2 Samuel 24 from Scroll 4Q51 Samuel^a

16 When the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, Yahweh relented of the disaster, and said to the angel who destroyed the people, “It is enough. Now withdraw your hand.” Yahweh’s angel was standing by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite. And David lifted up his eyes and saw Yahweh’s angel standing between the earth and heaven with his sword drawn in his hand, stretched out over Jerusalem, and he and the elders fell on their faces, covering themselves with sackcloth.[1]

17 David spoke to Yahweh when he saw the angel who struck the people, and said, “Behold, I have sinned, and I have done perversely the great evil[2]; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand be against me, and against my father’s house.”

18 Gad came that day to David, and said to him, “Go up, build an altar to Yahweh on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.”

19 David went up according to the saying of Gad, as Yahweh commanded. 20 Araunah looked out, and saw the king and his servants coming on toward him in sackcloth, and Araunah was threshing wheat. When he saw the king and his servants covered in sackcloth coming, then Araunah went out, and bowed himself before the king David[3] with his face to the ground. 21 Araunah said, “Why has my lord the king come to his servant?”

David said, “To buy your threshing floor, to build an altar to Yahweh, that the plague may be stopped from afflicting the people.”

22 Araunah said to David, “Let my lord the king take and offer up what seems good to him. Behold, the cattle for the burnt offering, and the threshing instruments and the yokes of the oxen for the wood.