2 Samuel 24:21 References
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Then Araunah said, "Why has my lord the king come to his servant?" And David said, "To buy the threshing floor from you, in order to build an altar to the Lord, athat the plague may be held back from the people."
a Numbers 16:44-50
Numbers 16
44
and the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
45
"aGet away from among this congregation, that I may consume them instantly." Then they fell on their faces.
46
Moses said to Aaron, "Take your censer and put in it fire from the altar, and lay incense on it; then bring it quickly to the congregation and amake atonement for them, for bwrath has gone forth from the Lord, the plague has begun!"
47
Then Aaron took it as Moses had spoken, and ran into the midst of the assembly, for behold, the plague had begun among the people. aSo he put on the incense and made atonement for the people.
48
He took his stand between the dead and the living, so that the plague was checked.
50
Then Aaron returned to Moses at the doorway of the tent of meeting, for the plague had been checked.