Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders did hew them, and the stonesquarers: so they prepared timber and stones to build the house.

The stone-squarers

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Bible References

The stone-squarers

Joshua 13:5
and the land of the Gebalites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrising, from Baal-gad under mount Hermon unto the entrance of Hamath;
Psalm 83:7
Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre:
Ezekiel 27:9
The old men of Gebal and the wise men thereof were in thee thy calkers: all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee to deal in thy merchandise.

General references

2 Chronicles 8:16
Now all the work of Solomon was prepared unto the day of the foundation of the house of Jehovah, and until it was finished.'so the house of Jehovah was completed.
Proverbs 24:27
Prepare thy work without, And make it ready for thee in the field; And afterwards build thy house.

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