An altar is commanded

The Census, the Plague, and Ornan’s Altar · 1 Chronicles 21

Story guide: The angel sends Gad to direct David to Ornan’s threshing floor. Unspecified appearances and settings provide contextual imagery; Scripture remains the source.

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18And the angel of Yahweh said to Gad to tell David that David should go up to set up an altar to Yahweh on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

19So David went up at the word of Gad, which he had spoken in the name of Yahweh.

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