¹¹ Before David got up the next morning, the word of the Lord had come to Gad^(A) the prophet, David’s seer:^(B)

David Builds an Altar^(A)

¹⁸ On that day Gad went to David and said to him, “Go up and build an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor of Araunah^(B) the Jebusite.” ¹⁹ So David went up, as the Lord had commanded through Gad.

⁹ The Lord said to Gad,^(A) David’s seer,^(B)

¹¹ So Gad went to David and said to him, “This is what the Lord says: ‘Take your choice:

¹³ David said to Gad, “I am in deep distress. Let me fall into the hands of the Lord, for his mercy^(A) is very great; but do not let me fall into human hands.”

David Builds an Altar

¹⁸ Then the angel of the Lord ordered Gad to tell David to go up and build an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor^(A) of Araunah the Jebusite. ¹⁹ So David went up in obedience to the word that Gad had spoken in the name of the Lord.

²⁹ As for the events of King David’s reign, from beginning to end, they are written in the records of Samuel the seer,^(A) the records of Nathan^(B) the prophet and the records of Gad^(C) the seer,

²⁵ He stationed the Levites in the temple of the Lord with cymbals, harps and lyres in the way prescribed by David^(A) and Gad^(B) the king’s seer and Nathan the prophet; this was commanded by the Lord through his prophets.