1 Chronicles 17:1

David, settled in his cedar house, tells Nathan he wants to build a house for the ark. His desire to honor God sets the stage for God's covenant promise.

Cross-references · 22

• 1 Chr 15:1And David made him houses in the city of David, and prepared a place for the ark of God, and pitched for it a tent.
• 2 Chr 6:7–9Now it was in the heart of David my father to build an house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.
• 1 Chr 17:5For I have not dwelt in an house since the day that I brought up Israel unto this day; but have gone from tent to tent, and from one tabernacle to another.
• 2 Sam 6:17And they brought in the ark of the LORD, and set it in his place, in the midst of the tabernacle that David had pitched for it: and David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the LORD.
• Dan 4:29–30At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon.
• Hag 1:4Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste?
• Dan 4:4I Nebuchadnezzar was at rest in mine house, and flourishing in my palace:
• Hag 1:9Ye looked for much, and lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the LORD of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house.
• Exod 40:19–21And he spread abroad the tent over the tabernacle, and put the covering of the tent above upon it; as the LORD commanded Moses.
• Jer 22:15Shalt thou reign, because thou closest thyself in cedar? did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and then it was well with him?
• Ps 132:5Until I find out a place for the LORD, an habitation for the mighty God of Jacob.
• 2 Sam 7:1–29And it came to pass, when the king sat in his house, and the LORD had given him rest round about from all his enemies;
• 1 Kgs 1:23And they told the king, saying, Behold Nathan the prophet. And when he was come in before the king, he bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground.
• 1 Chr 29:29Now the acts of David the king, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of Samuel the seer, and in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the book of Gad the seer,
• 1 Chr 14:1Now Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and timber of cedars, with masons and carpenters, to build him an house.
• 2 Sam 12:1And the LORD sent Nathan unto David. And he came unto him, and said unto him, There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor.
• 1 Kgs 1:44And the king hath sent with him Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, and they have caused him to ride upon the king’s mule:
• 1 Chr 16:1So they brought the ark of God, and set it in the midst of the tent that David had pitched for it: and they offered burnt sacrifices and peace offerings before God.
• Acts 7:46Who found favour before God, and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.
• 2 Chr 1:4But the ark of God had David brought up from Kirjathjearim to the place which David had prepared for it: for he had pitched a tent for it at Jerusalem.
• 1 Kgs 1:8But Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and Nathan the prophet, and Shimei, and Rei, and the mighty men which belonged to David, were not with Adonijah.
• 2 Sam 12:25And he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet; and he called his name Jedidiah, because of the LORD.

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