1 Kings 5:18

And the masons of Solomon, and the masons of Hiram hewed them: and the Giblians prepared timber and stones to build the house.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

And Solomon’s builders and Hiram’s builders did hew them, and the stonesquarers: so they prepared timber and stones to build the house.

In Context

17And the king commanded, that they should bring great stones, costly stones, for the foundation of the temple, and should square them:

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Cross References

Joshua 13:5And his confines. The country also of Libanus towards the east from Baalgad under mount Hermon to the entering into Emath.

Psalms 83:7the tabernacles of the Edomites, and the Ismahelites: Moab, and the Agarens,

Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 5:11-18

10 So Hiram gave Solomon cedar trees and fir trees according to all his desire. 11 And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat for food to his household, and twenty measures of pure oil: thus gave Solomon to Hiram year by year. 12 And the Lord gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him: and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon; and they two made a league together. 13 And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men. 14 And he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a… Read the whole commentary →

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