1 Chronicles 21:18-28

18Then the angel of the Lord commanded Gad to say to David, that David should go up and build an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

19So David went up at Gad’s word, which he spoke in the name of the Lord.

20Now Ornan was threshing wheat, and he turned back and saw the angel; and his four sons who were with him hid themselves.

21As David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw him, and went out from the threshing floor and bowed down before David with his face to the ground.

22Then David said to Ornan, “Give me the site of this threshing floor, so that I may build an altar on it to the Lord. You shall charge me the full price for it, so that the plague may be averted from the people.”

23Ornan said to David, “Take it for yourself; and let my lord the king do what is good in his eyes. See, I will give you the oxen also for burnt offerings and the threshing sledges (heavy wooden platforms) for wood and the wheat for the grain offering; I give it all.”

24But King David said to Ornan, “No, I will certainly pay the full price; for I will not take what is yours for the Lord, nor offer a burnt offering which costs me nothing.”

25So David gave Ornan 600 shekels of gold by weight for the site.

26Then David built an altar to the Lord there and presented burnt offerings and peace offerings. And he called on the Lord, and He answered him with fire from heaven on the altar of burnt offering.

27Then the Lord commanded the [avenging] angel, and he put his sword back into its sheath.

28At that time, when David saw that the Lord had answered him on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, he sacrificed there.