2 Samuel 24:23

All these things, &c. Render, The whole doth Araunah, O king, give unto the king. The words are a continuation of Araunah's speech in 2 Samuel 24:22. Cp. 1 Chronicles 21:23. Although the rendering, "the whole did king Araunah give unto the king," is grammatically possible, it is inconceivable that so important a fact as that Araunah was the former king of Jebus should be only mentioned in so incidental a way, and the striking picture drawn by Dean Stanley (Lect.II. 111) of the meeting of the two princes "the fallen king of the ancient fortress, the new king of the restored capital, each moved alike by the misfortune of a city which in different senses belonged to each" must be given up as destitute of historical foundation. But the word O kingis not found in the Sept. or Vulg., and should probably be omitted. In this case the words will be the narrator's summary of Araunah's offer: "the whole did Araunah give unto the king:" give, as in the strikingly similar offer of Ephron to Abraham, meaning offer. See Genesis 23:11.

accept thee The same word is used of God's acceptance of prayer and sacrifice in Job 33:26 (E. V. be favourable); Ezekiel 20:40-41; Ezekiel 43:27, &c.