22 And David saith, `This is the house of Jehovah God, and this the altar for burnt-offering for Israel.'

² And David saith to gather the sojourners who [are] in the land of Israel, and appointeth hewers to hew hewn-stones to build a house of God.

³ And iron in abundance for nails for leaves of the gates, and for couplings, hath David prepared, and brass in abundance -- there is no weighing.

⁴ And cedar-trees even without number, for the Zidonians and the Tyrians brought in cedar-trees in abundance to David.

⁵ And David saith, `Solomon my son [is] a youth and tender, and the house to be built to Jehovah [is] to be made exceedingly great, for name and for beauty to all the lands; let me prepare, I pray Thee, for it;' and David prepareth in abundance before his death.

⁶ And he calleth for Solomon his son, and chargeth him to build a house to Jehovah, God of Israel,

23 And David is old, and satisfied with days, and causeth his son Solomon to reign over Israel,

² and gathereth all the heads of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites;

³ and the Levites are numbered from a son of thirty years and upward, and their number, by their polls, is of mighty men thirty and eight thousand.

⁴ Of these to preside over the work of the house of Jehovah [are] twenty and four thousand, and officers and judges six thousand,

⁵ and four thousand gatekeepers, and four thousand giving praise to Jehovah, `with instruments that I made for praising,' [saith David.]