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 stayed from Israel.
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Genesis 12:7The Lord appeared to Abram and said, "I will give this land to your seed."He built an altar there to the Lord, who appeared to him.
Numbers 17:13Everyone who comes near, who comes near to the tabernacle of the Lord, dies! Will we all perish?"
Judges 21:4It happened on the next day that the people rose early, and built there an altar, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.
1 Samuel 7:17His return was to Ramah, for there was his house; and there he judged Israel: and he built there an altar to the Lord.
2 Samuel 24:14David said to Gad, "I am in distress. Let us fall now into the hand of the Lord; for his mercies are great. Let me not fall into the hand of man."
Lamentations 3:32For though he may cause grief, yet he will have compassion according to the abundance of his loving kindness.
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 →