Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And David commanded to gather together the strangers that were in the land of Israel; and he set masons to hew wrought stones to build the house of God.
The strangers
Bible References
The strangers
1 Kings 9:20
The people who survived from the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not related to the Israelis,
2 Chronicles 2:17
Solomon took a census of all the non-Israeli men who lived in the land of Israel, after the census that his father David had taken, and 153,600 were counted.
2 Chronicles 8:7
All of the survivors who remained living in the land but who were not Israelis (including Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites)
Isaiah 61:5
Strangers will stand and feed your flocks, and foreigners will work your land and dress your vines.
Ephesians 2:12
At that time you were without the Messiah, excluded from citizenship in Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise. You had no hope and were in the world without God.
Masons
1 Chronicles 14:1
After this, King Hiram of Tyre sent a delegation to David, accompanied by cedar logs, stone masons, and wood workers, to construct a palace for him.
2 Samuel 5:11
Later, King Hiram of Tyre sent a delegation to David, accompanied by cedar logs, carpenters, and stone masons. They built a palace for David.
1 Kings 5:17
The king specified that large, expensive stones be quarried so the foundation of the Temple could be laid with cut stones.
1 Kings 6:7
The Temple was constructed of stone precut at the quarry so that no hammer, axe, or any other iron implement would be heard in the Temple while it was being built.
1 Kings 7:9
All of these were made with expensive stones, pre-cut according to specifications, hand-sawed inside and out from the foundation to the coping, including from inside to the great court.
2 Kings 12:12
to masons and stonecutters, and for procurement of timber and quarried stone for making repairs to the LORD's Temple, and for all outlays needed for repairs of the Temple.
2 Kings 22:6
including paying the carpenters, builders, and masons, as well as buying timber and pre-carved stone to repair the Temple.
Ezra 3:7
They paid masons and carpenters in cash. They paid the residents of Sidon and Tyre with food, drink, and oil, for them to bring cedar trees by sea from Lebanon to Joppa in accordance with the order they had obtained from Cyrus, king of Persia.