2 Samuel 24:22-24

GOD’S WORD Translation

²² Araunah said to David, “Take it, Your Majesty, and offer whatever you think is right. There are oxen for the burnt offering, and there are threshers and oxen yokes ^[a] for firewood.” ²³ All this Araunah gave to the king and said, “May the Lord your God accept you.”

²⁴ “No!” the king said to Araunah. “I must buy it from you at a ⌞fair⌟ price. I won’t offer the Lord my God burnt sacrifices that cost me nothing.”

So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for 1¼ pounds of silver.