¹² And they answered them and said, “Yes, there he is, just ahead of you. Hurry now; for today he came to this city, because ^(A)there is a sacrifice of the people today ^(B)on the high place.

³⁵ Then Saul ^(A)built an altar to the Lord. This was the first altar that he built to the Lord.

⁶ If your father misses me at all, then say, ‘David earnestly asked permission of me that he might run over ^(A)to Bethlehem, his city, for there is a yearly sacrifice there for all the family.’

²⁵ And David built there an altar to the Lord, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. ^(A)So the Lord heeded the prayers for the land, and ^(B)the plague was withdrawn from Israel.