1 Chronicles 21:18-1 Chronicles 22:1 - David Builds An Altar
18 Jehovah's angel told Gad to command David to go and build an altar to Jehovah at Araunah's threshing place. 19 David obeyed Jehovah's command and did what Gad told him to do.
20 There at the threshing place Araunah and his four sons were threshing wheat, and when they saw the angel, the sons ran and hid. 21 Araunah saw King David approaching. He left the threshing place and bowed low with his face touching the ground.
22 David said to him: Sell me your threshing place so that I can build an altar to Jehovah, to stop the epidemic. I will give you the full price.
23 Take it, Your Majesty, Araunah said, and do whatever you wish. Here are these bulls to burn as an offering on the altar. Here are the threshing boards to use as fuel and wheat to give as an offering. I give it all to you.
24 The king answered: No, I will pay you the full price. I will not give as an offering to Jehovah something that belongs to you, something that costs me nothing.
25 He paid Araunah six hundred gold coins for the threshing place. 26 David built an altar to Jehovah there and offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings. He prayed, and Jehovah answered him by sending fire from heaven to burn the sacrifices on the altar.
27 Jehovah told the angel to put his sword away, and the angel obeyed. 28 David saw by this that Jehovah answered his prayer. So he offered sacrifices on the altar at Araunah's threshing place. 29 Jehovah's tent that Moses made in the desert and the altar for burnt offerings were at the worship site at Gibeon. 30 David could not go there to consult God because the sword of Jehovah's angel frightened him.
1 David said: The house of Jehovah God is to be here, and also the altar of burnt offering for Israel.