“No,” replied King David, “I insist on paying the full price, for I will not take for the LORD what belongs to you, nor will I offer burnt offerings that cost me nothing.”
Three times a year all your men are to appear before the LORD your God in the place He will choose: at the Feast of Unle
and said to Ephron in their presence, “If you will please listen to me, I will pay you the price of the field. Accept it
that I will not accept even a thread, or a strap of a sandal, or anything that belongs to you, lest you should say, ‘I h
“But you profane it when you say, ‘The table of the Lord is defiled, and as for its fruit, its food is contemptible.’
Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Carefully consider what is right in the eyes of everybody.