“But David couldn’t go before it to inquire of God, for he was afraid because of the sword of Yahweh’s angel.”
1 Chronicles 21:30 (WEB)
Context Reading
28At that time, when David saw that Yahweh had answered him in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there. 29For Yahweh’s tabernacle, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of burnt offering, were at that time in the high place at Gibeon. 30But David couldn’t go before it to inquire of God, for he was afraid because of the sword of Yahweh’s angel.