OLD TESTAMENT

2 Samuel 24:22

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Araunah said to David, “Let my lord the king take and offer up what seems good to him. Behold, the cattle for the burnt offering, and the threshing sledges and the yokes of the oxen for the wood.

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Verse 22. Wain. So Josephus reads. Septuagint “wheels.” Hebrew “rollers,” to beat out the corn. Calmet.—Prot. “threshing instruments, and other instruments of the oxen for wood.” Paral. adds, that Areuna offered wheat, and saw the angel, as his four sons, and probably most of the inhabitants of Jerusalem did.

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