2 Samuel 24:21
“Why has my lord the king come to his servant?” Araunah said. “To buy your threshing floor,” David replied, “that I may build an altar to the Lord, so that the plague upon the people may be halted.”
And Araunah said, Wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant? And David said, To buy the threshingfloor of thee, to build an altar unto the Lord, that the plague may be stayed from the people.
Araunah said, “Why has my lord the king come to his servant?” David said, “To buy your threshing floor, to build an altar to the Lord, that the plague may be stopped from afflicting the people.”
And Araunah said, Wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant? And David said, To buy the threshing-floor of thee, to build an altar unto Jehovah, that the plague may be stayed from the people.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- Wherefore
- 2 Samuel 24:3, 18
- To buy
- Genesis 23:8–16; 1 Chronicles 21:22; Jeremiah 32:6–14
- the plague
- 2 Samuel 21:3–14; Numbers 16:47–50; Numbers 25:8; Psalm 106:30