CAB(i)
18 And the angel of the Lord told Gad to tell David, that he should go up to erect an altar to the Lord, on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
19 And David went up according to the word of Gad, which he spoke in the name of the Lord.
20 And Ornan turned and saw the king; and he hid himself and his four sons with him. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.
21 And David came to Ornan, and Ornan came forth from the threshing floor, and bowed down to David with his face to the ground.
22 And David said to Ornan, Give me your place of the threshing floor, and I will build upon it an altar to the Lord: give it to me for its worth in money, and the plague shall cease from among the people.
23 And Ornan said to David, Take it to yourself, and let my lord the king do what is right in his eyes: see, I have given the calves for a whole burnt offering, and the plough for wood, and the wheat for a grain offering; I have given all.
24 And King David said to Ornan, No, but I will surely buy it for its worth in money — for I will not take your property for the Lord, to offer a whole burnt offering to the Lord without cost to myself.
25 And David gave to Ornan for his place six hundred shekels of gold by weight.
26 And David built there an altar to the Lord, and offered up whole burnt offerings and peace offerings. And he cried to the Lord, and He answered him by fire out of heaven on the altar of whole burnt offerings, and the fire consumed the whole burnt offering.
27 And the Lord spoke to the angel; and he put up the sword into its sheath.
28 At that time when David saw that the Lord answered him in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, he also sacrificed there.
29 And the tabernacle of the Lord which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of whole burnt offerings, were at that time in the high place at Gibeon.
30 And David could not go before it to inquire of God; for he was afraid of the sword of the angel of the Lord.