2Samuel:24:15-25
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So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time appointed :
and there died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba seventy thousand men .
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And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it ,
the LORD repented him of the evil ,
and said to the angel that destroyed the people ,
It is enough :
stay now thine hand .
And the angel of the LORD was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite .
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And David spake unto the LORD when he saw the angel that smote the people ,
and said ,
Lo ,
I have sinned ,
and I have done wickedly :
but these sheep ,
what have they done ?
let thine hand ,
I pray thee ,
be against me ,
and against my father '
s house .
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And Gad came that day to David ,
and said unto him ,
Go up ,
rear an altar unto the LORD in the threshingfloor of Araunah the Jebusite .
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And David ,
according to the saying of Gad ,
went up as the LORD commanded .
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And Araunah looked ,
and saw the king and his servants coming on toward him :
and Araunah went out ,
and bowed himself before the king on his face upon the ground .
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And Araunah said ,
Wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant ?
And David said ,
To buy the threshingfloor of thee ,
to build an altar unto the LORD ,
that the plague may be stayed from the people .
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And Araunah said unto David ,
Let my lord the king take and offer up what seemeth good unto him :
behold ,
here be oxen for burnt sacrifice ,
and threshing instruments and other instruments of the oxen for wood .
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All these things did Araunah ,
as a king ,
give unto the king .
And Araunah said unto the king ,
The LORD thy God accept thee .
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And the king said unto Araunah ,
Nay ;
but I will surely buy it of thee at a price :
neither will I offer burnt offerings unto the LORD my God of that which doth cost me nothing .
So David bought the threshingfloor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver .
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And David built there an altar unto the LORD ,
and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings .
So the LORD was intreated for the land ,
and the plague was stayed from Israel .