Could not run build action using gradle distribution

Please help … Running on OS X 10.15.5 and using Eclipse IDE 4.16.0 to load existing gradle project Minecraft Forge 1.12.2 (https://files.minecraftforge.net/maven/net/minecraftforge/forge/index_1.12.2.html) and I get the following error:

Description Resource Path Location Type
Could not run build action using Gradle distribution ‘https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-4.9-bin.zip’.
A problem occurred configuring root project ‘ForgeMDK_1.12’.
Could not resolve all files for configuration ‘:_compileJava_1’.
Could not find org.lwjgl.lwjgl:lwjgl-platform:2.9.2-nightly-20140822.
Searched in the following locations: