1Ki 5:18 | NETfull | STEP | Solomon’s and Hiram’s construction workers, along with men from Byblos, did the chiseling and prepared the wood and stones for the building of the temple.

1 Kings 5:18

18 Solomon’s and Hiram’s construction workers, ^{▼▼ Heb “builders.”} along with men from Byblos, ^{▼▼ Heb “the Gebalites.” The reading is problematic and some emend to a verb form meaning, “set the borders.”} did the chiseling and prepared the wood and stones for the building of the temple. ^{▼▼ The LXX includes the words “for three years.”}