1. And David saith, `This is the house of Jehovah God, and this the altar for burntoffering for Israel.'
2. And David saith to gather the sojourners who [are] in the land of Israel, and appointeth hewers to hew hewn-stones to build a house of God.
3. And iron in abundance for nails for leaves of the gates, and for couplings, hath David prepared, and brass in abundance--there is no weighing.
4. And cedar-trees even without number, for the Zidonians and the Tyrians brought in cedar-trees in abundance to David.
5. And David saith, `Solomon my son [is] a youth and tender, and the house to be built to Jehovah [is] to be made exceedingly great, for name and for beauty to all the lands; let me prepare, I pray Thee, for it;' and David prepareth in abundance before his death.
6. And he calleth for Solomon his son, and chargeth him to build a house to Jehovah, God of Israel,
7. and David saith to Solomon his son, `As for me, it hath been with my heart to build a house to the name of Jehovah my God,