But David couldn’t go before it to inquire of God, for he was afraid because of the sword of the LORD’s angel.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
1 Chronicles 21:30 in context
1 Chronicles 21:27–30
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Then the LORD commanded the angel, and he put his sword back into its sheath.
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At that time, when David saw that the LORD had answered him in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there.
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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.
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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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