Now therefore thus shall you tell my servant David, Thus says Yahweh of Hosts, I took you from the sheep pen, from following the sheep, that you should be prince over my people Israel:
      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.