Sinai1 Kings 5:17
American Standard Version
And the king commanded, and they hewed out great stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the house with wrought stone.
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1 Kings 5:17 in other translations
The king commanded, and they cut out large stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the house with worked stone.
1 Kings 5:17 in context
- 15And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens, and fourscore thousand that were hewers in the mountains;
- 16besides Solomon’s chief officers that were over the work, three thousand and three hundred, who bare rule over the people that wrought in the work.
- 17And the king commanded, and they hewed out great stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the house with wrought stone.
- 18And Solomon’s builders and Hiram’s builders and the Gebalites did fashion them, and prepared the timber and the stones to build the house.