17 But his return was to Raʹmah,+ because there was where his house was, and there he judged Israel. And he proceeded to build an altar there to Jehovah.+

18 Later Gad came in to David on that day and said to him: “Go up, set up for Jehovah an altar on the threshing floor of A·rauʹnah the Jebʹu·site.”+

25 And David proceeded to build there an altar+ to Jehovah and offer up burnt sacrifices and communion sacrifices, and Jehovah began letting himself be entreated+ for the land, so that the scourge was halted from upon Israel.