^{26 Ref} And David put up an altar there to the Lord, offering burned offerings and peace-offerings with prayers to the Lord; and he gave him an answer from heaven, sending fire on the altar of burned offering.

^{27 Ref} Then the Lord gave orders to the angel, and he put back his sword into its cover.

²⁸ At that time, when David saw that the Lord had given him an answer on the grain-floor of Ornan the Jebusite, he made an offering there.

^{29 Ref} For the House of the Lord, which Moses had made in the waste land, and the altar of burned offerings, were at that time in the high place at Gibeon.

^{30 Ref} But David was not able to go before it to get directions from the Lord, so great was his fear of the sword of the angel of the Lord.