²² Now Araunah said to David, “Let my lord the king take and offer up whatever seems good to him. ^(A)Look, here are oxen for burnt sacrifice, and threshing implements and the yokes of the oxen for wood.

²¹ So Elisha turned back from him, and took a yoke of oxen and slaughtered them and ^(A)boiled their flesh, using the oxen’s equipment, and gave it to the people, and they ate. Then he arose and followed Elijah, and became his servant.

¹⁴ Then the cart came into the field of Joshua of Beth Shemesh, and stood there; a large stone was there. So they split the wood of the cart and offered the cows as a burnt offering to the Lord.

²² Then David said to Ornan, ^[a]“Grant me the place of this threshing floor, that I may build an altar on it to the Lord. You shall grant it to me at the full price, that the plague may be withdrawn from the people.”

^11 (A)“No, my lord, hear me: I give you the field and the cave that is in it; I give it to you in the presence of the sons of my people. I give it to you. Bury your dead!”