2 Samuel 24:21

New Living Translation

“Why have you come, my lord the king?” Araunah asked. David replied, “I have come to buy your threshing floor and to build an altar to the Lord there, so that he will stop the plague.”

Cross References

Genesis 50:10

When they arrived at the threshing floor of Atad, near the Jordan River, they held a very great and solemn memorial service, with a seven-day period of mourning for Joseph’s father.

2 Samuel 24:18

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

2 Samuel 24:20

When Araunah saw the king and his men coming toward him, he came and bowed before the king with his face to the ground.

2 Samuel 24:3

But Joab replied to the king, “May the Lord your God let you live to see a hundred times as many people as there are now! But why, my lord the king, do you want to do this?”

1 Chronicles 21:22

David said to Araunah, “Let me buy this threshing floor from you at its full price. Then I will build an altar to the Lord there, so that he will stop the plague.”

Psalm 106:30

But Phinehas had the courage to intervene, and the plague was stopped.

Numbers 25:8

and rushed after the man into his tent. Phinehas thrust the spear all the way through the man’s body and into the woman’s stomach. So the plague against the Israelites was stopped,