2 Samuel 24:23-25

New International Version - UK

²³ Your Majesty, Araunah^[a] gives all this to the king.’ Araunah also said to him, ‘May the Lord your God accept you.’

²⁴ But the king replied to Araunah, ‘No, I insist on paying you for it. I will not sacrifice to the Lord my God burnt offerings that cost me nothing.’

So David bought the threshing-floor and the oxen and paid fifty shekels^[b] of silver for them. ²⁵ David built an altar to the Lord there and sacrificed burnt offerings and fellowship offerings. Then the Lord answered his prayer on behalf of the land, and the plague on Israel was stopped.