2Samuel:24:18-25

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* And Gad came that day to David and said to him , "Go up , erect an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite ." * So David , according to the word of Gad , went up as the LORD commanded . * Now Araunah looked , and saw the king and his servants coming toward him . So Araunah went out and bowed before the king with his face to the ground . * Then Araunah said , "Why has my lord the king come to his servant ?" And David said , "To buy the threshing floor from you , to build an altar to the LORD , that the plague may be withdrawn from the people ." * Now Araunah said to David , "Let my lord the king take and offer up whatever seems good to him . Look , here are oxen for burnt sacrifice , and threshing implements and the yokes of the oxen for wood . * All these , O king , Araunah has given to the king ." And Araunah said to the king , "May the LORD your God accept you ." * Then the king said to Araunah , "No , but I will surely buy it from you for a price ; nor will I offer burnt offerings to the LORD my God with that which costs me nothing ." So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver . * And David built there an altar to the LORD , and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings . So the LORD heeded the prayers for the land , and the plague was withdrawn from Israel .

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