Thomson(i)
18 Thereupon the angel of the Lord ordered Gad to tell David to go up and erect an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor of Orna the Jebusite.
19 So David went up according to the word which Gad spoke in the name of the Lord.
20 And when Orna turned and saw the king and his four sons with him, with attendants [now Orna was threshing wheat]
21 upon David's approach to Orna, Orna came out of his threshing floor and made obeisance to David with his face to the ground.
22 And David said to Orna, Grant me the place of this threshing floor of thine, that I may build thereon an altar to the Lord; grant it to me for its worth in money, that the plague may be stayed from the people.
23 And Orna said to David, Take it for thyself; and let my Lord the king do what is good in his sight. Behold I have given these young bulls for a whole burnt offering, and that plough for wood, and this corn for a sacrifice. Of all these things I make a gift.
24 And David said to Orna, By no means: for I must buy them for their worth in money. For I cannot take what are thine for the Lord, to offer a whole burnt offering to the Lord at free cost.
25 So David gave Orna for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight.
26 And having built there an altar to the Lord, he offered up the offerings of homage and thanksgiving, and cried to the Lord, and the Lord hearkened to him by fire from heaven upon the altar of the whole burnt offering, which consumed the whole burnt offering.
27 Then the Lord spoke to the angel and he sheathed his sword.
28 When David saw that the Lord hearkened to him at the threshing floor of Orna the Jebusite, and that he had sacrificed there