And king David said to Ornan, Nay; but I will verily buy it for the full (l) price: for I will not take [that] which [is] thine for the LORD, nor offer burnt offerings without cost.

(l) That is, as much as it is worth: for having enough of his own, and yet to have taken of another man's goods to offer to the Lord would had been theft and not acceptable to God.

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