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1 Chronicles 21:27 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 27. 27And the LORD commanded the angel; and he put up his sword again into the sheath thereof.
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Quick Meaning
States the LORD's command that returns the angel's sword to its sheath.
Read It With
- 1 Chronicles 21:18–21:27
States the LORD's command that returns the angel's sword to its sheath. Read 1 Chronicles 21:27 within 21:18–21:27. The complete unit records: Gad directs David to build an altar, Ornan and sons encounter the scene, David insists on full payment, offerings receive heavenly fire, and the angel sheathes the sword.
Why This Verse Appears Here
Costly, nonconfiscatory purchase and answered worship transform the plague site into the foundation of temple preparation. In this exact position, the line beginning “And the LORD commanded the angel; and he put up his sword again into…” states the LORD's command that returns the angel's sword to its sheath.
Follow the Context
- Gad directs David to build an altar, Ornan and sons encounter the scene, David insists on full payment, offerings receive heavenly fire, and the angel sheathes the sword.
- Costly, nonconfiscatory purchase and answered worship transform the plague site into the foundation of temple preparation.
Phrase-by-Phrase Explanation
“And the LORD commanded the angel; and he put up his sword again into…”
In plain language: States the LORD's command that returns the angel's sword to its sheath.
The line beginning “And the LORD commanded the angel; and he put up his sword again into…” states the LORD's command that returns the angel's sword to its sheath.
Why it matters: The wording carries a material literary, historical, temple, royal-power, violence, ethnic, illness, gender, exile, reception, or misuse boundary.
How certain? probableWhat This Verse Is Not Saying
The purchase does not erase coercive royal power, harmonize 600 gold shekels with Samuel's 50 silver, authorize modern land claims, or make payment repair every loss.
What Remains True
States the LORD's command that returns the angel's sword to its sheath. This concrete detail supports a bounded truth: Worship requires ordered, truthful, skilled, and accountable service, while sacred office, beauty, or scale never determines a person's worth.
How It Can Shape Life
- Because this verse states the LORD's command that returns the angel's sword to its sheath, keep it inside 21:18–21:27, compare its Samuel-Kings relationship honestly, protect affected people from coercion or stigma, and apply only the accountable principle the complete unit supports.
Teach It Back
Explain why 1 Chronicles 21:27 states the LORD's command that returns the angel's sword to its sheath. Use 21:18–21:27, paraphrase “And the LORD commanded the angel; and he put up his sword again into…,” state one source or reconstruction limit, identify one person or group power can obscure, and reject one conclusion this verse does not authorize.
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Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read 1 Chronicles 21:18–21:27 — Ornan's floor is purchased and the sword is sheathedSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? probable
Where care is needed
1 Chronicles 21:27 remains within this thought-unit limit: Samuel and Chronicles differ on owner name, property scope, price, speech, fire, and angel details; proposals about a larger site purchase are possible but cannot be asserted as fact.
These are the sources used directly for this lens. Language, grammar, disagreements, and the complete source shelf remain attached to the full thought-unit research record.
Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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Supports: Exact KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: 1 Chronicles 21:18–21:27, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: 1 Chronicles
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Hebrew wording, morphology, names, clauses, regnal formulas, temple vocabulary, older-English controls, and translation limits.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/1Chr.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 21:18–21:27
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible Full Notes: 1 Chronicles
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press; STEP Bible presentation, 2019 edition; current web presentation
Supports: Unit-bounded translation comparisons and only those lexical, textual, grammatical, numerical, historical, and parallel-passage notes attached to these verses.
Exact location: STEP Bible NET2full, 1 Chronicles 21:18–21:27, verse-attached translation and translator notes
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