1 CHRONICLES—NOTE ON 1 Chronicles 22:2 To prepare for building the temple, David recruited resident aliens as forced laborers (see 2 Samuel 20:24; see notes on 2 Chron. 2:2; 8:7–10). Items taken in war provided some of the material (see 1 Chronicles 18:8). These events happened in the last years of David’s life, when Solomon was still young and inexperienced (1 Chronicles 22:5).

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