1. Then David said, “The house of the Lord God is to be here, and also the altar of burnt offering for Israel.”
2. So David gave orders to assemble the foreigners residing in Israel, and from among them he appointed stonecutters to prepare dressed stone for building the house of God.
3. He provided a large amount of iron to make nails for the doors of the gateways and for the fittings, and more bronze than could be weighed.
4. He also provided more cedar logs than could be counted, for the Sidonians and Tyrians had brought large numbers of them to David.