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David asks to purchase.
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1 Chronicles 21:22

David asks to purchase

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

Story guide: David asks for the full-price purchase so an altar may stop the plague. Unspecified appearances and settings provide contextual imagery; Scripture remains the source.

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22Then David said to Ornan, “Give me the place of the threshing floor, so that I may build on it an altar to the LORD. Give it to me for the full price, so that the plague may be stopped from upon the people.”

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