David Erects an Altar

^18 (A)Then the angel of Yahweh said to Gad to say to David, that David should go up and erect an altar to Yahweh 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 Yahweh. ²⁰ Now Ornan turned back and saw the angel, and his four sons who were with him hid themselves. And Ornan was threshing wheat. ²¹ Then David came to Ornan, and Ornan looked and saw David, and went out from the threshing floor and bowed his ^[a]face to the ground ^[b]before David. ²² Then David said to Ornan, “Give me the ^[c]site of this threshing floor, that I may build on it an altar to Yahweh; for the full price you shall give it to me, that the plague may be checked from being upon the people.” ²³ And Ornan said to David, “Take it for yourself; and let my lord the king do what is good in his sight. See, I will give the oxen for the burnt offerings and the threshing sledges for the wood and the wheat for the grain offering; I will give everything.” ²⁴ However, King David said to Ornan, “No, but I will surely buy it for the full price; for I will not lift up what is yours to Yahweh, or offer a burnt offering ^[d]which costs me nothing.” ²⁵ So ^(B)David gave Ornan ^[e]600 shekels of gold by weight for the ^[f]site. ²⁶ Then David built there an altar to Yahweh and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. And he called to Yahweh and ^(C)He answered him with fire from heaven on the altar of burnt offering. ²⁷ Then Yahweh spoke to the angel, and he returned his sword to its sheath.