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.
But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.
