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David lifted up his eyes, and saw the LORD’s angel standing between earth and the sky, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell on their faces.

1 Chronicles 21:16 · WEB

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ગુજરાતી1 કાળવૃતાંત ૨૧:૧૬
દાઉદે ઊંચે નજર કરીને જોયું તો, યહોવાહનો દૂત, આકાશ અને પૃથ્વી વચ્ચે ઉઘાડી તલવાર લઈને, યરુશાલેમ તરફ પોતાના હાથ લંબાવી ઊભો હતો. પછી દાઉદ અને વડીલોએ, ટાટ પહેરી, ભૂમિ પર લાંબા થઈ પ્રણામ કર્યા.
हिन्दी1 इतिहास २१:१६
और दाऊद ने आँखें उठाकर देखा कि यहोवा का दूत हाथ में खींची हुई और यरूशलेम के ऊपर बढ़ाई हुई एक तलवार लिये हुए आकाश के बीच खड़ा है, तब दाऊद और पुरनिये टाट पहने हुए मुँह के बल गिरे।

In context

14So the LORD sent a pestilence on Israel, and seventy thousand men of Israel fell.

15God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it. As he was about to destroy, the LORD saw, and he relented of the disaster, and said to the destroying angel, “It is enough. Now withdraw your hand.” the LORD’s angel was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

16David lifted up his eyes, and saw the LORD’s angel standing between earth and the sky, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell on their faces.

17David said to God, “Isn’t it I who commanded the people to be counted? It is even I who have sinned and done very wickedly; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand, O LORD my God, be against me and against my father’s house; but not against your people, that they should be plagued.”

18Then the LORD’s angel commanded Gad to tell David that David should go up and raise an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

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