20
Ornan turned back and saw the angel, and his four sons who were with him hid themselves. As Ornan was threshing wheat,
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David approached Ornan. When Ornan looked and saw David, he went out from the threshing-floor and prostrated himself before David with his face to the ground.
22
Then David said to Ornan, "Let me have the parcel with this threshing-floor, so that I can build on it an altar to ADONAI - I will pay you its full value - so that the plague will be lifted from the people."
23
Ornan said to David, "Take it for yourself, and let my lord the king do what seems good to him. I'm giving you the oxen for the burnt offerings, the threshing-sledges for firewood and the wheat for the grain offering - I'm giving it all."
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But King David said to Ornan, "No; I insist on buying it from you at the full price. I refuse to take what is yours for ADONAI or offer a burnt offering that costs me nothing."
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So David bought the place from Ornan for 600 shekels of gold by weight [fifteen pounds].
26
Then David built an altar to ADONAI there and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. He called on ADONAI, who answered him from heaven by fire on the altar for burnt offerings.
27
ADONAI gave an order to the angel, and he put his sword back in its sheath.
28
When David saw that ADONAI had answered him at the threshing-floor of Ornan the Y'vusi, he sacrificed there.
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For at that time the tabernacle of ADONAI, which Moshe had made in the desert, together with the altar for burnt offerings, were in the high place at Giv'on.
30
But David could not go into its presence to consult God, because the sword of the angel of ADONAI had struck him with terror.