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Araunah

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Araunah (or Ornan)

In the Old Testament, the Jebusite owner of a threshing floor on Mount Moriah that David purchased as the site of an altar to halt a plague. This afterwards became the site of Solomon's Temple.
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According to the author of Kings, a prophet named Gad ordered David while in the midst of a severe plague to "build an alter to the Lord on the threshing-floor of Araunah the Jebusite".
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