2 Samuel 24:25
And in that place, David built an altar to the Lord. And he offered holocausts and peace offerings. And the Lord was gracious to the land, and the plague was held back from Israel.
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Genesis 12:7Then the Lord appeared to Abram, and he said to him, “To your offspring, I will give this land.” And there he built an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.
Numbers 17:13Whoever approaches to the tabernacle of the Lord dies. Will we all be wiped away, even to total annihilation?”
Judges 21:4Then, rising at first light on the next day, they built an altar. And they offered holocausts and victims of peace offerings there, and they said,
1 Samuel 7:17And he returned to Ramah. For his house was there, and he judged Israel there. And then he built an altar to the Lord there.
2 Samuel 24:14Then David said to Gad: “I am in great anguish. But it is better that I should fall into the hands of the Lord (for his mercies are many) than into the hands of men.”
Lamentations 3:32CAPH. For, if he has cast down, he will also have compassion, according to the multitude of his mercies.
Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 24:19-25
The Plague Removed. ( b. c. 1017.) 18 And Gad came that day to David, and said unto him, Go up, rear an altar unto the Lord in the threshingfloor of Araunah the Jebusite. 19 And David, according to the saying of Gad, went up as the Lord commanded. 20 And Araunah looked, and saw the king and his servants coming on toward him: and Araunah went out, and bowed himself before the king on his face upon the ground. 21 And Araunah said, Wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant? And David said, To buy the… Read the whole commentary →