Did David buy the the threshing floor for 50 shekels of silver or 600 shekels of gold?
There seems to be a clear contradiction between two chapters of the Old Testament. In 2 Samuel chapter 24, it says that King David paid Araunah 50 shekels of silver for his land, while in 1 Chronicles chapter 24, King David gave Araunah 600 shekels of gold. These are two very different amounts of money! The sequence of events presented in 2 Samuel 24…