2 Samuel 24:21-24 — Legacy Standard Bible

²¹Then 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 Yahweh, ^athat the plague may be checked from being upon the people.” ²²And Araunah said to David, “Let my lord the king take and offer up what is good in his sight. Look, ^athe oxen for the burnt offering, the threshing sledges and the yokes of the oxen for the wood. ²³“Everything, O king, Araunah gives to the king.” And Araunah said to the king, “May Yahweh your God ^aaccept you.” ²⁴However, the king said to Araunah, “No, but I will surely buy it from you for a price, for ^aI will not offer burnt offerings to Yahweh my God ¹which cost me nothing.” So ^bDavid bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty ²shekels of silver.