dby - 2Samuel:24:18-25

dby@2Samuel:24:18 @ And Gad came that day to David, and said to him, Go up, rear an altar to Jehovah in the threshing-floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

dby@2Samuel:24:19 @ And David, according to the saying of Gad, went up as Jehovah had commanded.

dby@2Samuel:24:20 @ And Araunah looked, and saw the king and his servants coming on towards him; and Araunah went out, and bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground.

dby@2Samuel:24:21 @ And Araunah said, Why is my lord the king come to his servant? And David said, To buy the threshing-floor of thee, to build an altar to Jehovah, that the plague may be stayed from the people.

dby@2Samuel:24:22 @ And Araunah said to David, Let my lord the king take and offer up that which is good in his sight: see, [here are] oxen for the burnt-offering, and the threshing-sledges and implements of the oxen for wood.

dby@2Samuel:24:23 @ All these things, O king, doth Araunah give to the king. And Araunah said to the king, Jehovah thy God accept thee.

dby@2Samuel:24:24 @ And the king said to Araunah, No; but I will in any case buy [them] of thee at a price: neither will I offer up to Jehovah my God burnt-offerings without cost. And David bought the threshing-floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.

dby@2Samuel:24:25 @ And David built there an altar to Jehovah, and offered up burnt-offerings and peace-offerings. And Jehovah was propitious to the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel.