Tabernacle of David

The Tabernacle of David

King David was a man "after God's own heart, that will do everything according to His mind and heart" (Acts 13:22). Around 1000 BC, as an outflow of his heart, he commanded that the Ark of the Covenant be brought up on the shoulders of the Levites amidst the sound of songs and musical instruments to his new capital, Jerusalem. There he had it
placed in a tent and appointed two-hundred and eighty-eight prophetic singers and four thousand musicians to minister before the Lord, “to make petition, to give thanks and to praise the Lord” day and night (1 Chronicles 15–17). This was unlike anything that had been done in
Israel’s history, but it was God’s plan for Israel.

II. The Davidic Order of Worship

Although the Tabernacle was replaced by a Temple, the Davidic order of worship was embraced and reinstituted by seven subsequent leaders in the history of Israel and Judah. Each time this order of worship was reintroduced, spiritual breakthrough, deliverance and military victory
followed.

• Solomon instructed that worship in the Temple should be in accordance with the Davidic Order (2 Chronicles 8:14–15)
• Jehoshaphat defeats Moab and Ammon by setting singers up in accordance
  with Davidic Order: singers at the front of the army singing the Great
  Hallel. Jehoshaphat reinstitutes Davidic Worship in the Temple (2
  Chronicles 20:20–22, 28)
• Joash (2 Chronicles 23–24)
• Hezekiah cleansed, reconsecrated and reinstituted the Davidic Order of worship in the Temple (2 Chronicles 29, 30:21)
• Josiah reinstituted Davidic worship (2 Chronicles 35)
• Ezra and Nehemiah, returning from Babylon, reinstituted Davidic Worship (Ezra 3:10, Nehemiah 12:28–47)

Historians have also speculated that around the time of Jesus, in their search to find communion with God, the Essenes of the Judean wilderness reinstituted the Davidic order of worship as part of their life of prayer and fasting.

Almost 2/3 of the book of Psalms was written in that tent. Every king that proceeded David that followed “after the order of David” in prioritizing this ministry was blessed and favored by God. Every king that did not was overrun by their enemies and found wicked in the sight of the Lord. (2 Chronicles 29)