1 Chronicles 21:18-1 Chronicles 22:1 - David Builds An Altar
18 And the angel of Jehovah commanded Gad to say to David that David should go up and set up an altar to Jehovah in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite. 19 And David went up at the word of Gad which he spoke in the name of Jehovah.
20 And Ornan turned back and saw the angel. And his four sons with him hid themselves. And Ornan was threshing wheat. 21 And David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David. And he went out of the threshing-floor and bowed to David with his face to the ground.
22 Then David said to Ornan, Give me the place of this threshing-floor, so that I may build an altar in it to Jehovah. You shall give it to me for the full price, so that the plague may be stayed from the people.
23 And Ornan said to David, Take for yourself, and let my lord the king do what is good in his eyes. Lo, I give the oxen for burnt offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat for the food offering. I give it all.
24 And King David said to Ornan, No, but I will truly buy it for the full silver. For I will not take what is yours for Jehovah, nor offer burnt offerings without cost.
25 And David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight. 26 And David built an altar there to Jehovah, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called on Jehovah. And He answered him from Heaven by fire on the altar of burnt offering.
27 And Jehovah commanded the angel, and he put up his sword again into its sheath. 28 At that time, when David saw that Jehovah had answered him in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there. 29 For the tabernacle of Jehovah, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of the burnt offering, were at that time in the high place at Gibeon. 30 But David could not go before it to ask of God, for he was afraid because of the sword of the angel of Jehovah.
1 Then David said, This is the house of Jehovah God, and this is the altar of the burnt offering for Israel.