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
And all the people that were left of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, which were not of the children of Israel,
2 Chronicles 2:17
And Solomon numbered all the strangers that were in the land of Israel, after the time his father David had numbered them. And they were found a hundred and eighty thousand and six hundred.
2 Chronicles 8:7
And all the people that were left of the Hittites, Amorites, Perezites, Hivites and Jebusites, which were not of the children of Israel -
Isaiah 61:5
Strangers shall stand and feed your cattle, and the Aliens shall be your plowmen and reapers.
Ephesians 2:12
remember, I say, that ye were at that time without Christ, and were reputed aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and were strangers from the testaments of promise, and had no hope, and were without God in this world.
Masons
1 Chronicles 14:1
After that Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and timber of cedar trees with masons and carpenters, to build him a house.
2 Samuel 5:11
And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David with cedar trees and carpenters and masons, to build David a house.
1 Kings 5:17
And at the commandment of the king, they brought great stones, and that free stones, and hewed thereto, to lay in the foundation of the house.
1 Kings 6:7
And the house was built of stone made perfect already before it was brought thither, so that there was neither hammer or axe either any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.
1 Kings 7:9
And all these things were of rich stones hewed after a measure and sawed with saws within and without, even from the foundation unto that whereon the beams were laid, and on the outside thereto, toward the great court.
2 Kings 12:12
and to masons and hewers of stone, to buy timber and free stone, to repair the decay in the house of the LORD; and all that, that needeth repairing in the house.
2 Kings 22:6
even unto carpenters and masons, and for to buy timber and free stone to repair the house.
Ezra 3:7
Nevertheless, they gave money unto the masons and the carpenters, and meat and drink and oil unto them of Sidon and of Tyre, to bring Cedar timber from Lebanon by sea unto Joppa, according to the commandment of Cyrus the king of Persia.