1 Chronicles 21:27-30

21:27 The Lord ordered the messenger ¹  to put his sword back into its sheath.

21:28 At that time, when David saw that the Lord responded to him at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, he sacrificed there. 21:29 Now the Lord’s tabernacle (which Moses had made in the wilderness) and the altar for burnt sacrifices were at that time at the worship center ²  in Gibeon. 21:30 But David could not go before it to seek God’s will, for he was afraid of the sword of the Lord’s messenger.

[21:27]  ¹ tn Heb “spoke to the messenger.”

[21:29]  ² tn Or “high place.”