1Ki 5:17, 7:9, Job 38:6 | JFB | STEP | 17. brought great stones —The stone of Lebanon is "hard, calcareous, whitish and sonorous, like free stone" [SHAW ]. The same white and beautiful stone can be obtained in every part of Syria and Palestine. hewed stones —or neatly polished, as the Hebrew word signifies ( ). Both Jewish and Tyrian builders were employed in hewing these great stones.

1 Kings 5:17

17. brought great stones—The stone of Lebanon is "hard, calcareous, whitish and sonorous, like free stone" [SHAW]. The same white and beautiful stone can be obtained in every part of Syria and Palestine.

hewed stones—or neatly polished, as the Hebrew word signifies (Ex 20:25). Both Jewish and Tyrian builders were employed in hewing these great stones.

1 Kings 7:9

Job 38:6

6. foundations—not "sockets," as Margin.

fastened—literally, "made to sink," as a foundation-stone let down till it settles firmly in the clay (Job 26:7). Gravitation makes and keeps the earth a sphere.