1 Chronicles 15:1 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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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.

1 Chronicles 15:1 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Chronicles 16:1
So 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.
1 Chronicles 15:3
And David gathered all Israel together to Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the LORD unto his place, which he had prepared for it.
1 Chronicles 17:1-5
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. …
Psalms 132:5
Until I find out a place for the LORD, an habitation for the mighty God of Jacob.
2 Samuel 5:9
So David dwelt in the fort, and called it the city of David. And David built round about from Millo and inward.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-24)

Preparation is here made for the bringing of the ark home to the city of David from the house of Obed-edom. It is here owned that in the former attempt, though it was a very good work and in it they sought God, yet they sought him, not after the due order, 1 Chron. 15:13. “We did not go about our work considerately; and therefore we sped so ill.” Note, It is not enough that we do that which is goo…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 1)

1Ch 15:1-24. David Brings the Ark from Obededom. 1. David made him houses in the city of David--Through the liberality of his Tyrian ally (1Ch 14:1), David was enabled to erect not only a palace for himself, but to furnish suitable accommodation for his numerous family. Where polygamy prevails, each wife has a separate house or suite of apartments for herself and children. prepared a place for the…