1 Chronicles 21:30
But David couldn’t go before it to inquire of God, for he was afraid because of the sword of the LORD’s angel.
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Before · 1 Chronicles 21:28–29
28At that time, when David saw that the LORD had answered him in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there. 29For the LORD’s tabernacle, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of burnt offering, were at that time in the high place at Gibeon.
30But David couldn’t go before it to inquire of God, for he was afraid because of the sword of the LORD’s angel.