And David built there an altar unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called upon the LORD; and he answered him from heaven by fire upon the altar of burnt offering.
David built there an altar. He went in procession with his leading men from the royal palace, down mount Zion, and through the intervening city; and, having plenty of space on his own property, he was commanded, under peremptory direction, to go a considerable distance from his home, up mount Moriah, to erect an altar on premises which he had to buy. It was on or close to the spot where Abraham had offered up Isaac.
And offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. 'I would remark, on this sole decided instance of a peace offering being made away from the sanctuary, that it is mentioned as extraordinary: the special circumstances of the case, and the revealed will of God, occasioned a departure from the otherwise constant rule' ('Israel after the Flesh,' p. 148: see the note at 2 Samuel 24:25).
Answered him from heaven by fire - (see Leviticus 9:24; 1 Kings 18:21-23; 2 Kings 1:12; 2 Chronicles 7:1.)