1 Chronicles 21:17-19

International Standard Version

¹⁷ David told God, “Wasn’t I the one who ordered the census of the population? Wasn’t it I who sinned and acted wickedly? Now as for these sheep, what have they done? Lord God, please let your hand be against me and my ancestral household, but don’t let your people be ravaged by plague!”

David’s Altar^(A)

¹⁸ The angel of the Lord told Gad to tell David that David was to go up and build an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor that belonged to Ornan the Jebusite. ¹⁹ So David went up, obeying Gad’s directive that he had spoken in the name of the Lord.