Then the LORD commanded the angel, and he put his sword back into its sheath.
1 Chronicles 21:27 in context
1 Chronicles 21:24–30
King David said to Ornan, “No, but I will most certainly buy it for the full price. For I will not take that which is yours for the LORD, nor offer a burnt offering that costs me nothing.”
David built an altar to the LORD there, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called on the LORD; and he answered him from the sky by fire on the altar of burnt offering.
Then the LORD commanded the angel, and he put his sword back into its sheath.
At that time, when David saw that the LORD had answered him in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there.
For the LORD’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 the LORD’s angel.
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