1 Chronicles 21:30
and David could not go before it, to seek God,—for he had been terrified, because of the sword of the messenger of Yahweh.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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Deuteronomy 10:12Now, therefore, O Israel, what is, Yahweh thy God, asking of thee,—but to revere Yahweh thy God to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve Yahweh thy God, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul:
1 Chronicles 13:12And David was afraid of God, on that day, saying,—How can I bring unto me, the ark of God?
Job 13:21Thy hand—from off me, take thou far away, and, thy terror, let it not startle me!
Job 23:15For this cause, from his presence, am I driven in fear, I diligently consider and am kept back from him in dread:
Psalms 119:120My flesh, bristled up from dread of thee, and, of thy regulations, stand I in fear.
Jeremiah 10:7Who would not revere thee, O King of nations? For, thee, doth it beseem; Forasmuch as among all the wise men of the nations And throughout all their royal estate, None, there is like unto thee.
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 →