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"Gad came to David that day and said, 'Go and set up an altar to the Lord on the threshing- floor of Araunah the Jebusite. David obeyed Gad's instructions and went up as the Lord had commanded. When Araunah looked down and saw the king and his servants coming towards him, he went and prostrated himself before the king. He said, 'Why has your majesty come to visit his servant? David answered, 'To buy the threshing floor from you so that I may build an altar to the Lord, and the plague which has attacked the people may be stopped.' Araunah said, 'I beg your majesty to take it and sacrifice what you think fit. See, here are the oxen for the whole-offering and the threshing-sledges and ox yokes for fuel. Araunah gave it all to the king for his own use and said to him, 'May the Lord your God accept you.' But the king said to Araunah, 'No, I will buy it from you. I am not going to offer up to the Lord my God whole-offering that cost me nothing.' So David bought the threshing-floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver. He built an altar there to the Lord and offered whole-offerings and shared-offerings. (2 Samuel 24:18) That spot became the center of the future Temple Mount. Some scholars believe it is the location of the Holy of Holies in the First and Second Temples. Now it is the Sakhra, the large misshapen rock under the Dome of the Rock.