Araunah said to David, ‘My lord the king may take whatever he wants and offer it. Here are the oxen for a burnt offering and the threshing sledges and ox yokes for the wood.
So he turned back from following him, took the team of oxen, and slaughtered them. With the oxen’s wooden yoke and plough, he cooked the meat and gave it to the people, and they ate. Then he left, followed Elijah, and served him.
The cart came to the field of Joshua of Beth-shemesh and stopped there near a large rock. The people of the city chopped up the cart and offered the cows as a burnt offering to the Lord.
Then David said to Ornan, ‘Give me this threshing-floor plot so that I may build an altar to the Lord on it. Give it to me for the full price, so the plague on the people may be stopped.’
Build a well-constructed altar to the Lord your God on the top of this mound. Take the second bull and offer it as a burnt offering with the wood of the Asherah pole you cut down.’