1 Chronicles 21:30
But David couldn’t go before it to enquire of God, for he was afraid because of the sword of the LORD’s angel.
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Deuteronomy 10:12Now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you, but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, and to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
1 Chronicles 13:12David was afraid of God that day, saying, “How can I bring God’s ark home to me?”
Job 13:21withdraw your hand far from me, and don’t let your terror make me afraid.
Job 23:15Therefore I am terrified at his presence. When I consider, I am afraid of him.
Psalms 119:120My flesh trembles for fear of you. I am afraid of your judgements.
Jeremiah 10:7Who shouldn’t fear you, King of the nations? For it belongs to you. Because amongst all the wise men of the nations, and in all their royal estate, 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 →