1 Chronicles 21:17-19

New American Standard Bible 1995

¹⁷ David said to God, “Is it not I who ^[a]commanded to count the people? Indeed, I am the one who has sinned and done very wickedly, ^(A)but these sheep, what have they done? O Lord my God, please let Your hand be against me and my father’s household, but not against Your people that they should be plagued.”

David’s Altar

^18 (B)Then the angel of the Lord ^[b]commanded Gad to say to David, that David should go up and build an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. ¹⁹ So David went up at the word of Gad, which he spoke in the name of the Lord.