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2 Samuel 24:21

World English Bible

Araunah said, “Why has my lord the king come to his servant?”
David said, “To buy your threshing floor, to build an altar to Yahweh, that the plague may be stopped from afflicting the people.”

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2 Samuel 24:21 in other translations

And Araunah said, Wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant? And David said, To buy the threshing-floor of thee, to build an altar unto Jehovah, that the plague may be stayed from the people.

2 Samuel 24:21 · American Standard Version

2 Samuel 24:21 in context

  1. 19David went up according to the saying of Gad, as Yahweh commanded.
  2. 20Araunah looked out, and saw the king and his servants coming on toward him. Then Araunah went out, and bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground.
  3. 21Araunah said, “Why has my lord the king come to his servant?”
    David said, “To buy your threshing floor, to build an altar to Yahweh, that the plague may be stopped from afflicting the people.”
  4. 22Araunah said to David, “Let my lord the king take and offer up what seems good to him. Behold, the cattle for the burnt offering, and the threshing instruments and the yokes of the oxen for the wood.
  5. 23All this, O king, does Araunah give to the king.” Araunah said to the king, “May Yahweh your God accept you.”