Verse 30
1 Chronicles 21:30
Noah Webster Bible
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But David could not go before it to inquire of God (Elohim): for he was afraid because of the sword of the angel of the LORD.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וְ/לֹא יָכֹ֥ל דָּוִ֛יד לָ/לֶ֥כֶת לְ/פָנָ֖י/ו לִ/דְרֹ֣שׁ אֱלֹהִ֑ים כִּ֣י נִבְעַ֔ת מִ/פְּנֵ֕י חֶ֖רֶב מַלְאַ֥ךְ יְהוָֽה
English Translation
And David could not go before the Lord to inquire of God, for he was afraid because of the sword of the angel of the Lord.
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Chapter 21 Context
1
And Satan stood up against Israel, and incited David to number Israel.
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And David said to Joab and to the rulers of the people, Go, number Israel from Beer-sheba even to Da...
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And Joab answered, the LORD make his people a hundred times more numerous than they are : but, my lo...
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Nevertheless the king's word prevailed against Joab. Wherefore Joab departed, and went throughout al...
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And Joab gave the sum of the number of the people to David. And all they of Israel were a thousand t...
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But Levi and Benjamin he counted not among them: for the king's word was abominable to Joab.
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And God (Elohim) was displeased with this thing, therefore he smote Israel.
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And David said to God (Elohim), I have sinned greatly, because I have done this thing: but now, I be...
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And the LORD spoke to Gad, David's seer, saying,
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Go and tell David, saying, Thus saith the LORD, I offer thee three things; choose thee one of them,...
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So Gad came to David, and said to him, Thus saith the LORD, Choose thee
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Either three years' famine; or three months to be destroyed before thy foes, while the sword of thy...
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And David said to Gad, I am in a great strait: let me fall now into the hand of the LORD; for very g...
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14
So the LORD sent pestilence upon Israel: and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.
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And God (Elohim) sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was destroying, the LORD beheld...
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And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of the LORD stand between the earth and the heaven,...
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And David said to God (Elohim), Is it not I that commanded the people to be numbered? even I it is t...
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Then the angel of the LORD commanded Gad to say to David, that David should go up, and erect an alta...
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And David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spoke in the name of the LORD.
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And Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was t...
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And as David came to Ornan, Ornan looked, and saw David, and went out of the threshing-floor, and bo...
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Then David said to Ornan, Grant me the place of this threshing-floor, that I may build an altar in i...
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And Ornan said to David, Take it to thee, and let my lord the king do that which is good in his eyes...
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And king David said to Ornan, No; but I will verily buy it for the full price: for I will not take t...
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So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight.
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And David built there an altar to the LORD, and offered burnt-offerings and peace-offerings, and cal...
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And the LORD commanded the angel; and he put up his sword again into its sheath.
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At that time when David saw that the LORD had answered him in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebus...
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For the tabernacle of the LORD, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of the burnt-offer...
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But David could not go before it to inquire of God (Elohim): for he was afraid because of the sword...