⁵⁰ When the plague was stopped, Aaron returned to Moses at the entrance of the tent of meeting.

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

The Place Chosen for the Temple

²⁸ At that time, when David saw that the Lord had answered him at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, he made his sacrifices there. ²⁹ For the tabernacle of the Lord that Moses had made in the wilderness and the altar of burnt offering were at that time in the high place at Gibeon,^{(B) 30} but David could not go before it to inquire of God, for he was afraid of the sword of the angel of the Lord.

⁴³ Then Moses and Aaron came to the front of the tent of meeting,