OLD TESTAMENT

1 Chronicles 21:30

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But David couldn’t go before it to inquire of God, for he was afraid because of the sword of the LORD’s angel.

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Verse 30. God. He performed what God had commanded. But he would have offered other voluntary victims at Gabaon, if he had been able. Calmet.—The distance shewed the propriety of building the temple at Jerusalem, ( D.) which was nearly in the centre of the country. Bible.

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