24 But the king replied to Araunah, ‘No, I insist on paying you for it. I will not sacrifice to the Lord my God burnt offerings that cost me nothing.’

So David bought the threshing-floor and the oxen and paid fifty shekels[a] of silver for them.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 24:24 That is, about 575 grams