1 Raja-raja 5:17-18
Konteks5:17 By royal order 1 they supplied large valuable stones in order to build the temple’s foundation with chiseled stone. 5:18 Solomon’s and Hiram’s construction workers, 2 along with men from Byblos, 3 did the chiseling and prepared the wood and stones for the building of the temple. 4
1 Raja-raja 6:7
Konteks6:7 As the temple was being built, only stones shaped at the quarry 5 were used; the sound of hammers, pickaxes, or any other iron tool was not heard at the temple while it was being built.
[5:17] 1 tn Heb “and the king commanded.”
[5:18] 3 tn Heb “the Gebalites.” The reading is problematic and some emend to a verb form meaning, “set the borders.”
[5:18] 4 tc The LXX includes the words “for three years.”
[6:7] 5 tn Heb “finished stone of the quarry,” i.e., stones chiseled and shaped at the time they were taken out of the quarry.