2 Samuel 24:21-23

New International Reader's Version

²¹ Araunah said, “King David, you are my master. Why have you come to see me?”

“To buy your threshing floor,” David answered. “I want to build an altar there to honor the Lord. When I do, the plague on the people will be stopped.”

²² Araunah said to David, “Take anything you wish. Offer it up. Here are oxen for the burnt offering. Here are threshing sleds. And here are wooden collars from the necks of the oxen. Use all the wood to burn the offering. ²³ Your Majesty, I’ll give all of it to you.” Araunah continued, “And may the Lord your God accept you.”