Araunah asked, “Why has my lord the king come to his servant?” David said, “To buy the threshing floor from you, so that I may build an altar to Yahweh, and the plague on the people may be stopped.”
In context
19So David went up, as Gad had said, just as Yahweh had commanded. 20Araunah looked down and saw the king and his servants coming toward him, and Araunah went out and bowed before the king with his face to the ground. 21Araunah asked, “Why has my lord the king come to his servant?” David said, “To buy the threshing floor from you, so that I may build an altar to Yahweh, and the plague on the people may be stopped.” 22Araunah said to David, “Let my lord the king take whatever seems good to him and offer it up. Here are the oxen for the burnt offering, and the threshing sledges and the oxen’s yokes for the wood.” 23Araunah gave it all to the king. And Araunah said to the king, “May Yahweh your God accept you.”
