1 Chronicles
21:24-22:4 – But King David said to
Ornan, “No, but I will buy them for the full price. I will not take for the Lord what is yours, nor offer burnt offerings
that cost me nothing.” So David paid Ornan 600 shekels of gold by weight for the site. And David built there an
altar to the Lord and presented burnt offerings and peace
offerings and called on the Lord, and the Lord answered him with fire from heaven upon
the altar of burnt offering. Then the Lord commanded the angel, and he put his sword
back into its sheath. At that time, when David saw that the Lord had answered him at the threshing floor of
Ornan the Jebusite, he sacrificed there. For the tabernacle of the Lord, which Moses had made in the wilderness,
and the altar of burnt offering were at that time in the high place at Gibeon, but David could not go
before it to inquire of God, for he was afraid of the sword of the angel of the Lord. Then David said, “Here shall be the house of the Lord God and here the altar of burnt offering
for Israel.” David commanded to gather together the resident aliens who were in the land of
Israel, and he set stonecutters to prepare dressed stones for building the
house of God. David also provided great quantities of iron for nails for the
doors of the gates and for clamps, as well as bronze in quantities beyond
weighing, and cedar timbers without number, for the Sidonians and Tyrians brought
great quantities of cedar to David.
Jeremiah
7:5-7 – “For if you
truly amend your ways and your deeds, if you truly execute justice one with
another, if you do not oppress the
sojourner, the fatherless, or the widow, or shed innocent blood in
this place, and if you do not go after other gods to
your own harm, then I will let you dwell in this place, in the land that I gave
of old to your fathers forever.
Zechariah
7:9-10 – “Thus says
the Lord of hosts, Render true judgments,
show kindness and mercy to one another, do not oppress
the widow, the fatherless, the sojourner, or the poor, and let none of you devise
evil against another in your heart.”
Application:
- · Though they were personally free, aliens were without political rights and could be easily exploited. The Old Testament frequently warns that they were not to be oppressed.
- · The ideal king was expected to protect the oppressed and needy members of society.
All Scripture verses taken from ESV
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