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24 “No!” the king replied to Araunah. “I will buy them from you at full[a] price. I won’t offer to the Lord my God burnt offerings that cost me nothing.” So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for 50 silver shekels,[b] 25 built[c] an altar to the Lord there, and presented burnt offerings and peace offerings. So the Lord answered David’s prayers for the land[d] and the pestilence on Israel was averted.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 24:24 The Heb. lacks full
  2. 2 Samuel 24:24 I.e. about one and one quarter pounds at 0.4 shekels per ounce
  3. 2 Samuel 24:25 Lit. David built
  4. 2 Samuel 24:25 Cf. 2Sam 21:14