22. Araunah said to David, “My lord and king, you can take anything you want for a sacrifice. Here are some oxen for the burnt offering, and the threshing boards and the yokes for the wood.
23. O King, I give everything to you!” Araunah also said to the king, “May the Lord your God be pleased with you.”
24. But the king said to Araunah, “No! I must pay you for everything. I will not offer burnt offerings to the Lord my God that cost me nothing.” So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for 50 shekels of silver.
25. Then David built an altar to the Lord there and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. The Lord answered his prayer for the country. He stopped the disease in Israel.