Gifts for Building the Temple

29 Then King David said to the whole assembly: “My son Solomon, the one whom God has chosen, is young and inexperienced.^(A) The task is great, because this palatial structure is not for man but for the Lord God.

⁷ Some worthless scoundrels^(A) gathered around him and opposed Rehoboam son of Solomon when he was young and indecisive^(B) and not strong enough to resist them.