Ornan

All 9 verses in 1 Chronicles, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.

1 Chronicles

• 1 Chronicles 21:15

  Then God sent an angel to destroy Jerusalem, but as the angel was doing so, the LORD saw it and relented from the calamity, and He said to the angel who was destroying the people, “Enough! Withdraw your hand now!” At that time the angel of the LORD was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

• 1 Chronicles 21:18

  Then the angel of the LORD ordered Gad to tell David to go up and build an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

• 1 Chronicles 21:20

  Now Ornan was threshing wheat when he turned and saw the angel; and his four sons who were with him hid themselves.

• 1 Chronicles 21:21

  David came to Ornan, and when Ornan looked out and saw David, he left the threshing floor and bowed facedown before David.

• 1 Chronicles 21:22

  Then David said to Ornan, “Grant me the site of this threshing floor, that I may build an altar to the LORD. Sell it to me for the full price, so that the plague upon the people may be halted.”

• 1 Chronicles 21:23

  Ornan said to David, “My lord the king may take whatever seems good. Look, I will give the oxen for the burnt offerings, the threshing sledges for the wood, and the wheat for the grain offering—I will give it all.”

• 1 Chronicles 21:24

  “No,” replied King David, “I insist on paying the full price, for I will not take for the LORD what belongs to you, nor will I offer burnt offerings that cost me nothing.”

• 1 Chronicles 21:25

  So David paid Ornan six hundred shekels of gold for the site.

• 1 Chronicles 21:28

  At that time, when David saw that the LORD had answered him at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, he offered sacrifices there.

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), as attached to this record by Theographic. The entry is for the name and can describe more than one person who bore it. Easton wrote in 1897, and some of his views are now debated.