David Builds an Altar
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Now o the angel of the Lord had commanded Gad to say to David that David should go up and raise an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
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So David went up at Gad's word, which he had spoken in the name of the Lord.
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Now Ornan was threshing wheat. He turned and saw the angel, and his four sons who were with him hid themselves.
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As David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David and went out from the threshing floor and paid homage to David with his face to the ground.
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And David said to Ornan, "Give me the site of the threshing floor that I may build on it an altar to the Lord - give it to me at its full price - that the plague may be averted from the people."
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Then Ornan said to David, "Take it, and let my lord the king do what seems good to him. See, I give the oxen for burnt offerings and the threshing sledges for the wood and the wheat for a grain offering; I give it all."
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But King David said to Ornan, "No, but I will buy them for the full price. I will not take for the Lord what is yours, nor offer burnt offerings that cost me nothing."
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So David paid Ornan p 600 shekels of gold by weight for the site.
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And David built there an altar to the Lord and presented burnt offerings and peace offerings and called on the Lord, and the Lord q answered him with fire from heaven upon the altar of burnt offering.
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Then the Lord commanded the angel, and he put his sword back into its sheath.
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At that time, when David saw that the Lord had answered him at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, he sacrificed there.
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For the tabernacle of the Lord, which Moses had made in the wilderness, and the altar of burnt offering r were at that time in the high place at Gibeon,
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but David could not go before it to inquire of God, for he was afraid of the sword of the angel of the Lord.
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Then David said, s "Here shall be the house of the Lord God and here the altar of burnt offering for Israel."
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Cross References
2 Chronicles 3:1
Then Solomon began to build the house of the Lord in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the Lord had appeared to David his father, at the place that David had appointed, on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
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Cross References
2 Samuel 24:24
But the king said to Araunah, "No, but I will buy it from you for a price. I will not offer burnt offerings to the Lord my God that cost me nothing." So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.
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Cross References
Leviticus 9:24
And fire came out from before the Lord and consumed the burnt offering and the pieces of fat on the altar, and when all the people saw it, they shouted and fell on their faces.
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Cross References
1 Chronicles 16:39
And he left Zadok the priest and his brothers the priests before the tabernacle of the Lord in the high place that was at Gibeon
2 Chronicles 1:3
And Solomon, and all the assembly with him, went to the high place that was at Gibeon, for the tent of meeting of God, which Moses the servant of the Lord had made in the wilderness, was there.
1 Kings 3:4
And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for that was the great high place. Solomon used to offer a thousand burnt offerings on that altar.
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Cross References
1 Chronicles 21:18 - 19
Now the angel of the Lord had commanded Gad to say to David that David should go up and raise an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
1 Chronicles 21:26
And David built there an altar to the Lord and presented burnt offerings and peace offerings and called on the Lord, and the Lord answered him with fire from heaven upon the altar of burnt offering.
1 Chronicles 21:28
At that time, when David saw that the Lord had answered him at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, he sacrificed there.
2 Chronicles 3:1
Then Solomon began to build the house of the Lord in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the Lord had appeared to David his father, at the place that David had appointed, on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
Deuteronomy 12:5
But you shall seek the place that the Lord your God will choose out of all your tribes to put his name and make his habitation there. There you shall go.
English Standard Version (ESV) The Holy Bible, English Standard Version Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers.