Commentary for Zevachim 232:14

איתיביה ר"נ לרב הונא ומתנות במדבר לא הואי והא תניא כשם שמחנה במדבר כך מחנה בירושלים מירושלים להר הבית מחנה ישראל מהר הבית לשער נקנור מחנה לויה

for it is written And Araunah said unto David: 'Let my lord the king take and offer up what seemeth good unto him; behold the oxen for the burnt-offering, and the threshing instruments [morigim] and the furniture of the oxen for the wood'.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ibid. 22. Thus he took utensils that had already been used for a secular purpose, and used them as fuel for the altar. - As the Temple was not built until the reign of Solomon, the altar erected here by David was simply a bamah.');">¹²</span> And Raba? - He can answer you: There too they were new.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' They had never yet been used.');">¹³</span>

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