2 Samuel 24:16-18

Good News Translation

¹⁶ When the Lord's angel was about to destroy Jerusalem, the Lord changed his mind about punishing the people and said to the angel who was killing them, “Stop! That's enough!” The angel was by the threshing place of Araunah, a Jebusite.

¹⁷ David saw the angel who was killing the people, and said to the Lord, “I am the guilty one. I am the one who did wrong. What have these poor people done? You should punish me and my family.”

¹⁸ That same day Gad went to David and said to him, “Go up to Araunah's threshing place and build an altar to the Lord.”