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1 Chronicles 21:30

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But David could not go before it to enquire of God: for he was afraid because of the sword of the angel of the Lord.

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  1. 1 Chronicles 21:28

    At that time when David saw that the Lord had answered him in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there.

  2. 1 Chronicles 21:29

    For the tabernacle of the Lord, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of the burnt offering, were at that season in the high place at Gibeon.

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