Bible Verse

On that day Gad went to David and said to him, “Go up and build an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.”

2 Samuel 24:18

So David went up, as the Lord had commanded through Gad.

2 Samuel 24:19

When Araunah looked and saw the king and his officials coming toward him, he went out and bowed down before the king with his face to the ground.

2 Samuel 24:20

Araunah said, “Why has my lord the king come to his servant?” “To buy your threshing floor,” David answered, “so I can build an altar to the Lord, that the plague on the people may be stopped.”