The king said, Let him turn to his own house, but let him not see my face. So Avshalom turned to his own house, and didn't see the king's face.
1 Chronicles 15:1 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) [David] made him houses in the city of David; and he prepared a place for the ark of God, and pitched for it a tent. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And David made him houses in the city of David, and prepared a place for the ark of God, and pitched for it a tent. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition DAVID MADE for himself houses in the City of David, and he prepared a place for the ark of God and pitched a tent for it. American Standard Version (1901) And David made him houses in the city of David; and he prepared a place for the ark of God, and pitched for it a tent. Common English Bible After he had built houses for himself in David’s City, David prepared a place for God’s chest and pitched a tent for it. Catholic Public Domain Version Also, he made houses for himself in the City of David. And built a place for the ark of God, and he set up a tent for it. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version He made also houses for himself in the city of David: and built a place for the ark of God, and pitched a tabernacle for it. |
The king said, Let him turn to his own house, but let him not see my face. So Avshalom turned to his own house, and didn't see the king's face.
David lived in the stronghold, and called it the city of David. David built round about from Millo and inward.
It was told king David, saying, the LORD has blessed the house of Obed-Edom, and all that pertains to him, because of the ark of God. David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obed-Edom into the city of David with joy.
They brought in the ark of the LORD, and set it in its place, in the midst of the tent that David had pitched for it; and David offered burnt offerings and shalom offerings before the LORD.
and said to them, You are the heads of the fathers' [houses] of the Levites: sanctify yourselves, both you and your brothers, that you may bring up the ark of the LORD, the God of Yisra'el, to [the place] that I have prepared for it.
David assembled all Yisra'el at Yerushalayim, to bring up the ark of the LORD to its place, which he had prepared for it.
They brought in the ark of God, and set it in the midst of the tent that David had pitched for it: and they offered burnt offerings and shalom offerings before God.
These are they whom David set over the service of song in the house of the LORD, after that the ark had rest.
But David had brought the ark of God up from Kiryat-Ye`arim to the place that David had prepared for it; for he had pitched a tent for it at Yerushalayim.
Then Shlomo assembled the elders of Yisra'el, and all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers' [houses] of the children of Yisra'el, to Yerushalayim, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Tziyon.
until I find out a place for the LORD, a dwelling for the Mighty One of Ya`akov.*
who found favor in the sight of God, and asked to find a habitation for the God of Ya`akov.