Today is the 16th day of July.

Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible.

I am Brian, and it's great to be here with you today.

As we come back together like we do every

single day back around the global campfire and move together another little step forward little step a day takes us through the whole Bible

Little step a day a day and it takes us through a year.

So we're here to take the next step forward.

We're in the Book of First Chronicles in the Old Testament.

Moving through Paul's letter to the Romans, just kind of getting going in that letter in the New Testament.

And so let's dive in.

First Chronicles, chapters 22 and 23 today.

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 in 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 Saigon, it 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.

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