1 Chronicles 22:1-8 ▼

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 gave orders to gather the foreigners that were in the land of Israel, and he appointed stonecutters to cut finished stones for building God’s house.

3 David supplied a great deal of iron to make the nails for the doors of the gateways and for the fittings, together with an immeasurable quantity of bronze,

4 and innumerable cedar logs because the Sidonians and Tyrians had brought a large quantity of cedar logs to David.

5 David said, “ My son Solomon is young and inexperienced, and the house that is to be built for the LORD must be exceedingly great and famous and glorious in all the lands. Therefore, I must make provision for it.” So David made lavish preparations for it before his death.

6 Then he summoned his son Solomon and instructed him to build a house for the LORD God of Israel.

7 “ My son,” David said to Solomon, “ It was in my heart to build a house for the name of Yahweh my God,

8 but the word of the LORD came to me: ‘ You have shed much blood and waged great wars. You are not to build a house for My name because you have shed so much blood on the ground before Me.