1. Then David said, “This is the place where the House of Adonai Elohim will be, along with the altar for burnt sacrifices for Israel.”
2. David gave orders to assemble the foreigners in the land of Israel, and assigned them to be masons to quarry stones to build the House of God.
3. David supplied an abundance of iron for nails for the doors of the gates and for the joints, so much bronze that it could not be weighed,
4. and cedar logs without number, for the Zidonians and the Tyrians brought an abundance of cedar logs to David.