But the king said to Araunah, “No, but I will buy it from you for a price. I will not offer burnt offerings to the Lord my God that cost me nothing.” So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.
2 Samuel 24:24 ESV
David has a significant encounter with the Lord at this threshing floor which would later become the site for the Lord's temple in Jerusalem (2Chronicles 3:1). A significant encounter with a significant revelation. David understood that although he could have accepted the threshing floor from Araunah (aka Ornan) for nothing, this would have invalidated the genuineness of his sacrifice to the Lord.
Pay to all what is owed to them: taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect is owed, honor to whom honor is owed. Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.
Romans 13:7-8 ESV
Let us not think that we can offer an acceptable sacrifice to the Lord without fulfilling our debt of love to each other.
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