2 Samuel 24:21 Explained in Context

Read It With

• 2 Samuel 24:18–25

Read 2 Samuel 24:21 with 24:18–25. The wording “And Araunah said, Wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant? And David said, To buy…” supplies one step in the thought unit through its next reported action, speech, or consequence; the surrounding verses supply the causes, responses, and outcome summarized here: Gad directs an altar, Araunah offers site and animals, David insists on paying, sacrifices, and the narrative says the plague is stayed.

Why This Verse Appears Here

Within “David Purchases the Threshing Floor and Builds an Altar,” 2 Samuel 24:21 advances the thought unit through its next reported action, speech, or consequence through the wording “And Araunah said, Wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant? And David said, To buy….” Its placement is governed by this reviewed relationship: 2 Samuel 24:15–17 establishes this prior movement: The pestilence kills seventy thousand, the angel reaches Jerusalem, the LORD relents, and David asks that judgment fall on him and his house rather than the people he calls sheep. 2 Samuel 24:18–25 continues the narrative consequence; that demonstrated relationship, rather than sequence alone, explains its placement.