David needed to build an altar to stop the plague. Araunah offered the land and oxen for free. David refused the gift.

It would have been easy and 'religious' to accept the free gift. But David knew it wasn't a sacrifice if he didn't feel it. Torah connection: Leviticus 1:1-17 (Burnt offering is total). The Pharisaic distortion: Giving out of abundance vs the Widow's mite.

The king said to Araunah, “No; but I will most certainly buy it from you for a price. I will not offer burnt offerings to Yahweh my God which cost me nothing.” So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.

2 Samuel 24:24

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