2 Samuel 6:17
Good News Translation
They brought the Box and put it in its place in the Tent that David had set up for it. Then he offered sacrifices and fellowship offerings to the LORD.

New Revised Standard Version
They brought in the ark of the LORD, and set it in its place, inside the tent that David had pitched for it; and David offered burnt offerings and offerings of well-being before the LORD.

Contemporary English Version
They put the chest inside a tent that David had set up for it. David worshiped the LORD by sacrificing animals and burning them on an altar,

New American Bible
They brought in the ark of the LORD and set it in its place within the tent which David had pitched for it. Then David sacrificed burnt offerings and communion offerings before the LORD.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they brought the ark of the Lord, and set it in its place in the midst of the tabernacle, which David had pitched for it: and David offered holocausts, and peace offerings before the Lord.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And they brought the ark of the Lord, and set it in its place in the midst of the tabernacle, which David had pitched for it: and David offered holocausts, and peace offerings before the Lord.

they brought

1 Chronicles 15:1 He made also houses for himself in the city of David: and built a place for the ark of God, and pitched a tabernacle for it.

1 Chronicles 16:1 So they brought the ark of God, and set it in the midst of the tent, which David had pitched for it: and they offered holocausts, and peace offerings before God.

2 Chronicles 1:4 For David had brought the ark of God from Cariathiarim to the place, which he had prepared for it, and where he had pitched a tabernacle for it, that is, in Jerusalem.

Psalm 132:8 Arise, O Lord, into thy resting place: thou and the ark, which thou hast sanctified.

pitched [heb] stretched

1 Kings 8:5,62-65 And king Solomon, and all the multitude of Israel, that were assembled unto him, went with him before the ark, and they sacrificed sheep and oxen, that could not be counted or numbered. . . .

2 Chronicles 5:6 And king Solomon and all the assembly of Israel and all that were gathered together before the ark, sacrificed rams, and oxen without number: so great was the multitude of the victims.

2 Chronicles 7:5-7 And king Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty-two thousand oxen, and one hundred and twenty thousand rams: and the king and all the people dedicated the house of God. . . .

Ezra 6:16,17 And the children of Israel, the priests and the Levites, and the rest of the children of the captivity kept the dedication of the house of God with joy. . . .

Context
Michal's Contempt for David
16And when the ark of the Lord was come into the city of David, Michol the daughter of Saul, looking out through a window, saw king David leaping and dancing before the Lord: and she despised him in her heart. 17And they brought the ark of the Lord, and set it in its place in the midst of the tabernacle, which David had pitched for it: and David offered holocausts, and peace offerings before the Lord.18And when he had made an end of offering holocausts and peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the Lord of hosts.…
Cross References
Leviticus 3:9
And they shall offer of the victim of peace offerings, a sacrifice to the Lord: the fat and the whole rump,

1 Kings 8:62
And the king, and all Israel with him, offered victims before the Lord.

1 Chronicles 6:31
These are they, whom David set over the singing men of the house of the Lord, after that the ark was placed.

1 Chronicles 15:1
He made also houses for himself in the city of David: and built a place for the ark of God, and pitched a tabernacle for it.

1 Chronicles 15:3
And he gathered all Israel together into Jerusalem, that the ark of God might be brought into its place, which he had prepared for it.

2 Chronicles 1:4
For David had brought the ark of God from Cariathiarim to the place, which he had prepared for it, and where he had pitched a tabernacle for it, that is, in Jerusalem.

2 Samuel 6:16
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