 3:1, the name is Oman. There is an apparent discrepancy in the two accounts in respect to the price paid by David. According to the author of Samuel it was 50 shekels of silver; whereas in Chronicles we and the sum stated to be 600 shekels of gold. But we may suppose the floor, oxen, and instruments purchased for the 50 shekels; the larger area, in which the temple was subsequently built, for 600. Or, the first-named sum was the price of the oxen, the last of the ground.
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Rice, Edwin Wilbur, DD. Entry for 'Araunah'. People's Dictionary of the Bible. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/rpd/a/araunah.html. 1893.
Rice, Edwin Wilbur, DD. Entry for 'Araunah'. People's Dictionary of the Bible. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/rpd/a/araunah.html. 1893.
