24:222 Samuel 24:22

Araunah freely offered David his threshing-floor on which to build an altar to the Lord to make atonement for David's sin in numbering Israel.SG4 92.2–3+1 The offer included oxen for burnt sacrifice and everything needful for the sacrifice, including threshing instruments and other implements of the oxen for wood.SG4 92.2–3+1 David's heart was in the work and he still trusted God.SG4 92.2–3+1 David refused to take the generous gift for nothing, because the Lord would accept the sacrifice he was willing to make but he would not come before the Lord with an offering that cost him nothing, so he bought it for full price.SG4 92.2–3+1

There David offered burnt-offerings and peace-offerings, and his repentance was accepted.SG4 92.2–3+1 God accepted the offering by sending fire from heaven to consume the sacrifice.SG4 92.2–3+1 God commanded the angel stretched out over Jerusalem to put his sword into its sheath and cease his work of destruction, ending the pestilence that had killed seventy thousand.SG4 92.2–3+1