1 Chronicles 22:2 meaning and explanation

So David gave orders to gather the foreigners in the land of Israel, from whom he appointed stonecutters to prepare finished stones for building the house of God.

1 Chronicles 22:2, Berean Standard Bible

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David, now old and preparing for the temple his son Solomon will build, orders a census of the resident foreigners in Israel and drafts stonecutters from among them to dress stones for the house of God. The Hebrew word here for foreigners is gerim, resident aliens who lived among Israel but were not native-born.

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