1. Then David said, This shall be the house of the Lord God, and this shall be the altar of the burnt offering for Israel.
2. And David commanded to gather together the strangers that were in the land of Israel, and he made them masons to hew wrought stones to build the house of God.
3. Likewise, David prepared iron in abundance for the nails for the doors of the gates, and for the joinings, and brass in abundance without weight,
4. also cedar trees in abundance, for the Zidonians and those of Tyre brought much cedar wood to David.