23. “Take it, my lord the king, and use it as you wish,” Araunah said to David. “I will give the oxen for the burnt offerings, and the threshing boards for wood to build a fire on the altar, and the wheat for the grain offering. I will give it all to you.”
24. But King David replied to Araunah, “No, I insist on buying it for the full price. I will not take what is yours and give it to the lord. I will not present burnt offerings that have cost me nothing!”
25. So David gave Araunah 600 pieces of gold in payment for the threshing floor.
26. David built an altar there to the lord and sacrificed burnt offerings and peace offerings. And when David prayed, the lord answered him by sending fire from heaven to burn up the offering on the altar.
27. Then the lord spoke to the angel, who put the sword back into its sheath.
28. When David saw that the lord had answered his prayer, he offered sacrifices there at Araunah’s threshing floor.
29. At that time the Tabernacle of the lord and the altar of burnt offering that Moses had made in the wilderness were located at the place of worship in Gibeon.
30. But David was not able to go there to inquire of God, because he was terrified by the drawn sword of the angel of the lord.