2 Samuel 24:16-18

New American Standard Bible 1995

^16 (A)When the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, ^(B)the Lord relented from the calamity and said to the angel who destroyed the people, “It is enough! Now relax your hand!” And the angel of the Lord was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite. ¹⁷ Then David spoke to the Lord when he saw the angel who was striking down the people, and said, “Behold, ^(C)it is I who have sinned, and it is I who have done wrong; but ^(D)these sheep, what have they done? Please let Your hand be against me and against my father’s house.”

David Builds an Altar

¹⁸ So Gad came to David that day and said to him, “^(E)Go up, erect an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor of ^[a]Araunah the Jebusite.”