1 Chronicles 21:30
And David could not go before it to enquire of God; for he hasted not because of the sword of the angel of the Lord.
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Deuteronomy 10:12And now, Israel, what does the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, and 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;
1 Chronicles 13:12And David feared God that day, saying, How shall I bring the ark of God in to myself?
Job 13:21Withhold thine hand from me: and let not thy fear terrify me.
Job 23:15a Therefore let me take good heed before him: I will consider, and be afraid of him.
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 →