Then David said to Ornan, Grant me the place of [this] threshingfloor, that I may build an altar therein unto the Lord: thou shalt grant it me for the full price: that the plague may be stayed from the people (21:22)

And Ornan said unto David, Take [it] to thee, and let my lord the king do [that which is] good in his eyes: lo, I give [thee] the oxen [also] for burnt offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat for the meat offering; I give it all (21:23)

And king David said to Ornan, Nay; but I will verily buy it for the full price: for I will not take [that] which [is] thine for the Lord, nor offer burnt offerings without cost (21:24)

So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight (21:25)

And David built there an altar unto the Lord, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called upon the Lord; and he answered him from heaven by fire upon the altar of burnt offering (21:26)

And the Lord commanded the angel; and he put up his sword again into the sheath thereof (21:27)

At that time when David saw that the Lord had answered him in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there (21:28)

For the tabernacle of the Lord, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of the burnt offering, [were] at that season in the high place at Gibeon (21:29)

But David could not go before it to inquire of God: for he was afraid because of the sword of the angel of the Lord (21:30)

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