2Samuel:24:18-25
geneva@2Samuel:24:18 @ So Gad came the same day to Dauid, and said vnto him, Go vp, reare an altar vnto the Lord in the threshing floore of Araunah the Iebusite.
geneva@2Samuel:24:19 @ And Dauid (according to the saying of Gad) went vp, as the Lord had commanded.
geneva@2Samuel:24:20 @ And Araunah looked, and sawe the King and his seruants comming towarde him, and Araunah went out, and bowed himselfe before the King on his face to the ground,
geneva@2Samuel:24:21 @ And (note:)Called also Ornan (1Ch_21:20).(:note) 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.
geneva@2Samuel:24:22 @ Then Araunah saide vnto Dauid, Let my lord the King take and offer what seemeth him good in his eyes: beholde the oxen for the burnt offring, and charets, and the instruments of the oxen for wood.
geneva@2Samuel:24:23 @ All these [things] did Araunah, (note:)That is, abundantly, for as some write, he was king of Jerusalem before David won the tower.(:note) [as] a king, give unto the king. And Araunah said unto the king, The LORD thy God accept thee.
geneva@2Samuel:24:24 @ 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 (note:)Some write that every tribe gave 50 which makes 600, or that afterward he bought as much as came to 550 shekels.(:note) fifty shekels of silver.
geneva@2Samuel:24:25 @ And Dauid built there an altar vnto the Lorde, and offred burnt offrings and peace offrings, and the Lord was appeased toward ye lande, and the plague ceased from Israel.
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