A sacrifice with cost

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

Story guide: David refuses a free offering and pays Ornan six hundred gold shekels. Unspecified appearances and settings provide contextual imagery; Scripture remains the source.

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24But King David said to Ornan, “No, for I will surely buy it for the full price in silver, because I will not take for Yahweh what is yours, nor offer up a burnt offering for nothing.”

25And David gave Ornan six hundred shekels of gold by weight for the place.

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