Now it came to pass, as David sat in his house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, Lo, I dwell in an 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 sat in his house. The details of this chapter were given in nearly similar terms, 2 Samuel 7:1-29. The date was toward the latter end of David's reign; because it is expressly said in the former book to have been at the cessation of all his wars. But as to narrate the preparations for the removal of the ark and the erection of the temple was the principal object of the historian, the exact chronology is not followed.