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1 Kings 5:17
“The king commanded, and they cut out great stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the house with worked stone.”
Verse in context — 1 Kings 5
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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 and three hundred, who bore rule over the people who labored in the work.
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The king commanded, and they cut out great 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 did fashion them, and prepared the timber and the stones to build the house.
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Solomon’s reign, the temple’s construction, and the kingdom’s division.
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