2 Samuel 24:25
David built an altar to the LORD there, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So the LORD was entreated for the land, and the plague was removed from Israel.
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Genesis 12:7The LORD appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.” He built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him.
Numbers 17:13Everyone who keeps approaching the LORD’s tabernacle, dies! Will we all perish?”
Judges 21:4On the next day, the people rose early and built an altar there, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.
1 Samuel 7:17His return was to Ramah, for his house was there, and he judged Israel there; and he built an altar to the LORD there.
2 Samuel 24:14David said to Gad, “I am in distress. Let us fall now into the LORD’s hand, for his mercies are great. Let me not fall into man’s hand.”
Lamentations 3:32For though he causes grief, yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
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 →