21 and said, Why is my lord the king come to his servant? And David said, To purchase of thee this threshing floor to build an altar to the Lord, that the slaughter among the people may be stayed.
2 Samuel 24:21 Cross References - Thomson
Genesis 23:8-16
8 And Abraham spoke to them saying, If it be your wish that I should bury this my dead out of my sight, hearken to me and speak for me to Ephron the son of Saar.
9 And let him give me the double cave which belongeth to him; that which is in a part of his field. Let him give it to me for the full value of it, among you, for a possession of a burying place.
10 Now Ephron was sitting among the children of Chet; And Ephron the Chettite answered Abraham and said in the hearing of the children of Chet and of all coming into the city,
11 Attend, Sir, and hearken to me. The field and the cave which is in it I give thee. In the presence of my fellow citizens I have given them to thee. Bury thy dead.
12 And when Abraham had made obeisance before all the people of the land,
13 he said to Ephron in the hearing of all the people of the land, As thou art here before me, hearken to me. Take of me in silver the value of the field and I will bury my dead there.
14 Whereupon Ephron answered Abraham, saying,
15 Nay, Sir, I have indeed heard that the land is worth four hundred didrachms of silver; but what can that be between me and thee? But bury thou thy dead.
16 And Abraham hearkened to Ephron; and Abraham paid down to Ephron the money which he mentioned in the hearing of the children of Chet, four hundred didrachms of silver current among merchants.
Numbers 16:44-50
44 and the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,
45 Withdraw from among this congregation, and I will destroy them all at once.
46 Whereupon they fell on their face. And Moses said to Aaron, Take the censer, and put therein fire from the altar, and throw incense on it, and carry it with all haste to the camp, and make atonement for them; for wrath is gone forth from the presence of the Lord, and hath begun to slay the people.
47 So Aaron took as Moses commanded him, and ran into the congregation; [Now the destruction among the people had already begun] and he threw on the incense, and made atonement for the people,
48 and stood between the dead and the living; and the plague ceased.
49 Now they who died by the plague were fourteen thousand seven hundred, besides those who died on the account of Kore.
50 When Aaron returned to Moses to the door of the tabernacle of the testimony, and the plague had ceased,
Numbers 25:8
8 went after the man; the Israelite, into the bed chamber, and ran them both through, the man, the Israelite, quite through, and the woman into her belly. Whereupon the plague stopped from the children of Israel.
2 Samuel 21:3-14
3 So king David sent for the Gabaonites, and said to them, What shall I do for you; and by what means can I make atonement, that you may bless the inheritance of the Lord?
4 And the Gabaonites said to him, We have no controversy with Saul and his household, about gold or silver, nor is it for us to put to death a man in Israel.
5 And the king said, What do you say, I must do for you? And they said to the king, The man who set himself against us, and persecuted us, and who formed pretences to exterminate us, him let us destroy, that he may not rise up in all the borders of Israel.
6 Give us seven men of his sons, and let us crucify to the Lord at Gabaon those of Saul who are the choice of the Lord. And the king said, I will give them.
7 But the king had compassion on Memphibosthe, the son of Jonathan, Saul's son, on account of the oath of the Lord between them; namely between David and Jonathan, Saul's son.
8 So the king took the two sons of Respha, the daughter of Aia, whom she bore to Saul, namely Ermoni and Memphibosthe, and the five sons of Michol the daughter of Saul, whom she bore to Esdriel, the son of Berzelli, the Mooulothite,
9 and delivered them into the hands of the Gabaonites, and they crucified them on the mount before the Lord. So these seven fell together. Now they were put to death in the days of the harvest of first fruits, in the beginning of the barley harvest.
10 And Respha, the daughter of Aia, took sackcloth, and fixed it up for herself, before the rock, in the beginning of the barley harvest, until water from heaven dropped upon them; and she suffered not the birds of the air to rest upon them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.
11 When David was told what Respha the daughter of Aia Saul's concubine had done; [now they were wasted away, and Dan son of Joa, of the race of the giants had taken them down.]
12 David went, and took the t bones of Saul, and the bones of Jonathan his son, from the men of Jabis Galaad, who had stolen them from the street of Baithsan, where the Philistines had fixed them on the day when the Philistines smote Saul at Gelbua;
13 and having brought thence the bones of Saul, and the bones of Jonathan his son, he gathered up the bones of them who had been crucified.
14 And they buried the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan, and the bones of them who were crucified, in the land of Benjamin, on the one side, in the tomb of his father Kis. And when they had done all that the king commanded, God, after that, hearkened to the land.
2 Samuel 24:3
3 Joab said to the king, The Lord God add to the people, how many soever they be, a hundred fold; and may the eyes of my lord the king see it! But why doth my lord the king set his mind upon this?
2 Samuel 24:18
18 Then Gad came to David that day, and said to him, Go up and erect an altar for the Lord, on the threshing floor of Orna the Jebusite.
1 Chronicles 21:22
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.
Psalms 106:30
30 Phineas stood up and made atonement; and the plague was stayed:
Jeremiah 32:6-14
6 Now when he was there, the word of the Lord came to Jeremias, saying,
7 Behold Anameel son of Salom thy father's brother is coming to thee and will say, Buy thee my field which is at Anathoth, for the right of purchase is in thee.
8 Accordingly Anameel son of Salom my father's brother came to me in the court of the prison and said, Buy thee my field which is in the land of Benjamin, that at Anathoth, for the right of purchase is in thee as thou art the eldest. Upon this I knew that it was a word of the Lord,
9 so I bought the field of Anameel, my father' s brother's son and paid him seventeen shekels of silver.
10 And when I had signed the writing and sealed it and had it witnessed and had paid the money by weight,
11 I took the deed of possession which was sealed and gave it to Baruch, son of Nerias son of Maasias in the presence of Anameel my father's brother's son,
12 and in the presence of the byestanders who had signed the deed of purchase, and in the presence of the Jews who were in the court of the prison;
13 and in their presence I gave a charge to Baruch, saying,
14 Thus said the Lord Almighty, Take this deed of possession, even this deed which hath been read, and put it in an earthen vessel that it may remain there many days.