1 Chronicles 21:30
But David was not able to go before it to get directions from the Lord, so great was his fear of the sword of the angel of the Lord.
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Deuteronomy 10:12And now, Israel, what would the Lord your God have you do, but to go in the fear of the Lord your God, walking in all his ways and loving him and doing his pleasure with all your heart and all your soul,
1 Chronicles 13:12And so great was David's fear of God that day, that he said, How may I let the ark of God come to me?
Job 13:21Take your hand far away from me; and let me not be overcome by fear of you.
Job 23:15For this cause I am in fear before him, my thoughts of him overcome me.
Psalms 119:120My flesh is moved for fear of you; I give honour to your decisions.
Jeremiah 10:7Who would not have fear of you, O King of the nations? for it is your right: for among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is no one like you.
Matthew Henry on 1 Chronicles 21:19-30
Ornan's Threshing-Floor. ( b. c. 1017.) 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… Read the whole commentary →