1 Chronicles 21:24

21:24 King David replied to Ornan, “No, I insist on buying it for top price.44 I will not offer to the Lord what belongs to you or offer a burnt sacrifice45 that cost me nothing.46

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44	tn Heb “No, for buying I will buy for full silver.” The infinitive absolute precedes the finite verb for emphasis.
45	tc The parallel text in 2 Sam 24:24 has the plural “burnt sacrifices.”
46	tn Or “without [paying] compensation.”