²⁵ And David built there an altar to the Lord and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. ^(A)So the Lord responded to the plea for the land, and the plague was averted from Israel.

¹⁴ And they buried the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan in the land of Benjamin in ^(A)Zela, in the tomb of Kish his father. And they did all that the king commanded. And after that ^(B)God responded to the plea for the land.

¹⁴ Then David said to Gad, “I am in great distress. Let us fall into the hand of the Lord, ^(A)for his mercy is great; but let me not fall into the hand of man.”

¹⁷ Then he would return to ^(A)Ramah, for his home was there, and there also he judged Israel. ^(B)And he built there an altar to the Lord.

God's Covenant with Noah

²⁰ Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and took some of every clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

²⁶ And David built there an altar to the Lord and presented burnt offerings and peace offerings and called on the Lord, and the Lord^{[a] (A)}answered him with fire from heaven upon the altar of burnt offering. ²⁷ Then the Lord commanded the angel, and he put his sword back into its sheath.

⁹ So Samuel took a nursing lamb and offered it as a whole burnt offering to the Lord. And ^(A)Samuel cried out to the Lord for Israel, and the Lord answered him.

⁹ When they came to the place of which God had told him, Abraham built the altar there and laid the wood in order and bound Isaac his son and ^(A)laid him on the altar, on top of the wood.