1 Chronicles 21:27

27 The Lord told the angel to put his sword away, and the angel obeyed.

1 Chronicles 21:27 Meaning and Commentary

1 Chronicles 21:27

(See Gill on 1 Chronicles 21:1).

1 Chronicles 21:27 In-Context

25 And he paid Araunah six hundred gold coins for the threshing place.
26 He built an altar to the Lord there and offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings. He prayed, and the Lord answered him by sending fire from heaven to burn the sacrifices on the altar.
27 The Lord told the angel to put his sword away, and the angel obeyed.
28 David saw by this that the Lord had answered his prayer, so he offered sacrifices on the altar at Araunah's threshing place.
29 The Tent of the Lord's presence which Moses had made in the wilderness, and the altar on which sacrifices were burned were still at the place of worship at Gibeon at this time;
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.