2 Samuel 24:18–25

¹⁸And Gad cometh in unto David on that day, and saith to him, ‘Go up, raise to Jehovah an altar in the threshing-floor of Araunah the Jebusite;’ ¹⁹and David goeth up, according to the word of Gad, as Jehovah commanded. ²⁰And Araunah looketh, and seeth the king and his servants passing over unto him, and Araunah goeth out and boweth himself to the king—his face to the earth. ²¹And Araunah saith, ‘Wherefore hath my lord the king come unto his servant?’ and David saith, ‘To buy from thee the threshing-floor, to build an altar to Jehovah, and the plague is restrained from the people.’ ²²And Araunah saith unto David, ‘Let my lord the king take and cause to ascend that which is good in his eyes; see, the oxen for a burnt-offering, and the threshing instruments, and the instruments of the oxen, for wood;’ ²³the whole hath Araunah given, as a king to a king; and Araunah saith unto the king, ‘Jehovah thy God doth accept thee.’ ²⁴And the king saith unto Araunah, ‘Nay, for I do surely buy from thee for a price, and I do not cause to ascend to Jehovah my God burnt-offerings for nought;’ and David buyeth the threshing-floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver, ²⁵and David buildeth there an altar to Jehovah, and causeth to ascend burnt-offerings and peace-offerings, and Jehovah is entreated for the land, and the plague is restrained from Israel.

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