2 Samuel 24:23

23. All these things did Araunah, as a king, give unto the king Literally, the whole gave Araunah, the king, to the king. Keil proposes to take the king as a vocative, and regard the sentence as a continuation, from 2 Samuel 24:22, of Araunah’s words All this giveth Araunah, O king, to the king. But this makes the next words, and Araunah said, etc., superfluous.

It is better to suppose that Araunah had formerly been a king or sheik of the Jebusites, and was still occasionally spoken of as such. The supposition is favoured by the statement of Josephus that he was a very wealthy man, and it is no contradiction, as Keil affirms, to the fact that David bought all these things to say also that Araunah gave them, for he plainly did give them, but the king afterwards refused to accept them without price.