1 Kings 5:18 BSB — MannaFest

1 Kings 5:18

So Solomon’s and Hiram’s builders, along with the Gebalites, quarried the stone and prepared the timber and stone for the construction of the temple.

BSB

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ASV

And Solomon’s builders and Hiram’s builders and the Gebalites did fashion them, and prepared the timber and the stones to build the house.

KJV

And Solomon’s builders and Hiram’s builders did hew them, and the stonesquarers: so they prepared timber and stones to build the house.

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Commentary

6 voices

Bede

Of the Temple of Solomon 1.4.3 (735)

"Furthermore the men of Biblos [i.e., the Giblites] prepared wood and stones to build the house." Biblos is a city in Phoenicia that Ezekiel mentions: "Your skilled men, Tyre, were your pilots. The elders of Biblos and its skilled men," for which [city] in Hebrew …

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Stone-squarers - Hebrew. the Giblites, the inhabitants of Gebel, a place near Zidon, famous for artificers and architects, Josh. xiii, 5. These are here mentioned apart, distinct from the rest of Hiram's builders, as the most eminent of them.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

It is here said of Hiram their king that he was ever a lover of David; and we have reason to think he was a worshipper of the true God, and had himself renounced, though he could not reform, the idolatry of his city.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Christ, who is laid for a foundation, is an elect and precious stone ( Isa. xxviii. 16 ), and the foundations of the church are said to be laid with sapphires, Isa. liv. That sincerity which is our gospel perfection obliges us to lay our foundation firm and to bestow most pains on that part of our religion which lies out of the sight of men.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

And the stone-squarers - Instead of stone-squarers the margin very properly reads Giblites, הגבלים haggiblim; and refers to Eze 27:9, where we find the inhabitants of Gebal celebrated for their knowledge in ship-building. Some suppose that these Giblites were the inhabitants of Biblos, at the foot of Mount Libanus, northward of Sidon, on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea; famous for its wines; and now called Gaeta. Both Ptolemy and Stephanus Byzantinus speak of a town called Gebala, to the east of Tyre: but this was different from Gebal, or Biblos.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

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Original language & word study

11 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַֽיִּפְסְל֞וּ	vai.yif.se.Lu	and they cut [them] to shape	H6458 →
בֹּנֵ֧י	bo.Nei	[the] builders of	H1129 →
שְׁלֹמֹ֛ה	she.lo.Moh	Solomon	H8010 →
וּבֹנֵ֥י	u.vo.Nei	and [the] builders of	H1129 →
חִיר֖וֹם	chi.Rom	Hiram	H2438 →
וְהַגִּבְלִ֑ים	ve.ha.giv.Lim	and the Gebalites	H1382 →
וַיָּכִ֛ינוּ	vai.ya.Khi.nu	and they prepared	H3559 →
הָעֵצִ֥ים	ha.'e.Tzim	the wood<s>	H6086 →
וְהָאֲבָנִ֖ים	ve.ha.'a.va.Nim	and the stones	H68 →
לִבְנ֥וֹת	liv.Not	to build	H1129 →
הַבָּֽיִת׃ פ	ha.Ba.yit	the house	H1004 →

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The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Psalms 83:7
of Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek, of Philistia with the people of Tyre.
leads to
- Joshua 13:5
  the land of the Gebalites; and all Lebanon to the east, from Baal-gad below Mount Hermon to Lebo-hamath.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Ezekiel 27:3
  Tell Tyre, who dwells at the gateway to the sea, merchant of the peoples on many coasts, that this is what the Lord GOD says: You have said, O Tyre, ‘I am perfect in…
- 1 Samuel 4:1
  Thus the word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now the Israelites went out to meet the Philistines in battle and camped at Ebenezer, while the Philistines camped at Aphek.
Through
Joshua 13:5
the land of the Gebalites; and all Lebanon to the east, from Baal-gad below Mount Hermon to Lebo-hamath.
leads to
- Psalms 83:7
  of Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek, of Philistia with the people of Tyre.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Ezekiel 27:9
  The elders of Gebal were aboard as shipwrights, repairing your leaks. All the ships of the sea and their sailors came alongside to barter for your merchandise.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Joshua 12:7
  And these are the kings of the land that Joshua and the Israelites conquered beyond the Jordan to the west, from Baal-gad in the Valley of Lebanon to Mount Halak, which rises toward Seir…
- Joshua 11:17
  from Mount Halak, which rises toward Seir, as far as Baal-gad in the Valley of Lebanon at the foot of Mount Hermon. He captured all their kings and struck them down, putting them to…

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About 1 Kings

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

About 1 Kings