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 15:1David made himself houses in David’s city; and he prepared a place for God’s ark, and pitched a tent for it.
• 2 Chr 6:7–9Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel.
• 1 Chr 17:5for I have not lived in a house since the day that I brought up Israel to this day, but have gone from tent to tent, and from one tent to another.
• 2 Sam 6:17They brought in Yahweh’s ark, and set it in its place, in the middle of the tent that David had pitched for it; and David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before Yahweh.
• Dan 4:29–30At the end of twelve months he was walking in the royal palace of Babylon.
• Hag 1:4“Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies waste?
• Dan 4:4I, Nebuchadnezzar, was at rest in my house, and flourishing in my palace.
• Hag 1:9“You looked for much, and, behold, it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why?” says Yahweh of Armies, “Because of my house that lies waste, while each of you is busy with his own house.
• Exod 40:19–21He spread the covering over the tent, and put the roof of the tabernacle above on it, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
• Jer 22:15“Shall you reign, because you strive to excel in cedar? Didn’t your father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him.
• Ps 132:5until I find out a place for Yahweh, a dwelling for the Mighty One of Jacob.”
• 2 Sam 7:1–29When the king lived in his house, and Yahweh had given him rest from all his enemies all around,
• 1 Kgs 1:23They told the king, saying, “Behold, Nathan the prophet!” When he had 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 history of Samuel the seer, and in the history of Nathan the prophet, and in the history of Gad the seer,
• 1 Chr 14:1Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David with cedar trees, masons, and carpenters, to build him a house.
• 2 Sam 12:1Yahweh sent Nathan to David. He came to him, and said to him, “There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor.
• 1 Kgs 1:44The king has sent with him Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and they have caused him to ride on the king’s mule.
• 1 Chr 16:1They brought in God’s ark, and set it in the middle of the tent that David had pitched for it; and they offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before God.
• Acts 7:46who found favor in the sight of God, and asked to find a habitation for the God of Jacob.
• 2 Chr 1:4But David had brought God’s ark up from Kiriath Jearim to the place that David had prepared for it; for he had pitched a tent for it at Jerusalem.
• 1 Kgs 1:8But Zadok the priest, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, Nathan the prophet, Shimei, Rei, and the mighty men who belonged to David, were not with Adonijah.
• 2 Sam 12:25and he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet, and he named him Jedidiah, for Yahweh’s sake.

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