So David gave orders to gather the foreigners in the land of Israel, from whom he appointed stonecutters to prepare finished stones for building the house of God. Cross References 1 Kings 5:17 And the king commanded them to quarry large, costly stones to lay the foundation of the temple with dressed stones. 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. 1 Kings 9:20 As for all the people who remained of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites (the people who were not Israelites)-- 1 Kings 9:21 their descendants who remained in the land, those whom the Israelites were unable to devote to destruction--Solomon conscripted these people to be forced laborers, as they are to this day. 2 Chronicles 2:17 Solomon numbered all the foreign men in the land of Israel following the census his father David had conducted, and there were found to be 153,600 in all. Treasury of Scripture And David commanded to gather together the strangers that were in the land of Israel; and he set masons to hew worked stones to build the house of God. the strangers 1 Kings 9:20,21 2 Chronicles 2:17 2 Chronicles 8:7,8 masons 1 Samuel 14:1 2 Samuel 5:11 1 Kings 5:17,18 |
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