I Will Build Again the Tabernacle of David

Appendix 5. The Tabernacle of David Today (2 Samuel 6:17; Acts 15:sixteen)

"They brought the ark of the LORD and ready it in its identify inside the tent that David had pitched for information technology, and David sacrificed burnt offerings and fellowship offerings before the LORD." (2 Samuel six:17)

"After this I will return and rebuild David's fallen tent.
Its ruins I will rebuild, and I will restore it...." (Acts 15:xvi)

What is the human relationship to the tent (ʾ ōhel) David pitched for the ark and David's tent that will be restored?

James quotes a prophecy by Amos at the Council of Jerusalem (Acts 15:sixteen-18).

"'In that mean solar day I volition restore David's fallen tent (sukkâ).
I volition repair its broken places, restore its ruins,
and build it every bit it used to exist,
so that they may possess the remnant of Edom
and all the nations that bear my name,'
declares the LORD, who will do these things." (Amos 9:11-12)

"'After this I will render and rebuild David'due south fallen tent.
Its ruins I volition rebuild, and I will restore it,
that the remnant of men may seek the Lord,
and all the Gentiles who carry my name,'
says the Lord, who does these things,
'that take been known for ages.'"(Acts xv:16-18)

The word translated "tabernacle" or "tent" or "booth" in Amos is sukkâ, "covert, thicket, booth, a temporary home." It is oftentimes used in connection with the Feast of Tabernacles or Feast of Booths. Once a year the Israelite left his home to tabernacle in a 'booth'made from tree branches.[337] However, the term used in the Pentateuch for the "tent of meeting" and our passage, "the tabernacle that David had pitched for it" (6:17) is a different give-and-take (ʾōhel), the more common word for "dwelling, habitation, home," equally well equally "tabernacle, tent." Information technology is used figuratively for David's palace (1 Kings 8:66; Isaiah sixteen:5).[338]

In our 24-hour interval you'll sometimes find a educational activity in Pentecostal and Charismatic circles based on these verses to this consequence. David instituted singing worship and prophecy in the tabernacle he pitched in Jerusalem (spelled out in 1 Chronicles 15). Amos'prophecy, quoted in the New Testament relates to the restoration of worship that is beingness fulfilled in our fourth dimension.

David Allan Hubbard outlines four possible interpretations for "berth of David" in the Amos passage.

1. Judah's Davidic dynasty, which had complanate (fallen) at the hands of the Babylonians (which assumes a afterward date for Amos).
2. Judah's Davidic dynasty'southward influence, which had been diminished ever since the dividing of the kingdom under Rehoboam.
3. The City of Jerusalem, every bit depicted in Isaiah ane:8 as "a shelter in a vineyard, like a hut in a field of melons, like a urban center under siege."
4. A return to the premonarchic menstruum when David championed the cause of the peasantry earlier capturing Jerusalem. (Hubbard favors this interpretation.)[339]
5. The restoration of worship conducted in "the tent David had pitched" (a view taught by some Pentecostal groups, non mentioned by Hubbard).

If you study information technology advisedly, the Amos passage seems to require some kind of political interpretation, since the restoration includes possessing territory -- perhaps the aforementioned territory that David had ruled over in his prime number.

My own determination is that instead interpreting "the tabernacle of David" (in Amos and Acts) literally every bit "the tent David had pitched" for the ark -- thus speaking of a restoration of Davidic worship -- the Amos passage refers to a restoration of David's realm, that is the Kingdom of God that volition be ushered in past the Messiah. Having said that, I practice believe that God has been bringing a renewal of worship in the Church since the Charismatic Renewal of the 1960s and 1970s, though I don't think that's what Amos is referring to.

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[337] R.D. Patterson, sākak, TWOT #1492d.

[338] Jack P. Lewis, ʾāhal, TWOT #32a.

[339] David Allan Hubbard, Joel and Amos: An Introduction and Commentary (Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries; Inter-Varsity Printing, 1989), pp. 239-240.

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