2 Samuel 24:18-25

18So Gad came to David that day and said to him, “1Go up, erect an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor of 2Araunah the Jebusite.”

19David went up according to the word of Gad, just as the Lord had commanded.

20Araunah looked down and saw the king and his servants crossing over toward him; and Araunah went out and bowed his face to the ground before the king.

21Then Araunah said, “Why has my lord the king come to his servant?” And David said, “To buy the threshing floor from you, in order to build an altar to the Lord, 3that the plague may be held back from the people.”

22Araunah said to David, “Let my lord the king take and offer up what is good in his sight. Look, 4the oxen for the burnt offering, the threshing sledges and the yokes of the oxen for the wood.

23Everything, O king, Araunah gives to the king.” And Araunah said to the king, “May the Lord your God 5accept you.”

24However, the king said to Araunah, “No, but I will surely buy it from you for a price, for 6I will not offer burnt offerings to the Lord my God 7which cost me nothing.” So 8David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.

25David built there an altar to the Lord and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. 9Thus the Lord was moved by prayer for the land, and the plague was held back from Israel.