2 David gave an order for all foreigners living in Israel to be gathered together. He chose stonecutters from that group of foreigners. Their job was to cut stones ready to be used for building God’s Temple.
3 David got iron for making nails and hinges for the gate doors. He also got more bronze than could be weighed
4 and more cedar logs than could be counted. The people from the cities of Sidon and Tyre brought many cedar logs to David.
5 David said, “We should build a very great Temple for the Lord, but my son Solomon is young and does not yet have enough experience to know how to do it well. It should be so great and beautiful that it will be famous among all the nations. So I will prepare what is needed to build it.” So before David died he prepared everything needed to build a great Temple.
6 Then David called for his son Solomon and told him to build the Temple for the Lord, the God of Israel.
7 David said to Solomon, “My son, I wanted to build a temple for the name of the Lord my God.
8 But the Lord said to me, ‘David, you have fought many wars and you have killed many people. So you cannot build a temple for my name.