Today is the 16th day of July. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian. It is wonderful

to be here with you today. Every day is a wonderful day. This is a special day. It's a brand

new week. And so here we go again, stepping into a brand new sparkly week together. We

have a reset as we start a new week. And we can choose wisely how we will live this week.

And let's do that. And one of the wise choices that we make is as to come back to the scriptures

each day. So we've got a brand new week. We'll read from the new living translation this

week. And picking up where we left off, we'll lead us back into the book of first chronicles.

Today, chapters 22 and 23.

Then David said, this will be the location for the temple of the Lord God and the place of the

altar for Israel's burnt offerings. So David gave orders to call together the foreigners living

in Israel. And he assigned them the task of preparing finished stone for building the temple of God.

David provided large amounts of iron for the nails that would be needed for the doors and the

gates and for the clamps. And he gave more bronze than could be weighed. He also provided innumerable

cedar logs for the men of Tyre and Sidon had brought vast amounts of cedar to David. David said,

my son Solomon is still young and inexperienced. And since the temple to be built for the Lord

must be a magnificent structure, famous and glorious throughout the world. I will begin making

preparations for it now. So David collected vast amounts of building materials before his death.

Then David sent for his son Solomon and instructed him to build a temple for the Lord, a God of

Israel. My son, I wanted to build a temple to honor the name of the Lord, my God. David told him,

but the Lord said to me, you have killed many men in the battles you have fought. And since you have

shed so much blood in my sight, you will not be the one to build a temple to honor my name.

But you will have a son who will be a man of peace. I will give him peace with his enemies in all

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