1 Kings 5:18

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders did the work of cutting them, and put edges on them, and got the wood and the stone ready for the building of the house.

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Referenced Verses

  • Josh 13:5 : 5 And the land of the Gebalites, and all Lebanon, looking east, from Baal-gad under Mount Hermon as far as Hamath:
  • Ezek 27:9 : 9 The responsible men of Gebal and its wise men were in you, making your boards watertight: all the ships of the sea with their seamen were in you trading in your goods.
  • Ps 83:7 : 7 Gebal and Ammon and Amalek; the Philistines and the people of Tyre;

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  • 1 Kgs 5:15-17
    3 verses
    90%

    15Then he had seventy thousand for the work of transport, and eighty thousand stone-cutters in the mountains;

    16In addition to the chiefs of the responsible men put by Solomon to oversee the work, three thousand and three hundred in authority over the workmen.

    17By the king's orders great stones, stones of high price, were cut out, so that the base of the house might be made of squared stone.

  • 2 Sam 5:11
    82%

    11And Hiram, king of Tyre, sent men to David, with cedar-trees and woodworkers and stoneworkers: and they made David a house.

  • 1 Chr 22:2
    81%

    2And David gave orders to get together all the men from strange lands who were in the land of Israel; and he put stone-cutters to work, cutting stones for building the house of God.

  • 2 Kgs 22:5-6
    2 verses
    81%

    5And let it be given to the overseers of the work of the Lord's house, to give to the workmen who are making good what was damaged in the house of the Lord;

    6To the woodworkers and the builders and the stone-cutters; and for getting wood and cut stones for the building up of the house.

  • 2 Chr 34:11
    80%

    11Even to the woodworkers and builders to get cut stone and wood for joining the structure together and for making boards for the houses which the kings of Judah had given up to destruction.

  • 1 Kgs 6:7
    79%

    7(And the stones used in the building of the house were squared at the place where they were cut out; there was no sound of hammer or axe or any iron instrument while they were building the house.)

  • 1 Kgs 7:9-13
    5 verses
    78%

    9All these buildings were made, inside and out, from base to crowning stone, and outside to the great walled square, of highly priced stone, cut to different sizes with cutting-instruments.

    10And the base was of great masses of highly priced stone, some ten cubits and some eight cubits square.

    11Overhead were highly priced stones cut to measure, and cedar-wood.

    12The great outer square all round was walled with three lines of squared stones and a line of cedar-wood boards, round about the open square inside the house of the Lord and the covered room of the king's house.

    13Then King Solomon sent and got Hiram from Tyre.

  • 2 Kgs 12:11-12
    2 verses
    78%

    11And the money which was measured out they gave regularly to those who were responsible for overseeing the work, and these gave it in payment to the woodworkers and the builders who were working on the house of the Lord,

    12And to the wall-builders and the stone-cutters, and to get wood and cut stone for building up the broken parts of the house of the Lord, and for everything needed to put the house in good order.

  • 1 Chr 22:15
    78%

    15And you have a great number of workmen, cutters and workers of stone and wood, and experts in every sort of work,

  • 1 Chr 14:1
    77%

    1And Hiram, king of Tyre, sent men to David with cedar-trees, and stoneworkers and woodworkers for the building of his house.

  • 2 Chr 2:9
    77%

    9To get trees for me in great numbers, for the house which I am building is to be great and a wonder.

  • 2 Chr 2:1-3
    3 verses
    77%

    1Now it was Solomon's purpose to put up a house for the name of the Lord and a house for himself as king.

    2And Solomon had seventy thousand men numbered for transport, and eighty thousand for cutting stone in the mountains, and three thousand, six hundred as overseers.

    3And Solomon sent to Huram, king of Tyre, saying, As you did for my father David, sending him cedar-trees for the building of his house,

  • 1 Kgs 5:2
    76%

    2And Solomon sent back word to Hiram, saying,

  • 2 Chr 2:12
    76%

    12And Huram said, Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, maker of heaven and earth, who has given to David the king a wise son, full of wisdom and good sense, to be the builder of a house for the Lord and a house for himself as king.

  • 1 Kgs 5:5-6
    2 verses
    76%

    5And so it is my purpose to make a house for the name of the Lord my God, as he said to David my father, Your son, whom I will make king in your place, will be the builder of a house for my name.

    6So now, will you have cedar-trees from Lebanon cut down for me, and my servants will be with your servants; and I will give you payment for your servants at whatever rate you say; for it is common knowledge that we have no such wood-cutters among us as the men of Zidon.

  • 2 Chr 8:16
    76%

    16And all the work of Solomon was complete, from the day when he put the base of the Lord's house in position, till Solomon had come to the end of building the Lord's house.

  • Exod 31:5
    75%

    5In cutting stones for framing, and to do every form of woodwork.

  • 1 Kgs 6:9-11
    3 verses
    75%

    9So he put up the house and made it complete, roofing it with boards of cedar-wood.

    10And he put up the line of side rooms against the walls of the house, fifteen cubits high, resting against the house on boards of cedar-wood.

    11(And the word of the Lord came to Solomon, saying,

  • Ezra 6:4
    75%

    4With three lines of great stones and one line of new wood supports; and let the necessary money be given out of the king's store-house;

  • 1 Kgs 6:14-15
    2 verses
    74%

    14So Solomon made the building of the house complete.)

    15The walls of the house were covered inside with cedar-wood boards; from the floor to the roof of the house they were covered inside with wood; and the floor was covered with boards of cypress-wood.

  • 1 Kgs 6:36
    74%

    36And the inner space was walled with three lines of squared stones and a line of cedar-wood boards.

  • 1 Chr 29:2
    74%

    2Now as far as I am able, I have made ready what is needed for the house of my God; the gold for the things of gold, and the silver for the silver things, and the brass for the brass things, iron for the things of iron, and wood for the things of wood; beryls and jewels to be framed, and stones of different colours for ornament; all sorts of stones of great price, and polished building-stone, as much as is needed and more.

  • 2 Chr 3:3
    74%

    3And Solomon put the base of the house of God in position; by the older measure it was sixty cubits long and twenty cubits wide.

  • 2 Chr 3:1
    74%

    1Then Solomon made a start at building the house of the Lord on Mount Moriah in Jerusalem, where the Lord had been seen by his father David, in the place which David had made ready in the grain-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

  • 1 Kgs 9:15
    73%

    15Now, this was the way of Solomon's system of forced work for the building of the Lord's house and of the king's house, and the Millo and the wall of Jerusalem and Megiddo and Gezer. ...

  • Acts 7:47
    73%

    47But Solomon was the builder of his house.

  • 1 Kgs 5:10
    73%

    10So Hiram gave Solomon all the cedar-wood and cypress-wood he had need of;

  • 1 Kgs 9:10
    73%

    10Now at the end of twenty years, in which time Solomon had put up the two houses, the house of the Lord and the king's house,

  • 1 Kgs 5:8
    73%

    8Then Hiram sent to Solomon, saying; The words you sent have been given to me: I will do all your desire in the question of cedar-wood and cypress-wood.

  • 2 Chr 8:1
    73%

    1Now at the end of twenty years, in which time Solomon had put up the house of the Lord and a house for himself,

  • 1 Kgs 6:1-2
    2 verses
    73%

    1In the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year that Solomon was king of Israel, in the month Ziv, which is the second month, the building of the Lord's house was started.

    2The house which Solomon made for the Lord was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide and thirty cubits high.

  • 1 Chr 22:5-6
    2 verses
    73%

    5And David said, Solomon my son is young and untested, and the house which is to be put up for the Lord is to be very great, a thing of wonder and glory through all countries; so I will make ready what is needed for it. So David got ready a great store of material before his death.

    6Then he sent for his son Solomon, and gave him orders for the building of a house for the Lord, the God of Israel.

  • Exod 35:33
    72%

    33Trained in the cutting of stones and the ornamenting of wood and in every sort of handwork.

  • 1 Kgs 6:5
    72%

    5And against the walls all round, and against the walls of the Temple and of the inmost room, he put up wings, with side rooms all round: