2 Samuel 24:16–24

¹⁶And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, ^uthe Lord repented him of the evil, and said to ^wthe angel that ^xdestroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand. And the angel of the Lord was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite. ¹⁷And David spake unto the Lord when he saw the angel that smote the people, and said, Lo, I have sinned, and I ^yhave done wickedly: but these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, be against me, and against my father’s house. ¹⁸And Gad came that day to David, and said unto him, Go up, rear an altar unto the Lord in the threshingfloor of Araunah the Jebusite. ¹⁹And David, according to the saying of Gad, went up as the Lord commanded. ²⁰And Araunah looked, and saw the king and his servants coming on toward him: and Araunah went out, and bowed himself before the king on his face upon the ground. ²¹And Araunah said, Wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant? And David said, ^zTo buy the threshingfloor of thee, to build an altar unto the Lord, that ^athe plague may be stayed from the people. ²²And Araunah said unto David, Let my lord the king take and offer up what ^bseemeth good unto him: behold, here be oxen for burnt sacrifice, and ^cthreshing instruments and other ^dinstruments of the oxen for wood. ²³All these things did Araunah, as a king, give unto the king. And Araunah said unto the king, The Lord thy God ^eaccept thee. ²⁴And the king said unto Araunah, Nay; but I will surely buy it of thee at a price: neither will I offer burnt offerings unto the Lord my God of that which doth cost me nothing. So David bought the threshingfloor and the oxen for ^ffifty shekels of silver.