¹⁷ At the king’s command, they quarried out great, costly stones in order to lay the foundation of the house with dressed stones.^(A)

¹⁸ So Solomon’s builders and Hiram’s builders and the Gebalites did the stonecutting and prepared the timber and the stone to build the house.

²¹ their descendants who were still left in the land, whom the Israelites were unable to destroy completely—these Solomon conscripted for slave labor, and so they are to this day.^(A)