21 He said, “Why has my master the king come to me?”David answered, “To buy the threshing floor from you. I want to build an altar to the Lord. Then the disease will stop.”
22 Araunah said to David, “My master and king, you may take anything you want for a sacrifice. Here are some oxen for the whole burnt offering. Here are the threshing boards and the yokes for the wood!
23 My king, I give everything to you!” Araunah also said to the king, “May the Lord your God be pleased with you!”
24 But the king answered Araunah, “No. I will pay you for the land. I won’t offer to the Lord my God burnt offerings which cost me nothing!”So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for one and one-fourth pounds of silver.