David’s Plan to Build the Temple

² David subsequently issued orders to conscript the resident aliens who lived in the land of Israel and appointed stonecutters to prepare stones for building a temple for God. ³ David also provisioned abundant supplies of iron for nails to build the doors for gates and to build clamps. Furthermore, he provided so much bronze it wasn’t inventoried, ⁴ as well as an innumerable amount of cedar logs, since the Sidonians and Tyrians brought vast amounts of cedar to David.