1 Chronicles 21:22-24

International Standard Version

²² David told Ornan, “Give me the threshing floor as a site to build an altar to the Lord on it. Give it to me at its full price, so the plague may be averted from the people.”

²³ But Ornan replied to David, “Take it! Let your majesty the king do whatever seems like a good idea to him. Look here! I’m giving the oxen for burnt offerings, the threshing machinery for the wood, and the wheat for a grain offering. I’m giving all of it.”

²⁴ But King David told Ornan, “No. I will buy them for the full price^[a] because I will not offer to the Lord what is yours or offer burnt offerings that cost me nothing.”