1 Chronicles 21:30

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

But David could not go before it to inquire of God: for he was afraid because of the sword of the angel of the LORD.

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  • Deut 10:12 : 12 And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,
  • 2 Sam 6:9 : 9 And David was afraid of the LORD that day, and said, How shall the ark of the LORD come to me?
  • 1 Chr 13:12 : 12 And David was afraid of God that day, saying, How shall I bring the ark of God home to me?
  • 1 Chr 21:16 : 16 And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of the LORD stand between the earth and the heaven, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders of Israel, who were clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces.
  • Job 13:21 : 21 Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.
  • Job 21:6 : 6 Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.
  • Job 23:15 : 15 Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him.
  • Ps 90:11 : 11 Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.
  • Ps 119:120 : 120 My flesh trembleth for fear of thee; and I am afraid of thy judgments.
  • Jer 5:22 : 22 Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?
  • Jer 10:7 : 7 Who would not fear thee, O King of nations? for to thee doth it appertain: forasmuch as among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is none like unto thee.
  • Heb 12:28-29 : 28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: 29 For our God is a consuming fire.
  • Rev 1:17 : 17 And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last:
  • Rev 15:4 : 4 Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou only art holy: for all nations shall come and worship befo thee; for thy judgments a made manifest.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Chr 21:15-22
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    79%

    15 And God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was destroying, the LORD beheld, and he repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed, It is enough, stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD stood by the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.

    16 And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of the LORD stand between the earth and the heaven, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders of Israel, who were clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces.

    17 And David said unto God, Is it not I that commanded the people to be numbered? even I it is that have sinned and done evil indeed; but as for these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, O LORD my God, be on me, and on my father's house; but not on thy people, that they should be plagued.

    18 Then the angel of the LORD commanded Gad to say to David, that David should go up, and set up an altar unto the LORD in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.

    19 And David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spake in the name of the LORD.

    20 And Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.

    21 And as David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out of the threshingfloor, and bowed himself to David with his face to the ground.

    22 Then David said to Ornan, Grant me the place of this threshingfloor, that I may build an altar therein unto the LORD: thou shalt grant it me for the full price: that the plague may be stayed from the people.

  • 1 Chr 13:12-13
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    78%

    12 And David was afraid of God that day, saying, How shall I bring the ark of God home to me?

    13 So David brought not the ark home to himself to the city of David, but carried it aside into the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.

  • 2 Sam 6:9-10
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    9 And David was afraid of the LORD that day, and said, How shall the ark of the LORD come to me?

    10 So David would not remove the ark of the LORD unto him into the city of David: but David carried it aside into the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.

  • 1 Chr 21:27-29
    3 verses
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    27 And the LORD commanded the angel; and he put up his sword again into the sheath thereof.

    28 At that time when David saw that the LORD had answered him in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there.

    29 For the tabernacle of the LORD, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of the burnt offering, were at that season in the high place at Gibeon.

  • 1 Sam 21:8-10
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    8 And David said unto Ahimelech, And is there not here under thine hand spear or sword? for I have neither brought my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king's business required haste.

    9 And the priest said, The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom thou slewest in the valley of Elah, behold, it is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod: if thou wilt take that, take it: for there is no other save that here. And David said, There is none like that; give it me.

    10 And David arose, and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath.

  • 1 Sam 23:2-4
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    2 Therefore David inquired of the LORD, saying, Shall I go and smite these Philistines? And the LORD said unto David, Go, and smite the Philistines, and save Keilah.

    3 And David's men said unto him, Behold, we be afraid here in Judah: how much more then if we come to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines?

    4 Then David inquired of the LORD yet again. And the LORD answered him and said, Arise, go down to Keilah; for I will deliver the Philistines into thine hand.

  • 1 Sam 21:1
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    1 Then came David to Nob to Ahimelech the priest: and Ahimelech was afraid at the meeting of David, and said unto him, Why art thou alone, and no man with thee?

  • 1 Sam 18:12
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    12 And Saul was afraid of David, because the LORD was with him, and was departed from Saul.

  • 1 Sam 17:39
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    39 And David girded his sword upon his armour, and he assayed to go; for he had not proved it. And David said unto Saul, I cannot go with these; for I have not proved them. And David put them off him.

  • 2 Sam 1:14
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    14 And David said unto him, How wast thou not afraid to stretch forth thine hand to destroy the LORD'S anointed?

  • 2 Sam 5:23
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    23 And when David inquired of the LORD, he said, Thou shalt not go up; but fetch a compass behind them, and come upon them over against the mulberry trees.

  • 1 Sam 14:37
    71%

    37 And Saul asked counsel of God, Shall I go down after the Philistines? wilt thou deliver them into the hand of Israel? But he answered him not that day.

  • 1 Chr 14:10
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    10 And David inquired of God, saying, Shall I go up against the Philistines? and wilt thou deliver them into mine hand? And the LORD said unto him, Go up; for I will deliver them into thine hand.

  • 2 Sam 24:16-19
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    71%

    16 And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite.

    17 And David spake unto the LORD when he saw the angel that smote the people, and said, Lo, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly: but these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, be against me, and against my father's house.

    18 And Gad came that day to David, and said unto him, Go up, rear an altar unto the LORD in the threshingfloor of Araunah the Jebusite.

    19 And David, according to the saying of Gad, went up as the LORD commanded.

  • 1 Chr 14:14
    71%

    14 Therefore David inquired again of God; and God said unto him, Go not up after them; turn away from them, and come upon them over against the mulberry trees.

  • 1 Chr 10:14
    70%

    14 And inquired not of the LORD: therefore he slew him, and turned the kingdom unto David the son of Jesse.

  • 1 Sam 29:9
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    9 And Achish answered and said to David, I know that thou art good in my sight, as an angel of God: notwithstanding the princes of the Philistines have said, He shall not go up with us to the battle.

  • 1 Sam 21:12
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    12 And David laid up these words in his heart, and was sore afraid of Achish the king of Gath.

  • 2 Sam 3:11
    70%

    11 And he could not answer Abner a word again, because he feared him.

  • Judg 20:27
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    27 And the children of Israel inquired of the LORD, (for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days,

  • 1 Sam 28:5
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    5 And when Saul saw the host of the Philistines, he was afraid, and his heart greatly trembled.

  • 1 Chr 14:16-17
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    16 David therefore did as God commanded him: and they smote the host of the Philistines from Gibeon even to Gazer.

    17 And the fame of David went out into all lands; and the LORD brought the fear of him upon all nations.

  • 1 Chr 13:3
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    3 And let us bring again the ark of our God to us: for we inquired not at it in the days of Saul.

  • 2 Sam 5:19
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    19 And David inquired of the LORD, saying, Shall I go up to the Philistines? wilt thou deliver them into mine hand? And the LORD said unto David, Go up: for I will doubtless deliver the Philistines into thine hand.

  • 1 Sam 23:10
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    10 Then said David, O LORD God of Israel, thy servant hath certainly heard that Saul seeketh to come to Keilah, to destroy the city for my sake.

  • 2 Sam 24:21
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    21 And Araunah said, Wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant? And David said, To buy the threshingfloor of thee, to build an altar unto the LORD, that the plague may be stayed from the people.

  • 1 Sam 17:41
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    41 And the Philistine came on and drew near unto David; and the man that bare the shield went before him.

  • 1 Sam 17:32-33
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    32 And David said to Saul, Let no man's heart fail because of him; thy servant will go and fight with this Philistine.

    33 And Saul said to David, Thou art not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him: for thou art but a youth, and he a man of war from his youth.

  • 1 Chr 22:1
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    1 Then David said, This is the house of the LORD God, and this is the altar of the burnt offering for Israel.

  • 1 Sam 17:45
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    45 Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.