1 Chronicles 16:43
Good News Translation
Then everyone went home, and David went home to spend some time with his family.

New Revised Standard Version
Then all the people departed to their homes, and David went home to bless his household.

Contemporary English Version
After that, everyone went home, and David went home to his family.

New American Bible
Then all the people departed, each to their own homes, and David returned to bless his household.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And all the people returned to their houses: and David to bless also his own house.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And all the people returned to their houses: and David to bless also his own house.

all the people

2 Samuel 6:19,20 And he distributed to all the multitude of Israel, both men and women, to every one, a cake of bread, and a piece of roasted beef, and fine flour fried with oil: and all the people departed every one to his own house. . . .

1 Kings 8:66 And on the eighth day, he sent away the people: and they blessed the king, and went to their dwellings, rejoicing, and glad in heart, for all the good things that the Lord had done for David, his servant, and for Israel, his people.

to bless

Genesis 18:19 For I know that he will command his children, and his household after him, to keep the way of the Lord, and do judgment and justice: that for Abraham's sake, the Lord may bring to effect all the things he hath spoken unto him.

Joshua 24:15 But if it seem evil to you to serve the Lord, you have your choice: choose this day that which pleaseth you, whom you would rather serve, whether the gods which your fathers served in Mesopotamia, or the gods of the Amorrhites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house we will serve thee Lord,

Psalm 101:2 And I will understand in the unspotted way, when thou shalt come to me. I walked in the innocence of my heart, in the midst of my house.

Context
Worship Before the Ark
42And Heman and Idithun sounded the trumpet, and played on the cymbals, and all kinds of musical instruments to sing praises to God: and the sons of Idithun he made porters. 43And all the people returned to their houses: and David to bless also his own house.
Cross References
2 Samuel 6:19
And he distributed to all the multitude of Israel, both men and women, to every one, a cake of bread, and a piece of roasted beef, and fine flour fried with oil: and all the people departed every one to his own house.

1 Chronicles 17:1
Now when David was dwelling in his house, he said to Nathan the prophet: Behold I dwell in a house of cedar: and the ark of the covenant of the Lord is under skins.

1 Chronicles 16:42
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