²⁶ and build an altar to the Lord your God on the top of the stronghold here, in proper order;^[a] then take the second bull and offer it as a burnt offering with the wood of the sacred pole^[b] that you cut down.”

⁴⁰ but all things should be done decently and in order.

³³ for God is a God not of disorder but of peace), as in all the churches of the saints.

David’s Altar on the Threshing Floor

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