2 Samuel 24:21

Modern English Version

Araunah said, “Why has my lord the king come to his servant?” David replied, “To purchase the threshing floor from you in order to build an altar to the Lord, so that the plague may be averted from the people.”

Cross References

Genesis 50:10

When they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, they mourned with a great and very sorrowful lamentation. He observed seven days of mourning for his father.

2 Samuel 24:18

Gad came to David that day and said to him, “Go up and erect an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.”

2 Samuel 24:20

When Araunah looked and saw the king and his servants coming toward him, he went out and bowed low to the king with his face on the ground.

2 Samuel 24:3

Joab said to the king, “May the Lord your God add to the people a hundred times as many as they are, in the sight of my lord the king; but why does my lord the king so desire this thing?”

1 Chronicles 21:22

Then David said to Ornan, “Give me the site of the threshing floor so that I may build an altar on it to the Lord. Sell it to me at full price so the plague on the people may be restrained.”

Psalm 106:30

Then Phinehas stood up and intervened, and the plague was stayed.

Numbers 25:8

and he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel and the woman through her belly. So the plague was stopped from the Israelites.