1 Chronicles 21:27
And the Lord instructed the Angel, and he turned his sword back into its sheath.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
And the LORD commanded the angel; and he put up his sword again into the sheath thereof.
In Context
Cross References
1 Chronicles 21:12Either three years of famine, or three months for you to flee from your enemies, unable to escape from their sword, or three days for the sword of the Lord and a pestilence to turn within the land, with the Angel of the Lord killing in every part of Israel. Now therefore, see what I should respond to him who sent me.”
1 Chronicles 21:20Now when Ornan had looked up and seen the Angel, he and his four sons hid themselves. For at that time, he was threshing wheat upon the floor.
Jeremiah 47:6O sharp sword of the Lord, how long will you be without rest? Enter your sheath; be refreshed and silenced.
Matthew 26:52Then Jesus said to him: “Put your sword back in its place. For all who take up the sword shall perish by the sword.
Hebrews 1:14Are they not all spirits of ministration, sent to minister for the sake of those who shall receive the inheritance of salvation?
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 →