1 Chronicles 15:1

David’s Wives and Children

1 And David built houses for himself in the city of David, and he established a place for the ark of God. And he pitched a tent for it.

1 Chronicles 15:1 Meaning and Commentary

1 Chronicles 15:1

And David made him houses in the city of David
With the help of the masons and carpenters Hiram sent him, ( 1 Chronicles 14:1 ) , the royal palace is meant, with all the apartments in it, which were many and large, as so great a family he had required, and with all the out houses to it necessary for his servants, and their offices:

and prepared a place for the ark of God, and pitched for it a tent;
see ( 2 Samuel 6:17 ) .

1 Chronicles 15:1 In-Context

1 And David built houses for himself in the city of David, and he established a place for the ark of God. And he pitched a tent for it.

2 Then David ordered [that] none except the Levites should carry the ark of God, for Yahweh had chosen them to carry the ark of Yahweh and to serve him forever.

3 And David gathered all Israel to Jerusalem to bring up the ark of Yahweh to its place that he had established for it.

4 And David gathered the sons of Aaron and the Levites.

5 Of the sons of Kohath: Uriel the chief and one hundred and twenty of his brothers.