So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Six hundred sicles This was the price of the whole place on which the temple was afterwards built: but the price of the oxen was fifty sicles of silver, 2 Kings xxiv. 24. (Challoner)
Or the fifty sicles were given for the threshing-floor alone. (Calmet) (Du Hamel)
Six hundred sicles: This was the price of the whole place, on which the temple was afterwards built; but the price of the oxen was fifty sicles of silver. 2 Kings 24:24.