¹⁸The angel of the Lord told Gad to command David to go and build an altar to the Lord at Araunah’s threshing place. ¹⁹David obeyed the Lord’s command and went, as Gad had told him to. ²⁰There at the threshing place Araunah and his four sons were threshing wheat, and when they saw the angel, the sons ran and hid. ²¹As soon as Araunah saw King David approaching, he left the threshing place and bowed low, with his face touching the ground. ²²David said to him, “Sell me your threshing place, so that I can build an altar to the Lord, to stop the epidemic. I’ll give you the full price.”

²³“Take it, Your Majesty,” Araunah said, “and do whatever you wish. Here are these oxen to burn as an offering on the altar, and here are the threshing boards to use as fuel, and wheat to give as an offering. I give it all to you.”

²⁴But the king answered, “No, I will pay you the full price. I will not give as an offering to the Lord something that belongs to you, something that costs me nothing.” ²⁵And he paid Araunah 600 gold coins for the threshing place. ²⁶He built an altar to the Lord there and offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings. He prayed, and the Lord answered him by sending fire from heaven to burn the sacrifices on the altar.

²⁷The Lord told the angel to put his sword away, and the angel obeyed. ²⁸David saw by this that the Lord had answered his prayer, so he offered sacrifices on the altar at Araunah’s threshing place.

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