¹⁸Then the angel of the Lord told Gad to tell David that he should build an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite. ¹⁹So David did what Gad told him to do, in the name of the Lord.

²⁰Araunah was separating the wheat from the straw. When he turned around, he saw the angel. Araunah’s four sons who were with him hid. ²¹David came to Araunah, and when Araunah saw him, he left the threshing floor and bowed facedown on the ground before David.

²²David said to him, “Sell me your threshing floor so I can build an altar to the Lord here. Then the terrible disease will stop. Sell it to me for the full price.”

²³Araunah said to David, “Take this threshing floor. My master the king, do anything you want. Look, I will also give you oxen for the whole burnt offerings, the threshing boards for the wood, and wheat for the grain offering. I give everything to you.”

²⁴But King David answered Araunah, “No, I will pay the full price for the land. I won’t take anything that is yours and give it to the Lord. I won’t offer a burnt offering that costs me nothing.”

²⁵So David paid Araunah about fifteen pounds of gold for the place. ²⁶David built an altar to the Lord there and offered whole burnt offerings and fellowship offerings. David prayed to the Lord, and he answered him by sending down fire from heaven on the altar of burnt offering. ²⁷Then the Lord commanded the angel to put his sword back into its holder.

²⁸When David saw that the Lord had answered him on the threshing floor of Araunah, he offered sacrifices there.

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