And Solomon’s builders and Hiram’s builders did hew them, and the stonesquarers: so they prepared timber and stones to build the house.
Parallel translations
- WEB Solomon’s builders and Hiram’s builders and the Gebalites cut them, and prepared the timber and the stones to build the house.
- BSB 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.
- NKJV So Solomon’s builders, Hiram’s builders, and the Gebalites quarried them; and they prepared timber and stones to build the temple.
- NASB So Solomon’s builders and Hiram’s builders and the Gebalites cut the stones, and they prepared the timbers and the stones to build the house.
- NLT Men from the city of Gebal helped Solomon’s and Hiram’s builders prepare the timber and stone for the Temple.
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Quick answer
Solomon's and Hiram's builders, with the Gebalites, prepared the timber and stone. Skilled workers from several peoples readied the materials.
Overview
The Gebalites of Byblos contributed their renowned craftsmanship alongside Israelite and Tyrian builders. The collaboration of various peoples shows the wide effort gathered for God's house. Again the participation of Gentile artisans foreshadows the nations' share in the worship and building of God's true temple.
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- Josh 13:5And the land of the Giblites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrising, from Baalgad under mount Hermon unto the entering into Hamath.
- Ezek 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.
- Ps 83:7Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre;
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