And Araunah said, Wherefore is my master the king come to his servant? And David said, To buy the threshingfloor of thee, to build an altar unto Yahweh, that the plague may be stayed from the people.
And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days.
And Araunah looked, and saw the king and his servants coming on toward him: and Araunah went out, and bowed himself before the king on his face upon the ground.
And Joab said unto the king, Now Yahweh thy Elohim add unto the people, how many soever they be, an hundredfold, and that the eyes of my master the king may see it: but why doth my master the king delight in this thing?
Then David said to Ornan, Grant me the place of this threshingfloor, that I may build an altar therein unto Yahweh: thou shalt grant it me for the full price: that the plague may be stayed from the people.
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 stayed from the children of Israel.