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1 Chronicles - ch 21 v 21 - 30
- And when David came, Ornan, looking, saw him, and came out from the grain-floor and went down on his face to the earth before him.
- Then David said to Ornan, Give me the place where this grain-floor is, so that I may put up an altar here to the Lord: let me have it for its full price; so that this disease may be stopped among the people.
- And Ornan said to David, Take it, and let my lord the king do what seems right to him. See, I give you the oxen for burned offerings and the grain-cleaning instruments for fire-wood, and the grain for the meal offering; I give it all.
- And King David said to Ornan, No; I will certainly give you the full price for it, because I will not take for the Lord what is yours, or give a burned offering without payment.
- So David gave Ornan six hundred shekels of gold by weight for the place.
- And David put up an altar there to the Lord, offering burned offerings and peace-offerings with prayers to the Lord; and he gave him an answer from heaven, sending fire on the altar of burned offering.
- Then the Lord gave orders to the angel, and he put back his sword into its cover.
- At that time, when David saw that the Lord had given him an answer on the grain-floor of Ornan the Jebusite, he made an offering there.
- For the House of the Lord, which Moses had made in the waste land, and the altar of burned offerings, were at that time in the high place at Gibeon.
- But David was not able to go before it to get directions from the Lord, so great was his fear of the sword of the angel of the Lord.
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