2 Samuel 24:17-19

Contemporary English Version

¹⁷ David saw the angel killing everyone and told the Lord, “These people are like sheep with me as their shepherd.^[a] I have sinned terribly, but they have done nothing wrong. Please, punish me and my family instead of them!”

David Buys Araunah's Threshing Place

(1 Chronicles 21.18—22.1)

^18-19 That same day the prophet Gad came and told David, “Go to the threshing place that belongs to Araunah and build an altar there for the Lord.”

So David went.