As the angel with a drawn sword stands near him, David is ordered to build an altar to the Lord (24:18–25). The place where he sees the angel is the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite, located north of Jerusalem on a hill overlooking the city. Chronicles refers to this hill as Mount Moriah, and it will become the very site on which Solomon later builds the temple (2 Chron. 3:1). When David asks Araunah for permission to buy the threshing floor, the J…