of the gold, the silver, and the brass, and the iron, there is no number. Arise and be doing, and Yahweh be with you.
      I. David tells him why he did not do it himself. It was in his mind to do it (1 Chronicles 22:7; 1 Chronicles 22:7), but God forbade him, because he had shed much blood,1 Chronicles 22:8; 1 Chronicles 22:8. Some think this refers to the blood of Uriah, which fastened such a reproach upon him as rendered him unworthy the honour of building the temple: but that honour was forbidden him before he had shed that blood; therefore it must be meant, as it is here explained, of the blood he shed in his wars (for he had been a man of war from his youth), which, though shed very justly and honourably in the service of God and Israel, yet made him unfit to be employed in this service, or rather less fit than another that had never been called to such bloody work. God, by assigning this as the reason of laying David aside from this work, showed how precious human life is to him, and intended a type of him who should build the gospel temple, not by destroying men's lives, but by saving them,Luke 9:56.