OLD TESTAMENT

2 Samuel 24:18

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

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Verse 18. Altar. This was done by a positive order. People still had the liberty of sacrificing on the heights of Gabaon. Calmet.—This place was honoured with the tabernacle; and David would have gone thither, if he had not been so much terrified. 1 Chronicles 21:30. Bible.

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