Study Desk

And David commanded the aliens in the land of Israel to be gathered, and appointed masons to cut stones to build the house of God.

And David prepared iron in abundance for nails, for leaves of the gates, and for couplings and very much bronze; there was no weighing it ,

and also cedar trees without number, for the Sidonians and the Tyrians brought in cedar trees in abundance to David.

And David said, My son Solomon is a youth and tender, and the house to be built to Jehovah is to be made great, to a height, for a name and for beauty to all the land; I pray You, let me preparefor it. And David prepared in abundancebefore his death.