New Revised Standard Version
Araunah said, “Why has my lord the king come to his servant?” David said, “To buy the threshing floor from you in order to build an altar to the LORD, so that the plague may be averted from the people.”

Contemporary English Version
and said, "Your Majesty! Why have you come to see me?" David answered, "I've come to buy your threshing place. I have to build the LORD an altar here, so this disease will stop killing the people."

New American Bible
Then Araunah asked, “Why does my lord the king come to his servant?” David replied, “To buy the threshing floor from you, to build an altar to the LORD, that the plague may be withdrawn from the people.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And going out he worshipped the king, bowing with his face to the earth, and said: Wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant? And David said to him: To buy the thrashingfloor of thee, and build an altar to the Lord, that the plague, which rageth among the people, may cease.

And going out he worshipped the king, bowing with his face to the earth, and said: Wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant? And David said to him: To buy the thrashingfloor of thee, and build an altar to the Lord, that the plague, which rageth among the people, may cease.

Wherefore

2 Samuel 24:3,18 And Joab said to the king: The Lord thy God increase thy people, and make them as many more as they are now, and again multiply them a hundredfold in the sight of my lord the king: but what meaneth my lord the king by this kind of thing? . . .

To buy

Genesis 23:8-16 And said to them: If it please your soul that I should bury my dead, hear me, and intercede for me to Ephron the son of Seor. . . .

1 Chronicles 21:22 And David said to him: Give me this place of thy thrashingfloor, that I may build therein an altar to the Lord: but thou shalt take of me as much money as it is worth, that the plague may cease from the people.

Jeremiah 32:6-14 And Jeremiah said: The word of the Lord came to me, saying: . . .

the plague

2 Samuel 21:3-14 David therefore said to the Gabaonites: What shall I do for you? and what shall be the atonement or you, that you may bless the inheritance of the Lord? . . .

Numbers 16:47-50 When Aaron had done this, and had run to the midst of the multitude which the burning fire was now destroying, he offered the incense: . . .

Numbers 25:8 Went in after the Israelite into the brothel house, and thrust both of them through together, to wit, the man and the woman in the genital parts. And the scourge ceased from the children of Israel.

Psalm 106:30 Then Phinees stood up, and pacified him: and the slaughter ceased.