14. ‘I have taken great pains to provide for the temple of the Lord a hundred thousand talents of gold, a million talents of silver, quantities of bronze and iron too great to be weighed, and wood and stone. And you may add to them.
15. You have many workers: stonecutters, masons and carpenters, as well as those skilled in every kind of work
16. in gold and silver, bronze and iron – craftsmen beyond number. Now begin the work, and the Lord be with you.’
17. Then David ordered all the leaders of Israel to help his son Solomon.
18. He said to them, ‘Is not the Lord your God with you? And has he not granted you rest on every side? For he has given the inhabitants of the land into my hands, and the land is subject to the Lord and to his people.