2 Samuel 24:22-24

International Standard Version

²² Araunah responded to David, “May your majesty the king take it and offer whatever pleases him. Here are oxen for a burnt offering, along with the threshing sledges and yokes from the oxen for wood! ²³ Your majesty, Araunah gives all of this^[a] to the king.” Araunah also told the king, “May the Lord your God be pleased with you!”

²⁴ “No!” the king replied to Araunah. “I will buy them from you at full^[b] 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,^[c]