DAY 125 Read 2 Samuel 23 and 24; 1 Chronicles 21 and 22.
Today's reading: David, in a display of vanity, brings another calamity upon his kingdom; but as a result he acquires the site for the great temple. He begins to assemble material.
Memory gem: "Now set your heart and your soul to seek the Lord your God" (1 Chronicles 22:19).
Thought for today:
We are visiting the place of the temple in Jerusalem. We follow our guide through the massive stone gates into this holy place. Here is a great platform, partly paved with stone, approximately 1,500 feet long and 900 feet wide. It is the top of the ancient Mount Moriah, the place where Abraham offered Isaac.
In the time of David, this hill was the property of the Jebusite name Ornan (or Araunah), who had a threshing floor on its summit. David, through vanity, gave orders for the numbering of the people of Israel, and God punished his vanity by pestilence. One day the king saw in the heavens over this threshing floor the destroying angel with a sword drawn and pointed toward Jerusalem. David repented of his fault, went to Ornan, and purchased the hill. There he erected an altar to God, where he offered sacrifice. He promised to build a temple, but he was not allowed to do this because he was a man of blood.
As we enter the present-day building (the Mosque of Omar of Dome of the Rock), we see the irregular surface of the naked rock itself x feet above the floor. It is in strange contrast to the gorgeous decorations . This was the threshing floor of Ornan (Araunah), the Jebusite.
Under the rock is a grotto which must have served Ornan as a storehouse for his grain.
NOTE: The totals given for David's census differ in 2 Samuel 24:9 and 1 Chronicles 21:5. Various explanations are offered, the most likely having to do with the inclusion or exclusion of the standing army of 288,000 (see 1 Chronicles 27:1-15). Differences in handling round numbers may account for the rest of the variance.
"Seven years" of 2 Samuel 24:13 is called "three years" in 1 Chronicles 21:12. The Septuagint (Greek translation of the Old Testament) has "three years" in both verses.
Today's reading: David, in a display of vanity, brings another calamity upon his kingdom; but as a result he acquires the site for the great temple. He begins to assemble material.
Memory gem: "Now set your heart and your soul to seek the Lord your God" (1 Chronicles 22:19).
Thought for today:
We are visiting the place of the temple in Jerusalem. We follow our guide through the massive stone gates into this holy place. Here is a great platform, partly paved with stone, approximately 1,500 feet long and 900 feet wide. It is the top of the ancient Mount Moriah, the place where Abraham offered Isaac.
In the time of David, this hill was the property of the Jebusite name Ornan (or Araunah), who had a threshing floor on its summit. David, through vanity, gave orders for the numbering of the people of Israel, and God punished his vanity by pestilence. One day the king saw in the heavens over this threshing floor the destroying angel with a sword drawn and pointed toward Jerusalem. David repented of his fault, went to Ornan, and purchased the hill. There he erected an altar to God, where he offered sacrifice. He promised to build a temple, but he was not allowed to do this because he was a man of blood.
As we enter the present-day building (the Mosque of Omar of Dome of the Rock), we see the irregular surface of the naked rock itself x feet above the floor. It is in strange contrast to the gorgeous decorations . This was the threshing floor of Ornan (Araunah), the Jebusite.
Under the rock is a grotto which must have served Ornan as a storehouse for his grain.
NOTE: The totals given for David's census differ in 2 Samuel 24:9 and 1 Chronicles 21:5. Various explanations are offered, the most likely having to do with the inclusion or exclusion of the standing army of 288,000 (see 1 Chronicles 27:1-15). Differences in handling round numbers may account for the rest of the variance.
"Seven years" of 2 Samuel 24:13 is called "three years" in 1 Chronicles 21:12. The Septuagint (Greek translation of the Old Testament) has "three years" in both verses.
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