Hezekiah ordered that storerooms be prepared in the Lord’s temple. When this was done,

ants are creatures with little strength, but they prepare their food in the summer;

They got their gifts ready for Joseph’s arrival at noon, for they had heard that they were to have a meal there.

Solomon’s and Hiram’s construction workers, along with men from Byblos, did the chiseling and prepared the wood and stones for the building of the temple.

They established the altar on its foundations, even though they were in terror of the local peoples, and they offered burnt offerings on it to the Lord, both the morning and the evening offerings.