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oxen for the burnt offering, and you can use the
threshing boards and ox yokes for wood to build
a fire on the altar. 23 I will give it all to you, Your
Majesty, and may the Lord your God accept your
sacrifice.”
24 But the king replied to Araunah, “No,
24:24 Hebrew 50 shekels of silver, about 20 ounces or
570 grams in weight.
2 SAM UEL 24
I insist on buying it, for I will not present burnt
offerings to the Lord my God that have cost me
nothing.” So David paid him fifty pieces of silver* for the threshing floor and the oxen.
25 David built an altar there to the Lord and
sacrificed burnt offerings and peace offerings.
And the Lord answered his prayer for the land,
and the plague on Israel was stopped.