1 Chronicles 21:30

David could not go to the Gibeon altar to inquire of God because he was afraid of the angel's sword. His fear explains why he sought God at the new altar instead.

Cross-references · 14

• Rev 15:4Who wouldn’t fear you, Lord, and glorify your name? For you only are holy. For all the nations will come and worship before you. For your righteous acts have been revealed.”
• Heb 12:28–29Therefore, receiving a Kingdom that can’t be shaken, let us have grace, through which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe,
• Rev 1:17When I saw him, I fell at his feet like a dead man. He laid his right hand on me, saying, “Don’t be afraid. I am the first and the last,
• Job 13:21withdraw your hand far from me; and don’t let your terror make me afraid.
• Job 21:6When I remember, I am troubled. Horror takes hold of my flesh.
• 2 Sam 6:9David was afraid of Yahweh that day; and he said, “How could Yahweh’s ark come to me?”
• Jer 5:22Don’t you fear me?’ says Yahweh ‘Won’t you tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, by a perpetual decree, that it can’t pass it? and though its waves toss themselves, yet they can’t prevail; though they roar, yet they can’t pass over it.’
• 1 Chr 13:12David was afraid of God that day, saying, “How can I bring God’s ark home to me?”
• Ps 119:120My flesh trembles for fear of you. I am afraid of your judgments. AYIN
• Jer 10:7Who should not fear you, King of the nations? For it belongs to you. Because among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their royal estate, there is no one like you.
• Job 23:15Therefore I am terrified at his presence. When I consider, I am afraid of him.
• Deut 10:12Now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God require of you, but to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
• Ps 90:11Who knows the power of your anger, your wrath according to the fear that is due to you?
• 1 Chr 21:16David lifted up his eyes, and saw Yahweh’s angel standing between earth and the sky, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell on their faces.

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