And Nathan replied to David, “Do all that is in your heart, for God is with you.”
Let us observe here, I. How desirous and solicitous good people should be to serve the interests of God's kingdom in the world, to the utmost of their capacity. David could not be easy in a house of cedar while the ark was lodged within curtains, Ch1 17:1. The concerns of the public should always be near our hearts.
Commenting on 1 Chronicles 17:1-15
Then Nathan said unto David, Do all that [is] in thine heart; for God [is] with thee. (c) As yet God had not revealed to the prophet what he purposed concerning David, therefore seeing God favoured David, he spoke what he thought.
1Ch 17:1-9 In the Chronicle, as in 2 Samuel 7, the account of the removal of the ark to the city of David is immediately followed by the narrative of David’s design to build a temple to the Lord; and this arrangement is adopted on account of the connection between the subjects, though the events must have been separated by a period of several years.
Commenting on 1 Chronicles 17:1-9