1 Chronicles 21:30
and David is not able to go before it to seek God, for he hath been afraid because of the sword of the messenger of Jehovah.
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Deuteronomy 10:12'And now, Israel, what is Jehovah thy God asking from thee, except to fear Jehovah thy God, to walk in all His ways, and to love Him, and to serve Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul,
1 Chronicles 13:12And David feareth God on that day, saying, 'How do I bring in unto me the ark of God?'
Job 13:21Thy hand put far off from me, And Thy terror let not terrify me.
Job 23:15Therefore, from His presence I am troubled, I consider, and am afraid of Him.
Psalms 119:120Trembled from Thy fear hath my flesh, And from Thy judgments I have been afraid!
Jeremiah 10:7Who doth not fear Thee, king of the nations? For to Thee it is becoming, For among all the wise of the nations, And in all their kingdom there is none like 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 →