Verse 18

That day, Gad came to David and said to him, "Go up and build an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite."

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  • 2 Sam 24:11 : 11 The next morning, the word of the Lord came to Gad the prophet, David's seer, saying,
  • 1 Chr 21:18-30 : 18 Then the angel of the LORD ordered Gad to tell David to go up and build an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. 19 So David went up in obedience to the word that Gad had spoken in the name of the LORD. 20 When Ornan turned and saw the angel, he and his four sons who were with him hid themselves, but Ornan continued threshing wheat. 21 As David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David. He went out from the threshing floor and bowed down before David with his face to the ground. 22 David said to Ornan, "Let me have the site of your threshing floor so I can build an altar to the LORD on it. Sell it to me at the full price, so the plague on the people may be stopped." 23 Ornan replied to David, "Take it! Let my lord the king do whatever pleases him. Look, I will give the oxen for burnt offerings, the threshing sledges for wood, and the wheat for the grain offering—I give it all." 24 But King David said to Ornan, "No! I insist on paying the full price in silver. I will not take what is yours for the LORD or offer burnt offerings that cost me nothing." 25 So David paid Ornan six hundred shekels of gold by weight for the site. 26 There David built an altar to the LORD and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. He called on the LORD, and He answered him with fire from heaven on the altar of the burnt offering. 27 Then the LORD commanded the angel to put his sword back into its sheath. 28 At that time, when David saw that the LORD had answered him at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, he offered sacrifices there. 29 The tabernacle of the LORD, which Moses had made in the wilderness, and the altar of burnt offering were at that time on the high place at Gibeon. 30 But David could not go before it to seek God because he was terrified of the sword of the angel of the LORD.