Solomon’s builders and Hiram’s builders and the Gebalites cut them, and prepared the timber and the stones to build the house.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
1 Kings 5:18 in context
1 Kings 5:15–18
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Solomon had seventy thousand who bore burdens, and eighty thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains,
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besides Solomon’s chief officers who were over the work: three thousand three hundred who ruled over the people who labored in the work.
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The king commanded, and they cut out large stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the house with worked stone.
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Solomon’s builders and Hiram’s builders and the Gebalites cut them, and prepared the timber and the stones to build the house.
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