World English Bible
"David went up according to the saying of Gad, as Yahweh commanded."
— 2 Samuel 24:19, World English Bible
“And David, according to the saying of Gad, went up as the Lord commanded.”
“And David went up according to the saying of Gad, as Jehovah commanded. ”
“So David went up as Gad instructed him to do, according to the LORD’s instructions.”
“And David went up according to the word of Gad which the Lord had commanded him.”
“So David went up, as Gad had said and as the Lord had given orders.”
“And David, according to the saying of Gad, went up as the Lord commanded.”
When the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, Yahweh relented of the disaster, and said to the angel who destroyed the people, "It is enough. Now stay your hand." The angel of Yahweh was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
David spoke to Yahweh when he saw the angel who struck the people, and said, "Behold, I have sinned, and I have done perversely; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand be against me, and against my father's house."
Gad came that day to David, and said to him, "Go up, build an altar to Yahweh on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite."
David went up according to the saying of Gad, as Yahweh commanded.
Araunah looked out, and saw the king and his servants coming on toward him. Then Araunah went out, and bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground.
Araunah said, "Why has my lord the king come to his servant?" David said, "To buy your threshing floor, to build an altar to Yahweh, that the plague may be stopped from afflicting the people."
Araunah said to David, "Let my lord the king take and offer up what seems good to him. Behold, the cattle for the burnt offering, and the threshing instruments and the yokes of the oxen for the wood: