²⁶ and build an altar to the Lord your God on the top of the ^(A)stronghold here, with stones laid in due order. Then take the second bull and offer it as a burnt offering with the wood of the Asherah that you shall cut down.”

^40 (A)But all things should be done decently and ^(B)in order.

³³ For God is not a God of ^(A)confusion but of peace.

As in ^(B)all the churches of the saints,

David Builds an Altar

¹⁸ And Gad came that day to David and said to him, “Go up, raise an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor of ^(A)Araunah the Jebusite.”