After capturing the fortress, David lived in it and named it "David's City." He built the city around it, starting at the place where land was filled in on the east side of the hill.

So David sent word to Tamar in the palace: "Go to Amnon's house and fix him some food."

She went there and found him in bed. She took some dough, prepared it, and made some cakes there where he could see her. Then she baked the cakes

The king, however, gave orders that Absalom should not live in the palace. "I don't want to see him," the king said. So Absalom lived in his own house and did not appear before the king.

So David summoned all the people of Israel to Jerusalem in order to bring the Covenant Box to the place he had prepared for it.

They took the Covenant Box to the tent which David had prepared for it and put it inside. Then they offered sacrifices and fellowship offerings to God.

King David was now living in his palace. One day he sent for the prophet Nathan and said to him, "Here I am living in a house built of cedar, but the LORD's Covenant Box is kept in a tent!"

But that night God said to Nathan,

From the time I rescued the people of Israel from Egypt until now I have never lived in a temple; I have always lived in tents and moved from place to place.

until I provide a place for the LORD, a home for the Mighty God of Jacob."

He won God's favor and asked God to allow him to provide a dwelling place for the God of Jacob.