1 Kings 5:17
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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)
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1 Kings 5:17
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17 At the king’s command they removed from the quarry(A) large blocks of high-grade stone(B) to provide a foundation of dressed stone for the temple.
1 Kings 5:18
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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.
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1 Kings 5:18
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18 The craftsmen of Solomon and Hiram(A) and workers from Byblos(B) cut and prepared the timber and stone for the building of the temple.
1 Kings 9:21
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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)
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1 Kings 9:21
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21 Solomon conscripted the descendants(A) of all these peoples remaining in the land—whom the Israelites could not exterminate[a](B)—to serve as slave labor,(C) as it is to this day.
Footnotes
- 1 Kings 9:21 The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the Lord, often by totally destroying them.
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