1 Kings 5:17
“And the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly stones, and hewed stones, to lay the foundation of the house.”
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1 Kings 5:17 Context
15And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens, and fourescore thousand hewers in the mountaines: 16Besides the chiefe of Solomons officers which were ouer the worke, three thousand and three hundred, which ruled ouer the people that wrought in the worke. 17And the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly stones, and hewed stones, to lay the foundation of the house. 18And Solomons builders, and Hirams builders, did hewe them, and the stone-squarers: so they prepared timber and stones to build the house.
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And the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly stones, [and] hewed stones, to lay the foundation of the house.
- King James Version
Then the king commanded, and they quarried great stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the house with cut stones.
- New American Standard Version (1995)