📖WEB · 1 Chronicles 21:30
What does 1 Chronicles 21:30 mean?
"But David couldn’t go before it to inquire of God; for he was afraid because of the sword of Yahweh’s angel."
— 1 Chronicles 21:30 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
Then Yahweh commanded the angel, and he put his sword back into its sheath.
At that time, when David saw that Yahweh had answered him in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there.
For Yahweh’s tabernacle, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of burnt offering, were at that time in the high place at Gibeon.
But David couldn’t go before it to inquire of God; for he was afraid because of the sword of Yahweh’s angel.
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