1 Chronicles 22:2-5

These verses represent David in a very engaging light. Though the honor of building this temple was not to be his, yet he will do his utmost towards it, that he may show his zeal and love to so good a cause. Do not the costly preparations made for it, serve to show a lively representation of the Lord Jesus, of whom this temple was to be a type, in those vast, and long, and costly preparations, made through so many ages, even from the fall: in all which there were so many shadowy representations for the introduction of the Lord Jesus? And do not these hewn stones David had prepared, represent to us the nature and state of God's people, who must be long hewing and polishing to become stones in the everlasting temple of Jesus's body, after they are dug out of the quarry of our fallen nature?