Araunah
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4 sectionsContents
- Biblical narrative
- Census
- Identity of Araunah
- Notes
thumb|King David purchasing the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite (19th/20th century) thumb|David and Araunah making offerings at the altar (circle of Lambert Jacobsz, 17th century)
Araunah (Hebrew: ʾǍrawnā) was a Jebusite mentioned in the Second Book of Samuel, who owned the threshing floor on Mount Moriah which David purchased and used as the site for assembling an altar to God. The First Book of Chronicles, a later text, renders his name as Ornan ( ʾOrnān).
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