1 Tawarikh 22:2-5

David Orders a Temple to Be Built

22:2 David ordered the resident foreigners in the land of Israel to be called together. He appointed some of them to be stonecutters to chisel stones for the building of God’s temple. 22:3 David supplied a large amount of iron for the nails of the doors of the gates and for braces, more bronze than could be weighed, 22:4 and more cedar logs than could be counted. (The Sidonians and Tyrians had brought a large amount of cedar logs to David.)

22:5 David said, “My son Solomon is just an inexperienced young man, ¹  and the temple to be built for the Lord must be especially magnificent so it will become famous and be considered splendid by all the nations. ²  Therefore I will make preparations for its construction.” So David made extensive preparations before he died.

1 Tawarikh 22:14-16

22:14 Now, look, I have made every effort to supply what is needed to build the Lord’s temple. ³  I have stored up 100,000 talents ⁴  of gold, 1,000,000 ⁵  talents of silver, and so much bronze and iron it cannot be weighed, as well as wood and stones. Feel free to add more! 22:15 You also have available many workers, including stonecutters, masons, carpenters, ⁶  and an innumerable array of workers who are skilled 22:16 in using gold, silver, bronze, and iron. ⁷  Get up and begin the work! May the Lord be with you!”

[22:5]  ¹ tn Heb “a young man and tender.”

[22:5]  ² tn Heb “and the house to build to make exceedingly great for a name and for splendor for all the lands.”

[22:14]  ³ tn Heb “and look, in my affliction [or perhaps, “poverty”] I have supplied for the house of the Lord.”

[22:14]  ⁴ tn See the note on the word “talents” in 19:6.

[22:14]  ⁵ tn Heb “a thousand thousands.”

[22:15]  ⁶ tn Heb “craftsmen of stone and wood.”

[22:16]  ⁷ tn Heb “and every kind of skilled one in all work, concerning gold, concerning silver, and concerning bronze, and concerning iron, there is no numbering.”