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David prepares to build the temple

David gave orders to gather the immigrants living in the land of Israel, and he appointed masons who would cut stones for building God’s temple. David also provided a huge amount of iron for nails for the doors of the gates and for the braces, so much bronze that it couldn’t be weighed, and innumerable cedar logs from the Sidonians and the Tyrians, who gave them to David.

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