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1 Kings 5:17-18
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17 By royal order[a] they supplied large valuable stones in order to build the temple’s foundation with chiseled stone. 18 Solomon’s and Hiram’s construction workers,[b] along with men from Byblos,[c] did the chiseling and prepared the wood and stones for the building of the temple.[d]

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  1. 1 Kings 5:17 tn Heb “and the king commanded.”
  2. 1 Kings 5:18 tn Heb “builders.”
  3. 1 Kings 5:18 tn Heb “the Gebalites.” The reading is problematic and some emend to a verb form meaning, “set the borders.”
  4. 1 Kings 5:18 tc The LXX includes the words “for three years.”
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