◄ 2 Samuel 24:25 ►
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Good News Translation
Then he built an altar to the LORD and offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings. The LORD answered his prayer, and the epidemic in Israel was stopped.

New Revised Standard Version
David built there an altar to the LORD, and offered burnt offerings and offerings of well-being. So the LORD answered his supplication for the land, and the plague was averted from Israel.

Contemporary English Version
Then he built an altar for the LORD. He offered sacrifices to please the LORD and to ask for his blessings. The LORD answered the prayers of the people, and no one else died from the terrible disease.

New American Bible
Then David built an altar to the LORD there, and sacrificed burnt offerings and communion offerings. The LORD granted relief to the land, and the plague was withdrawn from Israel.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And David built there an altar to the Lord, and offered holocausts and peace offerings: and the Lord became merciful to the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And David built there an altar to the Lord, and offered holocausts and peace offerings: and the Lord became merciful to the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel.

built there

Genesis 8:20 And Noe built an altar unto the Lord: and taking of all cattle and fowls that were clean, offered holocausts upon the altar.

Genesis 22:9 And they came to the place which God had shewn him, where he built an altar, and laid the wood in order upon it; and when he had bound Isaac his son, he laid him on the altar upon the pile of wood.

1 Samuel 7:9,17 And Samuel took a sucking lamb, and offered it whole for a holocaust to the Lord: and Samuel cried to the Lord for Israel, and the Lord heard him. . . .

So the Lord

2 Samuel 24:14 And David said to Gad: I am in a great strait: but it is better that I should fall into the hands of the Lord (for his mercies are many) than into the hands of men.

2 Samuel 21:14 And they buried them with the bones of Saul, and of Jonathan his son in the land of Benjamin, in the side, in the sepulchre of Cis his father: and they did all that the king had commanded, and God shewed mercy again to the land after these things.

1 Chronicles 21:26,27 And he built there an altar to the Lord: and he offered holocausts, and peace offerings, and he called upon the Lord, and he heard him by sending fire from heaven upon the altar of the holocaust. . . .

Lamentations 3:32,33 Caph. For if he hath cast off, he will also have mercy, according to the multitude of his mercies. . . .

Context
David Builds an Altar
…24And the king answered him, and said: Nay, but I will buy it of thee, at a price, and I will not offer to the Lord my God holocausts free cost. So David bought the floor, and the oxen, for fifty sicles of silver: 25And David built there an altar to the Lord, and offered holocausts and peace offerings: and the Lord became merciful to the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel.
Cross References
Judges 21:4
And rising early the next day, they built an altar: and offered there holocausts, and victims of peace, and they said:

1 Samuel 13:9
Then Saul said: Bring me the holocaust, and the peace offerings. And he offered the holocaust.

1 Samuel 14:35
And Saul built an altar to the Lord: and he then first began to build an altar to the Lord.

2 Samuel 21:14
And they buried them with the bones of Saul, and of Jonathan his son in the land of Benjamin, in the side, in the sepulchre of Cis his father: and they did all that the king had commanded, and God shewed mercy again to the land after these things.

1 Kings 1:1
Now king David was old, and advanced in years: and when he was covered with clothes he was not warm.

Ezekiel 16:42
And my indignation shall rest in thee: and my jealousy shall depart from thee, and I will cease and be angry no more.

2 Samuel 24:24
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