23All this, O king, Ornah gives to the king. And Ornah said to the king, The Lord thy God be merciful to thee.

24But the king said to Orna, "No, I will pay you what is worth, and I will not offer to the Lord my God a sacrifice taken freely." And David bought the threshing floor and oxen for fifty shekels of silver.

25So David built there an altar to the LORD and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. [Then Solomon spread out the altar, because it was small.] And the Lord was propitiated over the country, and the defeat of the Israelites ceased.