1 Chroniques 21:30

30 David ne pouvait pas aller devant cet autel pour chercher Dieu, parce que l'épée de l'ange de l'Eternel lui avait causé de l'épouvante.

1 Chroniques 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 Chroniques 21:30 In-Context

28 A cette époque-là, David, voyant que l'Eternel l'avait exaucé dans l'aire d'Ornan, le Jébusien, y offrait des sacrifices.

29 Mais le tabernacle de l'Eternel, construit par Moïse au désert, et l'autel des holocaustes, étaient alors sur le haut lieu de Gabaon.

30 David ne pouvait pas aller devant cet autel pour chercher Dieu, parce que l'épée de l'ange de l'Eternel lui avait causé de l'épouvante.