THE HOLY BIBLE Douay-Rheims

Second Book of Kings (Author Compiled by Isaias from records of Samuel, David, Nathan, and Gad.)

24:21And going out he worshipped the king, bowing with his face to the earth, and said: Wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant? And David said to him: To buy the thrashingfloor of thee, and build an altar to the Lord, that the plague, which rageth among the people, may cease.


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