1 Chronicles 22:2-5 And David commanded to gather the strangers that were in the land of Israel, and set hewers to hew stone, to build the house of God.

MSTC⁽ⁱ⁾ ² And David commanded to gather the strangers that were in the land of Israel, and set hewers to hew stone, to build the house of God. ³ And David prepared plenty of iron for nails to the doors of the gates and to join with all, and abundance of brass without weight, ⁴ and of Cedar trees without number. For the Sidonians and they of Tyre brought much Cedar wood to David. ⁵ For David thus thought, "Solomon my son is young and tender, and the house that is to be built for the LORD, must exceed in greatness, that it may be spoken of and praised in all lands. I will therefore make ordinance for it." And so David prepared abundance before his death.