And David commanded to gather together the strangers that [were] in the land of Israel; and he set masons to hew wrought stones to build the house of God.
Ver. 2. To gather together the strangers.] A notable type of the calling of the Gentiles: and the like we may say of the temple's being built on the ground of a Jebusite, and by the help of Tyrians and Zidonians, and adorned with the spoils of various nations. 1Ch 18:7-11