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2 Samuel

24:16

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16 And when the Angel of our Lord had stretched forth his hand over Jerusalem to destroy it, our Lord had pity upon the affliction, and said to the Angel that struck the people: It is sufficient: now hold thy hand: and the Angel of our Lord was beside the floor of Areuna the Jebusite.

17 And David said to our Lord when he saw the Angel striking the people: I am he that have sinned, I have done wickedly: these that are the sheep, what have they done? Let thy hand, I beseech thee, be turned against my father's house.

David Builds an Altar

18 And Gad came to David in that day, and said to him: Go up, and build an altar to our Lord in the floor of Areuna the Jebusite.

19 And David went up according to the word of Gad, which our Lord had commanded him.

20 And Areuna looking, perceived the king and his servants to come towards him.

21 And going forth he adored the king with his face bowing to the earth, and said: What is the cause that my lord the king cometh to his servant? To whom David said: That I may buy of thee the floor, and build an altar to our Lord, & the slaughter may cease which rageth among the people.

22 And Areuna said to David: Let my lord the king take, and offer, as it pleaseth him: thou hast the oxen for holocaust, and the wain, and the yokes of the oxen for provision of wood.

23 Areuna gave all things to the king: and Areuna said to the king: The Lord thy God receive thy vow.

24 To whom the king answering, said: Not so as thou wilt, but I will buy it of thee at a price, and I will not offer to our Lord my God holocausts given gratis. David therefore bought the floor, and the oxen, for fifty sicles of silver:

25 and David built there an altar to our Lord, and offered holocausts and pacifics: and our Lord became merciful to the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel.