1 Cronache 21:30

30 E Davide non potè andare davanti a quello, per ricercare Iddio; perciocchè egli era spaventato per la spada dell’Angelo del Signore.

1 Cronache 21:30 Meaning and Commentary

1 Chronicles 21:30

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.

1 Cronache 21:30 In-Context

28 In quel tempo, Davide veggendo che il Signore gli avea risposto nell’aia di Ornan Gebuseo, vi sacrificò.

29 Or il Tabernacolo del Signore che Mosè avea fatto nel deserto, e l’Altare degli olocausti, era in quel tempo nell’alto luogo in Gabaon.

30 E Davide non potè andare davanti a quello, per ricercare Iddio; perciocchè egli era spaventato per la spada dell’Angelo del Signore.