I will be his father, and he shall be my son: and I will not take my loving kindness away from him, as I took it from him that was before you;
      III. How little God affects external pomp and splendour in his service. His ark was content with a tabernacle (1 Chronicles 17:5; 1 Chronicles 17:5) and he never so much as mentioned the building of a house for it; no, not when he had fixed his people in great and goodly cities which they builded not, Deuteronomy 6:10. He commanded the judges to feed his people, but never bade them build him a house,1 Chronicles 17:6; 1 Chronicles 17:6. We may well be content awhile with mean accommodations; God's ark was so.