1 Chronicles 21:23

Take it to thee. — Comp. Genesis 23:11.

Let my lord the king do. — Samuel, “offer.” In the Hebrew only one letter is different; and the word “do” may have the meaning “offer,” as in Greek (Comp. Exodus 29:38.)

I give thee. — Not in Samuel; an exegetical addition.

For burnt offerings. — For the burnt offerings. Samuel has the singular.

The threshing instruments, or drags. 1 Chronicles 20:3 a different word. See Isaiah 41:15 and 2 Samuel 24:22, the only other places where this word (môraq) occurs. Samuel adds, “And the instruments (yokes) of the oxen.”

For wood. — For the wood (Genesis 22:7).

And the wheat for the meat offering. — Not in Samuel, but probably part of the oldest text of this narrative.

I give it all. — The whole I have given. Samuel (Heb.), “The whole hath Araunah given, O king to the king.” The rest of 2 Samuel 24:23 is here omitted; “And Araunah said unto the king, The Lord thy God accept thee.”