David commanded to gather together the foreigners who were in the land of Israel; and he set masons to hew worked stones to build the house of God.
The Chronicler, King David, Solomon, all the princes of Israel, and the entire nation nevertheless looked upon this temple as the most wonderful thing that ever happened to Israel.  That God indeed allowed it, accommodated to it, used the temple in many ways to further the achievement of God's purpose, even sending a special manifestation of his Eternal Presence to dwell within the Holy of Holies upon the occasion of its dedication --none of this can be denied; but God's destruction of Solomon's temple, and also his destroying the one constructed by Israel upon their return from captivity, cannot be harmonized with the proposition that the Jewish temple was, in any sense, the complete will of God.