2 Samuel 24:22-24

Common English Bible

²² Then Araunah said to David, “Take it for yourself, and may my master the king do what he thinks is best. Here are oxen for the entirely burned offering, and here are threshing boards and oxen yokes for wood. ²³ All this, Your Majesty, Araunah gives to the king.” Then he added, “May the Lord your God respond favorably to you!”

²⁴ “No,” the king said to Araunah. “I will buy them from you at a fair price. I won’t offer up to the Lord my God entirely burned offerings that cost me nothing.” So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.