1. Then David said, “This is the house of the Lord God, and this is the altar of burnt offering for Israel.”
2. So David commanded to gather the aliens who were in the land of Israel; and he appointed masons to cut hewn stones to build the house of God.
3. And David prepared iron in abundance for the nails of the doors of the gates and for the joints, and bronze in abundance beyond measure,
4. and cedar trees in abundance; for the Sidonians and those from Tyre brought much cedar wood to David.