1 Chronicles 21:27
And YHWH speaks to the messenger, and he turns back his sword to its sheath.
Literal Standard 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 famine for three years, or three months to be consumed from the face of your adversaries (even [for] the sword of your enemies to overtake), or three days of the sword of YHWH (even pestilence in the land, and a messenger of YHWH destroying in all the border of Israel); and now, see; what word do I return to Him who is sending me?”
1 Chronicles 21:20And Ornan turns back and sees the messenger, and his four sons [are] with him hiding themselves, and Ornan is threshing wheat.
Jeremiah 47:6Behold, sword of YHWH, until when are you not quiet? Be removed to your sheath, rest and cease.
Matthew 26:52Then Jesus says to him, “Turn back your sword to its place; for all who took the sword will perish by the sword;
Hebrews 1:14Are they not all spirits of service—being sent forth for ministry because of those about to inherit 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 →