SEV Biblia, Chapter 24:21
Y Arauna dijo: ¿Por qué viene mi señor el rey a su siervo? Y David respondió: Para comprar de ti esta era, para edificar en ella altar al SEÑOR, a fin de que la mortandad cese del pueblo.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 21. And Araunah said, wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant ? etc.] Which both implies admiration in him, that so great a person should visit him in his threshingfloor; that a king should come to a subject his servant, who should rather have come to him, and would upon the least intimation; it was a piece of condescension he marvelled at; and it expresses a desire to know his pleasure with him, supposing it must be something very urgent and important, that the king should come himself upon it: and to this David made answer, and David said , what he was come for: to buy the threshingfloor of thee, to build an altar to the Lord, that the plague may be stayed from the people ; for though David had acknowledged his sin, and God had repented of the evil he inflicted for it, and given orders for stopping it; yet he would have an altar built, and sacrifices offered, to show that the only way to have peace, and pardon, and safety from ruin and destruction, deserved by sin, is through the expiatory sacrifice of Christ, of which fill sacrifices were typical, and were designed to lead the faith of the Lord’s people to that.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 18-25 - God's encouraging us to offer to him spiritual sacrifices, is a evidence of his reconciling us to himself. David purchased the groun to build the altar. God hates robbery for burnt-offering. Those know not what religion is, who chiefly care to make it cheap and easy to themselves, and who are best pleased with that which costs them leas pains or money. For what have we our substance, but to honour God with it; and how can it be better bestowed? See the building of the altar and the offering proper sacrifices upon it. Burnt-offerings to the glory of God's justice; peace-offerings to the glory of his mercy Christ is our Altar, our Sacrifice; in him alone we may expect to escape his wrath, and to find favour with God. Death is destroying all around, in so many forms, and so suddenly, that it is madness not to expect and prepare for the close of life __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
ויאמר 559 ארונה 728 מדוע 4069 בא 935 אדני 113 המלך 4428 אל 413 עבדו 5650 ויאמר 559 דוד 1732 לקנות 7069 מעמך 5973 את 853 הגרן 1637 לבנות 1129 מזבח 4196 ליהוה 3068 ותעצר 6113 המגפה 4046 מעל 5921 העם׃ 5971
