Footnote 2 – Was the Site of the Jerusalem Temple Originally a Cemetery?

The Bible contains two parallel accounts of this episode. The other is contained in 1 Chronicles 21:18–26. In Chronicles. Araunah is called Ornan. And the price of the site has inflated in the retelling: In 2 Samuel, we are told that the price was 50 shekels of silver. In 1 Chronicles, it is 600 shekels of gold.