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1 Kings 5:17

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The king commanded, and they cut out large stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the house with worked stone.

Context

14He sent them to Lebanon), ten thousand a month by courses; for a month they were in Lebanon, and two months at home; and Adoniram was over the men subject to forced labor.
15Solomon had seventy thousand who bore burdens, and eighty thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains;
16besides Solomon’s chief officers who were over the work, three thousand and three hundred, who ruled over the people who labored in the work.
17The king commanded, and they cut out large stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the house with worked stone.
18Solomon’s builders and Hiram’s builders and the Gebalites cut them, and prepared the timber and the stones to build the house.

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