2 Samuel 24:23
Good News Translation
Araunah gave it all to the king and said to him, "May the LORD your God accept your offering."

New Revised Standard Version
All this, O king, Araunah gives to the king.” And Araunah said to the king, “May the LORD your God respond favorably to you.”

Contemporary English Version
Take them--they're yours! I hope the LORD your God will be pleased with you."

New American Bible
All this does Araunah give to the king.” Araunah then said to the king, “May the LORD your God accept your offering.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
All these things Areuna as a king gave to the king: and Areuna said to the king: The Lord thy God receive thy vow.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

All these things Areuna as a king gave to the king: and Areuna said to the king: The Lord thy God receive thy vow.

as a king

Psalm 45:16 Instead of thy fathers, sons are born to thee: thou shalt make them princes over all the earth.

Isaiah 32:8 But the prince will devise such things as are worthy of a prince, and he shall stand above the rulers.

The Lord

Job 42:8,9 Take unto you therefore seven oxen and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer for yourselves a holocaust, and my servant Job shall pray for you: his face I will accept, that folly be not imputed to you: for you have not spoken right things before me, as my servant Job hath. . . .

Psalm 20:3,4 May he be mindful of all thy sacrifices: and may thy whole burntoffering be made fat. . . .

Isaiah 60:7 All the flocks of Cedar shall be gathered together unto thee, the rams of Nabaioth shall minister to thee: they shall be offered upon my acceptable altar, and I will glorify the house of my majesty.

Ezekiel 20:40,41 In my holy mountain, in the high mountain of Israel, saith the Lord God, there shall all the house of Israel serve me; all of them I say, in the land in which they shall please me, and there will I require your firstfruits, and the chief of your tithes with all your sanctifications. . . .

Hosea 8:13 They shall offer victims, they shall sacrifice flesh, and shall eat it, and the Lord will not receive them: now will he remember their iniquity, and will visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt.

Romans 15:30,31 I beseech you therefore, brethren, through our Lord Jesus Christ and by the charity of the Holy Ghost, that you help me in your prayers for me to God, . . .

1 Timothy 2:1,2 I desire therefore, first of all, that supplications, prayers, intercessions and thanksgivings be made for all men: . . .

1 Peter 2:5 Be you also as living stones built up, a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

Context
David Builds an Altar
22And Areuna said to David: Let my lord the king take, and offer, as it seemeth good to him: thou hast here oxen for a holocaust, and the wain, and the yokes of the oxen for wood. 23All these things Areuna as a king gave to the king: and Areuna said to the king: The Lord thy God receive thy vow.24And the king answered him, and said: Nay, but I will buy it of thee, at a price, and I will not offer to the Lord my God holocausts free cost. So David bought the floor, and the oxen, for fifty sicles of silver:…
Cross References
Ezekiel 20:40
In my holy mountain, in the high mountain of Israel, saith the Lord God, there shall all the house of Israel serve me; all of them I say, in the land in which they shall please me, and there will I require your firstfruits, and the chief of your tithes with all your sanctifications.

Ezekiel 20:41
I will accept of you for an odour of sweetness, when I shall have brought you out from the people, and shall have gathered you out of the lands into which you are scattered, and I will be sanctified in you in the sight of the nations.

2 Samuel 24:22
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