2 Samuel 24:23-25

Common English Bible

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. ²⁵ David built an altar there for the Lord and offered entirely burned offerings and well-being sacrifices. The Lord responded to the prayers for the land, and the plague against Israel came to an end.