1 Kronieken 21:30

Gereviseerde Leidse Vertaling

maar David durfde niet derwaarts gaan om God te raadplegen, daar hij voor het zwaard van den engel des Heeren verschrikt was.

Parallel Translations

Gereviseerde Lutherse Vertaling
en David kon niet daarheen gaan om God te vragen, zo verschrikt was hij voor het zwaard van den Engel des Heren.

Staten Vertaling
David nu kon niet heengaan voor hetzelve, om God te zoeken; want hij was verschrikt voor het zwaard van den engel des HEEREN.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

he was afraid: 1 Chronicles 21:16, 1 Chronicles 13:12, Deuteronomy 10:12, 2 Samuel 6:9, Job 13:21, Job 21:6, Job 23:15, Psalms 90:11, Psalms 119:120, Jeremiah 5:22, Jeremiah 10:7, Hebrews 12:28, Hebrews 12:29, Revelation 1:17, Revelation 15:4

Reciprocal: Joshua 5:13 - his sword

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But David could not go before it to inquire of God,.... Which yet was the proper place to seek the Lord in: the reason follows,

for he was afraid, because of the sword of the angel of the Lord; which had so terrified him, that he was so weak that he could not go; and he feared that, should he attempt to go, while he was going thither, at such a distance, the angel would make a terrible slaughter in Jerusalem, and therefore he durst not go and leave it; and besides, as the Lord had commanded him to build an altar there, he might fear it would displease him, should he depart from it; and the rather, as hereby he pointed out to him the place where the temple should be built, and sacrifices offered, as appears from what he says in the beginning of the next chapter.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

David, knowing that by sacrifice on this altar he had caused the angel to stay his hand, was afraid to transfer his offerings elsewhere, lest the Angel should resume his task and pestilence again break out.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Chronicles 21:30. Because of the sword of the angel — This is given as a reason why David built an altar in the threshing-floor of Ornan: he was afraid to go to Gibeon, because of the sword of the destroying angel, or he was afraid of delaying the offerings so long as his going thither would require, lest the destroying angel should in the mean while exterminate the people; therefore he hastily built an altar in that place, and on it made the requisite offerings, and by the fire from heaven God showed that he had accepted his act and his devotion. Such interventions as these must necessarily maintain in the minds of the people a full persuasion of the truth and Divine origin of their religion.

For a more circumstantial account of these transactions, see the notes on 2 Samuel 24:1, Ac., in which several difficulties of the text are removed.