KJV 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.
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1 Kings 5:18
And Solomon’s builders and Hiram’s builders did hew [them], and the stonesquarers: so they prepared timber and stones to build the house.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
So Solomon’s and Hiram’s builders, along with the Gebalites, quarried the stone and prepared the timber and stone for the construction of the temple.
WEB World English Bible
Solomon’s builders and Hiram’s builders and the Gebalites cut them, and prepared the timber and the stones to build the house.
ASV American Standard Version
And Solomon’s builders and Hiram’s builders and the Gebalites did fashion them, and prepared the timber and the stones to build the house.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and the builders of Solomon, and the builders of Hiram, and the Giblites hew, and prepare the wood and the stones to build the house.
Surrounding context — 1 Kings 5
15 And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens, and fourscore thousand hewers in the mountains;
16 Beside the chief of Solomon’s officers which [were] over the work, three thousand and three hundred, which ruled over the people that wrought in the work.
17 And the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly stones, [and] hewed stones, to lay the foundation of the house.
18 And Solomon’s builders and Hiram’s builders did hew [them], and the stonesquarers: so they prepared timber and stones to build the house.
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וַֽיִּפְסְל֞וּH6458 · pa.salto hewבֹּנֵ֧יH1129 · ba.nahto buildשְׁלֹמֹ֛הH8010 · she.lo.mohSolomonוּבֹנֵ֥יH1129 · ba.nahto buildחִיר֖וֹםH2438 · chi.ramHiramוְהַגִּבְלִ֑יםH1382 · giv.liGebaliteוַיָּכִ֛ינוּH3559 · kunto establish: prepareהָעֵצִ֥יםH6086 · etstree: woodוְהָאֲבָנִ֖יםH68 · e.venstoneלִבְנ֥וֹתH1129 · ba.nahto buildהַבָּֽיִת׃ פH1004 · betplace
Cross-references
Joshua 13:5And the land of the Giblites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrising, from Baalgad under mount Hermon unto the entering into Hamath.Ezekiel 27:9The ancients of Gebal and the wise [men] thereof were in thee thy calkers: all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee to occupy thy merchandise.Psalm 83:7Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre;
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