1 Chronicles 21:30

World English Bible (2000)

But David couldn't go before it to inquire of God; for he was afraid because of the sword of the angel of Yahweh.

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 10:12 : 12 Now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God require of you, but to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
  • 2 Sam 6:9 : 9 David was afraid of Yahweh that day; and he said, "How shall the ark of Yahweh come to me?"
  • 1 Chr 13:12 : 12 David was afraid of God that day, saying, "How shall I bring the ark of God home to me?"
  • 1 Chr 21:16 : 16 David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of Yahweh standing between earth and the sky, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell on their faces.
  • Job 13:21 : 21 withdraw your hand far from me; and don't let your terror make me afraid.
  • Job 21:6 : 6 When I remember, I am troubled. Horror takes hold of my flesh.
  • Job 23:15 : 15 Therefore I am terrified at his presence. When I consider, I am afraid of him.
  • Ps 90:11 : 11 Who knows the power of your anger, your wrath according to the fear that is due to you?
  • Ps 119:120 : 120 My flesh trembles for fear of you. I am afraid of your judgments. AYIN
  • Jer 5:22 : 22 Don't you fear me?' says Yahweh 'Won't you tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, by a perpetual decree, that it can't pass it? and though its waves toss themselves, yet they can't prevail; though they roar, yet they can't pass over it.'
  • Jer 10:7 : 7 Who should not fear you, King of the nations? For it appertains to you; because among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their royal estate, there is none like you.
  • Heb 12:28-29 : 28 Therefore, receiving a Kingdom that can't be shaken, let us have grace, through which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe, 29 for our God is a consuming fire.
  • Rev 1:17 : 17 When I saw him, I fell at his feet like a dead man. He laid his right hand on me, saying, "Don't be afraid. I am the first and the last,
  • Rev 15:4 : 4 Who wouldn't fear you, Lord, and glorify your name? For you only are holy. For all the nations will come and worship before you. For your righteous acts have been revealed."

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Chr 21:15-22
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    79%

    15 God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it. As he was about to destroy, Yahweh saw, and he relented of the disaster, and said to the destroying angel, "It is enough; now stay your hand." The angel of Yahweh was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

    16 David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of Yahweh standing between earth and the sky, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell on their faces.

    17 David said to God, "Isn't it I who commanded the people to be numbered? It is even I who have sinned and done very wickedly; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand, O Yahweh my God, be against me, and against my father's house; but not against your people, that they should be plagued."

    18 Then the angel of Yahweh commanded Gad to tell David that David should go up, and raise an altar to Yahweh in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

    19 David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spoke in the name of Yahweh.

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

    21 As David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out of the threshing floor, and bowed himself to David with his face to the ground.

    22 Then David said to Ornan, "Give me the place of this threshing floor, that I may build thereon an altar to Yahweh. You shall sell it to me for the full price, that the plague may be stopped from afflicting the people."

  • 1 Chr 13:12-13
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    12 David was afraid of God that day, saying, "How shall I bring the ark of God home to me?"

    13 So David didn't move the ark to him into 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 David was afraid of Yahweh that day; and he said, "How shall the ark of Yahweh come to me?"

    10 So David would not move the ark of Yahweh to be with him in the city of David; but David carried it aside into the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite.

  • 1 Chr 21:27-29
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    27 Yahweh commanded the angel; and he put up his sword again into its sheath.

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

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

  • 1 Sam 21:8-10
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    8 David said to Ahimelech, "Isn't there here under your hand spear or sword? For I have neither brought my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king's business required haste."

    9 The priest said, "The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you killed in the valley of Elah, behold, it is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. If you will take that, take it; for there is no other except that here." David said, "There is none like that. Give it to me."

    10 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 Yahweh, saying, "Shall I go and strike these Philistines?" Yahweh said to David, "Go strike the Philistines, and save Keilah."

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

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

  • 1 Sam 21:1
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    1 Then came David to Nob to Ahimelech the priest. Ahimelech came to meet David trembling, and said to him, "Why are you alone, and no man with you?"

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

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    39 David strapped his sword on his clothing, and he tried to move; for he had not tested it. David said to Saul, "I can't go with these; for I have not tested them." David took them off.

  • 2 Sam 1:14
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    14 David said to him, "How were you not afraid to put forth your hand to destroy Yahweh's anointed?"

  • 2 Sam 5:23
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    23 When David inquired of Yahweh, he said, "You shall not go up. Circle around behind them, and attack them over against the mulberry trees.

  • 1 Sam 14:37
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    37 Saul asked counsel of God, "Shall I go down after the Philistines? Will you deliver them into the hand of Israel?" But he didn't answer him that day.

  • 1 Chr 14:10
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    10 David inquired of God, saying, "Shall I go up against the Philistines? Will you deliver them into my hand?" Yahweh said to him, "Go up; for I will deliver them into your hand."

  • 2 Sam 24:16-19
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    16 When the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, Yahweh relented of the disaster, and said to the angel who destroyed the people, "It is enough. Now stay your hand." The angel of Yahweh was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

    17 David spoke to Yahweh when he saw the angel who struck the people, and said, "Behold, I have sinned, and I have done perversely; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand be against me, and against my father's house."

    18 Gad came that day to David, and said to him, "Go up, build an altar to Yahweh on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite."

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

  • 1 Chr 14:14
    71%

    14 David inquired again of God; and God said to him, "You shall not go up after them. Turn away from them, and come on them over against the mulberry trees.

  • 1 Chr 10:14
    70%

    14 and didn't inquire of Yahweh: therefore he killed him, and turned the kingdom to David the son of Jesse.

  • 1 Sam 29:9
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    9 Achish answered David, "I know that you are 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 David laid up these words in his heart, and was very afraid of Achish the king of Gath.

  • 2 Sam 3:11
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    11 He could not answer Abner another word, because he feared him.

  • Judg 20:27
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    27 The children of Israel asked of Yahweh (for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days,

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

  • 1 Chr 14:16-17
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    16 David did as God commanded him: and they struck the army of the Philistines from Gibeon even to Gezer.

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  • 1 Chr 13:3
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    3 and let us bring again the ark of our God to us. For we didn't seek it in the days of Saul."

  • 2 Sam 5:19
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    19 David inquired of Yahweh, saying, "Shall I go up against the Philistines? Will you deliver them into my hand?" Yahweh said to David, "Go up; for I will certainly deliver the Philistines into your hand."

  • 1 Sam 23:10
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    10 Then David said, "O Yahweh, the God of Israel, your servant has surely heard that Saul seeks to come to Keilah, to destroy the city for my sake.

  • 2 Sam 24:21
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    21 Araunah said, "Why has my lord the king come to his servant?" David said, "To buy your threshing floor, to build an altar to Yahweh, that the plague may be stopped from afflicting the people."

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    41 The Philistine came on and drew near to David; and the man who bore the shield went before him.

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

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    1 Then David said, "This is the house of Yahweh God, and this is the altar of burnt offering for Israel."

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    45 Then David said to the Philistine, "You come to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a javelin: but I come to you in the name of Yahweh of Armies, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.