2 Samuel 24:18

Gad came that day to David, by command from God, 2 Samuel 24:19 1 Chronicles 21:18. Go up to Mount Moriah. In the threshing-floor of Araunah the Jebusite; which place God appointed for this work, partly, in gracious condescension to and compliance with David's fear of going to Gibeon, which is expressed 1 Chronicles 21:29,30; partly, because this was the place where God by his angel appeared in a threatening posture, where therefore it was meet he should be appeased; and partly, because God would hereby signify the translation of the tabernacle from Gibeon hither, and the erection of the temple here, 2 Chronicles 3:1.