1 Kings 5:18

(5:32) And the builders of Solomon, and the builders of Hiram, and the Giblites hewed them; and so they prepared the wood and the stones to build the house.

Leeser Tanakh

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

17(5:31) And when the king commanded, they quarried out great stones, heavy stones, to lay the foundation of the house, and hewn stones.

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Cross References

Joshua 13:5And the land of the Giblites, and all Lebanon, toward the rising of the sun, from Ba'al-gad under mount Chermon up to the entrance of Chamath.

Psalms 83:7(83:8) Gebal, and 'Ammon, and 'Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre;

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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