David Builds an Altar
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Therefore, the p angel of the LORD commanded Gad to say to David that David should go and erect an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
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So David went up at the word of Gad, which he had spoken in the name of the LORD.
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Now Ornan turned and saw the angel; and his four sons who were with him hid themselves, but Ornan continued threshing wheat.
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So David came to Ornan, and Ornan looked and saw David. And he went out from the threshing floor, and bowed before David with his face to the ground.
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Then David said to Ornan, "Grant me the place of this threshing floor, that I may build an altar on it to the LORD. You shall grant it to me at the full price, that the plague may be withdrawn from the people."
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But Ornan said to David, "Take it to yourself, and let my lord the king do what is good in his eyes. Look, I also give you the oxen for burnt offerings, the threshing implements for wood, and the wheat for the grain offering; I give it all."
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Then King David said to Ornan, "No, but I will surely buy it for the full price, for I will not take what is yours for the LORD, nor offer burnt offerings with that which costs me nothing."
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So q David gave Ornan six hundred shekels of gold by weight for the place.
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And David built there an altar to the LORD, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called on the LORD; and r He answered him from heaven by fire on the altar of burnt offering.
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So the LORD commanded the angel, and he returned his sword to its sheath.
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At that time, when David saw that the LORD had answered him on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, he sacrificed there.
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s For the tabernacle of the LORD and the altar of the burnt offering, which Moses had made in the wilderness, were at that time at the high place in t Gibeon.
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But David could not go before it to inquire of God, for he was afraid of the sword of the angel of the LORD.
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Then David said, a "This is the house of the LORD God, and this is the altar of burnt offering for Israel."
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Cross References
1 Chronicles 21:11
So Gad came to David and said to him, "Thus says the LORD: 'Choose for yourself.
1 Chronicles 21:12
'either three years of famine, or three months to be defeated by your foes with the sword of your enemies overtaking you, or else for three days the sword of the LORD - the plague in the land, with the angel of the LORD destroying throughout all the territory of Israel.' Now consider what answer I should take back to Him who sent me."
2 Chronicles 3:1
Now Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to his father David, at the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
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Cross References
2 Samuel 24:24
Then the king said to Araunah, "No, but I will surely buy it from you for a price; nor will I offer burnt offerings to the LORD my God with that which costs me nothing." So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.
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Cross References
Leviticus 9:24
And fire came out from before the LORD and consumed the burnt offering and the fat on the altar. When all the people saw it, they shouted and fell on their faces.
Judges 6:21
Then the Angel of the LORD put out the end of the staff that was in His hand, and touched the meat and the unleavened bread; and fire rose out of the rock and consumed the meat and the unleavened bread. And the Angel of the LORD departed out of his sight.
1 Kings 18:36 - 38
And it came to pass, at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came near and said, "LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, let it be known this day that You are God in Israel and I am Your servant, and that I have done all these things at Your word.
2 Chronicles 3:1
Now Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to his father David, at the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
2 Chronicles 7:1
When Solomon had finished praying, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of the LORD filled the temple.
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Cross References
1 Kings 3:4
Now the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for that was the great high place: Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on that altar.
2 Chronicles 1:3
Then Solomon, and all the assembly with him, went to the high place that was at Gibeon; for the tabernacle of meeting with God was there, which Moses the servant of the LORD had made in the wilderness.
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Cross References
1 Chronicles 16:39
And Zadok the priest and his brethren the priests, before the tabernacle of the LORD at the high place that was at Gibeon.
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 12:5
But you shall seek the place where the LORD you...
2 Samuel 24:18
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1 Chronicles 21:18
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1 Chronicles 21:19
So David went up at the word of Gad, which he h...
1 Chronicles 21:26
And David built there an altar to the LORD, and...
1 Chronicles 21:28
At that time, when David saw that the LORD had ...
2 Chronicles 3:1
Now Solomon began to build the house of the LOR...
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