2 Samuel 24:21-23

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

²¹ An going out he worshipped the king, bowing with his face to the earth, and said: Wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant? Arid David said to him: To buy the thrashingfloor of thee, and build an altar to the Lord, that the plague, which rageth among the people, may cease.

²² And Areuna said to David: Let my lord the king take, and offer, as it seemeth good to him: thou hast here oxen for a holocaust, and the wain, and the yokes of the oxen for wood.

²³ All these things Areuna as a king gave to the king: and Areuna said to the king: The Lord thy God receive thy vow.