2 Samuel 24:18
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2 Sam 24:18
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So Gad came to David that day and said to him, "Go up, erect an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite."
2 Sam 24:19
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David went up according to the word of Gad, just as the LORD had commanded.
2 Sam 24:20
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Araunah looked down and saw the king and his servants crossing over toward him; and Araunah went out and bowed his face to the ground before the king.
2 Sam 24:21
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Then Araunah said, "Why has my lord the king come to his servant?" And David said, "To buy the threshing floor from you, in order to build an altar to the LORD, that the plague may be held back from the people."
2 Sam 24:22
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Araunah said to David, "Let my lord the king take and offer up what is good in his sight. Look, the oxen for the burnt offering, the threshing sledges and the yokes of the oxen for the wood.
2 Sam 24:23
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~"Everything, O king, Araunah gives to the king." And Araunah said to the king, "May the LORD your God accept you."
2 Sam 24:24
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However, the king said to Araunah, "No, but I will surely buy {it} from you for a price, for I will not offer burnt offerings to the LORD my God which cost me nothing." So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.
2 Sam 24:25
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David built there an altar to the LORD and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. Thus the LORD was moved by prayer for the land, and the plague was held back from Israel.
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