1 Chronicles 17:1

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Now it came to pass, as David sat in his house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, Lo, I dwell in an house of cedars, but the ark of the covenant of the LORD remaineth under curtains.

As david

2 Samuel 7:1

2 Chronicles 6:7

Daniel 4:4

Nathan

1 Chronicles 29:29

2 Samuel 12:1

1 Kings 1:8

I dwell

1 Chronicles 14:1

Jeremiah 22:15

Haggai 1:4

Under curtains

General references

2 Chronicles 6:7

Acts 7:47

Bible References

As david

Now when the king was living in his house, and the Lord had given him rest from war on every side;

Now it was in the heart of my father David to put up a house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.

I, Nebuchadnezzar, was at rest in my place, and all things were going well for me in my great house:

Nathan

Now all the acts of David, first and last, are recorded in the words of Samuel the seer, and the words of Nathan the prophet, and the words of Gad the seer;

And the Lord sent Nathan to David. And Nathan came to him and said, There were two men in the same town: one a man of great wealth, and the other a poor man.

But Zadok the priest, and Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, and Nathan the prophet and Shimei and Rei, and David's men of war did not take the side of Adonijah.

I dwell

And Hiram, king of Tyre, sent men to David with cedar-trees, and stoneworkers and woodworkers for the building of his house.

Are you to be a king because you make more use of cedar than your father? did not your father take food and drink and do right, judging in righteousness, and then it was well for him?

Is it a time for you to be living in roofed houses while this house is a waste?

Under curtains

For from the day when I took Israel up, till this day, I have had no house, but have gone from tent to tent, and from living-place to living-place.

And David made houses for himself in the town of David; and he got ready a place for the ark of God, and put up a tent for it.

Then they took in the ark of God and put it inside the tent which David had put up for it; and they made offerings, burned offerings and peace-offerings before God.

Stretching the outer tent over it, and covering it, as the Lord had given him orders.

And they took in the ark of the Lord, and put it in its place inside the tent which David had put up for it: and David made burned offerings and peace-offerings to the Lord.

But the ark of God had been moved by David from Kiriath-jearim to the place which he had made ready for it, for he had put up a tent for it at Jerusalem.

General references

Now it was in the heart of my father David to put up a house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.

But Solomon was the builder of his house.