The destruction is restrained

The Census, the Plague, and Ornan’s Altar · 1 Chronicles 21

Story guide: The angel reaches Jerusalem, and Yahweh halts destruction beside Ornan’s threshing floor. Unspecified appearances and settings provide contextual imagery; Scripture remains the source.

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15And God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it, but as he was destroying it, Yahweh saw and relented concerning the calamity, and he said to the destroying angel, “Enough; now withdraw your hand.” And the angel of Yahweh was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

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