24. King David said to Ornan, “No, I insist on buying it for the full price. For I will not take for Adonai what is yours, or sacrifice a burnt offering that cost me nothing.”
25. So David gave Ornan 600 shekels of gold by weight for the place.
26. David built there an altar to Adonai and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. He called on Adonai and He answered him with fire from heaven upon the altar of burnt offering.
27. Then Adonai commanded the angel, and he put his sword back in its sheath.
28. At that time, when David saw that Adonai had answered him at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, he sacrificed there.
29. For the Tabernacle of Adonai, which Moses had made in the wilderness, and the altar of burnt offering were at that time in the high place at Gibeon.
30. But David could not go before it to seek God for he was afraid of the sword of the angel of Adonai.