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Ornan said to David, “Take it! May my lord the king do whatever seems good to him. Look, I will give the oxen for the burnt offerings, the threshing sledges for the wood, and the wheat for the grain offering—I will give it all.”
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“No,” replied King David, “I insist on paying the full price, for I will not take for the LORD what belongs to you, nor will I offer burnt offerings that cost me nothing.”
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So David paid Ornan six hundred shekels of gold for the site.
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And there he built an altar to the LORD and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. He called upon the LORD, who answered him with fire from heaven on the altar of burnt offering.
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Then the LORD spoke to the angel, who put his sword back into its sheath.
Footnotes 1
[a].
600 shekels is approximately 15.1 pounds or 6.8 kilograms of gold.
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