2 Samuel 24:19-21

Legacy Standard Bible

¹⁹ So David went up according to the word of Gad, just as Yahweh had commanded. ²⁰ And Araunah looked down and saw the king and his servants crossing over toward him; and Araunah went out and bowed his face to the ground before the king. ²¹ Then Araunah said, “Why has my lord the king come to his servant?” And David said, “To buy the threshing floor from you, in order to build an altar to Yahweh, ^(A)that the plague may be checked from being upon the people.”