1 Kings 5:18
Good News Translation
Solomon's and Hiram's workers and men from the city of Byblos prepared the stones and the timber to build the Temple.

New Revised Standard Version
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.

Contemporary English Version
Solomon's and Hiram's men worked with men from the city of Gebal, and together they got the stones and logs ready for the temple.

New American Bible
Solomon’s and Hiram’s builders, along with others from Gebal, shaped them, and prepared the wood and stones for building the house.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the masons of Solomon, and the masons of Hiram, hewed them: and the Giblians prepared timber and stones to build the house.

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And the masons of Solomon, and the masons of Hiram, hewed them: and the Giblians prepared timber and stones to build the house.

the stone squarers.

Joshua 13:5 And his confines. The country also of Libanus towards the east from Baalgad under mount Hermon to the entering into Emath.

Psalm 83:7 Gebal, and Ammon and Amalec: the Philistines, with the inhabitants of Tyre.

Ezekiel 27:9 The ancients of Gebal, and the wise men thereof furnished mariners for the service of thy various furniture: all the ships of the sea, and their mariners were thy factors.

Context
Solomon's Workmen and Laborers
17And the king commanded that they should bring great stones, costly stones, for the foundation of the temple, and should square them: 18And the masons of Solomon, and the masons of Hiram, hewed them: and the Giblians prepared timber and stones to build the house.
Cross References
Joshua 13:5
And his confines. The country also of Libanus towards the east from Baalgad under mount Hermon to the entering into Emath.

1 Chronicles 22:2
And he commanded to gather together all the proselytes of the land of Israel, and out of them he appointed stonecutters to hew stones and polish them, to build the house of God.

Ezekiel 27:9
The ancients of Gebal, and the wise men thereof furnished mariners for the service of thy various furniture: all the ships of the sea, and their mariners were thy factors.

1 Kings 5:17
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