1 Chroniques 21:29

29 Mais la Demeure de l'Éternel, que Moïse avait faite au désert, et l'autel des holocaustes, étaient, en ce temps-là, sur le haut lieu de Gabaon.

1 Chroniques 21:29 Meaning and Commentary

1 Chronicles 21:29

For the tabernacle of the Lord, which Moses made
Or ordered to be made by the command of God, and according to his direction:

and the altar of burnt offerings, were at that season in the high place
at Gibeon;
which was four or five miles from Jerusalem, and too far for David to go in that time of extremity; though he must have gone thither to sacrifice, had not the Lord bid him build an altar on the threshingfloor; for there was the altar of burnt offering, on which only, according to the law of Moses, sacrifices were to be offered: this high place is, in the Targum, called the sanctuary, it including, as Kimchi observes, the whole house, the tabernacle, and the altar in it; which had been here, and at Nob, fifty seven years, as the Jewish writers say ^F14.

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FOOTNOTES:

F14 Maimon. & Bartenora in Misn. Zebachim, c. 14. sect. 7.

1 Chroniques 21:29 In-Context

27 Alors l'Éternel parla à l'ange, qui remit son épée dans le fourreau.

28 En ce temps-là, David, voyant que l'Éternel l'avait exaucé dans l'aire d'Ornan, le Jébusien, y offrait des sacrifices.

29 Mais la Demeure de l'Éternel, que Moïse avait faite au désert, et l'autel des holocaustes, étaient, en ce temps-là, sur le haut lieu de Gabaon.

30 Et David ne put pas aller devant cet autel pour chercher Dieu, parce qu'il était épouvanté à cause de l'épée de l'ange de l'Éternel.