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.”

19Then David went up in accordance with the word of Gad, just as the Lord had commanded.

20And Araunah looked down and saw the king and his servants crossing over toward him; so 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, 3so that the plague may be 4withdrawn from the people.”

22Araunah then said to David, “Let my lord the king take and offer up what is good in his sight. Look, here are 5the 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 be 6favorable to you.”

24However, the king said to Araunah, “No, but I will certainly buy it from you for a price; for 7I will not offer burnt offerings to the Lord my God 8that cost me nothing.” So 9David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.

25Then David built there an altar to the Lord, and he offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. And 10the Lord responded to prayer for the land, and the plague was 11withdrawn from Israel.