18
Then the angel of the Lord commanded Gad to tell David that he should go up and erect an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
19
So David went up following Gad's instructions, which he had spoken in the name of the Lord.
20
Ornan turned and saw the angel; and while his four sons who were with him hid themselves, Ornan continued to thresh wheat.
21
As David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David; he went out from the threshing floor, and did obeisance to David with his face to the ground.
22
David said to Ornan, "Give me the site of the threshing floor that I may build on it an altar to the Lord—give it to me at its full price—so that the plague may be averted from the people."
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